[Leaplist] Paul Again

Kyle Gonzales kyle.gonzales at gmail.com
Fri Nov 2 20:32:43 GMT 2007


Did someone write an open source program for Linux that calculated all this?

If not...

On 11/2/07, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> Chris wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > And I'd argue that Hiroshima, while horiffic, was only horrific
> > in terms of the means of destruction - certainly there were
> > many other actions that were as destructive, for example,
> > the Dresden fire-bombings killed, at a minimum, 35,000 and
> > wreaked massive destruction. I doubt the dead much cared
> > whether they were killed by fusion or napalm.
>
> I believe the number at Dresden was closer to 250,000 (many disappeared
> w/o records due to their refuge status) .... It burned for better than a
> week after the raids, caused so much turbulence at 20,000 ft that
> subsequent bomber raids had to be diverted around Dresden for flight safety.
>
> I also agree that it was completely justified, & saved dozens of
> thousands of lives of American soldiers, and probably millions of lives
> of Japanese civilians. Godspeed, General Tibbets.
>
> --
>
>         William A. Mahaffey III
>
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>         "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war
>          ever devised by man."
>                            -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Leaplist mailing list
> Leaplist at leap-cf.org
> http://lists.leap-cf.org/mailman/listinfo/leaplist
>


-- 
Kyle Gonzales
kyle.gonzales at gmail.com
GPG Pub Key: 9C3FBD51

Read My Tech Blog:
http://techiebloggiethingie.blogspot.com/


More information about the Leaplist mailing list