Operation Girl Scout Cookies 08Dec41

[Canoerebel]

The Turducken is a Tsugaru-class minesweeper!

[larryfulkerson]

I did a save of the game to #4 and uploaded it to a file server so if you wanted to check anything out here's the
link to the file:

http://www.filedropper.com/wpae004

my password is "password" without the quotes

[Canoerebel]

We are trying to sidetrack you, larry, with extraneous, tangential, irreverent, and pithy posts.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
We are trying to sidetrack you, larry, with extraneous, tangential, irreverent, and pithy posts.

Well, as long as they are pithy. And irreverent. Jesus lays three nails on the countertop at the motel front desk and says to the clerk: "can you put me up for the night?"

[larryfulkerson]

And for those of you who want to watch the combat replay of the first turn here's the #1 file: password is "password" without the quotes.

http://www.filedropper.com/wpae001

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
The Turducken is a Tsugaru-class minesweeper!

Thanks for that bit of intel. Say, there's an opening on my R&D staff that you may be interested in. Right now they are working on a particle beam weapon that shoots electrons. It can't quite burn it's way through a wet paper bag yet so they are working on the power output. They expect a breakthrough in about "two weeks". It's always "two weeks" away when I ask.

Another team is working on a radar guided torpedo. One of the biggest problems is that radar doesn't work under water. They are looking into it.

A third team is working on an artificial pier that can be towed to the invasion site and parked near the beach and used immediately to unload cargo etc. In the first sea trial they towed it a mile and a half and it sank. They are still working on it.

A fourth team is working on a purely wooden ship. It's thought that it won't show up on radar. But it does because of all the metal attachments, guns, etc. They are thinking of changing the shape of the boat and painting it black.

[BBfanboy]

Sounds like the German KM naval architects who spent the war designing battleships of 100,000 to 300,000 tons so they would not be drafted into the Wehrmacht.

A similar group of designers working on tank design came up with a tank that mounted two 15" guns and stood over 20 feet high. Never mind that it was too heavy and too wide for any road or bridge in Europe, it was essential for the war effort and Hitler entertained the idea just enough to keep the designers busy drawing ... [8|]

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
Sounds like the German KM naval architects who spent the war designing battleships of 100,000 to 300,000 tons so they would not be drafted into the Wehrmacht.

A similar group of designers working on tank design came up with a tank that mounted two 15" guns and stood over 20 feet high. Never mind that it was too heavy and too wide for any road or bridge in Europe, it was essential for the war effort and Hitler entertained the idea just enough to keep the designers busy drawing ...

Wow...a land battleship. What a great idea. I'm going to mention to my R&D staff that Hitler is developing a land battleship, and that we simply must have one too. I'll send an envoy to Berlin to see if we can get a copy of the blueprints. We should probably keep the tanks in the home islands until the secret gets out.

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
Sounds like the German KM naval architects who spent the war designing battleships of 100,000 to 300,000 tons so they would not be drafted into the Wehrmacht.

A similar group of designers working on tank design came up with a tank that mounted two 15" guns and stood over 20 feet high. Never mind that it was too heavy and too wide for any road or bridge in Europe, it was essential for the war effort and Hitler entertained the idea just enough to keep the designers busy drawing ...

Wow...a land battleship. What a great idea. I'm going to mention to my R&D staff that Hitler is developing a land battleship, and that we simply must have one too. I'll send an envoy to Berlin to see if we can get a copy of the blueprints. We should probably keep the tanks in the home islands until the secret gets out.

You could mount it on top of Yamato as a 4th turret.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
Sounds like the German KM naval architects who spent the war designing battleships of 100,000 to 300,000 tons so they would not be drafted into the Wehrmacht.

A similar group of designers working on tank design came up with a tank that mounted two 15" guns and stood over 20 feet high. Never mind that it was too heavy and too wide for any road or bridge in Europe, it was essential for the war effort and Hitler entertained the idea just enough to keep the designers busy drawing ...

Wow...a land battleship. What a great idea. I'm going to mention to my R&D staff that Hitler is developing a land battleship, and that we simply must have one too. I'll send an envoy to Berlin to see if we can get a copy of the blueprints. We should probably keep the tanks in the home islands until the secret gets out.

You could mount it on top of Yamato as a 4th turret.

Actually, I have other plans for the top of the Yamato. I want to build an electronic suite up there to receive the pings from the beacons. The beacons will be a transmitter mounted beneath three barrage balloons anchored to the earth over a know spot. One is in the surburbs of Tokyo at GHQ, another at Sapporo out in the forest at a spot surveyed recently, and another is near Nagasaki on the naval base there. What the beacons do is send out radio pings at a known time, usually several per second, and those radio pings are received by the receiver on the Yamato and compared with the known time they were sent to get time enroute from each of the three beacons. That information will yield the Yamato's position within about a mile. It's a poor-man's GPS.

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

Wow...a land battleship. What a great idea. I'm going to mention to my R&D staff that Hitler is developing a land battleship, and that we simply must have one too. I'll send an envoy to Berlin to see if we can get a copy of the blueprints. We should probably keep the tanks in the home islands until the secret gets out.

You could mount it on top of Yamato as a 4th turret.

Actually, I have other plans for the top of the Yamato. I want to build an electronic suite up there to receive the pings from the beacons. The beacons will be a transmitter mounted beneath three barrage balloons anchored to the earth over a know spot. One is in the surburbs of Tokyo at GHQ, another at Sapporo out in the forest at a spot surveyed recently, and another is near Nagasaki on the naval base there. What the beacons do is send out radio pings at a known time, usually several per second, and those radio pings are received by the receiver on the Yamato and compared with the known time they were sent to get time enroute from each of the three beacons. That information will yield the Yamato's position within about a mile. It's a poor-man's GPS.

I'm sure Allied intel will agree.

[larryfulkerson]

I'm sure Allied intel will agree.

The Yamato just receives the pings....it doesn't transmitt anything. What could go wrong?

[larryfulkerson]

A woman answers her phone, "Hello."

"Is this Mrs. Haycroft"

"Yes."

"Mrs. Haycroft, this is Doctor Willits calling from the Medical Lab. Your doctor sent us your husband's samples yesterday. In the same shipment we received a similar sample from a different Mr. Haycroft. Unfortunately there was a mix up, and we're not sure which result belongs to your husband. I'm sorry to say that either way, the news is not good."

"Not good?" asks Mrs. Haycroft.

"I'm afraid not. One of the tests came back with Alzheimer's and the other with AIDS. As I said, we're unsure which result is the correct one for your husband."

"Oh no, that's horrible!" said Mrs. Haycroft. "I assume you'll redo the test?"

"We'd like to, but they're very expensive, and the insurance people tell us they will not pay for them again."

"That's ridiculous! What can I possibly do now?"

"The insurance company recommends that you drive your husband to the other side of town and leave him there. If he can find his way home, don't sleep with him."

[RangerJoe]

In a combat zone, boring is a good thing. It is when things get very interesting that you can easily get killed. [:@]

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

I'm sure Allied intel will agree.

The Yamato just receives the pings....it doesn't transmitt anything. What could go wrong?

Oh. Right. Maybe i should adjust my car's radar detector. [:@]

[RangerJoe]

The Yamato just receives the pings....it doesn't transmitt anything. What could go wrong?

Like the US jet fighters that kept receiving pings from the law enforcement radar? It kept setting off their threat detectors and the law enforcement people kept getting readings of a vehicle going 200 mph. What could go wrong, especially if a pilot automatically sent an anti-radiation missile down range . . .

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

Actually, I have other plans for the top of the Yamato. I want to build an electronic suite up there to receive the pings from the beacons. The beacons will be a transmitter mounted beneath three barrage balloons anchored to the earth over a know spot. One is in the surburbs of Tokyo at GHQ, another at Sapporo out in the forest at a spot surveyed recently, and another is near Nagasaki on the naval base there. What the beacons do is send out radio pings at a known time, usually several per second, and those radio pings are received by the receiver on the Yamato and compared with the known time they were sent to get time enroute from each of the three beacons. That information will yield the Yamato's position within about a mile. It's a poor-man's GPS.

Gee, that sounds a lot like ... GEE!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gee_(navigation)

[tarkalak]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

The Yamato just receives the pings....it doesn't transmitt anything. What could go wrong?

Like the US jet fighters that kept receiving pings from the law enforcement radar? It kept setting off their threat detectors and the law enforcement people kept getting readings of a vehicle going 200 mph. What could go wrong, especially if a pilot automatically sent an anti-radiation missile down range . . .

A police officer stops a car on the high way. The car's window goes down, a young Tom Cruise with black glasses shows up and the radio is playing "Danger Zone" really loud.
"Hello, sir. Do you know what speed you were going?"
"Hello, officer. Who cares, this car can't even break the sound barrier. You know, I am an officer too, I fly fighter jets and I am on my way to test that new HARM missile today."
"HARM missile?"
"It is an air-to-surface anti-radiation missile. It locks on little radars like the one you are holding and goes boom."
"Oh, OK, sir. That is fine to know, have a nice day."

[tarkalak]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

Actually, I have other plans for the top of the Yamato. I want to build an electronic suite up there to receive the pings from the beacons. The beacons will be a transmitter mounted beneath three barrage balloons anchored to the earth over a know spot. One is in the surburbs of Tokyo at GHQ, another at Sapporo out in the forest at a spot surveyed recently, and another is near Nagasaki on the naval base there. What the beacons do is send out radio pings at a known time, usually several per second, and those radio pings are received by the receiver on the Yamato and compared with the known time they were sent to get time enroute from each of the three beacons. That information will yield the Yamato's position within about a mile. It's a poor-man's GPS.

Gee, that sounds a lot like ... GEE!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gee_(navigation)

May be the US will then make a similar system and you will have a little Battle of the Beams