Kamikaze birds

Before radar-guided missiles, there were pigeon-guided missiles.Almost.During World War II, the United States War Department amassed a vast arsenal of bombs and rockets. The more firepower, the better, as they say, but the US military still had to figure out how to use it effectively. You see, in those days, munitions didn’t come equipped with guidance systems, which meant they couldn’t lock onto targets and were thus unreliable for conducting precision strikes. Defeating Hitler’s Third Reich was not only a priority for the American Armed Forces but also for most ordinary Americans. One day, a psychologist and inventor named B.F. Skinner was traveling to Chicago when he looked out the window and spotted a potential solution to the military’s accuracy issue.What Skinner saw, specifically, was a flock of pigeons “lifting and wheeling in formation.” As he would later recall in his memoirs, the pigeons appeared to him as more than just birds — they were “‘devices’ with excellent vision and extraordinary maneuverability.” He wondered: “Could they not guide a missile?”Skinner eventually came to believe that, with proper training, pigeons seated in the nose cone of a rocket could guide the ordnance onto its target by pecking at a screen. Sounds like a crazy idea, right? Uncle Sam thought so, too. Skinner applied for government funding twice and both applications were rejected. Like a chick that’s fallen from its nest prematurely, Project Pigeon seemed doomed to never take flight. But then, in a strange turn of events, the cereal company General Mills swooped in to its rescue, giving Skinner $5,000 and a room on the top floor of a Minneapolis flour mill where he could conduct his research.B. F. Skinner, influential psychologist and mastermind of Project Pigeon, sits in his office at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Aug. 1, 1972. AP photo.Arthur D. Hyde, General Mills’ then vice president of research, believed in Skinner’s dream and saw supporting it financially as an act of public service. He hoped that once Skinner had conducted enough research to support his hypothesis, the government would take an interest in the project. And that is exactly what happened.Using seeds as the reward, Skinner successfully trained pigeons to peck at objects representing enemy targets on a small screen in front of them. Even under uncomfortable conditions, like extreme temperatures, or with increased carbon dioxide pressure, or with pistol shots ringing out in the background, the birds remained unflappably focused on the task — or, rather, on getting more food.Skinner’s research seemed to confirm his theory that pigeons could make great kamikaze pilots. Then came the moment of truth. In early 1943, government officials traveled to Minneapolis to observe all the amazing things Skinner’s birds could

Near the end of the process in 1948. Like the picture below the flight deck has already been removed. Its main interest is showing the relation to shore at this time. This Naval Historical Center photograph is commonly published but may look a little unusual as it is usually printed reversed. But not only was KAIYO moored and sunk with port side facing the shore; there is little indication the wreck ever changed direction even when refloated. Certainly the remaining top hamper appears to closely resemble her port side and shows little sign of where the outboard funnel would have projected. This is probably the correct way to view the photo. Even the rock outcroppings look similar--its entirely possible it has not changed its general position since abandoned. Notice on the far right one of the boilers already hoisted out of the wreck. Destroyer Kamikaze The destroyer KAMIKAZE was surrendered in Johore Strait on September 12, 1945 the same day as the nearby TAKAO and MYOKO when the Royal Navy re-occupied Singapore. Unlike the two cruisers, KAMIKAZE remained operational and fit for whatever duty was appropriate. That turned out to be repatriation of Japanese personnel from front areas back to Japan, and KAMIKAZE was modified for this task.Additional superstructure and deckhouses were erected between the stacks and aft to provide expanded above-decks accomodation. The forward torpedo tubes had already been removed before the voyage with the doomed HAGURO (much to Captain Kasuga's irritation at the time) to provide space for

I am experiencing a bad Puzzle algorithm. The server started pushing several bad puzzles that make no sense to solve. I started collecting good and bad puzzles. If the server keep using that o keep taking away my rating I will just leave the site. I am gathering the puzzles as proof so that everybody can see. Learning with bad puzzles only yields bad results when you play with actual people.One example is the Kamikaze Queen sacrifices when the mate is imminent and there are more senseless sacrifices from the opponent in this bad puzzles. I feel like Chess.com is actually numbing me down with this non-sense puzzles.Fix your puzzle algorithm guys, or let us thumb down and up the puzzles so that we the community curate content on this puzzles. Let us contribute.Link carlosjcheco wrote: I am experiencing a bad Puzzle algorithm. The server started pushing several bad puzzles that make no sense to solve....One example is the Kamikaze Queen sacrifices when the mate is imminent and there are more senseless sacrifices from the opponent in this bad puzzles. I feel like Chess.com is actually numbing me down with this non-sense puzzles.So there is a way to report bad puzzles: my guess is that these are perfectly valid puzzles, but you are missing some point to them. Let's take a look at a similar puzzle thread that was questioned by someone roughly your level a long time ago. The response from the computer in a puzzle that looks crazy like a "Kamikaze Queen sacrifice" is a response often to delay an immediate checkmate threat or to prolong the checkmate (e.g. giving checks in order to transform a mate in 2 into a mate in 5).In the example below, the puzzle responds by doing a queen "sacrifice" in order to