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On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 09:41:42 -0400, John H.
wrote: On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 08:17:44 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 3/17/2018 7:54 AM, John H. wrote: On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 17:21:27 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: I recently watched "Azorian" via Amazon Prime streaming. It's about the CIA's program to raise the Soviet sub K-129 that sank off of Iceland in 1974. Talk about some serious engineering! Howard Hughes was recruited to provide a cover story by "financing" the design and building of the Huges Glomar Explorer as a sea bed mining ship. In reality the CIA financed it all of course. The bottom of the ship had two huge doors that slid open allowing the deployment of a giant lift device with claws that would submerge, held in place by pipes, to a depth of 16,500 feet where the sub lay on the bottom. The technical challenges of designing the systems involved were mind boggling. Makes the challenge of going to the moon look like duck soup. Great documentary for those with this kind of interest. Thanks. Spielberg's 'World War II in Color' from Netflix is next on my list. I can access Netflix but I never opened an account with them. My daughter was over the other day and put her Netflix account information into the PS4 that I use to stream Amazon Prime videos. Worked just fine so now I can also access Netflix. Like you and Greg, I enjoy some of the documentaries. Not much of a regular movie watcher though. The WWII documentary is a series. Thirteen episodes for a total of about 10 1/2 hours. I'll set aside a day and just gorge myself. Maybe two days. Once you get them suggesting things, you find a whole bunch of WWII stuff on Amazon but there are also a lot of things on You Tube. |
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On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 08:17:44 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 3/17/2018 7:54 AM, John H. wrote: On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 17:21:27 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: I recently watched "Azorian" via Amazon Prime streaming. It's about the CIA's program to raise the Soviet sub K-129 that sank off of Iceland in 1974. Talk about some serious engineering! Howard Hughes was recruited to provide a cover story by "financing" the design and building of the Huges Glomar Explorer as a sea bed mining ship. In reality the CIA financed it all of course. The bottom of the ship had two huge doors that slid open allowing the deployment of a giant lift device with claws that would submerge, held in place by pipes, to a depth of 16,500 feet where the sub lay on the bottom. The technical challenges of designing the systems involved were mind boggling. Makes the challenge of going to the moon look like duck soup. Great documentary for those with this kind of interest. Thanks. Spielberg's 'World War II in Color' from Netflix is next on my list. I can access Netflix but I never opened an account with them. My daughter was over the other day and put her Netflix account information into the PS4 that I use to stream Amazon Prime videos. Worked just fine so now I can also access Netflix. Yup, you can have 2 people logged on to one account on Netflix and when you exceed that they prompt you to add on more users at an additional cost Like you and Greg, I enjoy some of the documentaries. Not much of a regular movie watcher though. |
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On 3/17/2018 1:35 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:
Mr. Luddite wrote: On 3/17/2018 11:24 AM, wrote: On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 08:17:44 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 3/17/2018 7:54 AM, John H. wrote: On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 17:21:27 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: I recently watched "Azorian" via Amazon Prime streaming. It's about the CIA's program to raise the Soviet sub K-129 that sank off of Iceland in 1974. Talk about some serious engineering! Howard Hughes was recruited to provide a cover story by "financing" the design and building of the Huges Glomar Explorer as a sea bed mining ship. In reality the CIA financed it all of course. The bottom of the ship had two huge doors that slid open allowing the deployment of a giant lift device with claws that would submerge, held in place by pipes, to a depth of 16,500 feet where the sub lay on the bottom. The technical challenges of designing the systems involved were mind boggling. Makes the challenge of going to the moon look like duck soup. Great documentary for those with this kind of interest. Thanks. Spielberg's 'World War II in Color' from Netflix is next on my list. I can access Netflix but I never opened an account with them. My daughter was over the other day and put her Netflix account information into the PS4 that I use to stream Amazon Prime videos. Worked just fine so now I can also access Netflix. Yup, you can have 2 people logged on to one account on Netflix and when you exceed that they prompt you to add on more users at an additional cost Like you and Greg, I enjoy some of the documentaries. Not much of a regular movie watcher though. She already had three "profiles" on her account. Her, her husband and another for her boys. Mine was the forth profile and it went through fine. Maybe the extra charge is if more than two people are logged on at the same time? She said she only pays something like $10/mo for the Netflix account. $10 a month is the charge here. My wife finds a lot to watch when she has the time to do so. She likes series and Brit shows. I don’t find that much I like and I’m not a fan of series. I watched another that was the story of Hyman Rickover and his management of the Navy's nuclear power program. He was a odd ball for sure and despised everything to do with Navy and Washington DC bureaucracy. Interesting story and I think you would have appreciation some of it. He demanded safety above all, even if it risked busting his allocated budget. The Navy tried to get rid of him by passing him over for promotion three times. (He was a Captain at the time). He bypassed the Navy, went to Congress and got his promotion to Rear Admiral. He personally interviewed all candidates for the newly formed nuclear program. Jimmy Carter was interviewed and Rickover asked him what his class standing was at Annapolis. Carter told him he was 59th out of a class over over 800. Rickover sat and thought for a while and then asked Carter, "Did you do the best you could?" Carter looked at the floor and finally answered, "no". Rickover abruptly told him to "get out", but Carter was accepted for the program because he had answered honestly. Best part was when, at 80 years old, he was forced to retire. President Reagan called him to the White House to honor him along with a bunch of Reagan's cabinet and other dignitaries. Rickover basically told them all to go to hell and then pointed at all the people in the room and asked why they were there to begin with. He told Reagan that he thought the meeting was supposed to be just himself and the President. Reagan kicked everyone else out, talked privately with the ornery Rickover for about 15 minutes and Rickover left happy. |
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