In the evolution of humans, genetics show a bottleneck about 75000 years ago. Some catastrophic global event, probably a volcanic eruption, nearly wiped out all the hominids that were ancestors of Homo sapiens, in Africa. The best evidence suggests the only bands that survived the event clung to life in the east African coast near the southern end of the continent. They seem to have subsisted on shell fish and other crustaceans collected during the low tide. There are some telltale marks of intelligence abo
I did not know Nazi's were using this phrase. I give rats tail to Nazis.
I have seen "Great Leap Forward" being used in this context,
to the unknown combination of traits that changed our species from
anatomically modern H sapiens to behaviorly modern H sapiens.
It is not something I coined. I'm not going to abandon it and cede
permanent ownership to the Nazis.
Yes, a full moon was important, as well as acceptable weather conditions. However, the state of the tides [wikipedia.org] was also important. The planners wanted the landing to take place before dawn, on a rising tide. Not only did that expose more of the beach obstacles, it meant that grounded landing craft would be afloat again sooner, making them able to bring in reinforcements sooner. And, if the landings didn't take place on June 6, the next time the tides would be right would be in two weeks, without a full moon.
It isn't like somebody threw out a specialized acronym and expected people to understand the subject matter instantly. You could get a pretty good guess what was going on from the context and the details are secondary to the story.
After that, if you want to know specifically what Kelvin's Predictor was or how it works, it's not to hard to look it up.
You'd think Tide prediction would be quite easy, it comes in, it goes out.
Unless you're Bill O'Reilly [newser.com]:
“Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can’t explain why the tide goes in.”
Not trolling; just sayin' apparently not as easy as one might think - even way back in 2011.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/e... [pbs.org]
http://schools.yrdsb.ca/markvi... [yrdsb.ca]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm... [nih.gov]
But I did know the Nazis were using t
Or you could, you know, look it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
It isn't like somebody threw out a specialized acronym and expected people to understand the subject matter instantly. You could get a pretty good guess what was going on from the context and the details are secondary to the story.
After that, if you want to know specifically what Kelvin's Predictor was or how it works, it's not to hard to look it up.