I made a purely cosmetic change to my camper. Replacing the washers on the camper with larger diameters gives the impression the box is stronger than it is. Why over-build when the construction is already several times tougher that it needs to be? A visit to the DMV this morning tells me not to attract any questions or attention. The system has tightened up to the extent that they won’t register a trailer if they even suspect you don’t own an insured vehicle in your own name capable of towing it.
That’s scary. It essentially means a step closer to requiring that one have a valid driver’s license to own a car. The two should be unconnected and I warned America this was coming. What, you want to buy a hammer and we don’t show that you are a carpenter? That scary world is getting closer. There should be no restrictions or qualifications on owning legal private property. It’s getting so that you should always visit two government offices. The first one to find out what to say, the second one to say it.
Another round of exhaustion sent me home by late afternoon, where I watched a series of videos on the Type XXI U-boat. This is the first true submarine the Germans built later in the war. And something instantly did not add up. It was built specifically to counter Allied anti-submarine measures. Over a hundred were built and these air-conditioned boats could stay underwater for ten or more days. Yet only two were sent on patrol. That, you turkey historians, is not how the German military operated.
I know a cover-up when I see one. What is the real story of these u-boats? The Germans did not build them and let them sit for two years. They could best every system the Allies had and I don’t believe the wild tale that the pre-fabricated sections of the boats would not fit together. That is bull. Conventional U-boats were being sunk by the hundreds and you tell us their newest boats sat idle. Are we expected to believe that bombing, which was singularly ineffective against every other target, stopped the Type XXI. I’m not buying.
Deeper investigation reveals even the torpedoes were guided, something far in advance for the day. Called Lagenunabhangiger, it hit the target 95% of the time. It was computerized, which flies in the face of the claim that our side invented the computer. A special sonar could launch the torpedo from 160 feet underwater, using only a few pings. This was as revolutionary as the V-2 rocket and Me-162 jet fighter, but I’ll be you never heard of this weapon until now.
That’s understandable because it is almost impossible to find any reference to this torpedo written in the English language. I’m rusty, but Lanenunabhagiger roughly translates as “course-angle-independent”, meaning it was certainly gyro-scope controlled. And that is something the German guidance experts knew a lot about. Nor do I believe that the two atomic bombs could have defeated Germany had the war been longer. These subs and torpedoes were built in dispersed factories on a scale Japan had just begun.
Nor does the claim that the boats were poorly designed make any sense at all. The victors used captured or raised boats for decades after the war and designs today still use similar technology. The true story of these remarkable submarines has yet to be told.
Watch this video of a robot hand that cannot be beat at Paper, Rock, Scissors.
