Recognition Quiz
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Thanos @ Sat Oct 18, 2014 11:03 am
Keepin' it real! 
Hyack @ Sat Oct 18, 2014 11:04 am
Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:
Which one am I and what happened to me?
Telstar 1, launched on July 10th, 1962, and later that same day transmitted the first live television images from the United States to France. Although no longer functional, is still in orbit as of October 2013
Jabberwalker @ Sat Oct 18, 2014 1:12 pm
Hyack Hyack:
Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:
Which one am I and what happened to me?
Telstar 1, launched on July 10th, 1962, and later that same day transmitted the first live television images from the United States to France. Although no longer functional, is still in orbit as of October 2013
... and why is she no longer functional? In fact, she stopped functioning just months after becoming operational. Telstar was blinded by the radiation from a 1-1/2 megaton sub-orbital bomb test called "Starfish Prime", back in 1962.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... satellite/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/g ... 97/?no-ist
OOPS.
Jabberwalker @ Fri Dec 05, 2014 6:28 pm
How old is this picture? What strikes you as unusual?
raydan @ Fri Dec 05, 2014 6:47 pm
Damn, I think that my dad served on that 2nd sub... is that the Ojibwa? 
If so, that pic must be from the mid-60s.
Jabberwalker @ Fri Dec 05, 2014 7:11 pm
... or earlier a bit. Those O-Boat must have been fresh out of the Mr. Submarine shop. Note the aircraft carrier astern (Bonnie, I guess). What struck me are those Bay class mine sweepers in Halifax. They haven't bee in Halifax since before most of us were born.
raydan @ Fri Dec 05, 2014 7:22 pm
Yeah, I guessed they were mine sweepers... and my dad served on the Bonnie too.
I went aboard both the Ojibwa and the Bonaventure.
Jabberwalker @ Fri Dec 05, 2014 7:24 pm
I guessed they were mine sweepers
They all spent decades gunk holing along the BC coast. There are several Esquimalt people on ere who would remember them but they were gone from Halifax before my time.
Was he a stoker? (engineer?)
raydan @ Fri Dec 05, 2014 7:33 pm
Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:
I guessed they were mine sweepers
They all spent decades gunk holing along the BC coast. There are several Esquimalt people on ere who would remember them but they were gone from Halifax before my time.
Was he a stoker? (engineer?)
They all spent decades gunk holing along the BC coast. There are several Esquimalt people on ere who would remember them but they were gone from Halifax before my time.
Was he a stoker? (engineer?)
Nope... French Canadian so of course he was a cook.
Jabberwalker @ Fri Dec 05, 2014 7:38 pm
That's cool. It would have been drastically different business cooking for a carrier crew of hundreds and a little tin-can full of sewer dwellers.
BTW. I always ate well ... everywhere. The Navy has good cooks.
raydan @ Fri Dec 05, 2014 7:50 pm
I worked as a civi at Valcartier and ate my lunches at the Kaeble Club Mess... always very good. At the end of his career, my dad had the charge of that kitchen. I'm not sure but at one point, they were serving 2000 men per meal.
Jabberwalker @ Fri Dec 05, 2014 7:52 pm
That's a lot of mashed potatoes ...
raydan @ Fri Dec 05, 2014 7:57 pm
They actually had a beer vending machine, the only one I've ever seen... I remember seeing a soldier (in uniform), buying a beer at 6 in the morning.
Jabberwalker @ Fri Dec 05, 2014 8:08 pm
raydan raydan:
They actually had a beer vending machine, the only one I've ever seen... I remember seeing a soldier (in uniform), buying a beer at 6 in the morning.
I remember those. We had them at Stadacona and it cost $0.25 ... yes, that is 25ยข ... one single quarter .. to get a frosty can of Oland's Export("Red") / Schooner /Keith's IPA / Moosehead / Ten Penny / Alpine. Smokes were a quarter for a pack of 25 as well ... sold at cost by the mess with no duty/excise tax. Drinking and smoking was ridiculously inexpensive.
A few bucks could get you seriously blasted on a ship like Protecteur. After a trip to Mexico, the mess owned an ammunition magazine full of Tia Maria and there was a "special" running for Black Russians ... 25 cents for the Vodka and 15 cents for the Tia Maria ... 40 cents for the drink and a dime for the mess. Cripes, I can still feel the freakin' headache.
Why go to Dartmouth?
Regina @ Fri Dec 05, 2014 9:36 pm
Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:
What strikes you as unusual?
DingBatsy hasn't post all the Wiki British subs and told us how he invented them all.
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