Military Time... (589 hits)
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Submitted by Malay Raffles <insanedoc.at.ec.rr.com> (View user info) at 2004-05-31 18:11:01 EDT
I was bored so I started thinking about this...
Why was military time created? Was it supposed to confuse the enemy? For example: If a general says "We're going to be attacking at eleven hundred hours." then is the enemy supposed to think the attack is weeks away? What if the general said "eleven hundred hours tomorrow."? What is the enemy supposed to think then? If it was created to confuse the enemy, then why do most people know what it is and how to use it? Did some high ranked guy get drunk and tell? Were they seduced? Kidnapped? And if it was that easy to find out from him, then why was he allowed to know? Did he have guards? If so, then why didn't they help? Were they drunk too? Were they bribed? Knocked out? Killed? Could they have been a part of the plan? If they were, then what did they gain? Money? Land? Slaves?
Maybe Dubya could answer some of these questions for us. If so, will he be lying again? Would it be a political advantage to tell us? What about the consequences for our military if he told? Would they switch times again, making the budget skyrocket to buy all the soldiers new watches? Would the watchmakers know about the new time? If so, would they get guards? Would the guards help this time around? And assuming that the watchmakers wanted to sell the information, how much would it be worth? Millions of dollars? Billions? Priceless? And who would they sell it to? Bin Laden? the Taliban? North Korea? Japan? If they knew, would they use it to their advantage and try to attack Perl Harbor again? Would Perl Harbor be using the new time? Would all of the watches be handed out to the soldiers in time? How many people would it take to hand them out? How much would they be paid? Could the soldiers get the watches on their own?
By the way, this is all just for fun. But it does kinda make you think...
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Submitted by kitchens_closed (user info) at 2004-06-01 00:54:09 EDT (#)
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I saw all the fucking question marks, now I have to ask you a question. Why the fuck did you post this useless shit?
Submitted by Fartman (user info) at 2004-05-31 21:14:50 EDT (#)
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This is mot a difficult concept to grasp.
Please don't even begin to think about the phonetic alphabet.
Your head would explode.
Submitted by BuckeyesTHEGAME (user info) at 2004-05-31 19:33:10 EDT (#)
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Submitted by KoolWang (user info) at 2004-05-31 18:26:22 EDT (#)
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Submitted by BillsSBChamps (user info) at 2004-05-31 18:24:56 EDT (#)
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It was created so there wouldn't be confusion over AM and PM, pretty obvious if you have half a brain.
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Submitted by SoxSexSax (user info) at 2004-05-31 18:16:46 EDT (#)
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Well written but ultimately pointless. Please take time to think about what YOU like to read, and then see if this is actually it.
Submitted by luke1512 (user info) at 2004-05-31 18:16:27 EDT (#)
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good post,easy to read,chilled out thought,like it. rate my post.
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