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Thomamelas
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In the interwar period, you start to see a couple of people working out the theory of strategic bombing. And a really big one was Giulio Douhet. Douhet was an Italian general in WWI who advocated for air power so much that they threw him in jail for a year. You might be wondering how much of a jackass was he, and that is the wrong question. The right question was how staggeringly stupid was the Italian High Command. But what Douhet brings to the table is the idea that Air Power is an primarily strategic offensive weapon. The idea the bombers will always get through isn't his but it does belong to his followers.
And the lesson from WWII was that Douhet was wrong in a lot of ways. There were practical uses for aircraft at the tactical level. And you could defend against bombers. But he was also right in that if you can't defend against bombers, they will flatten your cities. This wasn't helped with the development of nuclear weapons, in fact it became even scarier. Because now if I send a stream of bombers and you get all but one or two then your city is effectively gone. This is very worry some for the US because of this:
Totally not a B-29.
Anyone who thought to themselves "Ah the B-29..." is wrong. That's the Tu-4. Which is a reverse engineered B-29. The B-29 was the most expensive weapons project of the war, more so than even the Manhattan Project when you take into account B-29 production costs. And it was the most cutting edge bomber of the day. And now the Soviets had a knock off. If they built bases in the far eastern part of Russia, they could hit the Pacific Northwest. If they made a better bomber, then the rest of the US would be in danger. You can imagine this scared the crap out of people.
This doesn't get better as we get into the Jet Age. Now the bombers have more range and can cover it a lot faster. The time you have to work with is smaller. In WWII they had plotting boards like this that worked pretty well:
But now that's not fast enough. So the Air Force starts looking at automated systems. And came across Project Whirlwind.
During the war, the Navy attempted to make a better flight simulator than what they had. So they got MIT to start working on it, and they started developing Project Whirlwind. Project Whirlwind is kind of a big deal for computers for a number of reasons. First, it was real time, not batch processing. And it was doing bit parallel not bit serial operations. Lastly it had the first magnetic core memory. Right about the time they got it to work the Navy lost interest. But it was exactly the kind of machine the Air Force needed. So they turned it into Project Claude and hooked it up to the air defense radars in New England. It was a smashing success except for one issue. Doing this nation wide would be more than MIT could handle. It did lead to a bit of a spin off though. MIT worked on a transistorized version of Whirlwind. And part of that team would leave and form Digital Equipment Corporation. And the DEC PDP-1 is remarkably similar if smaller than the transistorized version of the Whirlwind.
So with the prototype successful they brought in IBM and scaled it up. Making the AN/FSQ-7 that would become the basis for Semi-Automatic Ground Environment or SAGE. This scaled it up to a nation wide project.
The AN/FSQ-7 was the largest computer system ever built. There were 24 units, each weighing 250 tons. 60,000 vacuum tubes. 3 megawatts of power. They were simply massive. And by the time SAGE was completed, obsolete. Now most of the time an obsolete computer gets scrapped. But the AN/FSQ-7 became a movie star. It became the go to prop for any set that needed a futuristic computer.
The list is in the spoilers. If you want to see where it appeared, this website will guide you. Also it provided the list.
One of the capabilities of the SAGE system was that an operator had a monitor and a light gun. When issuing an intercept, they could use their light gun zap a target and teletext it's info to an airbase, or BOMARC launch site. Later on this capability was upgraded so that the operator launch directly, or feed the information directly to a plane's autopilot. Given that the BOMARC SAM system could be equipped with nuclear warheads, I assume that damn dog never snickered at the operators when they missed.
And the lesson from WWII was that Douhet was wrong in a lot of ways. There were practical uses for aircraft at the tactical level. And you could defend against bombers. But he was also right in that if you can't defend against bombers, they will flatten your cities. This wasn't helped with the development of nuclear weapons, in fact it became even scarier. Because now if I send a stream of bombers and you get all but one or two then your city is effectively gone. This is very worry some for the US because of this:
Totally not a B-29.
Anyone who thought to themselves "Ah the B-29..." is wrong. That's the Tu-4. Which is a reverse engineered B-29. The B-29 was the most expensive weapons project of the war, more so than even the Manhattan Project when you take into account B-29 production costs. And it was the most cutting edge bomber of the day. And now the Soviets had a knock off. If they built bases in the far eastern part of Russia, they could hit the Pacific Northwest. If they made a better bomber, then the rest of the US would be in danger. You can imagine this scared the crap out of people.
This doesn't get better as we get into the Jet Age. Now the bombers have more range and can cover it a lot faster. The time you have to work with is smaller. In WWII they had plotting boards like this that worked pretty well:
But now that's not fast enough. So the Air Force starts looking at automated systems. And came across Project Whirlwind.
During the war, the Navy attempted to make a better flight simulator than what they had. So they got MIT to start working on it, and they started developing Project Whirlwind. Project Whirlwind is kind of a big deal for computers for a number of reasons. First, it was real time, not batch processing. And it was doing bit parallel not bit serial operations. Lastly it had the first magnetic core memory. Right about the time they got it to work the Navy lost interest. But it was exactly the kind of machine the Air Force needed. So they turned it into Project Claude and hooked it up to the air defense radars in New England. It was a smashing success except for one issue. Doing this nation wide would be more than MIT could handle. It did lead to a bit of a spin off though. MIT worked on a transistorized version of Whirlwind. And part of that team would leave and form Digital Equipment Corporation. And the DEC PDP-1 is remarkably similar if smaller than the transistorized version of the Whirlwind.
So with the prototype successful they brought in IBM and scaled it up. Making the AN/FSQ-7 that would become the basis for Semi-Automatic Ground Environment or SAGE. This scaled it up to a nation wide project.
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The SAGE sectors.
The SAGE sectors.
The AN/FSQ-7 was the largest computer system ever built. There were 24 units, each weighing 250 tons. 60,000 vacuum tubes. 3 megawatts of power. They were simply massive. And by the time SAGE was completed, obsolete. Now most of the time an obsolete computer gets scrapped. But the AN/FSQ-7 became a movie star. It became the go to prop for any set that needed a futuristic computer.
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Before Hollywood
Before Hollywood
The list is in the spoilers. If you want to see where it appeared, this website will guide you. Also it provided the list.
•Fantastic Voyage (1966)
•Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
•The President's Analyst (1967)
•Airplane! (1980)
•The Swarm (1978)
•Spaceballs (1987)
•Get Smart, Again! (1989)
•Eve of Destruction (1991)
•Beverly Hills Cop 3 (1994)
•Independence Day (1996)
•Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
•That's So Raven - Season 1, "Saving Psychic Raven" (2003)
•Return to the Batcave (2003)
•Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
•Soap - Season 3, Episode 3 (1979)
•Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973)
•Virus (1999)
•Damnation Alley (1977)
•The Towering Inferno (1974)
•Sleeper (1973)
•Lost - Season 2 (2005)
•Snowball Express (1972)
•Zontar: The Thing from Venus (1966)
•Westworld (1973)
•Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
•Columbo - Season 4, "A Deadly State of Mind" (1975)
•Winter Kills (1979)
•Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
•Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
•The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries - Season 2, Episode 22, "Campus Terror" (1978)
•War Games (1983)
•Way... Way Out (1966)
•12:01 (1993) •The Cat From Outer Space (1978)
•Get Smart - Season 4, Episode 19, "Absorb the Greek" (1969)
•It Takes a Thief - Season 1, "Hans Across the Border" (1968)
•Planet Earth (1974) •Earth II (1971) •Paper Man (1971)
•The Power (1968) •Project X (1968)
•The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 4 (1967)
•Scarecrow and Mrs King - Season 1, Episode 4, "Magic Bus" (1983)
•City Beneath the Sea (1971)
•Futureworld (1976)
•By Dawn's Early Light (1990)
•KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978)
•Stowaway to the Moon (1975)
•The Time Machine (1978) •The Invaders - Season 2, Episode 1, "Condition: Red" (1967)
•FlashForward - Season 1, Episode 22, "Future Shock" (2009)
•The Time Tunnel - Season 1 (1967) •Electra Woman and Dyna Girl - Season 1 (1976)
•Brave New World (1980) •Battlestar Galactica - Season 1 (1979) •Computercide (1982)
•Hawaii Five-O - Season 1, Episode 19, "Once Upon a Time" (1969)
•Capricorn One (1977) •Firestarter (1984)
•Sliders - Season 3, Episode 3, "Electric Twister Acid Test" (1996)
•U.S. Marshals (1998)
•Every Thing You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
•The Invaders - Season 2, Episode 14, "The Believers" (1967)
•Lost In Space - Season 3, Episode 1, "Condemned of Space" (1967)
•Lost in Space - Season 3, Episode 3, "Kidnapped in Space" (1967)
•Lost in Space - Season 3, Episode 10, "The Space Creature" (1967)
•Silver Streak (1976)
•Planet of the Apes - Season 1, Episode 5, "The Legacy" (1974)
•Rock Jocks (2012)
•Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
•The President's Analyst (1967)
•Airplane! (1980)
•The Swarm (1978)
•Spaceballs (1987)
•Get Smart, Again! (1989)
•Eve of Destruction (1991)
•Beverly Hills Cop 3 (1994)
•Independence Day (1996)
•Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
•That's So Raven - Season 1, "Saving Psychic Raven" (2003)
•Return to the Batcave (2003)
•Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
•Soap - Season 3, Episode 3 (1979)
•Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973)
•Virus (1999)
•Damnation Alley (1977)
•The Towering Inferno (1974)
•Sleeper (1973)
•Lost - Season 2 (2005)
•Snowball Express (1972)
•Zontar: The Thing from Venus (1966)
•Westworld (1973)
•Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
•Columbo - Season 4, "A Deadly State of Mind" (1975)
•Winter Kills (1979)
•Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
•Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
•The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries - Season 2, Episode 22, "Campus Terror" (1978)
•War Games (1983)
•Way... Way Out (1966)
•12:01 (1993) •The Cat From Outer Space (1978)
•Get Smart - Season 4, Episode 19, "Absorb the Greek" (1969)
•It Takes a Thief - Season 1, "Hans Across the Border" (1968)
•Planet Earth (1974) •Earth II (1971) •Paper Man (1971)
•The Power (1968) •Project X (1968)
•The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 4 (1967)
•Scarecrow and Mrs King - Season 1, Episode 4, "Magic Bus" (1983)
•City Beneath the Sea (1971)
•Futureworld (1976)
•By Dawn's Early Light (1990)
•KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978)
•Stowaway to the Moon (1975)
•The Time Machine (1978) •The Invaders - Season 2, Episode 1, "Condition: Red" (1967)
•FlashForward - Season 1, Episode 22, "Future Shock" (2009)
•The Time Tunnel - Season 1 (1967) •Electra Woman and Dyna Girl - Season 1 (1976)
•Brave New World (1980) •Battlestar Galactica - Season 1 (1979) •Computercide (1982)
•Hawaii Five-O - Season 1, Episode 19, "Once Upon a Time" (1969)
•Capricorn One (1977) •Firestarter (1984)
•Sliders - Season 3, Episode 3, "Electric Twister Acid Test" (1996)
•U.S. Marshals (1998)
•Every Thing You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
•The Invaders - Season 2, Episode 14, "The Believers" (1967)
•Lost In Space - Season 3, Episode 1, "Condemned of Space" (1967)
•Lost in Space - Season 3, Episode 3, "Kidnapped in Space" (1967)
•Lost in Space - Season 3, Episode 10, "The Space Creature" (1967)
•Silver Streak (1976)
•Planet of the Apes - Season 1, Episode 5, "The Legacy" (1974)
•Rock Jocks (2012)
One of the capabilities of the SAGE system was that an operator had a monitor and a light gun. When issuing an intercept, they could use their light gun zap a target and teletext it's info to an airbase, or BOMARC launch site. Later on this capability was upgraded so that the operator launch directly, or feed the information directly to a plane's autopilot. Given that the BOMARC SAM system could be equipped with nuclear warheads, I assume that damn dog never snickered at the operators when they missed.
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it's more that it removes the temptation to put something on while you have a quick bite and then realize you've lost an hour or two
and don't get on me for being a snob when apparently you're staying in swanky hotels all the time I will fight you irl
You are a huge snob about literally everything...
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Another enlightening scientific article
That would always think the sky is fallin'
Now I think the fact that I'm differently wired's awesome
‘Cause if I wasn't, I wouldn't be able to work words like this
And connect lines, like crosswords
And use my enemy's words as strength
To try and draw from, and get inspired off 'em
‘Cause all my life I was told and taught I am not shit
By you wack fucking giant sacks of lying dog shit
Now you shut up, bitch, I am talkin'
Thought I was full of horseshit, and now you fucking worship the ground on which I am walkin'
Me against the world, so what? I'm Brian Dawkins
Versus the whole 0-16 Lions offense
So bring on the Giants, Falcons, and Miami Dolphins
It's the body bag game, bitch, I'm supplyin' coffins
patrice bergeron played in the 2013 Stanley cup finals with the following injuries
hockey players fucking rule
We don't have cable but Youtube serves the same time wasting function
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yeah now I just do that with netflix instead which makes me way cooler
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It is known
I basically just steal effort posts I made in other threads. But to lots of chaters they are brand new.
I had similar motivations. I failed though as I have a Tuner->IP Stream attached to an antenna. The justification at first was for local news and PBS. But.. I still lose a couple hours to dumb stuff (and Netflix).
If you need some help there I've been rolling around for a bit, have a 6k apex rating and everything.
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Tinkles only answers to Geth still
if air escaped your nose at all you're going to hell right behind me
Soccer players are gigantic wusses
@Styrofoam Sammich is it actually spelled StyrofoamMetoer Or Meteor?
you did get a MacBook right
I mean I didn't deny being a snob, it's just that this wasn't an argument in support of that necessarily
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