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1 minute ago, jagfox99 said:

You’ve set me off now...

Vivisection, hyper-temperature exposure, injection of viruses and the likes of horse urine, high pressure testing. Pretty horrific stuff irrespective of the scale of experimentations.

Completely unrestrained torture based on sadism and curiosity. Very little they did could even be considered of scientific use, although it didn't stop the Americans paying for whatever scribblings the guilt-free "researchers" could bring with them to their new lives in the US.

Still, important to know if diseased fleas could survive in ceramic shells fired into enemy countries, eh.

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25 minutes ago, jagfox99 said:

You’ve set me off now...

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Vivisection, hyper-temperature exposure, injection of viruses and the likes of horse urine, high pressure testing. Pretty horrific stuff irrespective of the scale of experimentations.

Should be good reading to get you prepared for the Clyde threads next season.

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8 minutes ago, Shandon Par said:

Should be good reading to get you prepared for the Clyde threads next season.

Hopefully there will be no Clyde next season... 

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1 minute ago, Theroadlesstravelled said:


I take it then the curve has been flattened enough for people to get back to their jobs?

Medical staff haven’t been furloughed....

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29 minutes ago, BigFatTabbyDave said:

Also, I question your choice of spank material, but at least you're keeping the tissues handy.

Human tissue is the best especially for testing the effects of venereral disease....

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1 hour ago, Hillonearth said:

They only had one other bomb ready to go once they'd dropped the first two - if that hadn't worked they planned to drop that one after another week or ten days, and then another half dozen or so that were in the process of being built over the next two or three months as they were ready. There initially was talk of using one as a demonstration on an uninhabited area to show what they could do to a city and hopefully trigger a surrender, but there were worries that the Japanese might move POWs into the demonstration area.

I think there naturally was an element of disbelief that one bomb could do that much damage, but when Hiroshima army HQ went off air and confused reports started coming in of a huge explosion the general staff sent a plane down to find out what the problem was ...obviously the pilot reported back that the city pretty much wasn't there anymore so they knew something big had happened fairly soon after the event.

The really weird thing was the second bomb was meant for Kokura rather than Nagasaki...the plane carrying the bomb developed a fault so they bombed the secondary target rather than the primary one.

They did think through  the arguments of where to drop the bomb.  They ruled out dropping it on an uninhabited area because there was always the risk that  the Japanese might not bother to watch the spectacle - in which case the whole thing would have been a waste of time.  Also there might be Japanese militants that might regard a soft target as soft and proof that the Americans were not up for the fight.  In the end, they decided the targets had to be cities.

Kokura was spared because it was cloudy.  The pilot tried three times but gave up.  He then went on to the secondary target Nagasaki, which was also cloudy but he did not have enough fuel to go anywhere with the bomb still on board (and he certainly did not want to land the plane with the bomb still on board) - so it was dropped on Nagasaki.    He then flew on to land on Okinawa since he did not enough fuel to get back to Tinian.

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6 hours ago, Todd_is_God said:

Ive read many people, usually gammons tbf, comment on Victory over Europe rather than Victory IN Europe.

Very telling IMO on why they are so excited about it

Is a gammon worse or better than a boomer?

 

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1 hour ago, jagfox731 said:

You’ve set me off now...

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Vivisection, hyper-temperature exposure, injection of viruses and the likes of horse urine, high pressure testing. Pretty horrific stuff irrespective of the scale of experimentations.

Sounds like a night out in Dundee tbh.

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9 minutes ago, Fullerene said:

They did think through  the arguments of where to drop the bomb.  They ruled out dropping it on an uninhabited area because there was always the risk that  the Japanese might not bother to watch the spectacle - in which case the whole thing would have been a waste of time.  Also there might be Japanese militants that might regard a soft target as soft and proof that the Americans were not up for the fight.  In the end, they decided the targets had to be cities.

Kokura was spared because it was cloudy.  The pilot tried three times but gave up.  He then went on to the secondary target Nagasaki, which was also cloudy but he did not have enough fuel to go anywhere with the bomb still on board (and he certainly did not want to land the plane with the bomb still on board) - so it was dropped on Nagasaki.    He then flew on to land on Okinawa since he did not enough fuel to get back to Tinian.

Imagine finding out your home town was the first choice for obliteration by nuclear heat death, only to have been saved because the weather was a bit shite. Chilling.

Unless you come from <ScottishProvincialTown>, in which case you'd have considered it a civil redevelopment scheme, amirite? Lols.

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