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hurtinbuckaroo said:
WAB said:
*resisting beaver jokes...must persevere...*
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I didn’t, why should you?
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Pope Leo under fire for 'allowing suspected child abuser to live near school'

The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, a group with 25,000 members worldwide, has called on the Vatican to investigate Pope Leo XIV's alleged failure to address abuse allegations
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That didn't take long (laughing about all of the mindless jubiliation about the next Pope and turns out he's just another piece of shit).
 
My family lived in Naples, Italy, in 1965-67 when my Dad was assigned to the shipyard there. During our time there the "Palomares Incident" occurred on 17 January 1966, when a United States Air Force B-52G bomber collided with a KC-135 tanker during mid-air refueling at 31,000 feet over the Mediterranean Sea, near the Spanish village of Palomares. The bomber broke up dropping four nuclear bombs, three of which landed on land and one landed in the Sea. After an 80 day "all-hands" operation the US Navy recovered the weapon from the bottom of the sea.

Cut to my tox box in the bedroom of our apartment. My plastic toy (like the one in the photo) "disappeared". Only years later did I find out that my Dad (who had nothing to do with the recovery) appropriated it and provided it to a group of sailors at the shipyard who painted it silver and mounted it to a wooden plaque (the Navy loves their plaques) with a brass label honoring the recovery effort and those that the Naval Base that assisted in the effort.

I wonder if my toy is still hanging on some wall at the Navy base Naples, Italy?
 

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hyzer said:
My family lived in Naples, Italy, in 1965-67 when my Dad was assigned to the shipyard there. During our time there the "Palomares Incident" occurred on 17 January 1966, when a United States Air Force B-52G bomber collided with a KC-135 tanker during mid-air refueling at 31,000 feet over the Mediterranean Sea, near the Spanish village of Palomares. The bomber broke up dropping four nuclear bombs, three of which landed on land and one landed in the Sea. After an 80 day "all-hands" operation the US Navy recovered the weapon from the bottom of the sea.

Cut to my tox box in the bedroom of our apartment. My plastic toy (like the one in the photo) "disappeared". Only years later did I find out that my Dad (who had nothing to do with the recovery) appropriated it and provided it to a group of sailors at the shipyard who painted it silver and mounted it to a wooden plaque (the Navy loves their plaques) with a brass label honoring the recovery effort and those that the Naval Base that assisted in the effort.

I wonder if my toy is still hanging on some wall at the Navy base Naples, Italy?
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I had one of those toys. Water and pumped air sends the rocket up. Great fun. A bit wet.
 
My freshman physics professor had one of those and launched it over the heads of the students and into the back wall of the classroom as a way to demonstrate water pressure, ballistic trajectory, or something. This was a large class too. Looking back, that was a really dumb thing to do. Coulda seriously injured a student and led to a lawsuit.
 
They don’t work well on horizontal trajectories because they start expelling air before the water is exhausted.
Wonderful toys though - truly “for all ages”.
 
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