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Colonel Paul Tibbets was in command of the 509th Composite Group, the unit charged with attacking Japanese cities with the atomic bomb. He was a very detail oriented guy. He gave a lot of though…

Top stories for Long   Why didn't Japan shoot down the US plane carrying the second atomic bomb for Nagasaki even after what happened at Hiroshima? Thomas B Walsh, studied at The Ohio State University • Answered October 30, 2024 Colonel Paul Tibbets was in command of the 509th Composite Group, the unit charged with attacking Japanese cities with the atomic bomb. He was a very detail oriented guy. H... Read more » 245 11   MYSTERIOUS DATA FROM BEYOND OUR SOLAR SYSTEM Alessandro13 • Posted Feb 24, 2025 NASA's Voyager 1 is continuing its journey beyond the solar system, 45 years after its launch. But now it's sending back some very strange data that's baffling its engineers. NASA said Wednesday th... Read more » 563 64   Is 2 million enough to retire at 55? Mike Richmond, I manage a household • Answered January 4 For someone in the US with a reasonable work history and therefore an expectation of substantial Social Security, and their own home, $2 million saved by the age of 55 repr... Read more » 142 46   How do you hack a Coke machine? What does this mean, what can they do, and is it real? Raj Bhuptani, Harvard '13 (Statistics), Two Sigma Investments • Answered November 5, 2013 You can indeed "hack" most Coca-Cola vending machines, although the experience is more interesting than lucrative. The "susceptible" machines are those manufactured by Roya... Read more » 152 9   What is the proof that 11 is the only prime number of the form n² + 2 where n is prime? Enrico Gregorio, Associate professor in Algebra • Answered September 19 For prime [math]n[/math] we have [math]n\ge2,[/math] hence [math]n^2+2\ge6.[/math] If [math]n[/math] is different from [math]3,[/math] then [math]n^2\equiv1\pmod{3}[/math] by Euler-Fermat, so [math]n^2+2\equiv0\pmod{3},[/math] which means that [math]n^2+2[/math] is divisible by [math]3,[/math] hence not prime. For [math]n=3[/math] we have [math]n^2+2=11[/math] that's prime. Read more » 75 15   What is a Sloppy Joe? Martin Bayer, Chef, CDM, CFPP (1994-present) • Answered December 29 In 1901 a German immigrant named Johan Schlagenhaufer took a job at the Acme Diner in Nashville, Tennessee. Johan was a hard worker, but messy. After the lunch rush his apr... Read more » 1K 70   I went to a bar last night and the bouncer asked for my ID only to cut it up because he said it was fake. My ID is 100% real. Can I take him to small claims court? Dennis Manning, studied at Perryville Senior High (1981) • Answered May 25, 2019 Then he just destroyed a state document and your property. The first thing you do is call the cops and press charges. Losing your ID to the bouncer costs nothing but the repl... Read more » 12.8K 633   Evelyn, Fighting for Democracy • Posted Dec 29 WOW. MTG revealed to the NYT that when she threatened to identify the names of men in the Epstein files who abused women, Trump called her and screamed. Everyone in the office suite could hear him ... Read more » 4.1K 703   Why did Lisa Bonet from The Cosby Show and Justine Bateman from Family Ties, who both decided to age naturally, age so differently? Jon Mixon, I'm trying to get older. Let's see how that goes. • Answered December 13 Q: Why did Lisa Bonet from The Cosby Show and Justine Bateman from Family Ties, who both decided to age naturally, age so differently? Multiple reasons, including: Genetics -... Read more » 847 165   Do hunters make good soldiers? Roland Bartetzko, former German Army Paratrooper, Croatian Defense Council, Kosovo Liberation Army • Updated December 8 It always amused me when I saw a soldier from another unit walking through the forest and instead of taking cover, the guy just bent his knees a little bit as if he was too... Read more » 6.2K 484   What screams "I never properly learned to program"? Nikolaj Lepka, Software Developer (2014-present) • Answered November 6 I remember one time when I was working a C# gig at a large consultancy, I ran into this gem: private bool IsCharDigit(char input) { switch (input)... Read more » 361 54   What was the deadliest place for an American airman during World War II? Ahmed Tareen, ww2 • Updated Dec 11 You may suppose that the most lethal and the worst spot of an American airman during the Second World War would be over the European continent or the Pacific Ocean. No. It is even more tragic and b... Read more » 1.1K 99 Read more in your feed

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