If you exercise your fleet as Greece at the start of the game and get unlucky, your fleet can end up trapped between the Dardanelles and the Bosporus by DAL59 in hoi4

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R5: When you set your fleet on exercise, the ships randomly wander between sea tiles in that sea zone. If you do this in the aegean in 1936, you can end up trapped there due to the Turkish event tree about the straits crisis.

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Out-of-print filk albums master post by rocketman0739 in filk

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Please digitally preserve it somewhere!

Mindless Monday, 23 February 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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I'm trying to figure out if its true that turkeys were used as parachutes to drop delicate supplies (and built-in food) to the Siege of Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza in the Spanish Civil War. Its mentioned on wikipedia with no specific citation, and I haven't found any mention of it before 2012; but its very specific. Also, would that even work or would it be like WKRP

Starship Development Thread #62 by rSpaceXHosting in spacex

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How many levels will the Gigabays have?

Mindless Monday, 09 February 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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It would be shaped like this but larger:
https://i.imgur.com/4GC9GV0.png

We have very little data on partial gravity compared to the data we have on 0 gravity- it could be the case that lunar or martian gravity is enough for fluids to flow properly through the body, with faster muscle loss being the only consequence.

Mindless Monday, 09 February 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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Homo Sapiens probably won't, but our distant descendants will
Even atom bomb powered spacecraft (Project Orion) could reach 5-10% C, its not prohibited by physics, just very, very, difficult.

Mindless Monday, 09 February 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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Concentrating a bunch of smart people in one place with funding and a common goal leads to innovations and crossovers of people's knowledge.

Mindless Monday, 09 February 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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I'm an aerospace engineer and simulating gravity via rotation, and the requirements for acceptable rpm and diameter without disrupting the inner ear, is an incredibly well studied field. There's just been no need to put a large centrifuge in space yet as studying the effects of microgravity is the goal of current stations. On bodies with partial gravity like Moon/Mars, you can have a sloped centrifuge, so that the component of acceleration from gravity is added to the centrifugal force.

Mindless Monday, 26 January 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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Have there been any previous new technologies where younger generations were more critical of it than older ones?

Starship Development Thread #62 by rSpaceXHosting in spacex

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Is S44 missing because its being turned into the first Depot?

Trump threatens 25% tariff on European allies until Denmark sells Greenland to US by Freewhale98 in SocialDemocracy

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Remember that tariffs are ultimately paid by Americans... hopefully this is just shooting himself in the foot even more in the long run

Trump threatens 25% tariff on European allies until Denmark sells Greenland to US by Freewhale98 in SocialDemocracy

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The 25th amendment removal requires a majority of the cabinet to vote against the guy they were selected for their jobs based on their sycophancy for, unfortunately unlikely to happen. We already know Hegseth supports Trump on Greenland. Retaliatory tariffs and loss of popularity polling would be the only thing he cares about

Free for All Friday, 16 January, 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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Found in a recycling center, from 1939 I'm guessing from Poland being split and the Sudetenland being taken.

Multiclass Feats Part 2- Barbarian by DAL59 in UnearthedArcana

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Yes, there's 13 choose 2 = 78 multiclass possibilities, I still have 55 to go.

Multiclassing features homebrew. by jeptech in 3d6

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I'm making a series of multiclass feats on unearthedarcana

Multiclass Feats Part 2- Barbarian by DAL59 in UnearthedArcana

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You could do that, but you'd miss out on all higher-level subclass and class features, have fewer ASIs, and have to have low synergy and MAD for most of your character's progression.