08 Feb 22
@contenchess saidDid you have a falling out with goad (Ghost)? You seem to be getting a lot of red thumbs like me. 🙂
Hooked on Phonics worked for me! 🤗
Anyone remember those commercials with the dumb kids? 😄
-VR
10 Feb 22
@very-rusty saidWhat do red thumbs have to do with the Ghost?
Did you have a falling out with goad (Ghost)? You seem to be getting a lot of red thumbs like me. 🙂
-VR
And please, no conspiracy-theory explanations. Dive has almost run out of kool-aid.
10 Feb 22
@very-rusty saidThere's a difference.
You seem to be getting a lot of red thumbs like me. 🙂
-VR
You get red thumbs from haters.
He gets red thumbs from normal people.
10 Feb 22
Which career soldier and inventor was personally thanked by the Duke of Wellington after the battle of Waterloo for the effect of one of his inventions?
just a click, if you please
0% John Leopold Brodie
0% Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle
25% John Ericsson
25% JarJar Binks
50% Colonel Henry Shrapnel
4 votes • Final results
Colonel Henry Shrapnel
The invention was the exploding shell which has come to carry Shrapnels name. Shrapnel (1761-1842) had privately developed the shell, beginning in 1784. By the end of his career in the British army he was Lieutenant-General. In addition to the invention of shells, Shrapnel compiled range tables, invented the brass tangent slide, improved the construction of mortars and howitzers by the introduction of parabolic chambers, constructed a duplex disappearing mounting for two pieces of ordnance whereby the recoil of one gun lowered it under cover while it brought the other up ready to fire. He improved small arms and ammunition, and invented some fuses.
The invention was the exploding shell which has come to carry Shrapnels name. Shrapnel (1761-1842) had privately developed the shell, beginning in 1784. By the end of his career in the British army he was Lieutenant-General. In addition to the invention of shells, Shrapnel compiled range tables, invented the brass tangent slide, improved the construction of mortars and howitzers by the introduction of parabolic chambers, constructed a duplex disappearing mounting for two pieces of ordnance whereby the recoil of one gun lowered it under cover while it brought the other up ready to fire. He improved small arms and ammunition, and invented some fuses.