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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Aug 6, 2021 23:53:53 GMT
Seventy-six years today ago something horrific happened.
At any rate I owe a libation to non-combatants.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2021 15:10:45 GMT
Seventy-six years today ago something horrific happened.
At any rate I owe a libation to non-combatants.
Very sad. I don't know how you make up for something like that. |
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Aug 7, 2021 17:30:46 GMT
The closest people can get to making up for those bombings is by making sure it never happens again. Such was the idea behind the MAD Doctrine, Mutually Assured Destruction. Unfortunately there are people who think they can win even a nuclear conflict.
It's estimated between 129,000 and 226,000 people died as a result of the two bombs, the counts are estimates because some victims were incinerated due to proximity to the blasts on August 6th and 9th.
To put it in context, if only 129,000 people died on those cities on those two days they would have been 0.215% of the roughly 60,000,000 [possibly more] civilians who died during the course of WWII. The higher number of 226,000 dead would have been roughly 0.38% of total civilian deaths caused by the war.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2021 4:07:38 GMT
The closest people can get to making up for those bombings is by making sure it never happens again. Such was the idea behind the MAD Doctrine, Mutually Assured Destruction. Unfortunately there are people who think they can win even a nuclear conflict. It's estimated between 129,000 and 226,000 people died as a result of the two bombs, the counts are estimates because some victims were incinerated due to proximity to the blasts on August 6th and 9th. To put it in context, if only 129,000 people died on those cities on those two days they would have been 0.215% of the roughly 60,000,000 [possibly more] civilians who died during the course of WWII. The higher number of 226,000 dead would have been roughly 0.38% of total civilian deaths caused by the war. So humans, even with rocks, are more dangerous than the most advanced technology. |
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Aug 8, 2021 11:19:45 GMT
The closest people can get to making up for those bombings is by making sure it never happens again. Such was the idea behind the MAD Doctrine, Mutually Assured Destruction. Unfortunately there are people who think they can win even a nuclear conflict. It's estimated between 129,000 and 226,000 people died as a result of the two bombs, the counts are estimates because some victims were incinerated due to proximity to the blasts on August 6th and 9th. To put it in context, if only 129,000 people died on those cities on those two days they would have been 0.215% of the roughly 60,000,000 [possibly more] civilians who died during the course of WWII. The higher number of 226,000 dead would have been roughly 0.38% of total civilian deaths caused by the war. So humans, even with rocks, are more dangerous than the most advanced technology. A human with bare hands, a club, a flint knife, or a bow with flint-tipped arrows is dangerous when the person has homicidal intent. Advancing the technology simply increases the scope of the area affected. If humanity vanished tomorrow, the technology left behind would decay eventually leaving very little except for some bones and scattered stone tools to show we were ever here. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2021 20:30:45 GMT
So humans, even with rocks, are more dangerous than the most advanced technology. A human with bare hands, a club, a flint knife, or a bow with flint-tipped arrows is dangerous when the person has homicidal intent. Advancing the technology simply increases the scope of the area affected. If humanity vanished tomorrow, the technology left behind would decay eventually leaving very little except for some bones and scattered stone tools to show we were ever here. Who was it that said the 4rth world war would be fought with sticks and stones? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2021 20:31:49 GMT
So humans, even with rocks, are more dangerous than the most advanced technology. A human with bare hands, a club, a flint knife, or a bow with flint-tipped arrows is dangerous when the person has homicidal intent. Advancing the technology simply increases the scope of the area affected. If humanity vanished tomorrow, the technology left behind would decay eventually leaving very little except for some bones and scattered stone tools to show we were ever here. Who was it that said the 4rth world war would be fought with sticks and stones? Nostradamus? |
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Aug 8, 2021 21:46:58 GMT
A human with bare hands, a club, a flint knife, or a bow with flint-tipped arrows is dangerous when the person has homicidal intent. Advancing the technology simply increases the scope of the area affected. If humanity vanished tomorrow, the technology left behind would decay eventually leaving very little except for some bones and scattered stone tools to show we were ever here. Who was it that said the 4rth world war would be fought with sticks and stones? Nostradamus? That would have been Albert Einstein.
The oldest stone tools are roughly 3.3 Million years old, predating Genus Homo. The next oldest stone tools are around 700,000 years younger and belong to Homo habilis.
Humans and their predecessors have been using sticks and stones for a very long time.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2021 7:58:59 GMT
Who was it that said the 4rth world war would be fought with sticks and stones? Nostradamus? That would have been Albert Einstein.
The oldest stone tools are roughly 3.3 Million years old, predating Genus Homo. The next oldest stone tools are around 700,000 years younger and belong to Homo habilis.
Humans and their predecessors have been using sticks and stones for a very long time.
Albert, a wise man. He wanted to know God's thoughts. The rest are details. Thank you, Cameron, for the knowledge. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2021 5:37:37 GMT
The closest people can get to making up for those bombings is by making sure it never happens again. Such was the idea behind the MAD Doctrine, Mutually Assured Destruction. Unfortunately there are people who think they can win even a nuclear conflict. It's estimated between 129,000 and 226,000 people died as a result of the two bombs, the counts are estimates because some victims were incinerated due to proximity to the blasts on August 6th and 9th. To put it in context, if only 129,000 people died on those cities on those two days they would have been 0.215% of the roughly 60,000,000 [possibly more] civilians who died during the course of WWII. The higher number of 226,000 dead would have been roughly 0.38% of total civilian deaths caused by the war. Good information. Never knew about the MAD Doctrine. |
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Aug 10, 2021 13:05:09 GMT
The closest people can get to making up for those bombings is by making sure it never happens again. Such was the idea behind the MAD Doctrine, Mutually Assured Destruction. Unfortunately there are people who think they can win even a nuclear conflict. It's estimated between 129,000 and 226,000 people died as a result of the two bombs, the counts are estimates because some victims were incinerated due to proximity to the blasts on August 6th and 9th. To put it in context, if only 129,000 people died on those cities on those two days they would have been 0.215% of the roughly 60,000,000 [possibly more] civilians who died during the course of WWII. The higher number of 226,000 dead would have been roughly 0.38% of total civilian deaths caused by the war. Good information. Never knew about the MAD Doctrine. The Cold War was a fun time. I vaguely remember as a child having to get under the desk at school for air raid drill, which later morphed into tornado drill. |
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Post by Ken on Aug 10, 2021 14:07:02 GMT
The Cold War was a fun time. Not for some of us! |
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Aug 10, 2021 18:08:52 GMT
The Cold War was a fun time. I vaguely remember as a child having to get under the desk at school for air raid drill, which later morphed into tornado drill. Not for some of us! My stating "the Cold War was a fun time" was meant ironically. Having school children practice getting under their desks in case of an air raid where planes are equipped with nuclear armaments -- as an action it's not exactly going to do much if any good for those close enough to ground detonation and even less for close enough proximity to an airburst. |
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Post by BlueAndGold on Aug 11, 2021 0:43:11 GMT
The reason to climb under the desks was to provide some shielding from flying window glass and ceiling material. Personally, I would much rather be under a desk than on top of it in such a situation.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2021 7:53:02 GMT
Good information. Never knew about the MAD Doctrine. The Cold War was a fun time. I vaguely remember as a child having to get under the desk at school for air raid drill, which later morphed into tornado drill. Was it you who showed me a map of all the bomb target areas within your vicinity? |
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