Why did Lancaster gunners remove the glass in front of them despite the extreme cold ...?

At 20,000 feet and -40°C, Lancaster bomber gunners regularly took a hacksaw to their own windshields, choosing agonizing frostbite over the alternative: being shot out of the sky. The tail gunne…

Top stories for Long   Why did Lancaster gunners remove the glass in front of them despite the extreme cold at high altitudes? SepiaGlyphs • Answered April 3 At 20,000 feet and -40°C, Lancaster bomber gunners regularly took a hacksaw to their own windshields, choosing agonizing frostbite over the alternative: being shot out of t... Read more » 4.8K 226   I was called for a Cambridge interview on Wednesday, the professor told me to check my portal after 7 days for the department decision. Does that mean I will be rejected? Mark Harrison, Went to "The Other Place" • Updated April 20 Yes, you will be rejected. I base this on your inability to parse the “professor”’s instruction. If you were unable to do that, you are unlikely to have performed well enough... Read more » 88 19   What is one regret old people always have? J. Todd Watkins, Doctoral Candidate MBA, BA, AS, CAP, AIFA, AIF, Dual-Citizen • Answered June 1, 2024 During my doctoral studies, I completed a survey on this topic. I asked 100 people over the age of 85, “What is your greatest regret in life?” There were fifty men and fift... Read more » 5.2K 682   How realistic are submarine evasive maneuvers in movies like "The Hunt for Red October" when facing torpedoes? OpenBlueprint • Answered April 18 A 7,000-ton nuclear submarine maxes out at 40 knots. A Mark 48 torpedo exceeds 55 knots and turns on a dime. You cannot physically dodge it in a cinematic dogfight. You mus... Read more » 451 43   Why are Americans so much better at fighting than the Brits? Asked in British Politics and British History • Answered by Steven Lennaman • March 30 Back in 1983, when I was a cook in the 101st, the Brits came in to train Air Assault. For like 3 weeks before they got there, we were told daily not to get into a fight wit... Read more » 1.4K 238   Is it true that Jupiter is so large that it does not orbit around the sun? Unnikrishnan Menon, Undergraduate Physicist • Updated December 24, 2016 Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun, gas giant, is huge. Huge. I mean HUGE! Beautiful, this planet, ain't it? ;) It's so huge, in fact, that it doesn't actually orbit the ... Read more » 642 51   How has Iran withstood weeks of sustained U.S. and Israeli strikes? Bryden Walsh, B.A. Ancient History, King's College London • Updated April 8 Iran is poorly understood by most westerners. The country is the successor to the Persian Empire, which has existed for most of the past 2,500 years. Iranians have their ow... Read more » 3K 452   Why do people buy Hyundai or Kia cars when Toyota are much better? Gary Brown, Senior Fellow • Answered March 30 Let me explain. I had a friend who opened a gourmet pizza restaurant. People raved over his pizza. It cost more because he used the highest quality ingredients. He eventual... Read more » 1.5K 229   If a plane crash is imminent, are the passengers informed? Andrew Chin, Private pilot ASEL with an instrument rating • Updated July 7, 2018 One of the most famous plane crashes in the United States was the crash of United Airlines Flight 232. United Airlines Flight 232 was a DC-10 flying from Denver to Chicago ... Read more » 15.1K 273   If someone is "banned" from all Walmarts, how does Walmart know when the "banned" person enters the store? Do they have facial recognition technology or just go by recognition? Chaz Howell, lives in Lakeland, FL (2002-present) • Answered February 2 I shoplifted from a Walmart in Winter Haven, Florida in my youth. When I got caught they gave me 2 options, go to jail or get kicked out of all Walmarts for life. I took th... Read more » 2.3K 483   How do Chinese restaurants keep their rice safe to eat compared to home-cooked leftover rice? VitalSign, Answering your health questions • Answered April 7 Boiling rice doesn't kill the bacteria inside it. Uncooked grains contain spores of Bacillus cereus that easily survive the extreme heat. The key difference between safe re... Read more » 558 39   If Apollo 13 had returned to Earth's orbit but was unable to re-enter safely, would NASA have been able to mount a rescue? What would the contingency plan be if they could not be rescued? C Stuart Hardwick, Has a lunar adventure in the March 2019 Analog Scifi. • Updated July 13, 2019 Q: If Apollo 13 had returned to Earth's orbit— Stop right there. If Apollo 13 or any Apollo lunar flight had returned to low Earth orbit at all, that would have been a clear ... Read more » 1.9K 98 Read more in your feed

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Is it okay to have a cigarette once in a while?

This is what I have learned about smoking. About ten years ago (I am 80) I started smoking in the morning (outside) with my first cup of coffee to mentally process and meditate: I figure that at…

Top stories for Long   Is it okay to have a cigarette once in a while? Roger Jones, USAF Capt. pilot, semiconductor, rocket, avionics engineer • Answered March 2 This is what I have learned about smoking. About ten years ago (I am 80) I started smoking in the morning (outside) with my first cup of coffee to mentally process and medi... Read more » 985 236   If the United States leaves NATO, will Great Britain be required to return all of the US nuclear missiles in its submarine fleet? William Underhill, Retired at Royal Canadian Navy (2021-present) • Updated April 15 Hello, Joseph Longo! Absolutely! If the US leaves NATO, every single US nuclear missile onboard HM Submarines will be returned to the US (and no, I don’t mean ‘launched at t... Read more » 2K 159   Who's an overrated singer that actually can't sing at all? Jack Fish, Food Taster at Castle Lager • Updated March 7, 2021 If you want to see some exceptionally good singers and really bad ones just watch the “We Are the World” music video, the original 1985 (USA for Africa) version versus the ... Read more » 1.7K 313   Was Admiral Chester W. Nimitz really a good admiral or just a modern American myth and propaganda of the time? Thomas Moore • Answered March 6 When Nimitz flew into Pearl Harbor a couple of weeks after the Japanese attack, he went around to every crew member of the plane, shook his hand and apologized for making t... Read more » 1.3K 136   Why should calculus be banned from being taught in high schools? TJ Berens, Aerospace Defense Consultant. • Answered April 12 Wow I haven't even heard that this was a thing. So I looked. It seems to be part of the movement to stifle the US educational system.... Read more » 140 32   I bought a 256 gigabyte USB but every time it reaches 16 gigs of files it begins to corrupt my videos, is there something I have to do to it to make it not corrupt my files? Alfred Sturges, Anglo-catholic Priest • Updated May 31, 2019 I was struggling with a similar problem one day. I had bought a few “256GB” USB drives, and for some reason they wouldn’t format correctly. Finally I walked away from the l... Read more » 1.2K 124   Why is “Avada Kedavra” considered unforgivable but other killing spells are okay in the Harry Potter franchise? Tomaž Vargazon, Practicing atheist • Answered March 29 I have a plausible hypothesis on that one. Voldemord Avada Kedavring It’s often describes as a plot hole in Harry Potter, the killing curse is prohibited, but breeding gigant... Read more » 577 100   Can the F-35 glide down in the event of an engine failure? Asked in Military Aircraft: A Passion for Flight • Answered by William May • March 5 Yes, but the descent rate will be VERY steep. I once asked an F-105 fighter pilot how many maneuvering turns a pilot could accomplish, if his engine failed at 10,000 feet ab... Read more » 1.1K 174   Why did R2-D2 never tell Luke Skywalker that Darth Vader was Anakin Skywalker? Paul Fekete • Answered September 13, 2018 Despite all the convoluted, fantastical answers on here, there is in fact a very simple reason. R2-D2 was keeping it a secret. He did not reveal the truth for the same reason... Read more » 473 71   How do Chinese restaurants keep their rice safe to eat compared to home-cooked leftover rice? VitalSign, Answering your health questions • Answered April 7 Boiling rice doesn't kill the bacteria inside it. Uncooked grains contain spores of Bacillus cereus that easily survive the extreme heat. The key difference between safe re... Read more » 540 38   Why did John Lennon remove his eldest son Julian from his will? Arfa Khanum • Posted Mar 21 John Lennon wrote his last will and testament shortly before his death. At 39, Lennon of course had no idea that he would be murdered shortly after his 40th birthday. At the age of 39, John was marri... Read more » 4.1K 617   What are the benefits of a 99 percentile score on ASVAB? Daniel Berry, former Retired at U.S. Air Force • Updated September 28, 2017 I took the ASVAB for the Army and on the way back, the recruiter driving the van called back “who’s Berry?” I raised my hand and he said he’d never seen a score as high as ... Read more » 1.1K 96 Read more in your feed

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