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The overwhelming logic of the Ukrainian Gambit

Why offer the Ukrainian pawn as a sacrifice

On the one hand to destabilize Russia and, on the other hand, to cut off trade relations between...

https://youtu.be/x4DDK9BPaCI

2014-

We

We have the right (2008-) to militarily corner Russia

We have the right (2014-) to kill Russians one hundred by one hundred and one thousand by one thousand

We have the right (2021-) to...

Scotland

Scotland, year 2069 ... Scotland enters into a military alliance with China

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

Keywords: Scotland, Karma and "perfidious Albion"...

:-)

(1)

Crimea is Russia before Miami, Texas, Nevada, California ... were USA ... And now you will tell me that the State Department is defending an internal administrative decision of the Soviet...

https://youtu.be/9tIJOf3jlFQ

Southampton Wave Tank

Andrew Claughton

Andrew in his 1984 research was very surprised at how well the classic sailboats surfed in a controlled manner.

How is...

professor Chalmer Johnson thought that the American political system would evolve into a kind of military dictatorship, because "you can have an empire or a democracy but not both". However, that is...

TutMoses III
TiglatPileser III

two lyric-loving humanists ...

historians will think by comparison with the American empire two hundred years from now, in the unlikely event that this...

Reality in the USA has completely disappeared and has been replaced by two parallel sets of fantasies

I honestly don't know what to think, it's like a futuristic science fiction movie

OMFG

What a depressing and silly comment

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You have failed to add that ... no one comes after the last one, and the pipes are hollow inside

But that's not the end of it, two years after this striking sailing in an old and humble 6 k Euros boat ... sailed a naval architect in his shiny, modern and loaded with the latest fashions reigning...

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Baroudeur

"Adventurer" in french

D/L: 300
LWL: 19,19 feet

Hull speed in real world: 5 Knots = Froude 0.35 = 1.16 SLR x Squared Root 19,19

"However, I am convinced that keels also benefit from thicker sections because the effective angle of attack moves around a lot as the water surface gets rougher"

Exactly

In this issue there...

"says he has experienced God in his life"

May be he uses that word to express a religious experience; but most likely he refers to a "Spirit" and not to a being as perverse and malevolent as...

E x a c t l y

Nice

Beauty for beauty's sake


https://youtu.be/iPp2fdHMxTM

https://youtu.be/SKJ5JyuP7WY

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Balance

Hydro Forces

Munk_1: Leeway, Max Michael Munk's Moment
Munk_2: Heel, Max Michael Munk's Moment

K: Keel

You can have a market economy, and companies where if you want to be a shareholder you are obliged to work in that company

Ludwig Prandtl ...

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

and Max Michael Munk ...

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

engendered a Theory of great Elegance

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A Wing, and a schooner's Wing and Rigging, can be replaced by a column of Air that rotates and interacts with the wind

A Wing does four things with the wind: (1) deflect the wind upward...

Beautiful and poetic eulogy of the Imperial Domination

The Pharaoh of Egypt sends you his warmest greetings

The appalling Tragedy of Afghanistan (1979-)

From the atrocities of the USSR to the atrocities of NATO

Endgame (?)

https://i.postimg.cc/FH9n0mp1/E9-BDc-Di-XMAoz5-Jz.jpg

The target of the bombs was not Japan

The historical reasons were

(1) the inertia of a perverse curiosity, Two bombs were dropped and not one or three because two were the materials: uranium...

historian Gar Alperovitz

“it can be proven that the bomb was not only unnecessary but known in advance not to be necessary”

general Bonner Feller

“Neither the atomic bombing nor the entry of...

https://youtu.be/hPJikB945h0

"The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Benfold sailed northwards through the strait on Wednesday, the US Navy said in a statement"

Seventh ... this year

It will be fun to read...

Julian Assange now is Alexander Solzhenitsyn

and "US of A" is now the "Union Soviet of America"
for its crazy military spending and because is a mental bubble that consumes its own propaganda

sorry, unforgivable, forgot to mention this book

https://www.amazon.com/Ed-Burnett-Yacht-Designs/dp/1527230252

I also think Ed Burnett was a member of this forum

Yes

heading to 1860 ... we are reinventing the wheel and discovering the Mediterranean:

Jib and StaySail

https://www.uksailmakers.com/news/2017/5/2/super-charge-your-jib-top-into-a-flying-jib

Beating Angle

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

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_W._Lanchester

Beating Angle (Lanchester Theorem) =

HydroDynamic Drag Angle...

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1.7 x
1 x "foresail"
0.5 x

"Davidson CE"

it's a surprisingly powerful little tool

"to get the centers of effort exactly right"

the best/simplest method is "Davidson (Davidson Laboratory ) Center of Effort" =

1.7 x Jib and StaySail
1 x Main
0.5 x Mizzen

is surprisingly...

Woooow

well, no, it is not exactly like that, because the light sports sailboats of 6-12 meters in length are very similar: 20 square meters per Ton (Beating)

I have been carried away by enthusiasm and...

1979

"American Express" (MiniTransat winner)

LWL: 6.5 meters
Water Ballast: 280 liters

2020

Dehler 30 OD

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yes, for example a small sailboat for a lone sailor of 6 meters or 20 feet in length could carry 260 liters of seawater (more or less equivalent to three brave and sturdy crew...

Wooow

The West propaganda ist The Best

https://youtu.be/xWnn_G2Sls8

Tucker Carlson ... 's ... True Face

THE WEST and "this mass shooting thing"

The mentality of The West is the fusion of the Roman imperial religion-identity with the bloody fantasies of a small Aramaic ruling class who arrived in the...

Today

Today is Rachel's 18th Anniversary


https://www.palestinechronicle.com/palestinian-mp-rachel-corries-blood-is-a-witness-to-israeli-crimes/

...

Duopoly

Pepsi and Coca-Cola

Eric Hobsbawn somewhere in his trilogy about the 19th century says (I quote from memory):

The American ruling class was the first to realize that democracy was...

https://youtu.be/jA1maCjNVFg

Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency

https://www.amazon.com/Lucky-How-Biden-Barely-Presidency/dp/0525574220



https://youtu.be/DMp6aeyzlyw

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Cruz ... qué cruz

Cruz ... What a load! What punishment! What a disgrace! What a Cross to bear!

(After thinking about it a bit I think that maybe I have achieved a good translation)

https://youtu.be/IDksWTzZQ2c

+Wind
+Solar
+Battery
+Hydrogen

=


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Yeeaaah ...

thank you very much for the video, a nice gift

2020-2030: Battery Revolution (?)
2030-2040: Hydrogen Revolution (?)

https://www.enapter.com/

https://youtu.be/rVsaOYZl3E0

Happy New Year

(and excuse my rants)