Wolf
@ametria
Historian by education, IT by trade. Husband, dad, champagne socialist. TO/Es, FMs and wargames at generalstab.org Views copied from smarter people.
A ruler planning for the end of his reign will never do right to his people or his allies. Screenshot unrelated.
I just got chosen by a dog. On the first day of our summer holiday. At the beach. At sunset. Her name is Dora, and she is a very good dog. Life is good.
Its been a long road, but its done today: Soviet moon rocket N1-L3 on transporter/erector 'grashopper' Lego MOC at 1:110. Now I 'just' need to redo the digital models, so that I can do the instructions. Expect them not before the year is over.
Sandburg war gestern. In unsicheren Zeiten baut der Deutsche am Strand: Die Sandfestung.
N1-L3 with Transporter-Erector "grashopper" at 1:110 built from Lego. Not stable yet, and some rebuilds will be necessary, but it is approaching its final form.
Die is nich so stabil wie die Saturn 5 weil selbst designed. Aber sie wird auch zu liegen kommen und zwar darauf - Grashüpfer. Dam fehlen.noch ein paar Teile ;)
In France, a protest is a friendly reminder that power rests with the people and we will chop of your head if you do not do what you were elected to. In the US, its a petition contest for the wittiest meme. Might as well post on reddit.
Überall ist es besser wo wir nicht sind (1989) ("The gras is greener everywhere else")
Besten Dank an Thomas Raths von @daspanzermuseum.bsky.social für die Empfehlung, und natürlich Dank und Respekt an Herrn Professor Eich für das Buch selbst - eine fantastische Lektüre über den Ursprung des Krieges.
The logistics on how people move around in this make no sense. They do not have to, its a TV series, but which elements of a city like this are shown and which are left out or only implied by logic says a lot about this version of a future from 'a long time ago'.
I presume several master-level thesis are already in preparation examining the architectural language of american imperialism or democratic futurism (depending on your persuasion) as depicted in 'Andor'. Even though we mostly see the senate and never the imperial palace.
I love how in Coruscant's vast cityscapes public transport is only hinted at, but never used. A world like that would require many levels of public transport: elevators, trains, etc. Instead, the characters either fly in private transports - or walk. And walk. Clearly Disney does not take the bus.
The club caring for the Feste sells a series of books on the place which I highly recommend, but most of all.I can only encourage anyone interested in modern military history to stop by - its half an hour from Strassbourg and absolutely stunning. And of course you are in France! 10/10
The resulting explosion not only broke windows from here to Strassbourg, but blew a 4 meter breach into the bunker wall. The Germans surrendered to the 3rd U.S. division the next day, Dec. 5th 1944. 8/10
The armaments and guns of the Feste had been all but stripped away when in '44 some 80 Germans holed up in the bunkers. They held out despite an intense bombardment by Long Toms and got finally dislogged by US engineers loading a halftrack with 4 t of explosives and parking it next to the fort 7/10
The four 10 cm cannons of Batterie 1 could rotate 360° and fire 8-10 rounds each per minute to a distance of more than 10km. On August 18th the battery supported the German counterattack against the French 13th Div., which has moved up the Breusch valley. Within 30 mins, it fired 291 rounds 5/10