I'm not sure if it's common knowledge yet but VIA rail is cancelling all trains indefinitely because the actual rail owners CN are shutting them down. The protesters have effectively halted all rail travel across the country just before most universities' reading weeks. The protests are working!
I’m just now learning about the Marseilles crime boss Antoine Guérini and the implication that he’d sought to kill JFK on American soil?? (based on a contract killer’s interview for a 1988 book)
Late to the discovery, but I had been wondering where the scene of Blanky swinging in to talk to Francis came from. Was this version of the scene in the British cut? Also heard that the dinner scene is different. I‘m never going to say no to more Blanky, although the dialogue feels a little more like Exposition than in the version with Jopson where Francis’s complaints sound more conversational. Francis’s comment about putting the food in his ears is more of a joke with Blanky, while he’s wearier when talking to Jopson.
Weird that they didn’t put both versions on the dvd/bluray, but they didn’t give us any extra goodies at all.
The Blanky scene comes from an Amazon Prime version (though I think only in certain countries depends which version you download too). YouTube took down my comparison of the 2 dinner scenes but I’ll show you some screencaps
There’s a few other little differences in the editing too and James doesn’t make the quip about wishing Sir James Ross was here.
My only guess as to why there’s 2 versions is because of timing. The US/DVD version is slightly shorter with these extra moments edited out, which I suppose doesn’t matter on streaming sites. I personally prefer the Amazon version in its entirety, idk it just feels more…complete? I like that you get the additional historical details in James’ sniper story (although I do miss the Ross quip) and I like that Blanky gets a decent introduction in the first scene.
Have you ever wondered why most navies cover the propellers of their new submarines while awaiting launch?
Simple: Acoustic profiling.
You see, naval engineering is such a well understood science, a naval engineer can, with relative ease and relying on both technology and experience, determine the underwater acoustic resonance of a propeller while in movement simply by looking how the blades are shaped and how many are integrated into the design, enabling the profiling of the boat into a database to allow easier detection by passive sonar, since you no longer need to discriminate from normal underwater sounds to detect a submarine, and instead can simply look for a known frequency, making detection far easier for an enemy navy.
That’s why is highly surprising when in an official photoshoot navy/dock personnel completely fail to cover up the propeller, since all the design effort that goes into a propeller, almost all of it focused on making its detection harder, is thrown into the trash the moment you allow it to be photographed, like what the germans did recently with their newest Type 212 sumarine
Of course, many old submarines don’t abide to these rules, mainly because they use old propeller designs that are so well researched it’s just not worth it to cover them up.
Or simply because the propellers are so damn dirty it’s difficult to properly gauge how their design works.
Of course, detecting an modern submarine sailing underwater is still the hardest thing any navy can set itself to do nowadays, regardless of what they know or don’t know about the shape of a propeller, but anything than can help make this monumental task easier is extremely welcomed, so handing it over in such seemly innocent way is something professional navies USUALLY strive to never do.
finding out people dont usually add numbers by first adding something to make a ten (for example 7+6= 7 plus 3 is 10 plus another 3 is 13) & that its actually an adhd thing is the WILDEST shit literally ive lived like 10 years (or however old i was when i learned to add and stuff) thinking thats how everyone does it. what the fuck
Oh yeah! This is also part of why autistic people/people with adhd struggle in math classes. Our brains process math and numbers in a totally different way. Many people on the spectrum struggle with the “show your work” part of math because we can’t exactly tell you why it works/how it works. We just kinda do it
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