Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

December 3, 1945: a de Havilland Sea Vampire operating from HMS Ocean (R68) Royal Navy Colossus-class light fleet aircraft carrier became the first purely jet-powered aircraft to land and take-off from a carrier. HMS Ocean was built by Scottish shipbuilder Alexander Stephen & Sons and she was commissioned on August 8, 1945.


Legendary naval pilot immortalised at Edinburgh Airport

Eric "Winkle" Brown (originally a balloon observer) - The Legendary Test Pilot Who Holds Remarkable World Records. Eric Brown is also the pilot who interrogated Hermann Göring in exchange for an aircraft.
Listen to his incredible life story:




Dec 3, 1962: "In event of war this shelter would be useless" - in the Ohio State Lantern newspaper:



Ohio State Lantern newspaper


December 3, 1984: David Lynch’s DUNE premiered in Washington DC.
The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. He who controls the Spice controls the universe. Fear is the mind killer. The Spice must flow.






December 3, 1988: Tory Health minister, Edwina Currie, provoked outrage from farmers by saying that Britain’s eggs were infected with salmonella. The scandal led to her resignation on December 16, 1988. She was nicknamed "Eggwina" after the affair.

A spokesman said the risk of an egg being infected with salmonella was less than 200 million to one.

The National Farmers' Union said it might seek legal damages.

Legal action

Mrs Currie has been unavailable for comment since her remarks were made.

She has represented her constituency since 1983 and was made junior health minister in 1986.

During her short time at the Department of Health, Mrs Currie has courted controversy with her outspoken opinions.

She upset northerners when she claimed they were dying of "ignorance and chips".

And she was branded patronising and callous for advising the elderly to broach the winter months with a pair of long-johns.

One of her most controversial remarks was on the subject of Aids.

She said: "Good Christian people who would not dream of misbehaving will not catch Aids."

1988: Egg industry fury over salmonella claim

Salmonella-in-eggs controversy


Dec 3, 1992: the first text message (via SMS) was sent by Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old test engineer for Sema Group in the UK (now Airwide Solutions), used a personal computer to send the text message "Merry Christmas" via the Vodafone network to the phone of Richard Jarvis, who was at a party in Newbury, Berkshire, which had been organized to celebrate the event.

"Can you fear me now?"


The Cell Phone Reader: Essays in Social Transformation (2006, pg 107)

Hppy bthdy txt!  |  Orbitel 901



South Korea president declares emergency martial law, says measure necessary to protect country from North's "communist forces" amid parliamentary wrangling over a budget bill. To protect democracy, we must destroy democracy!


South Korea’s president declares martial law, vowing to ‘eradicate anti-state forces’

Singing "American Pie


I seriously hope we do not get into a major war anytime soon...


‘Poor Material Condition’ of Navy Amphib Fleet Prevents Marine Deployments, Training, Says GAO

Still suffern from the Obama era. Unbelievable. How about get excited on putting that money into maintenance training, 20th century hardcore discipline and eradicating all the DEI nonsense!


"The field investigators in your sector have classified you as obsolete."


Twilight Zone's "The Obsolete Man" (S2E29) by Rod Serling stars Burgess Meredith and Fritz Weaver.


Dec 3, 1945: FADM Ernest King issued his final report on Navy operations during WWII. He credited victory in the Pacific to overwhelming seapower and America's industrial might. He used this graph to illustrate the annihilation of Japan's Navy as the US Navy grew from 1941 to 1945.


During four years of WWII, the United States built and launched 215 submarines, lost 52. We couldn't do this kind of legendary shipbuilding today if our lives depended on it. I guess we're doomed. Maybe learn Mandarin. Contrast that to Germany: 762 submarines lost out of 1,162 built. They sunk 16 million tons, we sunk 4.8 million tons. That's 21,000 tons sunk per submarine loss for Germany, and 92,000 tons sunk for USA. We stand on the shoulders of giants.


Up shit creek with a paddle...




December Stillness

December stillness, teach me through your trees
That loom along the west, one with the land,
The veiled evangel of your mysteries.

While nightfall, sad and spacious, on the down
Deepens, and dusk imbues me where I stand,
With grave diminishings of green and brown,

Speak roofless Nature, your instinctive words;
And let me learn your secret from the sky,
Following a flock of steadfast journeying birds
In lone remote migration beating by.

December stillness, crossed by twilight roads,
Teach me to travel far and bear my loads.

— Siegfried Sassoon