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Captainant

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  1. 1 minute ago, Neonmoon said:

    Did it have landing legs?

    It has little stubby landing legs that telescope out the bottom, you can see them in the previous hop attempts 

  2. Watching some 120FPS footage of the landing - they definitely lost a raptor and then it was spitting out green flame trying to relight and the landing legs didn't actually deploy. There's gonna be some busy engineers tonight lol

  3. it was real weird/spooky to see it belly flopping in right on target and then relight and swing around. Looked like some of the dumb shit I've done in Kerbal, explosions and all

  4. 2 hours ago, immamac said:

    I deleted his account - in the process of deleting his account I hid/deleted all his content first because those 2 things are not linked intrinsically behind the scenes if you delete an account it's posts remain as "anonymous", but he wanted his content deleted. 

    So you're saying he didn't lose his account, he just ran out of posts?

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  5. 50 minutes ago, immamac said:

    ah, fucking tjhooker and his goodbye gift. I'm deleting all his posts and apparently the forum software does it in batches so it's making things all fucky. Note to self don't start that job until night time for posters with thousands of posts. 

    TFW literal shitposting brings down Surly

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  6. 1 hour ago, Parliament said:

    I have a friend who was a history major in college. He works in sales now, but is still a huge history buff. He says WW1 had a more significant impact on World history than WW2.

    Leading into WW1, Europe was only global power. All of the wealth, trade, military, colonization scientific invention, EVERYTHING was eurocentric. Then the Great War happened and they poured all of their wealth, and an entire generation on men into it. Communism got its footing in Russia. Europe was doomed to never recover.

    WW2 was nothing more than Europe's last gasp at hegemony. But by then, History has already passed them by. Interesting take.

    Arguably, WWII was nothing but the aftershock of WWI. The Marshal Plan was our method to break that cycle and not breed new enemies in our conquered foe. I'd say that WWI pointed us in the direction of the end of European hegemony but WWII is what pushed it over the edge.

    Side note if any of yall are naval history buffs - there's a youtube channel that just wrapped up their 3-part series on the salvage efforts to raise and restore the Pacific Fleet, fascinating watch chock full of primary sourcing

     

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