Posted on 02/08/2014 5:17:35 PM PST by arthurus
I hope the entire ‘ fleet ‘ defects.
My history on when the Pilgrims left is a little weak: Why on earth would anyone try to start a colony in New England in November? The sailing weather in early spring would be too rough, perhaps? Or they didn’t think they’d have time to get crops in if they arrived in the spring? Arrival in November seems almost suicidal - which it was, for many.
Precisely the point I was going to make.
However, they started to run out of beer (true story) so the crew dumped them as soon as they spotted land so they could get back to England before it ran out completely.
I also don't think they realized how severe the winters could be further north.
I guess they can call it what they want but the pic I saw showed a one-gun deck. At best that would make it a destroyer escort. The oiler appeared to have no weapons so I’m guessing they call this a summer cruise. My only actual concerns would be if they drop a few mines. The Persians have always been big on mines.
“My history on when the Pilgrims left is a little weak: Why on earth would anyone try to start a colony in New England in November? The sailing weather in early spring would be too rough, perhaps? Or they didn’t think they’d have time to get crops in if they arrived in the spring? Arrival in November seems almost suicidal - which it was, for many.”
If you read the history, you’ll see that the whole voyage was a fuster-cluck from the get-go, and they started several months later than intended due to a variety of mis-steps, mis-cues, financial woes, bad leadership, squabbling, bad-luck, incompetence, etc.
That we can put your entire Navy on the bottom in a few short minutes?
Ships sometimes sink under the weirdest circumstances, explosions of unknown origin....jusayin.
“but EMP is a poor man’s game changer.”
EMP is only a theory, propagated more by internet nerds than scientists, and to have a nuclear warhead and the missile to get it into space is far, far from being poor.
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