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[EndtheMadnessNow]

Happy National Beer Day. In 1944, the auxiliary minelayer HMS Menestheus (originally a Scottish built refrigerated cargo ship in 1929) was again converted in Vancouver, British Columbia, this time into a floating brewery to provide beer for British personnel in the Pacific, producing 250 barrels of "Davy Jones" ale a week. The two Royal Navy officers who oversaw the operation became the head brewers at Guinness and Truman's. The Royal Navy rejected an offer from the U.S. Navy to buy Menestheus for £1 million. She was scrapped in 1953 after being totally gutted by fire, yet the ship's cat was found alive, and made a full recovery.

Silent film showing the brewing plant installed




April 7, 1924: Helen Talbot, a pinup girl of the World War II era who had a brief career as leading lady in Republic movie serials, low-budget westerns, is born (as Helen Darling) in Concordia, Kansas. Died January 29, 2010 in La Jolla, California.




April 7, 1924: The vaudeville troupe known as (Leo) Singer’s Midgets visit the White House while they’re in town to play Keith’s theater. Some members of the act will later go on to play many of the Munchkins in "The Wizard of Oz."




April 6, 1945: aircraft from Task Force 58 shot down 249 Japanese planes at a cost of only two of their own. Between March 14 and May 28, TF 58 pilots shot down 1,640 planes, destroyed 619 on the ground, and damaged or probably destroyed another 1,000 for a total of 3,259. During that time period, TF 58 pilots also sank 150 enemy vessels and damaged 759. TF 58 was comprised of 18 carriers, 8 battleships, 55 destroyers + a dozen heavy & light cruisers during the Battle of Okinawa.


19 Hours in Kamikaze Hell  |  Task Force 58


April 7, 1945: the massive battleship Yamato sank after being hit by numerous bombs and torpedoes from U.S. carrier-based aircraft. The 2005 big-budget Japanese film YAMATO follows members of the crew as they are sent on the fateful mission to engage allied forces at Okinawa.




April 7, 1964: IBM announced the System/360, a line of computers that took over the computer industry. The big idea was that all the systems were compatible and supported all applications (a 360° range from business to scientific). Designing the System/360 was an extremely risky "bet-the-company" project for IBM, costing over $5 billion. Although the project ran into severe problems, especially with the software, it was a huge success, one of the top three business accomplishments of all time. System/360 set the direction of the computer industry for decades and popularized features such as the byte, 32-bit words, microcode, and standardized interfaces. The S/360 architecture was so successful that it is still supported by IBM's latest z/Architecture mainframes.

The IBM System/360 Model 50 was a powerful mainframe computer in 1964. It rented for $150,000 a month (current $), weighed 3 tons, and used 7600 watts. Now an iPhone has about 10 million times more processing power and 10,000 times more memory.


In the 1960s, mainframe used core memory for storage; 128 kilobytes filled a large cabinet and weighed 610 pounds. Core memory consisted of tiny ferrite cores on a wire grid. By 1970, IBM produced 20 billion cores a year.

World Inventory of remaining IBM System/360 & 370 CPU's.


April 7, 1969: The Internet's symbolic birth date: ARPANET - Publication of RFC 1, titled "Host Software", was written by Steve Crocker of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).





Rosie the Riveter Trust


Almost sounds like NASA's Director is talking about a mystical event, as opposed to a common celestial event.

"It’s a rare sight, that we haven’t seen in 7 years.


And unusual things start to happen, as the normal rhythms of Earth are disrupted.

People have heard birds stop singing, they’ve seen giraffes suddenly begin to gallup, roosters start crowing and crickets chirp.

So watch for these unusual behaviors.

And we encourage you to help NASA observe the sights & sounds around you.

Eclipses have a special power.

They move people to feel a kind of reverence for the beauty of our Universe.

Their power is not only to unify us on Earth, but to further science and discovery."

-Bill Nelson, NASA Director, Former Astronaut, Senator, Congressman, Army Officer.




Arkancide Solar madness...


Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Everything is an Emergency these days.


Elon Musk: "Every two years, thousands of ships would depart from Earth to Mars," like in "Battlestar Galactica." "Starship will make life multi-planetary" and "where are the aliens? I have not seen any on Earth. I'm aware of no evidence whatsoever."


https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1776669097490776563

Or you can listen to the vid here.

In Battlestar Galactica the Cylons (AI) rose up against their human creators, which lead to the near-extinction of humanity. Just sayin.


I’ll see most of you floating into the heavens tomorrow afternoon.