Happy Enola Gay Day!

[Tecumsehsbones]

80 years ago, we taught the Japanese, and the world, a lesson.

Of course, we had to repeat ourselves three days later, but they got the point.

 

[petros]

80 years ago, we taught the Japanese, and the world, a lesson.

Of course, we had to repeat ourselves three days later, but they got the point.

Then came solid state electronics. Japan made a big enough shit tonne on products and royalties to buy US treasuries to finance the war on Vietnam and hold the US in debt to this day.

 

[Ron in Regina]

80 years ago, we taught the Japanese, and the world, a lesson.

Of course, we had to repeat ourselves three days later, but they got the point.

For emphasis. Showed that the first one wasn’t a freak one-off occurrence, & that if you had two, you might have many many many many many many more.

 

[petros]

For emphasis. Showed that the first one wasn’t a freak one-off occurrence, & that if you had two, you might have many many many many many many more.

Two different types of bomb yet.

 

[spaminator]

it was clever that they used a gay name to confuse the enemy

 

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[Serryah]

I thought they removed the Enloa Gay from being anything important because, you know.

DEI bullshit.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

it was clever that they used a gay name to confuse the enemy

Enola Gay Tibbets was pilot Col. Paul Tibbets's mother.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I thought they removed the Enloa Gay from being anything important because, you know.

DEI bullshit.

No, she was controlled by a White man, so it was OK.

 

[petros]

What gender is an Enola?

 

[Serryah]

No, she was controlled by a White man, so it was OK.

So... she was "Not So Gay" Enloa Gay.

 

[petros]

So... she was "Not So Gay" Enloa Gay.

She experimented while going thru a Goth phase.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

She experimented while going thru a Goth phase.

Nothing Gother than nuking a city.

 

[petros]

Nothing Gother than nuking a city.

Holodna... Ukrainian word for "cold" and the root of Holodomor and Holocaust.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Wrong. But thanks for playing.

holocaust(n.)​

mid-13c., "sacrifice by fire, burnt offering," from Old French holocauste (12c.), or directly from Late Latin holocaustum, from Greek holokauston "a thing wholly burnt," neuter of holokaustos "burned whole," from holos "whole" (from PIE root *sol- "whole, well-kept") + kaustos, verbal adjective of kaiein "to burn."

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[Tecumsehsbones]

And 80 years ago today, we repeated the lesson.

The Japanese were being stubborn.

 

[petros]

And 80 years ago today, we repeated the lesson.

The Japanese were being stubborn.

2nd bomb was an untested design until 80 years ago.