With frickin’ laser beams?

Someone needs to make a movie about Enrico Dandalo. Blind, almost deaf, 90ish year old Machiavelli like character directing the 4th crusade to Constantinople.

She’s not in Kansas anymore

Eh tu?

In America, 100 years is a long time
In Europe, 100 miles is a long distance

Ouroboros

“Full stack”

Wow, that video is 15 years old!

https://youtu.be/b2F-DItXtZs

I don’t think I have to mention he’s a right winger.

Temporarily embarrassed millionaire

Don’t worry. Rick O’Connell will take care of business.

I’m aware of the history/intricacies of of this, and agree with you. I was posting a meme in response to Hitler calling “Belgium” a “Speedbump”

Rome:
Unsustainable manpower drain
Losing almost every battle
Somehow wins 2nd Punic War

Try this: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fnptzihhcospz.gif

Those canons were surprisingly ineffective, despite their number (>100) and size (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dardanelles_Gun). It took many months of all of those canon, concentrating on a single spot, to finally make a breach.

The problem was inaccuracy, and very low rate of fire (I think the largest could only fire twice a day maximum). The guns got so hot when firing, they had to be cooled between shots. Using water would cool them too quickly and they’d crack, so they used hundreds of gallons of oil to slowly cool the guns.

They did ultimately work, despite the plucky defenders rebuilding the wall every night, but it was exceedingly expensive, difficult logistically, and very slow.

Allegedly

Grok was probably used to make a software patch

If you ask the model itself, it says Mistral Large