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True to the fake cures, that stuff is terrible with how it also abuses human lives >.>
That said, only the HP can work in theory tbh. Solar Roadways is a total joke simply because the material needed is on the far, far off end of "Could exist", like Cold Fusion tbh. Hyperloop's problem lies in a few physical laws regarding thermal expansion, pressure differentials and a few statements about human kind (Want to kill a few hundred? Each end of the Hyperloop test track for the West Coast would get about two tons of over-pressured air, or roughly the equivalent of 50KG of TNT if there was a vacuum failure, meanwhile, each terminal of the proposed track (with an incredibly conservative 1.6 meter wide tube) for the west coast would have something along the lines of 50 tons of TNT energy at each end). Mind you, thermal expansion could just as well kill everyone in each terminal considering that the strength of those pipes will drop over time from the heat of the desert. Of course, this ignores if the power supply for the tracks fail at either end, you'll die of asphyxiation pretty fast when stuck in a tube that'll need a full vacuum outside of it to safely open to rescue you while you're halfway between LA and San Fran.
BTW, these (https://i0.wp.com/usa.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/04/Hyperloop.jpg?w=650&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C355px&ssl=1) pipes for the HP are so weak they need internal support braces but are supposed to be able to withstand a near total vacuum on them.
Another bit of math, using the actual tube length and width, the blast wave from the tube rupturing would be about 15PSI...to put that in comparison, 10PSI is enough to cause severe damage to lungs and hearts, collapse concrete buildings and really is the point you start counting a lot more fatalities than injuries (https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docket/archive/pdfs/niosh-125/125-explosionsandrefugechambers.pdf) while 15PSI is more "Almost everyone blew up" with flavors of "The whole block is dead"
TBH I'm more scared if it does get built >.>
Jaslandia
Since I only got two replies, I'm posting it here again
Penguania And Antarctica
Interesting. Never even thought of that.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GD6qtc2_AQA/maxresdefault.jpg
Good morning friends and foes. Wish you all a wonderful Sunday. :D
Jaslandia, Cesorion
Liberal National
Nuremgard, Cesorion
Progressive Conservative
Cesorion
Beep boop toot toot. :)
Jaslandia, Mercunova
Noot noot
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I'm not keen on either. Progressive Conservatives is an oxymoron and Liberal National sounds vaguely left-wing. Unless this right-wing party is liberal in the sense of classical liberalism, then I'd go with Liberal National if you cant think of another name.
Penguania And Antarctica
[spoiler=Today is January 21 and today are:]
Today is January 21 and today are:
- Babinden (Bulgaria, Serbia)
- Birthday of Princess Ingrid Alexandra (Norway)
- Errol Barrow Day (Barbados)
- Flag Day (Quebec)
- Grandmother's Day (Poland)
- International Sweatpants Day
- Lady of Altagracia Day (Dominican Republic)
- Lincoln Alexander Day (Canada)
- National Granola Bar Day (United States)
- National Hugging Day (United States)
- Squirrel Appreciation Day
- Sri Panchami (Bangladesh)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0763 The Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa ends in a decisive Abbasid victory.
- 1525 The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
- 1535 Following the Affair of the Placards, French Protestants are burned at the stake in front of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris
- 1720 Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm.
- 1749 The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire. It is rebuilt in 1754.
- 1774 Abdul Hamid I became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
- 1789 The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston.
- 1793 After being found guilty of treason by the French National Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.
- 1861 American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
- 1893 The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
- 1908 New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
- 1911 The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
- 1915 Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit.
- 1919 Meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House Dublin. Sinn Féin adopts Ireland's first constitution. The first engagement of the Irish War of Independence, the Soloheadbeg ambush, County Tipperary.
- 1925 Albania declares itself a republic.
- 1931 Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
- 1941 Sparked by the murder of a German officer in Bucharest, Romania, the day before, members of the Iron Guard engaged in a rebellion and pogrom killing 125 Jews.
- 1948 The Flag of Quebec is adopted and flown for the first time over the National Assembly of Quebec. The day is marked annually as Québec Flag Day.
- 1950 American lawyer and government official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
- 1954 The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
- 1960 Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
- 1960 Avianca Flight 671 crashes and burns upon landing at Montego Bay, Jamaica killing 37. It is the worst air disaster in Jamaica's history and the first for Avianca.
- 1961 Four hundred thirty-five workers are buried alive when a mine in Coalbrook, Free State, South Africa collapses.
- 1968 Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh: One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
- 1968 A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.
- 1971 The current Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, begins transmitting UHF broadcasts.
- 1976 Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
- 1981 Production of the iconic DeLorean DMC-12 sports car begins in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
- 1997 The U.S. House of Representatives votes 39528 to reprimand Newt Gingrich for ethics violations, making him the first Speaker of the House to be so disciplined.
- 1999 War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kilograms (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board.
- 2000 Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutiérrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas depose President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez is later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigns and allows Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad.
- 2003 A 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes the Mexican state of Colima, killing 29 and leaving approximately 10,000 people homeless.
- 2004 NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.
- 2005 In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
- 2009 - Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip, officially ending a three-week war it had with Hamas. However, intermittent air strikes by both sides continue in the weeks to follow.
- 2011 Anti government demonstrations take place in Tirana, Albania. Five people lose their life from gunshots, allegedly fired from armed police protecting the Prime Minister's office. To date, no one has been held accountable for the deaths.
- 2017 Over 400 cities across America and 160+ countries worldwide participate in a large-scale women's march, on Donald Trump's first full day as president of the United States.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1815 Horace Wells, American dentist
- 1824 Stonewall Jackson, American general
- 1867 Ludwig Thoma, German paramedic and author
- 1905 Christian Dior, French fashion designer, founded Christian Dior S.A.
- 1912 Konrad Emil Bloch, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1922 Paul Scofield, English actor
- 1922 Telly Savalas, American actor
- 1940 Jack Nicklaus, American golfer and sportscaster
- 1941 Richie Havens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1941 Plácido Domingo, Spanish tenor and conductor
- 1950 Billy Ocean, Trinidadian-English singer-songwriter
- 1953 Paul Allen, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Microsoft
- 1954 Thomas de Maizière, German politician, Federal Minister of the Interior
- 1955 Jeff Koons, American painter and sculptor
- 1963 Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian-American basketball player
- 1963 Detlef Schrempf, German basketball player and coach
- 1981 Michel Teló, Brazilian singer-songwriter
- 1982 Simon Rolfes, German footballer
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Quote of the day is presented to you by @Unfallious
People will kill you over time and how theyll kill you is with tiny harmless phrases, like be realistic'.
- Dylan Moran (Irish Comedian, *1971) -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Mercunova
What has the SNP ever done for us?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy8dEz-1upM
(My friend was an extra in this broadcast.)
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
Obviously in the classical sense...
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
hello
Penguania And Antarctica
Micromanagement, micromanagement, MICROMANAGEMENT!!! your Minister for Domestic Affairs shouts, banging his fists on your table. Those buffoons are seriously overreaching their authority! Every resolution that infernal Assembly passes is an attack on our ability to pass our own legislation! We cant, and shouldnt, have nations full of fools ignorant to our way of life make our decisions for us. Wed be better off without that godforsaken snakepit... we MUST resign from the World Assembly.
Quick question, will this actually kick me out of WA?
Liberal National then.
Cesorion
https://youtu.be/Qc7HmhrgTuQ
Not sure. But even if it does, you can always re-apply and it won't take long at all.
Nuremgard, Spanelsko
Thank you King of Jaslandia.
Random question, for Axel, as much as we see your terrorist regime as a failed state we cant deny that we are the only failures here and the world.... and since after a while the government of UFIR bothered to look what is going on in the world we have been panicking a bit.... since we have seen the bit about the meeting of your wannabe EU and the reason we are scared is because of the part about this meeting also mentioning us. (WE fear that you, Soviets etc. would invade us) so we want to ask if we can be part of the meeting or at least know if we should prepare for second war which would crush what remained of our great Dictatorship.....
President of UFIR.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia
You won't have to worry about that. As long as you stay peaceful, we won't.
Penguania And Antarctica, Spanelsko
Nuremgard, I got your Vexing VAT issue. I'm not comfortable with any of the choices xD.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Welcome to NS lol
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
I ended up choosing Option #3
Nuremgard
Remind me what that was.
Uh... Tax the rich heavily, and help the poor?
As always, there is a third option, muses a passer-by with a voice of confidence. There is no doubt that this tax disproportionately affects the poor, but we also cant deny that it helps fund programmes that the poor themselves benefit from. Might I suggest reducing VAT on basic necessities while increasing it on luxury items? The rich might not like it, but its high time that they paid their dues to society and their fellow citizens.
Leads to: "The richest individuals apparently buy nothing but noodles and toilet paper."
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I return from the depths of hell
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia
Progressive Conservative, given your Canadian ties. Liberal National is kind of Australian-esque, given their right-of-centre coalition parties.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion
I think the PC has it....
Good! Tax them til they squeal!
Russkov Soviet
War= We die
Stay Peaceful= We live
I think that the second option is better... i dont know why....
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia
Because a war between us will be catastrophic and lead to the destruction of both our nations.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Spanelsko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztZI2aLQ9Sw
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Spanelsko
I don't think I can name one party with a name like that that is left-wing.
Nice flag.
Jaslandia
https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/106/590x/Prince-William-906537.jpg
Apparently that haircut cost him £118. Merc is right. His barber is ripping him off.
Look at that picture on the left. Tragic. He was his mum's double when he was younger. Had her facial features, her proclivity for blushing in front of the camera and thick, beautiful hair. Now those Windsor genes have kicked in hard.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=33324604#p33324604
Deadline met with silence, so this is happening
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia
Good luck Pirates.
Russkov Soviet, Pirate Kingdoms
No offense to me either, but I have kinda been having the same exact thought.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
I've been waiting for my map spot, but I can keep waiting (you might want to strike Fuhr off the map change, though); also, CONCORD's on the roll - al-Qarnan War 2: Electric Boogaloo :p
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Yeah, I was just about to update the map. I am sorry its taken so long to update. It does not feel to me like I have been gone for as long as I apparently was.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Hey, no biggie: personal life comes first
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Spanelsko
Would I be breaking any walls if I sent a letter/message to the al-Quarn regarding my nations view/stance on said conflict? And what would be the best way to send said message?
Jaslandia
You can do what you want (letter on CG, post declaring solidarity on Newsfeed), and it's best to do it by those mediums
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia
The Talking Point
The working classes live and die on the fields of the farming communes.
Beautiful.....
Regarding the war in Somalia
UFIR will certainly remain neutral but we do support the government of Somalia. (i will mention this in the RP later if i have more things to write)
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia
yey
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia
https://youtu.be/b60iiT4VWKc?t=1m11s
I have made my rather short response. (3:30am and I can't sleep xD)
Same here, and I have to get up at 6:45 to get to class fml
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia
The Issue
Spanelsko has been hit with the worst drought in a hundred years; as a result, thirsty citizens and a growing number of brown lawns are pleading for a government response.
This drought is a warning sign sent by our Creator! shouts a strangely familiar-looking man who has just walked in from the desert clad in camel hair and sandals. If this nation will only turn from its wicked ways and hearken unto our God, surely He shall grace us with water once more!
This man is a genius!
The Talking Point
Spanelsko's newly-famous raindances to summon storms instead attract tourists from all over The Confederacy of Free Nations.
Jaslandia
Ive been waiting also
Penguania And Antarctica
Kalaron is deploying it's toys :>
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Pirate Kingdoms
*sees Kalaronian arsenal*
OwO what's this?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
A serial polygamist in the Dawn Isles caused chaos in the courts when he divorced his 47 wives. In response, the government has made prenups mandatory to save the courts money.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Spanelsko
dafuq are you guys, Mormons?
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Nope. We have our own religion called Dawnish Dualism. People can have multiple spouses of either sex. It's a very socially liberal country.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Except for the whole white people are slaves part
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
No country is perfect.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=33327341#p33327341
Addressing the map change
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia
[spoiler=Today is January 22 and today are:]
Today is January 22 and today are:
- Answer Your Cats Questions Day
- Celebration Of Life Day
- Day of Unity of Ukraine (Ukraine)
- Grandfather's Day (Poland)
- Hot Sauce Day
- National Blonde Brownie Day (United States)
- National Heroes Day (Cayman Islands)
- Plurinational State Foundation Day (Bolivia)
- Vasant Panchami (India)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0613 Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.
- 0871 Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by king Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vikings at Basing.
- 1506 The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.
- 1517 The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Egypt at the Battle of Ridaniya.
- 1555 The Ava Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in what is now Burma.
- 1689 The Convention Parliament convenes to determine whether James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones of England and Ireland when he fled to France in 1688.
- 1808 The Portuguese royal family arrives in Brazil after fleeing the French army's invasion of Portugal two months earlier.
- 1824 The Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
- 1849 Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.
- 1863 The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain PolishLithuanianRuthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.
- 1879 The Battle of Isandlwana during the Anglo-Zulu War results in a British defeat.
- 1879 The Battle of Rorke's Drift, also during the Anglo-Zulu War and just some 71km away from Isandlwana, results in a British victory.
- 1889 Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
- 1890 The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
- 1901 Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
- 1905 Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
- 1906 SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
- 1915 Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
- 1917 World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
- 1919 Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
- 1924 Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 1927 Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
- 1941 World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.
- 1943 World War II: Australian and American forces defeat Japanese army and navy units in the bitterly-fought Battle of BunaGona.[1]
- 1944 World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio and Nettuno, Italy.
- 1946 In Iran, Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at Chahar Cheragh Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad; he becomes the new president and Haji Baba Sheikh becomes the prime minister.
- 1946 Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1947 KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
- 1957 Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
- 1957 The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
- 1963 The Élysée Treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
- 1968 Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
- 1968 Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
- 1970 The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
- 1971 The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued.
- 1973 The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
- 1973 The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission.
- 1973 A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176.
- 1973 In a bout for the world heavyweight boxing championship in Kingston, Jamaica, challenger George Foreman knocks down champion Joe Frazier six times in the first two rounds before the fight is stopped by referee Arthur Mercante. Foreman will reign as champion until October 30, 1974, when he loses The Rumble in the Jungle to Muhammad Ali in Kinsasha, Zaire.
- 1984 The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during a Super Bowl XVIII television commercial.
- 1987 Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,00015,000 demonstrators at Malacañang Palace, Manila, killing 13.
- 1992 Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
- 1992 Space Shuttle program: Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman and the first neurologist in space.
- 1995 IsraeliPalestinian conflict: Beit Lid massacre: In central Israel, near Netanya, two Gazans blow themselves up at a military transit point, killing 19 Israelis.
- 1999 Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
- 2002 Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
- 2006 Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
- 2007 At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.
- 2015 An explosion near a civilian trolley-bus in Donetsk kills at least thirteen people.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 0826 Emperor Montoku of Japan
- 1440 Ivan III of Russia
- 1552 Walter Raleigh, English poet, soldier, courtier, and explorer
- 1561 Francis Bacon, English philosopher and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales
- 1729 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German philosopher and author
- 1788 Lord Byron, English poet and playwright
- 1849 August Strindberg, Swedish author, poet, and playwright
- 1865 Wilbur Scoville, American chemist and pharmacist
- 1875 D. W. Griffith, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1891 Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher and politician
- 1898 Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director and screenwriter
- 1900 Ernst Busch, German actor and singer
- 1906 Robert E. Howard, American author and poet
- 1907 Douglas Corrigan, American pilot and engineer
- 1908 Lev Landau, Azerbaijani-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1909 U Thant, Burmese educator and diplomat, 3rd United Nations Secretary-General
- 1911 Bruno Kreisky, Austrian lawyer and politician, 22nd Chancellor of Austria
- 1931 Sam Cooke, American singer-songwriter
- 1940 John Hurt, English actor
- 1953 Jim Jarmusch, American director and screenwriter
- 1973 Rogério Ceni, Brazilian footballer
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Quote of the day
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- Edith Wharton (American Author, 1862-1937) -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Mercunova
Well this has been a slow day
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Yes. Seems like we've been having more of those lately. Is everyone sleeping at the same time or something?
Penguania And Antarctica
Well, I mean I've been starting classes and getting tired more easily, but I did notice that too
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I have classes too, but those don't take up too much time, so that's not it (at least for me, anyway).
Penguania And Antarctica
The Issue
Due to the reigning monarchs lack of heirs, which could conceivably cause a succession crisis, the aristocratic elite have begun to question the ancient law of primogeniture.
Im the eldest child, so I should get the throne! shouts Princess Venus, who has a reputation for being completely undiplomatic. It doesnt matter that Im a woman. I should have the same rights as a man to the throne. Why should the crown pass over me because of my genitals? Its arcane! I mean, having a monarchy is arcane too, but never mind that...
Never did i think that i will say this but the psychotic dictatorship of Iberia now has queen as its official monarch/emperor
(will be added to RP for fun)
Jaslandia
New RP message posted. In case you dont to read it here is the small summary of it.
New Monarch, Support for Somalia, Handland can use our bases, TCds is under our protection, cold relations with Axel, rebuilding.
EDIT:
Question: Is it possible to send volunteers into other nations? By this i mean if someone is at war that a nation could send in volunteers to fight for someone. Or is it banned?
Jaslandia
That's a 155mm towed artillery piece, 12.22 meters long too :>
You need the person's permission.
[spoiler=Today is January 23 and today are:]
Today is January 23 and today are:
- Bounty Day (Pitcairn Islands)
- Measure Your Feet Day
- National Handwriting Day (United States)
- National Pie Day (United States)
- Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's Jayanti (Orissa, Tripura, and West Bengal, India)
- World Freedom Day (South Korea, Taiwan)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0393 Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor.
- 0971 Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao.
- 1264 In the conflict between King Henry III of England and his rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, King Louis IX of France issues the Mise of Amiens, a one-sided decision in favour of Henry that later leads to the Second Barons' War.
- 1368 In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
- 1546 Having published nothing for eleven years, François Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.
- 1556 The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
- 1570 James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such.
- 1571 The Royal Exchange opens in London.
- 1579 The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
- 1656 Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
- 1719 The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1789 Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.)
- 1793 Second Partition of Poland.
- 1795 After an extraordinary charge across the frozen Zuiderzee, the French cavalry captured 14 Dutch ships and 850 guns, in a rare occurrence of a battle between ships and cavalry.
- 1846 Slavery in Tunisia is abolished.
- 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor.
- 1870 In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre.
- 1879 Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
- 1899 The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic.
- 1899 Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.
- 1900 Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
- 1904 Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
- 1909 RMS Republic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
- 1912 The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
- 1920 The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
- 1937 The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.
- 1941 Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
- 1942 World War II: The Battle of Rabaul commences Japan's invasion of Australia's Territory of New Guinea.
- 1943 World War II: Troops of Montgomery's Eighth Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the GermanItalian Panzer Army.
- 1945 World War II: German admiral Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
- 1950 The Knesset resolves that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
- 1957 American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
- 1958 After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pérez Jiménez leaves Venezuela.
- 1960 The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) in the Pacific Ocean.
- 1961 The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by opponents of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is overthrown.
- 1963 The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attack the Portuguese army stationed in Tite.
- 1964 The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
- 1967 Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast are established.
- 1967 Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with evidence of continuous settlement dating back to the Bronze Age.
- 1973 United States President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
- 1986 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
- 1997 Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
- 1998 Netscape announced Mozilla, with the intention to release Communicator code as open source.
- 2001 Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.
- 2002 U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered.
- 2003 A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time, but no usable data can be extracted.
- 2018 A 7.9 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities.
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Famous Birthdays:
- 1737 John Hancock, American general and politician, 1st Governor of Massachusetts
- 1783 Stendhal, French novelist
- 1832 Édouard Manet, French painter
- 1840 Ernst Abbe, German physicist and engineer
- 1855 John Browning, American weapons designer, founded the Browning Arms Company
- 1862 David Hilbert, Russian-German mathematician and academic
- 1876 Otto Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1897 Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect
- 1897 Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician
- 1907 Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1915 W. Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian-Barbadian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1918 Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1919 Hans Hass, Austrian biologist and diver
- 1919 Ernie Kovacs, American actor and game show host
- 1926 Bal Thackeray, Indian journalist, cartoonist, and politician
- 1928 Jeanne Moreau, French actress
- 1930 Derek Walcott, Saint Lucian poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1938 Georg Baselitz, German painter and sculptor
- 1940 Armin Maiwald, German author, television director and producer
- 1944 Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor, director, and producer
- 1950 Richard Dean Anderson, American actor, producer, and composer
- 1951 Chesley Sullenberger, American captain and pilot
- 1984 Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer
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Jaslandia, Vista Major, Mercunova, Cesorion
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Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
I saw Darkest Hour today. Quite a good film. Gary Oldman is fantastic in it. While I don't like Churchill personally, it gave me a newfound respect for him. He was the leader the UK needed at the time.
My English friend really enjoyed it. I joked to him that the film stroked his patriotic G-spot. He told me, "we'll make a patriot of you yet." My other friend said, "let's not go too far."
I agree. Let's not go too far lol. Good film though. I recommend it.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Cesorion
I mean you're a scottish patriot already, aren't ya? :P
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Cesorion
No joke, I feel asleep in the cinema to it.
Like, it wanked off Churchill for 2 hours. Like, ok Churchill is alright, but tbh I don't need to see him theatrically tossed off for 2 hours.
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Not to mention it's theatrical presentation of Chamberlain is, quite frankly, offensive.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Churchill was a mass murderer and a white supremacist~
woo
Vista Major, Lex Caledonia
The mass murderer label can be placed on most British leaders post-1800 tbh so I don't really blame him for it anymore so than I do any other leader. The white supremacist label is also similarly problematic since most European states still held the colonial traditional belief that they were civilising an uncivilised world and were thus 'superior'. He was a product of the times, and I take that in consideration before I condemn the man for his actions.
That being said, Darkest Hour was 2 hours of overdramatised, barely accurate nonsense and I'm glad I got a nap during it.
Nuremgard, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Spanelsko
Aight, fair point.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Axel what one must do in order to join the European Communism?
It's called the European Community. And really, you just have to be located in europe at this point. You can join our first conference if you want to, we're about to set it up. That said, being an isolationist dictatorship that just banned trade with me doesn't help your case.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Spanelsko
OK European Community, i forgot the name and just remembered that it was EC.
First of all i am interested in this organisation.
Second we arent completely isolationist, we are neutral but already are making steps towards closer relations with Hand, Soviet, Somalia, and randomly the nations of your EU.
As for the reason we banned trade is because we still see you as a terrorist regime. (Anarchy= Freedom UFIR= Oppression) Anarchy=Freedom=Terrorist for us. In other words you are too free for us.
top 10 haunting photos taken seconds before disaster
Jaslandia, Lex Caledonia, Spanelsko
Okay, but in all seriousness, sure. We're not an "Anarchy" per say though, we're a confederation with an directly democratic system of government.
Jaslandia, Spanelsko
ok so i was mistaken, i thought that Axeldonia is a confederacy of Anarchists since you have the anarcho-communist/syndicalist flag well now i feel stupid...
Then in that case i will have to stop the ban on trade at some point in time.
Also is this meeting going to happen on discord? or somewhere else?
We're kinda discussing that right now. Most probably I'll set up a forum RP for our meeting. And yes, we're an Anarcho-Syndicalist society, I was just describing how it actually works. It's not like there are no laws and everyone just runs around killing each other.
You're thinking of "Anarcho"-Capitalism.
I didn't see it as overly praise-worthy of Churchill. I quite enjoyed it. I'm surprised a British patriot like yourself found it boring and I, a black-hearted Scottish nationalist hell-bent on breaking up the UK, liked it. But fair enough. What do you find offensive about Chamberlain's portrayal?
I liked Oldman's performance. He did the speeches well, had some great lines and he made me feel for Churchill as a man and as a leader. I was surprised it accomplished that but perhaps that was the intention of the film.
Axeldonia
I haven't seen the movie, but I will say that a lot of the threat to England was a bit overstated during the war. Operation Sealion was doomed to fail terribly if it was ever initiated (Like, badly...a full disaster for Germany) and things like the V-2 really, really sucked at it's job by any reasonable standard of operation. Lastly -and this is more of a downside for Montgomery- the general he favored was maybe the worst choice for cooperating with SHAEF considering that Mont liked to toe the line of disobeying orders until -and even after- he had to ask Eisenhower's forgiveness (If my remembering is right, that is. It's easily known that E was often at odds with the man).
Again, didn't see the movie, just commenting on the history of the situation.
Jaslandia
Chamberlain was integral to Churchill in getting him established among the Conservative parliamentary party. He associated with the tory whip to make sure everyone voted in line and he was a key part of Churchill's war cabinet. The presentation of him in the movie made him seem borderline obstructive. Not to mention the whole 'don't cheer till I dab my forehead with this handkerchief' thing was a load of crap. Churchill's "We will fight on the beach's speech" actually got a relatively lukewarm reception all-round within the commons, but it wasn't due to Chamberlain who assisted Churchill wholeheartedly until his death 6 months after resigning.
The technicals of the movie were really good, nice light/dark contrasting, it had decent cinematography, and the acting was really good; it's just not very historically accurate at all.
The forgiveness thing was right: I believe it was Montgomery had pissed off Eisenhower by lecturing him while the latter was still SACEUR, and was about to lose his position as Ike drafted letters to both Roosevelt and Churchill putting up an ultimatum of either him stepping down or them removing Montgomery, so he had to go full on ass-kissing just to prevent the letters being sent.
Jaslandia, Kalaron
Hmm. Fair enough. Was it at least accurate with the sniveling Lord Halifax?
Jaslandia
Good luck to him if he's actually trying to change your mind.
That sh!ts impossible
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Cesorion
oh yeah pretty much
Jaslandia
What a sh!t he was.
It's important to understand the perspective of 40's era Britons at that moment in time. It was very daunting to be alone fighting Nazi Germany, and parachute operations were a serious threat, as well as naval landings. It was a last resort to plan for, enough for them to spend money on it building forts and setting up the home guard. I think they were more than justified to be scared of a German invasion, even if the actual one (or the plans we have of one incarnation of it) we found is bad.
Jaslandia
Not really, because parachute operations from Nazi Germany would have found themselves destroyed in a pretty fast manner like how the Allies found their own forces later on in Operation Market Garden. It was understood -and later reinforced- that airborne forces have literally zero staying power which is why they drop on an objective and then pray to god that an actual mechanized brigade rolls on to relieve them. Against anything more than light infantry -and ironically, even against light infantry- they are worse. Further, while Churchill -and many Allied commanders- may have fetishized the concept, most people understood that it was impossible for Germany to execute on the basis of sheer manpower alone. They couldn't build their forces to the same capacity as the Allies could even without the US getting involved. Crete is a good example of this though it happened well after Sealion would have come into being.
Beyond that, still no. The Germans didn't have the navy for the operation, it's akin to people who ape the Russian's as having been able to invade Japan, really. The landing craft simply weren't there and would have taken a year or more to amass. That's disregarding the British advantage in terms of naval capacity, of course, which would have precluded an invasion without a significant lead in aircraft, ships or manpower aboard said ships. Obviously, all three of those requirements were near impossible.
So sure, the average Bill could be terrified of the evil Germans landing on their beaches, his military told him it could happen after all. But the higher ranking members of the military probably understood that it was a crock of sh!t with minimal possibilities.
E: They have zero staying power for a very simple reason. They cannot carry proper equipment with them that would allow them to stay...like Tanks or tankettes with them. That's partially why FCS failed years later, it's physically impossible to adequately armour or arm a <11 ton vehicle and keep it able to be dropped in short order, especially if it's meant to be manned while one does it.
Jaslandia
Hindsight's twenty twenty, I feel like much of what you're saying is opinion as fact.
And an understanding of their own position -and realistic thoughts about German industry- is what they had. Germany cannot magic up a fleet to match the RN in a few days or months, and the capabilities of paratroopers is a simple matter of fact and logical conclusions unless you somehow expect them to counter heavy weapons with their bodies I guess? They can't, and that was reinforced during Market Garden where they held bridges for about an hour to a couple hours and then got wreaked...because the purpose of a paratrooper is to take and be relieved by someone with staying power.
Anyhow, if you really care to just say it's opinion, that's fine. I'm just documenting various things about the war -and war in general- that occurred during it, occurred since and will occur in the future.
https://www.nationstates.net/region=the_confederacy_general/page=display_region_rmb?postid=29104861#p29104861
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=33337011#p33337011
New developments in the works.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Lex Caledonia
To be fair, Britain wasn't alone. The Soviets were our allies and were fighting a savage assault from the Nazis on the eastern front. And the Americans did come into it near the end. However, I don't doubt that British resolve helped keep morale up. Had the UK caved to peace terms, Europe would have fallen. Also, us winning the Battle of Britain dealt a severe blow to the Reich.
Note: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India and China were also on our side. I cant specify their exact contributions to the war effort, however. Still worth mentioning I think.
Jaslandia
It's very easy to say that looking back 80 years after it happened. During that time, to the people of England, an invasion was a very real threat. The Germans had just taken over France, the low countries, Denmark, Poland, and Norway. They owned western Europe. At the moment, they seemed unstoppable. So it wasn't really overstated during the war, it was a legitimate fear. As for the V1 and V2 rockets, the biggest thing was that they struck fear into the hearts and minds of the British people. Suddenly the German's didn't have to send bombers, but could just launch rockets at the country and they didn't really have a way to defend themselves from such an attack.
Overstated threat, perhaps, but still very real. I'm not an official expert, and I haven't seen the movie either, but from what I've gathered, basically everyone except possibly Hitler knew that Operation Sealion was just a German pipe dream: While the Germans came close to overtaking the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the air (more on that in a bit), the Royal Navy was still a huge obstacle to a land invasion of England, and there was no way the Germans could beat the British at sea. The real threat to England was the air bombings/'the Blitz', which were intended to not only exhaust and weaken the Royal Air Force, but also to demoralize the British citizenry and government, forcing the British government to agree to peace with Germany, and allowing Germany to focus on Russia in the east. And it almost worked: by focusing on RAF-related targets, the RAF was pretty badly weakened, and almost lost to the German air force (Luftwaffe). However, when Germany started bombing civilian targets (which started due to an accident on the Germans' part, mind you), that's when the German plans for peace fell apart, as not only did these civilian bombings strengthen British resolve to fight on, but it also gave the RAF time to rebuild their forces and become strong enough to beat the Luftwaffe. Everything was downhill from there.
https://youtu.be/zOXbYAd6TLo
Again, for the average Bill the fear was very rational, however, the highest echelons of the military are vastly different to the average Bill in the information and outlook to said common Bill. It ultimately comes down to a question of if the Germans could have produced the needed ships for an invasion as well as the pilots and aircraft needed to guard it, and I consider it doubtful that they subscribed to the notion of Germany suddenly building the frankly massive navy needed alongside the cost of that increase to aircraft production.
Mind you, I'm not saying that there was no threat of attrition, rather, that the apparent threat of an invasion for those in the know -so, educated on more than simple heresay- was simply less.
Frankly speaking, the biggest problem with the Luftwaffe 's approach was that it was simply untenable for them. During the Blitz, the British produced more aircraft (just pulling from Wiki since it's 1:22AM and I need sleep bad) at 10K compared to 8K. Further, while the Luftwaffe had a somewhat higher reserve to draw from, crewing requirements reduced the number advantage significantly as the loss of a single seat fighter is less than that of a fully equipped bomber with four or five men inside of it.
The battle of Britain, in my honest opinion, was fated to fall to the British. It simply required far too much of Germany to invade (Especially while at war in the East) which left them with attrition bombing alone.
[As an aside, we should probably just agree to disagree, y'all. I'm getting a bit bummed from conversatin' on old battles like that ;p]
Jaslandia
As an aside, I've decided to shift focus mostly [if not entirely] to the K-440. If I have time I'll finish my 155mm Howitzer, but if not then it'll keep better than the Ultra-5th-Gen.
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