Here you can talk about whatever floats your boat. Your favorite movie, sports team, etc. If it's a little racey, I suggest you post in R&R, otherwise we'll move it for you.
Well Hurry Herr Kaleun, the convoy is getting away!
Still working on it Sir, until then please take a peek at this small original video of the Halifax Explosion... This explosion was the largest on record until of course the making, and exploding of the Atomic Bomb.
In WW2, the German military encoded communications using a machine called Enigma. It had multiple rotor and pin settings. The Germans thought that the code could never be broken. British code breakers managed to figure out how the code was constructed and reverse engineered their own version of the machine. When the Royal Navy captured an authentic German Enigma from a Kreigsmarine weather ship, it was found the the British version was identical except for a single transposition that did not affect the output. It was one of the most amazing intellectual feats of the entire war.
There are now software apps that simulate the operation of an Enigma machine.
-Jim
"My God, if we've not got a cool brain and a big one too, to manage this affair, the nation is ruined forever." Unknown private, 14th Vermont, 2 July 1863
