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[onlinebiker]

Found rolled up and used for insulation at the old weather station on the Outer Banks of NC is the log where the SOS from the Titanic was noted.  Because the incident was so far away, it was assumed that rescue efforts would come from much closer to the site.  It's not certain the SOS was passed on to other weather and life-saving stations.

The SOS was an afterthought.

The standard distress call at the time the Titanic sank was CQD. SOS was a new call at that time and not widely known and little used. SOS is not sent as three separate characters but as one. 3 dots 3 dash 3 dots with no spacing. Consequently it can be misinterpreted as V7.

CQD was sent first- then the distress message - then an SOS and the distress message repeated.

SOS was adopted as a standard after Titanic sunk.

[arewethereyet]

Found rolled up and used for insulation at the old weather station on the Outer Banks of NC is the log where the SOS from the Titanic was noted.  Because the incident was so far away, it was assumed that rescue efforts would come from much closer to the site.  It's not certain the SOS was passed on to other weather and life-saving stations.

The SOS was an afterthought.

The standard distress call at the time the Titanic sank was CQD. SOS was a new call at that time and not widely known and little used. SOS is not sent as three separate characters but as one. 3 dots 3 dash 3 dots with no spacing. Consequently it can be misinterpreted as V7.

CQD was sent first- then the distress message - then an SOS and the distress message repeated.

SOS was adopted as a standard after Titanic sunk.

I used the wrong term.  Still was interesting to me because my great aunt was the first woman who worked in that station...I know it well.

[onlinebiker]

The SOS was an afterthought.

The standard distress call at the time the Titanic sank was CQD. SOS was a new call at that time and not widely known and little used. SOS is not sent as three separate characters but as one. 3 dots 3 dash 3 dots with no spacing. Consequently it can be misinterpreted as V7.

CQD was sent first- then the distress message - then an SOS and the distress message repeated.

SOS was adopted as a standard after Titanic sunk.

I used the wrong term.  Still was interesting to me because my great aunt was the first woman who worked in that station...I know it well.

No - you did get it right... They did send an SOS.....


I never got to work an SOS. (did get to work several Maydays). But - I did copy.two SOS... Both were late at night - one in the Indian Ocean and one in the South Pacific - while I was stationed at NMC. Both on 500 khz. 

Nobody uses it anymore... A lost art.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Jimi Hendrix and Joe Pesci both played guitar in the same band (Joey Dee and the Starliters), but at different times.

Boru

[The Valkyrie]

Jimi Hendrix and Joe Pesci both played guitar in the same band (Joey Dee and the Starliters), but at different times.

Boru

Presumably, Joe joined after he had Jimi whacked?

[Losty]

Jimi Hendrix and Joe Pesci both played guitar in the same band (Joey Dee and the Starliters), but at different times.

Am I doing this right?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Jimi Hendrix and Joe Pesci both played guitar in the same band (Joey Dee and the Starliters), but at different times.

Boru

Presumably, Joe joined after he had Jimi whacked?

Fuggetaboudit!

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

Oprah didn’t actually give away the cars—Pontiac did, which means Oprah basically did an infomercial for Pontiac. Also, while it was noted in nearly every news story that “Pontiac will pay for the taxes and customizing of the cars,” the reality is that Pontiac was picking up the sales tax, not the state and federal income tax. The lucky winners were responsible for paying thousands of dollars in taxes—up to $7,000 in some cases.

[Rev. Rye]

Turns out there’s actually a reason beyond the practical or the theological that Anna Duggar hasn’t divorced Josh. The entire fucking family seems to think he’s innocent:




Somehow, I must have overlooked that possibility, assuming that with all the evidence they found, plus Josh’s self-incrimination, plus the fact that he molested five small girls as an early teen, there would be no way anyone’d think he was innocent. But then I remembered “oh, yeah, the far right has gone all in on conspiracy theories and this is the same family that thinks the entire world population could fit in Jacksonville, Florida.”

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

While I’ve known for years that 12 year old Mike Altman - son of director Robert Altman - wrote the lyrics to ‘Suicide is Painless’ (the ‘M*A*S*H’ theme), what I just learned is that he’s still paid royalties on the song every time the show is re-run. To date, he’s made about $2 million (US) in royalty payments.

His father was paid $75 000 to direct the film.

Boru