Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Firepower Friday: What does a vessel need to be in order to be categorized as a battleship? According to the U.S. Navy, the three essential elements are size, protection, and armament. The ship has to be larger, more heavily armored, and have the largest guns relative to other ships of its era.




October 3, 1952: Britain conducted Operation Hurricane at the Monte Bello Islands off Western Australia, its first test of an atomic device that made it the world’s third nuclear power. The weapon came amid fears of American isolationism and the approaching loss of its great power status.


The bomb was detonated inside the HMS Plym (K271) frigate which was anchored just off Trimouille Island in order to test the effect of a bomb smuggled inside a ship to a port (which was something of great concern to the UK). The explosion occurred 2.7 metres (8 ft 10 in) below the water line and left a saucer-shaped crater on the seabed 6 metres (20 ft) deep and 300 metres (980 ft) across. The yield was estimated at 25 kilotons of TNT.

The experiment was hailed a success but for the men who witnessed it, life would never be the same again. "There was a sharp flash, and I could see the bones in my hands like an X-ray." - Former Royal Engineer Derek Hickman


Operation Hurricane

According to eyewitnesses, [HMS] Plym was reduced to a “gluey black substance” that washed up on shore.


‘We got told to turn and face it, face the bomb’


Why did Britain develop nuclear weapons? For the ultimate in tense, countdown scenes, watch this incredibly suspenseful COI film (Central Office of Information, the British government’s ‘one-stop-shop’ communications agency), charting the ticking minutes leading up to the detonation of Britain’s first atomic weapons test:




October 3, 1961: A group of teens from Hawthorne California calling themselves The Pendletones recorded three songs for Hite and Dorinda Morgan, who ran a publishing business and two small record labels. One of those songs was called "Surfin'", which, when pressed on to a Candix Records 45 rpm disc, was credited to The Beach Boys, a name made up by promotion man Russ Reagan, who had taken it upon himself to re-christen the band. "Surfin'" would get to #75 on the Billboard chart and sold 50,000 copies, launching the career of one of America's most successful Rock 'n' Roll acts. Greatest name change ever.




Throwback to Oct 2, 1964 Westinghouse Instant-On TV ad:




October 3, 1968: George Wallace picks retired Gen. Curtis LeMay as his running mate on the American Independent Party ticket.

"I'll be damn lucky if I don't appear as a drooling idiot whose only solution is to drop atomic bombs all over the world..." The look on Wallace's face while LeMay spoke. Priceless.




The world is a bee hive and it's mighty damn angry. So many moving & buzzing parts with emotions running so high you can feel the ominous vibes. It's impossible to keep up or even rationalize. Things are obviously happening at an extremely rapid pace.

"We’re going to take out 7 countries in 5 years."

Oct 3, 2007: Flashback to Gen. Wesley Clark - America's Foreign Policy Coup







LOGISTICS

https://x.com/InversionSpace/status/1973570866714988839

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4scKkVZQnUk

Or read about it here w/videos: Inversion Unveils Arc — A First of its Kind Space-Based Delivery Vehicle

Starting in 2021 a couple of young aerospace engineers over the next four years went through Y Combinator, raised $44 million, secured a $71 million Space Force contract, and built a spacecraft that successfully went to orbit. Today, INVERSION SPACE COMPANY is a 60-person team with a 55,000-square-foot facility in Los Angeles and a dedicated test site in the Mojave Desert. One of their biggest investors is Lockheed Martin, but of course they are.


Space-based delivery is quickly shaping into the future of military logistics which is the keystone in winning battles.

It sounds like something out of a sci-fi video game. Ordering cargo dropped from space. Medical supplies, food, weapons, tools & parts, all delivered to remote or contested field sites in hours. I first heard of this being worked on via Elon Musk & DARPA back in 2020.

The US military has been studying the concept for years. And now America has the spaceflight technology to seriously consider it. Multiple companies are building vehicles to this end. Starship Earth-to-Earth, Outpost’s Ferryall container, and now Inversion’s Arc spacecraft. The US Air Force was even going to build landing pads in the Pacific for Starship delivery tests, before they were suspended for environmental concerns.

It may seem crazy, but it’s being pursued. The DoD has issued hundreds of millions in contracts for orbital cargo drop and point-to-point delivery already. Space will increasingly define the future of warfare.


Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for Rocket Cargo Test and Demonstration at Johnston Atoll