Man who foiled Nazi nuclear plan dies aged 99

[Jingthing]

4 hours ago, Catoni said:

 

            Nothing wrong with Germans.    Something very, very wrong with Nazism, Fascism, Communism, Socialism, Religious Extremism, and other all other forms of Totalitarianism.  

Not exactly. There was a problem with Germans at that time that allowed Hitler to rise to power and allowed themselves to be seduced by him while he was in power (when it's well documented that the majority did indeed support their Nazi rulers). People of ALL nationalities should always keep that in mind in their current times.

[Rimmer]

Multiple off topic  troll and bickering posts have all been removed, do not hijack this topic with multiple off topic  videos, this it trolling and will earn a suspension if it happens again.

[Grouse]

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

Not exactly. There was a problem with Germans at that time that allowed Hitler to rise to power and allowed themselves to be seduced by him while he was in power (when it's well documented that the majority did indeed support their Nazi rulers). People of ALL nationalities should always keep that in mind in their current times.

Indeed. Oppression opens the door for demagoguery. As you say, this should be kept in mind today

[Grouse]

5 hours ago, Catoni said:

 >I had no idea the Nazis were even up to this.

 

     Oh yes.....they certainly were.   They had a whole Nuclear Weapons Program underway.... and lots of top scientists available.   They had the first rocket powered fighter aircraft in combat, (ME-163 Komet),  the first jet fighters in combat, (ME-262 Schwalbe)  the first drone missile, (V-1)  the first ballistic missile (V-2) ....the best submarines..the first modern Assault Rifle  (Stg 44 aka MP 43/44).  Pretty well all modern day assault rifles are descended from it.    Their scientists were the worlds best.  It was German scientists who contributed most to putting men on the moon. Father of the U.S. Saturn V Moon rocket was Werner von Braun... who also was the father of Nazi Germanys V-2 ballistic missile rocket.   

  I would only be surprised if they did NOT have a Nuclear Weapons Program. 

 

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nuclear_weapons_program

 

Indeed.

 

The nuclear program was the reason the USSR got to Berlin first (Max Plank institute) and send the allies on a wild goose chase searching for a non existant NAZI redoubt in Bavaria and Austria.

[Grouse]

On 10/22/2018 at 6:05 AM, webfact said:

heavy water, or D2O, a hydrogen-rich substance

Responsible journalists should try and quote things correctly if only out of respect.

 

Deuterium is a hydrogen isotope with a neutron. Heavy water is "heavy" because the atomic mass of this isotope is 2 as opposed to 1. 

 

H2O is water. D2O is deuterium oxide. Heavy water has a higher proportion of D2O than found naturally.

 

Concentration of isotopes is a key branch of nuclear chemistry.

[Grouse]

Ahem

 

• Operation Grouse (Norway), a sabotage raid against the Vermork heavy water plant, Norway, in 1942

[melvinmelvin]

On 10/22/2018 at 3:24 PM, Damrongsak said:

At the beginning of World War II, actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers.  It wasn't used at the time but became very important some years later. We wouldn't have wi-fi, bluetooth and other wireless communications without it.

 

http://www.women-inventors.com/Hedy-Lammar.asp

https://people.seas.harvard.edu/~jones/cscie129/nu_lectures/lecture7/hedy/lemarr.htm

 

yes,

remember that, quite some chick Lammar

 

last 30 years freq hopping and spread spectrum has come significantly into play

guess the most benefit is that with spread spectrum/freq hopping societies have managed

to squeeze a lot of attractive lower band spectrum from the military powers,

have forced them into leaving antique military radiocommunication equipment  and go for modern stuff

 

similar has been tried with the airline industry, to little avail,

airplanes are still largely on their stone-age radiocomm equipment,

wasting a lot of very valuable spectrum and resulting in low quality comm

 

 

[melvinmelvin]

On 10/22/2018 at 2:34 AM, how241 said:

Amazing story.  I am just learning about this now. Thanks

yes, amazing indeed,

 

I know the area quite well, did a lot of skiing on the same planes in my younger days once had a girl friend in the small city just down the road from the factory they blew up

 

but what is really amazing is the mid winter descend from the planes down to the factory, it is so steep you just cant beleive it and deep snow all over the place

 

many times I have stood on the road across the narrow valley and looked at the factory and the mountain side above, incredible really

 

[Catoni]

10 hours ago, melvinmelvin said:

yes, amazing indeed,

 

I know the area quite well, did a lot of skiing on the same planes in my younger days once had a girl friend in the small city just down the road from the factory they blew up

 

but what is really amazing is the mid winter descend from the planes down to the factory, it is so steep you just cant beleive it and deep snow all over the place

 

many times I have stood on the road across the narrow valley and looked at the factory and the mountain side above, incredible really

 

        Looking at Google Earth... it appears that the factory is rebuilt since then... and again working..... but I think you mean plains......as in land....  not planes the flying aircraft. You had me confused for just a moment.

[melvinmelvin]

1 hour ago, Catoni said:

        Looking at Google Earth... it appears that the factory is rebuilt since then... and again working..... but I think you mean plains......as in land....  not planes the flying aircraft. You had me confused for just a moment.

sorry, yes plains, mountain plains