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  1. bladan

    historical discussions of ww2

    Hans Wind was compared to René Fonck of the WW1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Fonck I think it's Marseille vs. Juutilainen vs Wind. The good, bad and the ugly
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    historical discussions of ww2

    The best? Hans-Joachim Marseille (1919–1942) was a German fighter pilot during World War II. A flying ace, he is noted for his aerial battles during the North African Campaign. All but seven of his 158 (sic!) claimed victories were against the British Desert Air Force over North Africa. No other pilot claimed as many Western Allied aircraft as Marseille. "Marseille was the unrivalled virtuoso among the fighter pilots of World War 2. His achievements had previously been regarded as impossible and they were never excelled by anyone after his death." – Adolf Galland, General der Jagdflieger "Illu" Juutilainen vs. Marseille? A duel?
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    historical discussions of ww2

    Ilmari "Illu" Juutilainen (1914-1999) was the top scoring Finnish fighter pilot. He was one of only four people to twice receive the highest Finnish military decoration, the Mannerheim Cross, and is considered the highest scoring non-German ace of all time. 94 confirmed kills, 126 according to Illu. Juutilainen finished the war without a single hit to his plane from enemy fighter airplanes. Like Japanese fighter ace Saburō Sakai, Juutilainen never lost a wingman in combat. "He flies like an angel", said his flying instructor.
  4. What is the cheapest good booze available in Finland?
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    Interesting Ways To Die...

    History repeats itself - MRI machines hate humans
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    Interesting Ways To Die...

    A catholic crocodile! In a gruesome occurrence, a crocodile killed a protestant pastor in Ethiopia as he was baptising his followers near a lake. https://tribune.com.pk/story/1728514/9-crocodile-kills-pastor-baptism-ceremony-ethiopia/
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    Interesting Ways To Die...

    An Indian man died in a Mumbai hospital, on Saturday, after he got sucked into an MRI machine after carrying a metal oxygen cylinder into the room https://tribune.com.pk/story/1620976/3-indian-man-dies-freak-accident-gets-sucked-mri-machine/
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    historical discussions of ww2

    Was Capt. Wind the greatest, or was it someone else? Early in the morning on 13 June 1944 Wind led six MTs to reconnoitre the results of FAF bombing raid on a Soviet "tank park" the night before. The mission turned into an interception fight as the Finnish pilots detected a formation of Pe-2 bombers. Their escort fighters were not up to their task. Capt. Wind shot down four bombers in quick succession, the other pilots downed four more. Then the Finnish Messerschmitts escaped. In the afternoon Wind was leading four MEs in another reconnaissance mission and they were returning home with task accomplished, flying at treetops. At Halila Wind saw six Pe-2s at 1500 m escorted by 16 "Airacobras" at 3000m flying north, to bomb Finnish positions. Wind decided to attack, again defying the orders to avoid combat. He ordered each pilot to pick a target, then they began to approach unnoticed under the bombers. When in range, Wind commanded fire. Four Petlyakovs were destroyed, the two surviving escaped and the Finnish fighters disengaged before the enemy fighters intervened. Wind was reprimanded for endangering the reconnaissance results twice the same day, but consoled himself by thinking what the Soviet commander of the escort fighters could explain to the politruk.. After destroying of 5 Pe-2 s on 13 June 1944, the incredible series of Wind's kills was continued in following days: 15 June - 1 P-39 + 1 IL-2M; 16 June - 2 Pe-2 + 1 La-5; 19 June - 2 P-39 + 1 La-5 (flown by a Hero of Soviet Union, major A.V. Zhirkov). Now Wind was flying a brand new G-6, "MT-439". The plane was still under German insignia because there was no time to painting work. 20 June 1944 there was the toughest day of the war in the air. FAF Messerschmitts (30 aircraft) flew 126 missions, were engaged in 13 air battles in which 49 victories were scored, without losses. This day "Hasse" add to his scoreboard 2 La-5s + 2 Yak-9s + 1 Pe-2. Two days later (on 22 June) he got 2 Spitfires + 1 La-5; next day - 2 La-5s + 2 DB-3Fs; on 25 June - 3 Yak-9s + 2 Yak-7s. That makes 30 victories in 12 days. Wind took off fast after alert and attacked the enemy ruthlessly, without planning or hesitation. When in shooting position he fired accurately at close range. But Wind was very bitter not being able to help the Finnish infantry, being terrorized by Shtormoviks. On 26 June 1944 he test flew the MT-439 after repair and shot down 3 Yak-9s. His last flight was on 28 June 1944. He shot down 3 Yak-9s and returned to base badly wounded - http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation history/WW2/aces/Hans Wind.htm
  9. Yeah, it's faultless https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2A8jOxySI0
  10. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-rich-new-zealand-doomsday-preppers/
  11. for you: How many bladans did it take to invent this? If God exists, not to drink is blasphemy If God doesn't exist, not to drink is stupidity
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    Tom Hanks

    All that exists is the universal wave function. Neither you nor Bladan does exist. Plato didn't exist. But they all do exist as subcomponents of the universal quantum wave function. If you disagree, please point out Prof Vaidman's mistake. He's one of the leading physicists on the planet but surely you can do better. Here's the link again: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.05025.pdf
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    Tom Hanks

    A very good question. I hate thinking and especially writing but I'll try. You and me and Plato and other manifestations of ego-consciousness exist only as components of the Matrix, or the walrus, as Lennon put it - the quantum wave function - the Father, which is the only subject in Buddhist and Vedic thought. "I am he as you are he as you are me And we are all together" The only fundamental ontology (i.e. all that exists) is the universal wave function evolving in a deterministic way without action at a distance. https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05025
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    Tom Hanks

    There's no ego-consciousness called bladan who somehow could get back to you (through mediums?) to tell you about the result. Read my lips: bladan doesn't exist. Neither do you. Only the quantum wave function exists (which Plato called the Eternal Living Being)
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    Tom Hanks

    Bullshit. Einstein proved 100 years ago that space and time are nothing but components of a 4-dimensional mathematical continuum. Thus both space and time are illusions. In the end there's nothing that can do anyone in. That's because all that exists is the immortal quantum wave function - as the Nobel laureate Edwin Schrodinger and some later physicists have pointed out
  16. bladan

    Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel

    I want that Irish whisky
  17. (Link changed for obvious reasons) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI78Bqp6z6g
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    Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel

    What did he smoke?
  19. bladan

    Leah Bracknell

    If only oncologists knew that
  20. "Despite of everything, I am still an enthusiastic racist, sadist and fascist. That's what I enjoy. Pity is a disease"
  21. bladan

    a game

    Moustache, hostile stare and Iron Cross. My hero Adolf Hitler after plastic surgery and escape to South America?
  22. bladan

    a game

    Ollie Hardy
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    Olivia Newton-John

    Don't miss Grease III
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