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Jan 22, 1942: the Salmon-class submarine USS Sturgeon (SS-187) reported that she had torpedoed her first ship. The skipper sent the message "Sturgeon no longer virgin." However, post-war records indicate the torpedoes were duds that failed to sink the target. Sturgeon was moored at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 during the Japanese attack, but suffered no damage.


Her June 29, 1944 sinking of the Japanese troopship Toyama Maru, killing more than 5,000 Japanese, was one of the highest death tolls from the sinking of a single ship in history. However, her July 1, 1942 sinking of the Montevideo Maru which, unknown to crew on the Sturgeon, was carrying over 1,000 POWs (mostly Australians), was the worst maritime disaster in Australian history. The wreck of the Montevideo Maru was discovered on  April 18, 2023 at a depth of over 4,000m (13,000 ft) in the South China Sea, off the northwest coast of Luzon, Philippines.

‘Measure of comfort’: Wreckage from Australia’s worst maritime disaster found | Wiki


LOL, RIP: Germany weighs allowing foreign citizens into the army, even from countries outside of the EU.


Germany weighs allowing foreign citizens into the army

If non citizens can vote, why not let them serve? In fact, why have countries & borders at all? Let's just have one giant world government and one giant global military force run by a small unelected group of shadow people whose names we don't even know.


Happy 40th Birthday, Airwolf. First episode aired Jan 22, 1984.
I liked this show even though it had an odd ball cast, the theme song was addicting, and the plot lines were just as weird as me.




Even the socialists are laying off. We are running out of other people’s money. That’s how bad things are.


Fox news


"I don’t like British people so screwing them over is funny, lol." There, saved you the trouble...And open borders for Israel. lol


In praise of mass immigration | Wiki


The new season of True Detective not only lifts bits from The XFiles: I Want to Believe, the whole idea of the corpsicle is lifted from the X-Files comic book, 30 Days of Night.


AI vs new Gen lazy writers?

Number of AI acquisitions since 2010:

Apple:  32 acquisitions
Google: 21 acquisitions
Meta:  18 acquisitions
M$FT:  17 acquisitions
Amazon: 10 acquisitions

AI means that computers are learning our language, rather than us having to learn theirs.




VR pioneer Jonathan Waldern inside one of his virtual environments, 1991:



Chief Technology Officer at Meta Materials Inc. (META®), Diablo, California, and...



Luminit Names Jonathan Waldern as Chief Technology Officer


If you want to see UFOs, Aliens, and shadowy spooks on those dark starry nights you need one of these...


Anything less will just show you clown world. Coined in 1992 by Neal Stephenson in his dystopian novel “Snow Crash”, the word “metaverse” referred to a persistent virtual world, accessible via "special goggles", where people could meet, flirt, play games, buy and sell things, and much more in the 'consumer' grade goggles.


9/11 Incoming from 1979...



Film trivia:
Several visual effects production teams were fired during the course of the lengthy production for failing to produce adequate effects on a very limited budget. The final company was forced to provide the effects seen in this movie for what money remained, seriously compromising the results.

The movie was inspired by the 1967 "Project Icarus" report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The shots containing the buildings collapsing in the NYC destruction scene, were taken from footage of the demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe apartments in St. Louis, Missouri...which has quite the Atomic dark experiments history.
In 1972, three Pruitt-Igoe buildings were condemned and demolished, famously, on TV. The rest followed shortly after, televised on the nightly news, harkening the “end of modernism.”

Principal photography was shut down for two days when Sir Sean Connery contracted a respiratory condition during the filming of the mud sequence. The mud also knocked Connery off his feet, buried Karl Malden twice, while Natalie Wood was almost sucked into one of the pumps. During the mud filming, the actors and actresses would stuff their ears with cotton-wool, and had to have their eyes washed out, at the completion of each take.

Some of the background radio chatter in the Hercules control room is taken from recordings of Apollo missions.

Several of this movie's story elements were taken from Fail Safe (1964). Similarly, several story elements from this movie were re-used for Armageddon (1998) and Deep Impact (1998).

Ronald Neame was chosen to direct this because he had previously helped one of the biggest box office hits of the disaster movie genre, Irwin Allen's Poseidon Adventure. Unfortunately, "Meteor" was a dumpster fire at the box office.

If interested, here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE5lwtDPWBQ


"Have You Seen the Saucers?"