Sharing: Strange Oddities from around the world

davedajobauk said:

The Van Allen Belts

These Fields Of Plasma, are an interesting relic, of past-times
and are, certainly TOXIC, to LIFE

Maybe, they were installed there
to keep Satan and the other fallen angels from wandering around the Universe
~A Prison Planet (?) for maybe we-too ??

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The Van Allen radiation belts are indeed a serious hazard to any astronaut spending an extended time within them. All the earth orbit manned missions' including the international space station' are well below this radiation hazard. However, the manned missions to the moon had to transit the VA belts both outbound and inbound. A lethal radiation dosage is 300 Rad in one hour. At the time of these missions the VA belts had been well mapped out in terms of radiation intensities. The Apollo mission's average speed through the belts was about 25,000 km/hr for a transit time of about 53 min each both outbound and inbound. Each transit would have resulted in crew members receiving about 12 Rads of radiation. So each astronaut on each complete Mission would have received about 24 Rads or about 8% of a lethal dose. Is there a risk? Yes, but it was a calculated risk. All such voyages of exploration were calculated risks. Some never came back. Lief Erikson, Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan did. Well, Magellan died in the last leg of the journey home, but his crew did make it back with his records. They were all calculated risks. That is how human progress takes place. The risks may vary but they are all risks.

davedajobauk said:

dave
[former Signalman. Her Majesty's Royal Corps Of Signals]

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Well met!
[former Rifleman and Lieutenant, Royal Regina Rifle Regiment]

davedajobauk said:

~https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwijpvfwveXZAhWqIMAKHaMvBhUQFghnMAU&url=http://www.reginarifles.ca/&usg=AOvVaw1NzVt_LajlxAaFn9GymKax

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On 6 June 1944 the Regina Rifle Regiment (RRR) took part in the D-Day landings. They were part of the 7th brigade of the 3rd Canadian division. They were brigaded with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles and the Canadian Scottish Regiment. They landed in Mike sector of Juno Beach. After a bitter fight on the beach with heavy casualties they broke through and ended up making the deepest penetration of any unit on D-Day. This excludes the airborne units of course! To avoid being exposed and cut off they were ordered to withdraw somewhat.

The following day (D+1) General Kurt Meyer of the 12th SS Panzer Division assembled his unit for a counter attack. This was a veteran, well-tested, well-equipped elite division. His objective was to split the Normandy invasion beachhead into two smaller beachheads each of which to be dealt with individually. In the late evening hours of D+2 his division attacked Bretteville l’Orueilleuse. This position was occupied by the Regina Rifles. During the night the 12th SS Panzers virtually over-ran Bretteville. The 900 prairie boys of the RRR never retreated. At point blank range these young men who had exactly two days of combat experience fought back. They opposed the Panzers with anti-tank guns, sticky-bombs, grenades, and PIAT projectors. Throughout the night the battle cry was “ They shall not pass!” In the morning the badly battered 12th SS Panzers withdrew to fight again another day. The prairie boys had defeated the elite of the German Army and the Normandy beachhead survived.

Although on a smaller scale, this battle ranks with the Battle of the Bulge as a pivotal encounter of WWII. Canadians are perhaps too modest with the result that this battle is almost unrecognized beyond those who fought it. In writing the battle history of the 12th SS Panzer Division General Kurt Meyer certainly recognized his defeat and honoured those who defeated him.

It is also worth noting that the Regina Rifles sustained the highest regimental casualty rate of the Canadian Army in WWII. In eleven months action they suffered 1946 casualties including 458 dead.

This is the last known photo of a living Jackalope (Cyprus Hills region in southwestern Saskatchewan, 1 April 2017). Once common in Saskatchewan, Alberta, Montana and the Dakotas now listed as severely endangered due to senseless overhunting. You will find mounted specimens like the below in bars throughout the area.

davedajobauk said:

The most amazing slow motion videos!

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My wife took a video of me sleeping and slowed it to 1/4 speed --- it takes 32 hours. Interested?