08-21-2019, 08:06 PM | #691 | |
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Re: Five Earths, All in a Row
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During WWII, tobacco companies received contracts to provide packs of cigarettes for inclusion in military rations. For years, the military leadership tacitly condoned cigarette use, with breaks during training or regular duties where soldiers were told to, "smoke 'em if you got 'em, and pick up butts if you don't." The inclusion of cigarettes in MREs stopped more than a decade ago; barracks are mostly smoke-free (as are other buildings on military bases); and most soldiers are actively discouraged from damaging their health by smoking. That said, a greater percentage of military do smoke as compared to civilians, but compared WWII, the rate is much, much lower. One notable exception does appear in Spec Ops. They like their cigars, and use them to troll the regular troops. My friend, Dave, was a member of a signal intelligence team attached to the 82nd Airborne, and was based at Fort Bragg. Once a month, on a regular schedule, every troop based at Bragg had a timed, long-distance road run. They had to complete a run of five or 10 miles (IIRC) within a set period, with full kits. Generally, the various units could make the necessary time if they hiked up the hills and ran down the slopes. Everybody hated it, Dave said, and most troops were exhausted by the end. Except the Spec Ops guys. They ran the whole way in 90-lb packs. Backwards. While smoking cigars. Those units that didn't run it backwards did it while hauling tree trunks on their shoulders, eight or 10 operatives per log. While smoking cigars. I used that story as part of that write-up. As noted in the thread at about that time, modern Spec Ops troops look a whole lot like super soldiers, and come about as close as possible to Capt. Rogers as it's possible to get without magical serums. So, "a lot more frequently than 21st Century civilians," is still a lot less than even the general population in the 1940s.
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08-21-2019, 09:11 PM | #692 |
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Re: Five Earths, All in a Row
I see. Okay then I accept that.
Hmm what do you think 40's people would think of vaping? |
08-22-2019, 03:39 PM | #693 | |
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The question is, do those two worlds have the technology to manufacture vaping devices that are both safe and affordable?
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08-23-2019, 07:01 AM | #694 | ||
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Warning, I have the Distractible and Imaginative quirks in real life. "The more corrupt a government, the more it legislates." -- Tacitus Five Earths, All in a Row. Updated 12/17/2022: Apocrypha: Bridges out of Time, Part I has been posted. Last edited by Prince Charon; 08-23-2019 at 09:13 AM. |
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08-25-2019, 04:43 AM | #695 |
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Re: Five Earths, All in a Row
Research on aerosoling nicotine has been around aince 1963 apparenty?: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5432409/
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09-02-2019, 05:52 AM | #696 |
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Re: Five Earths, All in a Row
I ought to be called the Österreichische Bundesmarine
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09-02-2019, 07:43 AM | #697 |
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I think I copied it off of some website, or used Google Translate, so getting the German wrong is certainly plausible. Thanks.
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09-06-2019, 12:47 PM | #698 |
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Re: Five Earths, All in a Row
RogerBW and johndallman have started a free GURPS fanzine called The Path of Cunning. The first issue has an article called 'The organisation and regulation of magic in the post-war world,' which I feel is potentially quite relevant to Earth-1, despite being written for a different setting during WWII.
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10-29-2019, 09:29 PM | #699 |
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Re: Five Earths, All in a Row
A video somewhat relevant to this setting: Rocket U-Boats: V-1 Missile Attack New York 1945 (it's a bit under sixteen minutes long). Obviously, Germany on Earth-2 is rather further along than they were in our 1940s, but even in OTL, they could potentially have done a lot more in that direction if they'd had more time, or if they'd had different priorities in terms of which projects got how much funding and personnel. Still wouldn't have saved them, of course, and as you might have guessed, it won't here, either.
Mark Felton Productions has a lot of interesting stuff about WWII, for those of you who are curious (and have time).
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12-10-2019, 04:54 AM | #700 |
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Re: Five Earths, All in a Row
How much detail do you the readers think is needed on who and what is going on the third Operation Pencil Sharpener expedition, given that I plan to have a space battle going on when they get to the Earth 2 universe?
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