The Dam Busters - Classic Movie
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I'm watching "The Dam Busters" right now. I constantly amazed how well scientists calculated complex solutions with no computers, just Logarithm Tables - who needs computers when you can save the world with your mind. :)
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I'm watching "The Dam Busters" right now. I constantly amazed how well scientists calculated complex solutions with no computers, just Logarithm Tables - who needs computers when you can save the world with your mind. :)
Sounds like a really interesting movie! I had to Google for it and found a reference to this site: Before the Galaxy Far, Far Away: Influences on ‘Star Wars’[^], which is pretty amusing. About halfway down the page I found the reference to "The Dam Busters" movie and an embedded video from YouTube: Dam Wars[^]. Hilarious! :laugh: In spite of all the amusement, it still looks like a really interesting movie. I've seen at least one documentary on this and it truely was an incredible idea.
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Sounds like a really interesting movie! I had to Google for it and found a reference to this site: Before the Galaxy Far, Far Away: Influences on ‘Star Wars’[^], which is pretty amusing. About halfway down the page I found the reference to "The Dam Busters" movie and an embedded video from YouTube: Dam Wars[^]. Hilarious! :laugh: In spite of all the amusement, it still looks like a really interesting movie. I've seen at least one documentary on this and it truely was an incredible idea.
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Not exactly the re-make I was looking for... :laugh: Google "Barnes Wallis" and you'll get a flavor for the original "Dam Busters".
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I'm watching "The Dam Busters" right now. I constantly amazed how well scientists calculated complex solutions with no computers, just Logarithm Tables - who needs computers when you can save the world with your mind. :)
My first 'graphic' novel.
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I'm watching "The Dam Busters" right now. I constantly amazed how well scientists calculated complex solutions with no computers, just Logarithm Tables - who needs computers when you can save the world with your mind. :)
Try the book: read this at school and loved it: written by Paul Brickhill[^] who also wrote the Great Escape, amongst others.
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Sounds like a really interesting movie! I had to Google for it and found a reference to this site: Before the Galaxy Far, Far Away: Influences on ‘Star Wars’[^], which is pretty amusing. About halfway down the page I found the reference to "The Dam Busters" movie and an embedded video from YouTube: Dam Wars[^]. Hilarious! :laugh: In spite of all the amusement, it still looks like a really interesting movie. I've seen at least one documentary on this and it truely was an incredible idea.
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NetDave wrote:
embedded video from YouTube: Dam Wars[^].
Very very very silly - thanks...
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I'm watching "The Dam Busters" right now. I constantly amazed how well scientists calculated complex solutions with no computers, just Logarithm Tables - who needs computers when you can save the world with your mind. :)
Interesting story about that film. Guy Gibson's dog was called "Nigger" - it was a black dog and the world was a different place then. Many years ago when it was shown on American television is was altered so that it was called "Digger". There was an outrage, mainly from black americans, who felt it was patronising, as the name of the dog was historical fact, and by changing it they felt as they were being patronised. So they next time they showed the film they left it as "Nigger". There was outrage, mainly from white americans who felt that it was insulting to black people. Sheesh, Guy Gibson was not a racist, and the dog couldn't help what he was called. The world was not politically correct back in the early forties. And there was a war on you know! Still, it was a cracking good film.
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I'm watching "The Dam Busters" right now. I constantly amazed how well scientists calculated complex solutions with no computers, just Logarithm Tables - who needs computers when you can save the world with your mind. :)
The Brit's were amazingly tolerant and actually solicited crackpot ideas during the war. Many of them worked out - like dam busting, tanks with flails to clear mine fields, radar, atom bombs (lots of the initial work was done in England before they moved to the US), code cracking computers, jet engines, etc. Some were truly crack pot like the aircraft carriers made of sawdust and ice, a model of which was built in Canada before giving up on the idea. But they were desperate enough to try just about anything.