Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

How many of you have the unfortunate super power of WEDEROGNOMONIA?
Do you suffer from the GRUEN EFFECT?
How many of you take in delectation in being known as a Rogue YULESHARD every year? Guilty as charged!

Huh? More on them obscure words at bottom of this post.


Dec 23, 1928: the Danish owned British built five-masted barque København disappeared during a voyage in the South Atlantic from Buenos Aires on 14 December 1928 to Australia, with 26 crew and 45 cadets (ages 14-20) on board. Used for hauling bulk cargo it primarily served for training of young cadets. On the 22nd December the København exchanged radio messages with the Norwegian steamer William Blumer, indicating they were about 900 miles from Tristan da Cunha and that "all is well" and the cadets were preparing to celebrate Christmas, which they planned to do so as they passed south of the Cape of Good Hope. She would never be seen or heard of again. That was the final message from the ship. Built in Scotland for the Danish East Asiatic Company, the København was the largest sailing vessel in the world when it was completed in 1921. The fate of the ship and crew remains a mystery.

She was officially announced "missing" by Lloyd's of London on 1 January 1930.



After years of searching for any wreckage public interest began to wane, but in April 1934, on arrival in Adelaide, Captain Soderlund of the Finnish-flagged grain ship Lawhill told newspapers that he had sighted wreckage from the København floating in the Great Australian Bight, but had failed to retrieve it.

Then in September, the NY Times reported a message in a bottle that had been picked up by a whaling ship on the Bonvel Islands, reputing the ship had been blown into the Antarctic and the crew and boys put ashore on the ice, to watch her be driven by the winds to her destruction.

It quickly transpired that the "diary" entries found in the bottle were copied out of a Spanish novel by a Danish journalist, who passed them off as genuine. A statement from the families of the lost boys read:

"We know our boys are dead, but it is terrible not to know how and why and where the tragedy happened. Perhaps, too, there are some who cherish a faint hope against their better judgement that some day they will come back."

You can read more about the København if interested:

The thread about the København; the enigmatic Leith-built sailing ship that mysteriously disappeared in the South Atlantic, never to be seen again

Photos of the Kobenhaven model:
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London]https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-66020]National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

Dutch site: S/S COPENHAGEN The world's largest school ship

Australian vid about a Four Masted Barque rounding Cape Horn 1928, filmed & narrated by Captain Irving. Gives you a good idea of life onboard these massive Tall sailing ships and the harsh sea conditions one had to endure. Video is from NSW Maritime Museum. Fantastic storyteller!





Here's a masterpiece documentary: The Last Cape Horners



Description: "Gustaf Erikson of Finland owned the last great fleet of sailing ships the world would ever see. We have rare first hand accounts from men who sailed from Europe to Australia to load grain and return to Europe by way of the treacherous Cape Horn. These sailings were known world wide as The Last Grain Gaces."



Dec 23, 1968: the crew of USS Pueblo crossed "The Bridge of No Return" after 11 months of captivity in North Korea. The Pueblo is still held by North Korea but remains an officially commissioned ship in the U.S. Navy. Among USN commissioned ships, only USS Constitution is older. Filmed by a Swiss Army officer of the UN command on 8MM film. No sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hai53hfxAhI


Dec 22, 1991: The same day the Orlando Sentinel announced the Soviet Union doesn't exist, they published a fascinating article on a secret Mount Dora, Florida community fallout shelter (known as "the Catacombs") built in 1961.



Here's a 3-part story all about it:
MOUNT DORA'S BIGGEST SECRET: THE CATACOMBS


"Christmas 2001: A Space-Age Adventure" by Flo Price, Light Records, 1979, cover by Jim Lamb.


"Now take an imaginary interplanetary trip with us in our "Mobile Time Machine". Just step inside. It might make you think...just a little bit more about the wonderful God we serve." – Flo Price


I came across this via Russian media...


British soldiers successfully test drone killer radiowave weapon for first time

Soon that "single person" will be replaced by AI hybrid (cyborg).
QinetiQ is the British version of DARPA and Q has acquired numerous American Defense technology companies. "Qinetiq" (pronounced kinetic) is an invented name. "Qi" is supposed to reflect the company's energy, "net" its networking ability, and "iq" its intellectual resources. The name was adopted in early 2001 as a marker of Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) privatisation; the rebranding reportedly came at a cost of £400,000. They are traded on the London Stock Exchange as "QQ".

The Americans, the British, the Russians, the Chinese, French, Germans, and Aussies are all developing their AI brain chip.

You worry about them New Jerseys drones, earthlings? Well, lookie here...

AI MOUSE THAT ROARED: BRAVE NEW WORLD:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS_sNeq8o9c


Yes, enhanced ape will rule man. Believe it says Zippy!




They been working on energy weapons a long time...


Final Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Directed Energy Weapon Systems and Technology Applications (Dec 2007)



That's some major bragging rights... and likely a big promotion in 2025...


For First Time, Australian Submariner Earns US Dolphins


Words for Christmas Week Extravaganza...



Last Minute Scramble
A yuleshard scrambles, delay—that’s his vice:
Hangs holyverds, wraps gifts, checks lists at least twice.
Pulling on boots, he meggles through snow,
Belsnickle busy with just hours to go.