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RiceAlicorn t1_ivzhkiu wrote

Reply to comment by superslowboy in Simple/Short/Silly History Questions Saturday! by AutoModerator

Everyone pitched in. Many people themselves suffered property destruction, or at the very least had friends or family that did. Governments planned initiatives to clean up war debris, but on a smaller scale locals would've also done their fair bit of cleaning for themselves or those around them in order to rebuild their homes and livelihoods.

In fact, people to this day are STILL cleaning up from WWI and WWII. There are many areas on the Eastern and Western fronts (of both World War I and World War II) where the Iron Harvesr happens — the1 recollection of unexploded war munitions. Every year European farmers plough the ground and unearth new ones.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_harvest

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thinthehoople t1_ivzhj8c wrote

Reply to comment by piper_at_the_gates_ in NASA leaders recently viewed footage of an underwater dive off the East coast of Florida, and they confirm it depicts an artifact from the space shuttle Challenger by marketrent

The guy was calling out telemetry in real time, “major malfunction” in that context is not just defensible but desired.

These are engineers and technical people confronted with a technical problem in real time. They need accurate, not emotional or pr-based language to work the problem.

It wasn’t this guy’s place nor function to encapsulate the entire situation while doing his job in the moment.

You can criticize NASA plenty, and at your pleasure, but this is a dumb one to pick.

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-TheTechGuy- t1_ivzc7b5 wrote

Reply to comment by 92894952620273749383 in NASA leaders recently viewed footage of an underwater dive off the East coast of Florida, and they confirm it depicts an artifact from the space shuttle Challenger by marketrent

TBF, from the trailer it seems like they're more "theory busting" than trying to prove there's a mystery about the bermuda triangle.

Either way it looks like an interesting show if you like shipwrecks.

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theholyraptor t1_ivz9dxa wrote

Reply to comment by SquiffSquiff in NASA leaders recently viewed footage of an underwater dive off the East coast of Florida, and they confirm it depicts an artifact from the space shuttle Challenger by marketrent

You realize that, even if they built them next to the pad in Florida, that large assemblies are made up of smaller components for thousands of technical reasons, even if you rule out transport logistics.

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Ferengi_Earwax t1_ivz2orr wrote

Reply to What was the societal role of polytheistic Mediterranean religions and their priests? by bhejda

Most polytheism follows the same rules. The gods are powerful and represent fate, nature, or forces they didn't understand. They didn't care for humans, unless you made a deal with them with a sacrifice. The gods were expected to return the favor after the sacrifice. Roman and Greek priests served a myriad of functions. They served as judges, as actual priests thar conducted rituals, they kept the calender, they kept time, they stored the treasury, they stored peoples wills, they acted as a pension system to the poor, and they also were hospitals at some temples. All of the government services we have now were basically wrapped up into religion and the temple system. That is except law making and politics. That being said, the senate house in Rome, the forum and the immediate area was a vast religious complex made up of a vast number of temples and buildings where justice/law was conducted under the eyes of the gods. There almost always was some type of boundary delineating the sacred precincts.

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