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JAGwriter said: “AZditz said: “So the pilot turned back, dumping their bombs into the Mediterranean Sea.
Is there such a thing as a `pure’ sea or ocean?”I wouldn’t worry about the Med. It’s 2.5 million square kilometers with an average depth of 1500 meters. A B-24 bomb load would’ve created about as much contamination as tossing a hand grenade in the Persian Gulf. Just imagine the nasty stuff belched into the world’s oceans from undersea volcanoes.
Besides, the bombs would likely detonate on impact; better there than in the belly of The Lady upon ditching. Also, Lt. Hatton needed to lighten the load and conserve fuel.
As a pilot I can’t imagine being in that situation.
It was a sad ending for a courageous crew and a mighty aircraft.”
If they were able to make it ~400 miles past their destination before running out of fuel I dont think they needed to lose the bomb’s weight to have enough fuel to make the trip; even though they flew a longer distance than they expected, because of the winds that blew them off course.
You say its better that the bombs explode in the water than in the plane upon ditching but they werent expecting to ditch. They were expecting to make it back to the base so why not save the bombs for the future?
Simply because the earth spews into the oceans does not mean humans need to. Two “wrongs” dont make a right.
The last paragraph says “The remains of the eight crewmembers which were found”. If you read the article it says all nine were found. Which is it?
Frank G said “if he did not kill himself he might have keep on going to pollute the world.”
Thanks Frank G for that. You look smart with your light bulb picture. I will have to agree and disagree with you, yes he might have gone on to pollute the world, but hasn’t that already happened? I guess its a catch 22, where you would never want someone to kill themselves, but maybe there’s a greater good involved? I don’t know. I don’t exactly have an exact opinion on this. Thoughts? Lead Toxicity
darren.l said: “omg! 1 year!Can you believe that I still check to see if anything new has been posted, other than, of course, posts. I’ve bought the book, I keep coming back, but nothing is happening.
Its getting close to the point where DI is fast approaching the bottom of my favourites listing. I don’t want it to, but it might end up falling off in to the oblivion where everything else of no interest falls.
Sucked and spat out like a half-eaten smartie. not good :(
Help me out. Show me a sign. Something…
…anything?”
I’m right there with you. I still check every day.
A sign? Here it is. – - – Join me in urging the Bellowses to publish another book.
If not that, then let’s turn this into a pay site.
I know it is very heartbreaking and sad that so many intelligent fan’s are getting disappointed, that Alan can’t write anymore see his comment here made in October 2009 >
“Alan Bellows 08 October 2009 at 10:50 pm • reply
To those complaining of the lack of new content: I apologize. I am experiencing some personal difficulties at the moment that are interfering with my ability to do anything that I normally take comfort in (including writing/editing/etc). I endeavor to peel away this bleak reality that has cocooned my psyche, but it is taking some time. Until then, updates will only come when I happen to have a bit of time, ambition, and joy all at the same time. Such synchronizations have become scarce.
Blah. ”
But he has also lot’s of other writers and i don’t see new articles from them , so i am questioning, how many time do you need, and where are the other writers?
In the meantime this is where i am writing a bit, not so strong as on DI but still i try to keep it up.
http://www.entreating-minds.com/
Happy reading, Frank G
I know it is very heartbreaking and sad that so many intelligent fan’s are getting disappointed, that Alan can’t write anymore see his comment here made in October 2009 >
“Alan Bellows 08 October 2009 at 10:50 pm • reply
To those complaining of the lack of new content: I apologize. I am experiencing some personal difficulties at the moment that are interfering with my ability to do anything that I normally take comfort in (including writing/editing/etc). I endeavor to peel away this bleak reality that has cocooned my psyche, but it is taking some time. Until then, updates will only come when I happen to have a bit of time, ambition, and joy all at the same time. Such synchronizations have become scarce.
Blah. ”
But he has also lot’s of other writers and i don’t see new articles from them , so i am questioning, how many time do you need, and where are the other writers?
In the meantime this is where i am writing a bit, not so strong as on DI but still i try to keep it up.
http://www.entreating-minds.com/
Happy reading, Frank G
omg! 1 year!
Can you believe that I still check to see if anything new has been posted, other than, of course, posts. I’ve bought the book, I keep coming back, but nothing is happening.
Its getting close to the point where DI is fast approaching the bottom of my favourites listing. I don’t want it to, but it might end up falling off in to the oblivion where everything else of no interest falls.
Sucked and spat out like a half-eaten smartie. not good :(
Help me out. Show me a sign. Something…
…anything?
I know its a natural reaction but does anyone know the reason why we tend to cringe when we read about a painful sounding experience like in the article above -even though it hasn’t actually happened to us? I’m interested to learn more about it. Hmm… empathetic pain…?
We’ve got black ants at our place -which at first I thought, had somehow learned to swim (as we used to have similar looking ants before which couldn’t swim). After googling it I found that it is acutally a new species called polyrhachis sokolova which usually nests in mangroves… how they came to live in our bathroom Ill probably never know… So, yup they’re definetly taking over! O-o
I logged in just to also commemorate the anniversary of the article. Had no idea it’s been this long!
folie_a_plusieurs said: “Sorry i guess i jumped the gun.
one day early.”
Wow. Hardly seems so long. I guess climbing back into the bottle has really helped me to cope.
Whether someone else asks me the time or I look myself a large majority of the time it’s either 8.08, 3.03, 9.09, 11.11. These types of incidence happen alot in my life and yes I was diagnosed as schizophrenic but surely that means your neural processing is slighty wrong and the connections are then more easily recognised. I certainly do not dwell on finding the meaning of these occurances and just accept that they happen, finding a name for it is the best thing ever, particularly as my friend recommended that I should see this film, hence why I stumbled across this site.
The ‘Beyond Coincidence’ book by Martin Plimmer and Brian King contains some great stories which you could attribute to synchronicity or the Baader-Meinhoff Phenomenon. Happy reading.
Sorry i guess i jumped the gun.
one day early.
Happy one year anniversary everybody.
One year since the last article was posted.
“Jason Bellows said: “Raketemensch said: “Come on, folks, this is getting ridiculous.”
I disagree. I think that we’ve passed ridiculous and we’re deep in ludicrous territory now.”
we’ve gone to plaid.
Fourth!
Ribble – you have it nailed, I am an ex-Royal Air Force Coastal Command Wireless Operator, and without fail we would always end ANY transmission in Morse with AR (referred to as AR barred because we would draw a line above the two letters) but invariably operators would have a “fist” or characterization which would end up with them adding a very slight pause after the first dot and then emphasizing the next dash so that it ended up as . _ ._. (not EC) however it was quite clearly read by all of us operators and was widely understood, the old ” bathtub ” key fitted in the Lancaster, and just about every British plane was notoriously stiff to use and we tended to use a pretty heavy hand in sending Morse almost forcing operators to develop those strange ways of keying, (some were really hard to read) The STARDUST op would also be no different ! but a foreign operator would understandably read the whole thing incorrectly as a word. You are probably right with the assumption the ST meant Santiago Time (to confirm he was not using GMT) and then END (for end of text) plus AR barred (end of message). As an old school Air Force operator I would read that message as quite logical in it’s meaning ! 73′s N3ET AR
VA7DU (ex N0FET)
Has anyone heard of the law of least action? It’s a principle that’s seen when calculating various natural phenomenon such as the trajectory of light through a multi-substance plane. It’s also a common example problem in Calculus. If you have two planes, and you travel at 10 meters per second in plane 1, and 20 in plane 2, what is the trajectory that requires the least time? It’s a minimization problem, and is quite simple. You’ll notice the trend that as the velocity traveled in the various planes becomes more disparate; the distance traveled in the slower plane becomes smaller (closer to perpendicular with plane 2). And light refracts in a path that allows for the least amount of action. The equation for action is complicated. I don’t remember it, but it takes into account potential and kinetic energy. Anyway, this may be the reason for Benford’s law. If you imagine the possible path of light through a substance being quantified in terms of action, and the possible range is 1,000-10,000. Based on the principle of least action, one may say it is most probable that the light will travel with the action of 1,000-1,999, and least of 9,000-9,999. With a sliding scale (down in probability) through the numbers 1-9. This lines up perfectly with Benford’s law.
What “erosion” on the moon do you speak of?
Enter your comment here.
Jason Bellows said: “Raketemensch said: “Come on, folks, this is getting ridiculous.”
I disagree. I think that we’ve passed ridiculous and we’re deep in ludicrous territory now.”
So what’s going on Jason? Is your Dad OK? Is he sick? In jail? The witness protection program? Why won’t he let you post some new stuff? Did y’all forget the password to the Editing program? My book still smells of BBQ. I’m getting ready to check it for fingerprints and put out an APB on you all. Please plead with Alan to give us a hint, a clue, a finger. Thanks, from your die hard fan; Tink
Yeah, sites dead. Too bad, it was pretty awesome.
Factodiem is kinda in the same vein. It’s pretty cool.
My daughter taught me about John Frum…my mailman “brought” me a new car…he’s our John Frum. I’m printing this article and putting it in the mailbox for him!!!
Interesting. The other day I looked at a wall with a stain on it (with sunglasses on) and the stain looked like random words flashing past. From words like “Max” to “Scientific”.
I should add that each radio operator has a distint “fist” and AR is commonly sent in a friendly way with a very slight pause after the first dit, making it sound almost like “E C”, likely with the first dah greatly extended. Possible if the recieving end thought they were copying an unknown (STENDEC) word or a word in a different language. The sender would not even know that for the past ten years he has been sending it in this friendly manner.
‘ETA Santiago 17.45 hrs STENDEC’
My guess “ETA Santiago 17.45 hrs ST END AR”
ST = Santiago Time – He would send that because he was entering a different country and
time zone, either different or unknown.
END = End of text – END (The whole word) has a distinct unmistakable sound and in Morse you don’t
copy the letters, you copy the word. These were professional radio operators at both ends and they hear words, not letters. The word “End” actually has a very pleasing rythmic sound in Morse.
AR = Morse for end of transmission (signing off) always sent with no spacing between A and R. So commonly used that it would not have been mistaken. This is a word in Morse, not letters.
N3ET
A TED talk by VS Ramachandran:
http://www.ted.com/talks/vilayanur_ramachandran_on_your_mind.html
He covers this peculiar phenomenon.
Please, tell me there is NOT a DI fecebook page! For the love of [deity of preference], please tell me there are also no DI twits! That would be worse than complete neglect. In fact, that would be worse than DI going dark with it’s last, abandoned shred of dignity intact. I’d rather see the ol site out of it’s misery before seeing it 2.0-domized.
Raketemensch said: “Come on, folks, this is getting ridiculous.”
I disagree. I think that we’ve passed ridiculous and we’re deep in ludicrous territory now.
The guy above me ,bigboss, (first of all that’s a very stupid name) is clearly lying. I can tell he just took information he picked up and tried to use it. For one he needs to take a serious grammar and punctuation lesson. 1 he said “we, the psychopaths are the normal one’s” it’s “we, the psychopaths, are the normal ones.” 2 “Normal’s” is supposed to be “Normals;” wow so many mistakes like “nich” to “niche” “dose” to “does” “themselfs” to “themselves” etc. Sociopaths are supposed to, at very least, come off educated. He’s just some worthless loser who wants to feel special. Haha i bet he honestly thinks he’s everything the page says, but really he’s just someone who “wants to be.”
Come on, folks, this is getting ridiculous. There are plenty of people who are willing to submit articles. Why don’t you post a few, just to keep interest in the site up. People are still buying the book, and I bet they are wondering why the site’s not being maintained. I bet if you posted a request for articles you would find more than enough diehard fans to fill the gap for quite some time. Please bring in some guest writers, just to keep the site alive!
In the meantime, for your reading pleasure:
The Dyatlov Pass Incident… Ten expert mountaineers are discovered in a pass, half naked, several hundred yards from their pass. What could cause these experienced veterans to panic and flee their tent without proper gear? Why did forensic tests find high levels of radioactive contamination on some of the victim’s clothes? Why was one woman victim missing her tongue, and the victims found with a strange orange skin tone? Is there a rational explanation for the incident?
Here is a translation of this article in Russian: http://chitach.ru/posts/9/
mmmmm, nazi pie alamode
What if Nazis and pie are mentioned in the same post?
Just wanted to say that these comments are really funny!!
http://venaprosite.com
Some of you here might think that i am milking out this subject to much, but i don’t care.
We must never forget and always remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this is a link to Democracy Now!
One of the better sites that I follow, about the topic of today.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/6/us_attending_hiroshima_memorial_enormously_important
Frank G
65 years later, are we finally growing up?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/05/un.hiroshima.ceremony/index.html?hpt=T2
http://www.entreating-minds.com/
Frank G
August 6, 1945. August 6, 2010.
65 years later, are we finally growing up?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/05/un.hiroshima.ceremony/index.html?hpt=T2
http://www.entreating-minds.com/
Frank G
Can’t believe I am only # 4 here,
August 6, 1945. August 6, 2010.
65 years later, are we finally growing up?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/05/un.hiroshima.ceremony/index.html?hpt=T2
http://www.entreating-minds.com/
Frank G
It’s Cthulhu! That is the only explanation!
My journey has ended,
The battles are won.
But what of those articles,
He’s not yet to write?
The fight for DI’s just begun.
o 3o Awesome site, I think I might just have to reread some of the content for lulz. Thanks for making work fun, Allen! <3
Damn interesting, broski. I appear to be a bit late commenting, but I couldn’t help myself.
I would have thought the book’s ‘secrets’ to be obvious. Human nature does not change, my friends. If someone looked back at /us/ in five-hundred or so years, what would a book; illegible to the naked eye, filled with odd annotations and colorful pictures be?
Ohhai, Dungeons and Dragons player manual~ I see that your druid just lost five mana points due to fatigue.
[[I do hope you wonderful folks got that reference. If not, the joke originated on xkcd.]]
hah, last! (at least for now). Sorry, I’m a bit late, but I just had to comment, because I’ve actuallyy had these Charles Bonnet hallucinations. I suffered a head injury a few years ago, the optic nerve of one of my eyes was damaged (luckily not both eyes). After a while I started seeing things. Like a little dog and a little fish floating in the air past me while I was walking in the street, or a well dressed (the dress was particulally clear and detailed with a hat and all) little woman smilin and pointing at me. At first I was scared to death, although the visions weren’t that threatening. I didn’t make the connection with the impairment of my eyesight and the visions, I really thought I was going mad. I had never heard about Charles Bonnet or his syndrome, I found out about that much much later (and not from a doctor, by the way.) Some of the visions were a bit scary, like a small ugly witch sitting on my tv set. Some were funny, like three hamsters in my toilet bowl while I was gonna pee. Well, I peed on them anyway and they disappeared. I don’t seem to see those things anymore, although my sight isn’t any better. The examples given in the article were on the spot, the hallucinations really were that crazy. :)
This article has been translated into Russian language by me.
http://interestingnews.ru/?p=39
Back link retained. Thank you.
This article has been translated into Russian language by me.
http://interestingnews.ru/?p=325
Back link retained. Thank you.
Silverhill:
Thanks.
I think he’s hoping to invoke “Godwin’s Law”, an observation made by a Usenet user that discussion threads, if continued long enough, manage to mention Hitler or the Nazis–at which point the thread is essentially dead.
Ard Ri said: “NAZIS”
Beg pardon? You lost me.
So, I hate to join the ranks of the whiners and malcontents, but is it too much to ask for an explanation as to why we haven’t gotten any new content, or at least an update on if there will EVER be a new article. I’ve read every DI article on this site, and, quite frankly, I love it. But my patience is wearing thin. I’m getting tired of checking back every few weeks to see if there’s a new article or at least some reason for the lack there-of. We were promised monthly articles a year ago. There have been 3. When you break a promise, most often you have the decency to explain why rather than just post an enigmatic comment on personal difficulties and disappear.
So I ask for an explanation. An ETA on new articles. A giant “F-U” from the Bellows would be better than what we’re getting now.
I’m not asking for much. At least I don’t think so. And I’m sorry to even ask for this much. I simply hate going to this site every few weeks to find that it has degenerated to a message board.