djolds1 wrote:Actually I think it was the Poles who designed & built the first bombes (Enigma cracking computers), with GCHQ (the UK's NSA) taking the credit.
NASA finally admitted the "problem" indicated a few years back when it put out it's doctrine on "Faster, Better, Cheaper." That is, you can have any of the two, your pick, but not all three. We used to focus on Faster Cheaper. The Russians on Better Cheaper. Nobody wants to fathom the cost of Faster Better. Apparently the Manhattan Project can only be elicited by the Nazis.
Mike Holmes wrote:Oh helz, I can go with thread drift, I guess...
NASA finally admitted the "problem" indicated a few years back when it put out it's doctrine on "Faster, Better, Cheaper." That is, you can have any of the two, your pick, but not all three. We used to focus on Faster Cheaper. The Russians on Better Cheaper. Nobody wants to fathom the cost of Faster Better. Apparently the Manhattan Project can only be elicited by the Nazis.
Well, there's already a United States of Africa somewhere in the works...From what I understand, a South American Union as well is forming from two already existing alliances. At present, there is a global trend of increased integration due to the increasing complexity of the world economy. While some are worried that increased collaboration with our neighbors will damage culture, I think that increased cooperation is highly desirable. More reasons to cooperate == less reason for conflict .
Canada is a great example of how cooperation between nations/cultures/races can be: we successfully house the most diverse population in the world. I was raised going to a school in which there really was no majority race at all, so perhaps cooperation comes more naturally to my generation because we were raised with high levels of integration with other cultures. A North American Union modeled after the European Union - which itself is arguably becoming a superpower (it hasn't been classified yet because of its unique nature, which I believe we will be seeing more of worldwide in the coming years) can only benefit not just us, but the world.
Since I've been seening a lot of blogs about WW2 here, I though I'd ask a question about the war I've never been able to get a clear answer from anybody about. There were several Polish divisions and brigades that served on the Western front in 44/45. I've never been able to find any reference on how they made it out in 39 to fight on the western front.
Any vets that I've asked either didn't know or seemed evasive. One Eastonian suggested they were captured by the Soviets in 39 and transferred to the British after Germany invaded Russia.
choff wrote:There were several Polish divisions and brigades that served on the Western front in 44/45. I've never been able to find any reference on how they made it out in 39 to fight on the western front.
Any vets that I've asked either didn't know or seemed evasive. One Eastonian suggested they were captured by the Soviets in 39 and transferred to the British after Germany invaded Russia.
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