#ThursdayNightMassacre#FreeSpeech #TravelTips Assassination Coordinates - Wait, doesn't Tesla track AND NEVER PURGE every movement of every Tesla it's ever sold to harvest and for who knows what other nefarious reasons? Please be consistent.🙏 #privacymatters
2/ I understand, appreciate, applaud and agree with Elon Musk's need for safety. Surely he understands our concerns on safety vs of mocking them. Remember his #BranchCovidians comment? I do. I worry about open carry, conceal carry, flooding USA with guns and ammo, etc. #Safety.
3/ Assassination Coordinates #MorningJoe#ThursdayNightMassacre raises #privacy issues. Don't we ALL have a right to privacy, not just Elon Musk? Where does that right to privacy end? In our home? Aren't we using computers in our home? If anything "outside" our home is fair game,
4/ then doesn’t that apply to Elon Musk too? If something is legal, does that make it fair game for business or for private individuals to take advantage of? These are issues that apply to Elon Musk, to all of us, to Twitter, Tesla, Google, LinkedIn, T-Mobile,
5/ Amazon, credit cards, journalists, hackers, and anyone else who collects and/or transmits data, news photos, paparazzi photos, etc., one or more people may consider private. We can’t have specialized rules for Elon Musk. We ALL have a right to privacy, safety, truth, etc.
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#Hurricane#USNavy#OTD: December 18, 1944, Admiral Halsey catastrophically orders the US Navy’s vaunted TF38 into #TyphoonCobra. TF38 has seven fleet carriers, eight battleships, ~60 light carriers, cruisers, and destroyers. In all, USA loses three... 1/
2/ destroyers on Dec. 18 killing 790 sailors. USS Iowa @ussiowa, CL Miami, etc., damaged. Light carriers Langley and Cowpens (above tweet) roll through 70 degrees, sending airplanes overboard or into each other, starting big fires. 146 aircraft lost!!!
3/ In contrast, USA lost 123 aircraft in June 1944 Battle of the Philippine Sea. Destroyers Hull↖️, Monaghan ↗️ and Spence ↙️ sink. Maddox ↘️ and others are pounded but survive. 30 US Navy warships sunk or damaged total! #disasters#WW2#Pacific#Weather
#avgeek#aviation#USNavy#airplane - Vought OS2U Kingfisher; 1519 built starting 1938. Used by US Navy, Royal Navy, Royal Australian Air Force and the Soviet Navy. 450 hp; 1 x .30 cal (one fixed forward; one ring mounted in back) + bombs or depth charges. 1/
2/ OS=Observation Scout, U=Vought and 2=2nd plane by Vought for Observation Scout duty. Some had wheels vs floats. Were they convertible or built that way? OS2Us flew from land, naval air stations, or were catapult-launched off battleships, heavy cruisers or light cruisers.
3/ OS2Us sat atop a launch car sled on the catapult. An electric motor turned the catapult 30 degrees off the bow as the ship sailed into the wind. A 5" smokeless powder charge rammed the car to 80 mph in .5 seconds, retention pins dropped and the plane was off!
#PuertoRico#Castles#travelphotography#SanJuan: Castillo San Felipe del Morro / El Morro astonishes. It is a massive triangular fortress draped guarding the harbor. It may be the second largest fortress in the entire New World, second only to nearby Castillo San Cristobal. 1/
2/ #UNESCO El Morro five tiers of wedding cake #ramparts must soar up to 100 feet above the #ocean. The Spanish started construction in 1539. To enter, one crosses a splendid multi-acre lawn on the landward approach they deliberately cleared of all obstacles.
3/ El Morro's original pierced windowless guard towers are named "garitas". (I use "margarita" as a mnemonic...). We also saw many 3' long iguanas: one on the giant exterior lawn and at least 10 more in the dry moat. They love eating the weeds/clovers.
#Metz#France#travel - #NotreDame cathedral reveals itself at the end of a narrow street… It is beautiful Gothic architecture, with a mid-height central tower and two taller flanking transept towers much further at back. It’s all lit up at night. 1/
2/ #travel#France - #NotreDame of Paris caught on fire a few years ago. Here is another heartbreaking Notre Dame fire... but this is Metz in 1877... The other images show three other stages of evolution - two earlier and one now. #architecture
3/ Metz is a remarkably beguiling town that enchants absolutely effortlessly. There is a large pedestrian-only expanse in the compact historical district that makes walking around a wonderful, pollution free, safe pleasure. Note Marshall Ney's statue↖️!
December 17, 1903, 10:35 am, Orville Wright makes the world's first powered, controlled, sustained flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft flying 120 feet in 12 seconds (6.8 mph). #WrightBrothers#airplanes#avgeek#STEM 1/
2/ It took place at Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Though 700 miles via train, boat and foot from Wilbur and Orville Wright's Dayton, Ohio hometown, it offered excellent headwinds and near complete privacy as it was undeveloped and very hard to get to at the time.
3/ They walked the Wright Flyer back to the runway, a 60' long wooden track. A skid had cracked, but they repaired it. Now at 11:00 am, Wilbur Wright↗️, 36, flew next, reaching 175 feet in 12 seconds. Next, Orville Wright↘️, 32, flew 200 feet in 15 seconds.
2/ #travelbloggers#DiscoverPuertoRico#Love#Beauty - Here's stunning, romantic San Juan, Puerto Rico... I strongly recommend visiting it. You'll love doing so, and you'll help the local economy and wonderful people. Win-win!
3/ #maps#PuertoRico's population exceeds Utah, Iowa, Nevada, Arkansas, Mississippi, Kansas, New Mexico, Nebraska, West Virginia, Idaho, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Maine, Montana, Rhode Island, Delaware, South Dakota, North Dakota, Alaska, Vermont and Wyoming.