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I curse every time I’m in the middle of a large project with lots of measurements when I mentally calculate how much time I’d be saving with the metric system…
Me, too. There was an attempt in the '70s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act
Yeah, I graduated HS in ‘75, and all through middle and high school they were assuring us that the conversion was imminent, so we’d better learn it…
Looking out my front door this evening a little before 6pm - Moon and Venus. The streak at right center is a jet plane.
Fire escape of the 38-storey Copan residential building in São Paulo, Brazil.
I mean, nice that there’s a fire escape and all, but other than that…nope nope nope.
Today we're in Hawaii to mark the 80th anniversary of the surprise attack on the US naval base in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The strike by Japan cost 2,403 service members and civilians their lives, injured 1,178 others, and thrust the US into WWII. The sailors you see here are standing on the deck of the USS Bowfin, a US Navy submarine that is now a memorial and museum moored in Pearl Harbor next to the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center.
This Balao-class submarine played an important role in the American response to the historic attack, earning the nickname the 'Pearl Harbor Avenger.' Launched a year to the day after the Pearl Harbor attack, this vessel served nine patrols, or deployments, in the Pacific theater between 1943 and 1945. One of the top-performing US submarines of the war, Bowfin is credited with sinking 16 Japanese vessels, key strikes in helping to achieve the US victory. The decommissioned Bowfin was moved to Pearl Harbor in 1980, converted to a museum ship in 1981, and named a National Historic Landmark five years later.
This Balao-class submarine played an important role in the American response to the historic attack, earning the nickname the 'Pearl Harbor Avenger.' Launched a year to the day after the Pearl Harbor attack, this vessel served nine patrols, or deployments, in the Pacific theater between 1943 and 1945. One of the top-performing US submarines of the war, Bowfin is credited with sinking 16 Japanese vessels, key strikes in helping to achieve the US victory. The decommissioned Bowfin was moved to Pearl Harbor in 1980, converted to a museum ship in 1981, and named a National Historic Landmark five years later.
Unfortunately I didn’t have time to see the Bowfin when I was at Pearl Harbor. Hoping to go back so I have another opportunity.
Standing on the Arizona Memorial and looking down at the ship was one of the most sobering experiences I’ve ever had.
Standing on the Arizona Memorial and looking down at the ship was one of the most sobering experiences I’ve ever had.
Why oh why did the architect not just make it a helter skelter? Escaping from a raging inferno could've been much more fun...
Lenticular cloud over Mt. Rainier:
