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Comment Re:so full of Baltic-brownish stuff... (Score 1) 181

Many Baltic Waffen SS "volunteers" were actually conscripted after February 1943, even though Nazi propaganda claimed that they had consented to join the legion. However, prior to that some Latvians and Estonians actually did join these divisions as volunteers but not for Nazi ideals but because they wanted arms and financing to liberate their country from the Soviet occupation that began in 1940. Therefore, amongst themselves they referred to their divisions as the "Latvian Legion" and "Estonian Legion" (in a fight for national self-determination) rather than as Waffen-SS fighting for Hitler. (From Wikipedia)

Comment Power (Score 2) 352

I will probe Uranus during the night if all of you lame joke repeaters don't shut up. I wonder how do they plan preventing the craft's solar panels from burning. I think they'd need a lot more than liquid cooling and capability of retracting them behind the heat-shield. It seems to me that the tech-heavy craft would need a lot more power than it could generate and store while in distances safe enough for extending solar panels.

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