The British Mosquito once carried Niels Bohr in its bomb bay
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Fantastic imagery occuring in my mind while reading that title as someone unfamiliar with the lingo. Almost psychedelic.
"Niels Bohr, father of atom, birthed from anus of mosquito, 2001 Starchild-like, bomb-bay-baby, 3-piece suit full formed within placenta, from the mother insect, a mission stalk-like to replenish the darkened Britain."
Anyone have a MJ account? I don't. Please do this! Maybe we need to prefix with "glorious natural water birth" to pass the ideological purity filters? hahaha :)
Edit: while SD burns up my CPU, here's an attempt with Dall-E 3, which apparently doesn't balk at displaying real humans or anal mosquito births...
http://files.rombouts.email/bohrwtf.png
Interestingly Dall-E 3 increases variation (and applies mild censorship) by rewriting the prompt. In this case, into the following, utterly deranged word salad:
A giant mosquito's abdomen is torn open, revealing a luminous space within. From this space, Niels Bohr, depicted in a surreal, 2001 Starchild-like form and wearing a 3-piece suit, is emerging. The process looks gentle yet momentous, with rays of light and energy radiating outward. The backdrop is a darkened, impressionistic portrayal of Britain.
Let's say that SD doesn't really know where to begin with the original prompt, lol. Some fucking eldritch shit right there.
Edit: forgot the set the width and height to be 1024
Tho you got some interesting ones too...seem less related to the prompts but pretty cool! :)
I'm a fan of blue face, baby and strange farm.
I've been having a blast with it though
"generate artistic visualization for a supersymmetry heavy particle moving in a magnetic field that will decay into particle with a kink track geometry for the heaviest decay daughter"
It was multipurpose AND high performance. I just think we might tend always to try to specialise and think that specialisation is the highest possible good.
To turn this to software, it was powerful for Android and iOS to use languages for which a lot of developer talent existed already and to pay attention to the ease of development more than ultimate performance. Nokia used an active-objects based version of C++ which used little memory and could get good performance out of the tiny ARM chips of the day but was very hard to program for. ARM chips suddenly got better and made most of this pain unnecessary but there was no way to suddenly make the C++ dev experience better without really starting from scratch.
I don’t think C++ was the problem there. The tooling was terrible, documentation even worse. It didn’t feel like they actually wanted developers.
It cannot handle running out of memory safely.
Handling an out of memory exception requires memory. 50% of the nastiness came out of the way Symbian tried to address this by redefining the new operator so that it could return null instead of raising an exception - the whole approach to memory management became horrendous because of this. 2 stage initialisation etc. It meant that all existing C++ code and containers were not portable.
20% of the nastiness came out of C++ being very immature at the time it was all started so OS classes for handling various kinds of unicode strings were not nice, there was no ABI stability. At Nokia the ARM compiler was used and it was very slow and required licenses which made it expensive to build in parallel.
20% of the nastiness came from choosing the windows DLL model over the linux .so one with export slots so that adding one method to a class would move the slots around and make a DLL incompatible if you didn't go through a complicated freexing process which seemed to go wrong from time to time. Adding one item to a datastructure also could crash existing programs which is par for the course in C++ but not Java and this was quite shitty.
These percentages are just my rough stab at it - maybe enough to give an idea.
Were all your operating system calls asynchronous?
Norwegian writing on Norwegian houses in Norwegian town with Norwegian trees in background. So a slight Gell-Mann effect creeps in, although the general outline of Bohr's escape seems well enough aligned with the facts as known.
They've mislabeled US fighter jets, and their authors have to know the difference.
My father was sent to a conflict zone (Malaya, now Malaysia/Singapore) and seems to have spent a fair bit of his time there repairing damage caused by ground-based small arms. Probably an exciting time for a twenty year old.
My grandfather did his national service with the RAF driving lorries across Palestine/Egypt/Iraq/Transjordan in 1945 to 1947 and flew over to Egypt in a bomb bay with all the other recruits.
I've got some Mossie blueprints in my files, I really should get them framed one of these days. They're works of art!
https://www.combatreform.org/cannonfighter.htm
(Good photos, odd article.)
It carried 24 rounds and the pilot said it felt like the aircraft slowed down every time they fired a round. (Which I can’t believe is true but it’s a worthy bon not from my late grandfather who was an engineer in the war.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Mosquito#Strike_(...
The canon was an anti-tank gun ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_QF_6_pounder ), the primary intended target was U-boats, and they added quite a bit of armor (to help with AA fire from uncooperative U-boats).
It doesn't sound like the cannon-armed Mosquito was (at the time) seen as successful. OTOH, I'd guess that the Allies having both good radar, and ~350MPH clouds of cannon-armed Mosquitos, would have imposed some pretty miserable operational limitations on the Germans.
I've checked their website[1] but can't seen any mention of it. The museum looks a bit more neat & tidy than I remember it looking, so perhaps they've reduced what's on display.
> Bohr and his wife, Margarethe, left their home at the Carlsberg brewery estate within hours of the tip-off from Harald. As they slipped out of the back of their house a Nazi snatch squad was already on its way. When the couple later crawled on all-fours from a beach hut to a waiting boat, the most famous man in Denmark had with him a single bag, a beer bottle full of heavy water retrieved from the lab, and a sketch purporting to be of the Nazi’s reactor design.
How could we possibly know the such things as 'Nazi snatch squads' even existed, nevermind that such a thing was on its way just as he decided to leave.. It's all very Biggles. These read to me like narrative plot twists to hold the reader's attention, rather than anything relating to what actually occurred.
Basically every paragraph is like this.
Still, it adds to the drama, brings story narratives vividly to life in the imagination.
The question for me, it's why is the history we are presented turned into these types of evidence-free stories? It's almost like its purpose is to propagandise the population into believing fantasies.
Germans keep good records, and after the war all the archives were captured and read through and cross indexed. Every incident in Allied logs was compared with German logs to see what matched.
I have low trust in authorities for good reason, I think. From there, it makes sense to look at whatever is being pushed in contrarian terms. So, no the state is not there to help, yes it is acting nefariously attempting to take greater power for itself, and yes it uses convenient stories pushed in education, media, etc to expound it's nonsense (lies, that if believed, harm the individual). I really do think this.
You are of course free to defend this article as truth or whatever. However, if I see these sorts of tricks in play, I reserve the right to dismiss it as a manipulative narrative. I also reserve the right to express my opinion, esp if I am able to easily support my assertion using the provided text itself.
Do you realise that even the news is a manipulation? You are free to be curious about the 'facts' that are presented to you.
Your point about verification is valid. People should explain what verification they have undertaken. This article is full of hyperbole. I don't trust these sorts of imaginative excursions to deliver me the truth about WW2, any more than I expect rambo to tell me about Vietnam or whatever. Both are plainly way over exuberant. Quite entertaining I guess, but not much more than that.
My intuition is that you wouldn’t.
I find it surprising that you decided to write a skeptical comment here rather than just Googling it, as sources are plentiful. What are those 'fantasies' that you believe people are being made to believe?
For instance:
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/rescue-of-the-danish-jews
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24427637
https://www.yadvashem.org/articles/academic/denmark-and-the-...
https://echoesandreflections.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/...
https://natmus.dk/fileadmin/user_upload/Editor/natmus/frihed...
> While the article did use very dramatic language, that the Nazi snatch squads in Denmark existed, were about to strike, and indeed did end up arresting many Danish Jews just a few days later over the Jewish New Year is very well documented history.
But contrast this with the article author says:
> As they slipped out of the back of their house a Nazi snatch squad was already on its way.
It's not the same thing.
> How could we possibly know the such things as 'Nazi snatch squads' even existed
Now you’re pretending you were only questioning the imminence of the arrest as described in the article, rather than the existence of the Nazi snatch squads themselves. That’s dishonest.
I don't know those squads existed. And neither do you. Neither of us were there. We only have secondary information on the whole affair.
What I do know is that those 2 bits of information do NOT match up. I do know that your defence + the statement in the article are NOT compatible. In your own terms, you have not found something that indicates what the author of the article expressed - that a death squad was on its way as they left their house. Maybe one would have come along a few days later. This is - at the least - a hyperbole.
If you were being honest you should have said, imo, that the article is NOT supported by the documented history. Ie that you agreed with my point that the story is exaggerated beyond anything historically plausible.
If all you had questioned was the article's hyperbole around imminence then I could accept your argument. That you're questioning whether the snatch squads existed at all is just bizarre.
'Snatch squad' is just a term. 'Police arrest' is another term. 'Terrorist detention' is another. These terms provide all the context the casual reader needs to consider themselves informed.
You seem to have zero clue about what happens in a society in wartime. This is how people sleepwalk into facism.
Even setting aside the description "Danish woman working for the Gestapo saw an order for Bohr’s arrest and tipped off Bohr’s brother" from this account, we can look at other accounts, like the chapter "Escape" from his biography at https://archive.org/details/nielsbohrmanhis00moor/page/300/m...
"Many years later at the Nuremberg trials it was revealed that the Nazis had intended to arrest Bohr on the day martial law was declared. There was, however, a dispute about it, and the decision was made to put off his arrest and deportation to Germany until the Nazis began their roundup of the Jews. In the general excitement, they thought the arrest of Bohr would attract less attention and the furor would be less."
The contents of the chapter are mostly aligned with the linked-to account, though the chapter says the beer bottle of heavy water was not true:
"The prosaic truth was quite different. Heavy water was used in the institute's accelerator. When the supply had to be replenished, someone remembered that Bohr had once had a bottle the Norwegian manufacturer had presented to him. The institute men were unable to find it and sent an underground query to Rozental in Stockholm. Rozental sent back full instructions about where to find it and pointed out that the bottle was unlabeled." - https://archive.org/details/nielsbohrmanhis00moor/page/308/m...
> Basically every paragraph is like this.
That is not lost on anyone. From the second page of the book chapter I linked to, "Bohr and Margrethe, feeling like the principals in a spy melodrama, as indeed they were".