Wilhammer

A very good movie. The story was well done - the special effects integrated so well into the real world, you really did not notice them. Not one actor is a known one in the US - that was refreshing, and possibly the future of movie making - super stars are often over rated and very expensive. One finds some similarity to BattleStar Galactica - the enemy is within. One never knew which side to be on - the hero was definitely a pragmatic self serving anti hero. Obviously it present the Apartheid years rather well - replace the aliens with the refuge/slums of the apartheid days and you could have the same movie. It works without any aliens or special effects.

The DRM and the buy a plane plan has turned me off.

I like bugs - they don't worry me. No problem handling them. Will pluck them off of surfaces and plants to show the nieces and nephews (4-12 yrs old). Hate them on my garden plants - will kill them by hand, hunt for eggs and wipe them off of leaves, and pickup mantises and ladybugs and move them around to eat other bugs. At one time when I was a kid I thought I might become a bugologist - entomology.

Man, I so want to get this - I fondly remember my Red Baron 3D days, and it has been a long time coming to get a great other WW1 sim - however its minimum hardware specs makes it a given I will have to spend about 1200 dollars, maybe a bit less, on a new rig - my 2004 rig is not up to speed, even though it was built with Il-2 Sturmovik through Pacific Fighters in mind.

Ya see, I could not help to think the two were connected....

How is your roommate, Kettler, doing?

It was a rushed ending. It is pretty clear that they had no plan to close the story, and rushed its end. worse has been done. As the lawyer character pretty much said; "Six months ago, we had a rebellion over creature comforts, and now everyone seems so willing to give up creature comforts and (go native)" sums it up - and the whole Starbuck Ghost thing was just stupid. Great series up to Season 4, and then it was crap.

I don't read most labels - I am in the Farmer's Market and the Produce section, as well as the Meat Department. The biggest change in my area is dual language - everything seems to be in both English and Spanish. I looked - processed food is in both, on the labels - at Food Lion, the on shelf labels gives comparison priocing in Imperials - like 16.9c per oz for this dressing vs 23.8c per OZ for that one. But, if you buy measured goods like veggies, it is still Imperial in my parts. Wonder what it is near Kettler? Drams per Quatloo?

About the only part of the non-Scientific American public to use the metric system is the use of Grams by drug dealers. In the American grocery, it is lbs, ozs, gals, quarts, pints and count.

In 1970? And certainly not in NASA. You know, the 'civilian' space agency.

Also, the bottom label is in meters. Americans in those times did not know what a meter was, unless it was for parking.

We now have photographic evidence of spacecraft landings from a space probe; http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html

Looks like a Super Soaker.

Indeed. As soon as I figured out the best way to take out a large city was with Cavalry in a siege in Rome Total War, it was over for me.

FauxNews is now feeding the Nazi Mythos - Nazi Stealth Jet Could Have Won War for Hitler http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529548,00.html?test=faces

Why would they even use conventional (jet or prop) fixed wing airplanes? - Kettler says they they had a fleet of UFOs - and he seems to say they flew all the way to Antarctica at the end of the war.

Like these guys? Or this?

Yeah, Emrys, typlexsia got my point all wardbacks.

Too funny - our made up word made it to the urbandictionary.... http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Kettlerian

BTW, if you mean NatGeo is conservative in the sense it is out to make money, you are correct. It is no longer the rag of neutrality and natural sciences; it is about making money. Really, why else would Nat Geo do a program on Nazi Weapons? Hardly seems fitting.

"By what criteria did you determine that Griehl is a "Luftwaffe fanboy" as you put it? It's a damaging claim, if true, but where's your evidence? Otherwise, it seems like a cheap dismissive tactic on your part" I learned that tactic from you. However, it is obvious he is a fanboy - he writes endlessly on the topic. And, despite your claim that my research does not help my point, you, sir, are wearing blinders.

"Manfred Griehl's LUFTWAFFE OVER AMERICA is a recent (2006) book which looks at various German plans and capabilities to attack America. Griehl seems to accept the notion of two successful German atomic tests at Rugen and Ohrdruf. Nor is this guy a lightweight. He's the author of dozens of books on the Luftwaffe, Luftwaffe aircraft, and related matters. If you don't believe me, search his name on Amazon." Quantity does not equal quality - As a Luftwaffe fanboy, all conclusions by such a person should, by a reasonable, thoughtful person, be given careful scrutiny. Again - noise to fact ratio is low on these kinds of writers. This quantity thing is the bane of conspiracy and Nazi Technofans the world over. By the way, the Soviet Nuclear Program 'started' in 1939, but they were in no position to devote the resources to it until they could free up technical and industrial ability for it. Here is a REAL resource for you - http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/Sovwpnprog.html Evidence from intelligence sources in the UK had a role to play in the decision of the Soviet State Defense Council (GKO), in September 1942, to approve resolution 2352, which signaled the beginning of the Soviet atom bomb project. From Google Books; http://books.google.com/books?id=WB2g_HCUaZUC&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=soviet+resolution+2352&source=bl&ots=XANdcUD61c&sig=qThHmlXPz2PPgeAzoTBFrlrhh5Y&hl=en&ei=gQdKStm5FcmWtgfHsbTJBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2 "When the Nazi government collapsed in May, 1945, an Allied intelligence mission took into custody nine of the German scientists who played key roles in the German atomic bomb project. Under great secrecy these men were confined in a large country house, Farm Hall, near Cambridge (England), and their conversations were recorded surreptitiously by hidden microphones in every room. The transcripts were kept TOP SECRET for 47 years and were finally released recently. They give fascinating insights into the personalities of the guests and invaluable information on what the Germans really understood about the physics and chemistry of a nuclear reactor and an atomic bomb. The Farm Hall transcripts clearly establish that (a) the Germans on August 6, 1945 did not believe that the Allies had exploded an atomic bomb over Hiroshima that day; ( they never succeeded in constructing a self-sustaining nuclear reactor; © they were confused about the differences between an atomic bomb and a reactor; (d) they did not know how to correctly calculate the critical mass of a bomb; (e) they thought that "plutonium" was probably element 91. The Farm Hall transcripts contradict the self-serving and sensationalist writings about German efforts that have appeared during the past fifty years. " http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/journal/Issues/1997/Feb/abs204.html

" Outstanding, even though it wasn't a flyable craft they built!" You act surpised - did you not look at my original post enough? The frakkin' picture was a BIG clue it was a static model.

....and those Masters of Optics did not take ANY pictures?...

"Who does full blown strike planning, without the [whatever it is ] in hand or expected shortly?" This is proof of something? The answer to your question though, is it is done ALL the time. Full Scale planning is done all the time involving things that do not yet exist - great examples are as common as ants.