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Pato del Muerto

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  1. 17 minutes ago, Bevo said:

    Both the uranium gun bomb—Little Boy—and the plutonium implosion bomb—Fat Man—were largely pre-assembled at Los Alamos. Final assembly took place at Tinian Island in the Marianas group in the western Pacific Ocean. With an operating B-29 airfield, Tinian was used as the advance base for carrying out the delivery. The Manhattan Engineer District built special bomb assembly buildings, loading pits, and other facilities at the base. A thirty-seven-member team of scientists and specialists from Los Alamos was responsible for last-stage experiments and tests and final assembly of the bomb.

    The major parts of the uranium bomb consisting of the combat ballistic case and the uranium-235 projectile departed Los Alamos for Kirtland Army Air Field in Albuquerque on July 14, 1945, in a convoy of a closed black truck and seven cars with security agents. From Albuquerque, the bomb, packed in a large crate and a small metal cylinder, was flown in an Air Force plane to Hamilton Field near San Francisco where it was moved to the Hunter's Point naval shipyard. In the early morning of July 16, the bomb was placed aboard the cruiser Indianapolis, which set sail almost immediately for Tinian via Hawaii. The Indianapolis arrived at Tinian on July 26 and disembarked the bomb that day. (Four days later, the Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese submarine with the loss of almost 900 lives.) The final parts of the uranium bomb, including the uranium-235 target insert, were flown by two otherwise empty C-54 cargo planes from Albuquerque to Tinian, via Hamilton Field and Hawaii, arriving on the night of July 28-29. On July 30, the target insert, projectile, and initiators were assembled in the bomb.

    Anyway, they delivered the bomb. 

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  2. 3 minutes ago, locodos said:

    In college I taught my lab to fetch beers out of the fridge.   Put a towel around the handle so she could open the door.  Even got her to the point of soft carrying the cans so she didn't puncture them.    One day I find a leftover container behind the couch.  Living with 5 poor college kids meant the food theft was out of control, but gotdamnit, they don't even throw out the trash afterwards?!  That thought lingered for about 30 seconds before I removed the towel from the fridge door.

    I still chuckle thinking about all the food she was taking from the fridge.  If I had taught her to throw out empties, she would have never been caught.

    Not as much as the dog was laughing when you guys were accusing each other of eating your food 

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  3. Btw I’m no hunting dog trainer or owner but if you train a dog, or try to train a dog, to go after birds then wouldn’t you expect them to go after chickens?  Especially if they aren’t trained well?

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