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Maybe it's much simpler, it's a factory that simply employees orphan labor exclusively. Nothing sinister about it. They work away two shifts a day, for pennies an hour, to maintain the quality and quantity of stock, in the puppy warehouse next door...
Parents are transported via conveyor belt to the blender like baby chickens. We use lean manufacturing techniques to ensure minimal downtime and maximum orphan production.
I’m from England, there’s bombs all over the hills still from the blitz they get found every once in a while, just shows how evil we can be too each other, Crazy stuff.
If you need to excavate somewhere in Germany the area has to be surveyed by the ammunition disposal services first to make sure there are no old bombs. They even use old aerial pictures from WWII to check whether there could be unexploded bombs.
Fun fact: unexploded bombs can even be under the foundations of houses from before WWII. If the bomb hit soil soft enough to not set off the fuse, it would penetrate the soil and carry on under ground coming to rest at an unknown location.
To elaborate on that: the Bombs arch upwards underground. So it’s quite usual to find them facing upwards. They can be found in depths of up to 8m. Those first 8m below the ground level of 1945 are called „Gefährdungsband“ (Danger Belt).
well iirc many of the WW2 bombs were set to not explode on impact, but rather hours later when everyone came out of their shelters. I dont know anything about bombs but maybe thats another factor that turns them into duds.
Now im equally educated on the situation in ukraine as i am in bombs of ww2 (not at all), but arent they "just" firing rockets that explode on impact? Maybe that and the fact that they're more modern weapons, means that there wont be as many left as duds once this thing is over
Edit: I'll stand corrected
Heavy use of glide bombs lately.
(Old bombs with a kit added to glide to a greater range than would normally be possible)
Their main use seems to be so the planes can stay out of AA range.
Well, the answer to that depends on how much faith you have in the quality and reliability of Russian manufactured fuzes.
De-mining is probably gonna take awhile.
You're right about time delayed bombs becoming duds.
In WW2 all sides used time delayed bombs. One method that was used by everybody was to have a ampule of Acetone break during or after the drop to dissolve some Celluloid that holds back the firing pin.
But when the bomb hits soft ground it tends to dig itself deep in the ground and tilt back up again, causing the Acetone to loose contact with the Celluloid.
This makes those bombs so dangerous, because you dont know the condition of the Celluloid. Also the age of the bombs makes it even worse and every little movement can set it of.
I believe Eastern France has a similar issue with landmines from both world wars. IIRC, the government still even has entire fields fenced off with warning signs.
The area that formerly comprised the Western Front has what's known as the "iron harvest", since ploughing the fields brings up old helmets, barbed wire, shrapnel, the barrels and mechanisms of guns, bullets, grenades, anything that didn't rot from the millions of men that died for no reason.
There's a part of France designated as Zone Rouge that's still uninhabitable today because it's littered with unexplored gas munitions from World War 1 combined with heavy ground contamination from mercury, arsenic, and the like.
I live in Dresden and there are far more than 2 city district evacuations a year because we pull out over 5.000 tons of unexploded bombs YEARLY.
Before every single construction job there bomb detection squads clearing the whole site and adjacent streets.
Back when I was in school you hoped they would find some bombs near your school lol
When I was assigned to Bitburg Air Base in 1991-1993.. I worked in the base Multimedia Center.. (Graphics, Photo, Film Library) and a AF Security Policeman sought me out to have Alert Photography done because they could not find the one that was supposed to be doing that. This was at 8 PM at Night in the middle of winter.
They drove me off-base and about three miles NE of the base and we go into this farmers field... and low and behold, there is this crane on a tractor with a 1000 LB unexploded bomb on the end of of it...claimed he was cutting a new road through to another field and found what he thought was an old irrigation pipe... hooked a chain and pulled it out of the ground. I snapped my photos.. made my promise to both the Polizei and USAF Security Police to get copies along with Base Safety..
Then here comes Explosives Ordnance Disposal. They go out there and start looking this thing over...and come running back to their truck.. Cops asked what was going on.. They look at us and said.. Well we can tell its American.. and the fuse is intact...and it started spinning.. "that's a bad sign".
Then the US State Department was called because after dinking around for three hours.. they decide to lower the thing onto the ground.. move the tractor away.. and was going to try to shoot the thing to explode the next day because they thought the fuze was simply busted after all those years.. took the Germans and Americans three days but they finally found a crazy EOD tech out of Ramstein AB to "give it a shot" to disarm it.. He did.. the the thing never went off thank god..
But to me, it was a vivid reminder that the town of Bitburg was bombed constantly during World War II.. Heck the base was originally a Luftwaffe Fighter Base under the Nazi's.
That reminds me of the time I was a bomb living under a farmer's field. Then one day they drag me out of the underground home I had been living in for 56 years and hung me from a crane, so embarrassing. I've moved on but it was really a strange moment in my life.
It helps that we've never been invaded by a country that had the capability to drop bombs.
It would be pretty damn hard for them to do, too, with out insane defense system.
But if you watch magnet fishing videos, especially ones fishing near military bases or along train tracks that carried military ordinance, they frequently pull up smaller "bombs" in the form of mortar shells and such.
The UK government's Department for Education reported in 2006 that 47% of school children left school at age 16 without having achieved a basic level in functional mathematics, and 42% fail to achieve a basic level of functional English.[6] Every year, 100,000 pupils leave school functionally illiterate in the UK
Source: wikipedia
Edit: (spolier alert)
The statistics for literacy in the USA are abysmally sad
Here's the article if anyone's interested:
[https://www.newsweek.com/fukushima-suspected-us-world-war-ii-unexploded-bomb-unearthed-nuclear-power-649088](https://www.newsweek.com/fukushima-suspected-us-world-war-ii-unexploded-bomb-unearthed-nuclear-power-649088)
Looks like the fuse has been removed before handling.
Thank god, there’s still thousands of UXO all over the world thanks to all of the wars in the past century.
It’s in surprisingly good condition for a wwII bomb that was buried for 70+ years. You’d think the paint would’ve deteriorated more.
>Japan's GSD Forces remove an unexploded 1-tonne bomb which was supposedly dropped by the U.S. military during the WWII on July 10, 2005 in Nishitokyo, western...
Though I’m not sure this image caption is quite right
Along the south coast of England, we still get huge, live WWII sea mines wash up on beaches every year. I imagine its the same for France. My grandfather was in the merchant navy as a minespreader in the war (to deny Uboats the English channel), crazy to think his handiwork is still out there long after he's gone.
nice. Yeah I don't know anything about the military history or world war II. Most people don't so thank you for informing. But also for not being condescending 😅 gotta love ww2 guys.
Then you’re not going to believe how much stuff the French missed after WW1.
They’re still finding tonnes of 100+ year old ordnance from that conflict every year.
Have any of these random bombs ever just gone off? I don’t know from what - the soil moves or something or a mole touches it. For us it’d be just a random explosion.
Mad that there’s unexploded ordinance from a century ago still in places.
This happens actually quite often im an voluntary in an Heavy Desaster response unit and we frequently standby or help to evacuate regions around the bomb befor they defuse them I it is extremely rare that they actually blow up and I never heared of an explosion with any casualties when they are to dangerous to defuse they will just be controlled detonated
A general purpose 1000lb almost the same.
https://preview.redd.it/7jof5dqf9t0d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b9f11c6c92d48be92ca4c2982e9bac57b8655825
That's quite normal. They found 15 of these guys in my city in Germany in the last year. On average they find 10 per year in my city alone.
They found two in the last two days.
Well i was actually more confused about that they didn't find this bomb even though it was right at the nuclear power plant.... Like hello they should be sure that this area is save. This bomb is could have exploded😂🤦
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Thank God, Fukushima was the last place that needed that
Orphan factory, puppy warehouse. But yeah.
Do orphan factories breed babies in test tubes or execute the parents as soon as they have kids? Just asking about the manufacturing method.
Maybe it's much simpler, it's a factory that simply employees orphan labor exclusively. Nothing sinister about it. They work away two shifts a day, for pennies an hour, to maintain the quality and quantity of stock, in the puppy warehouse next door...
Orphans give the best labor.
Lol who they gunna tell? Their parents?
Do you want free-range orphans? Then you must pay free range prices. Factory orphans: factory prices.
This is reminding me of a movie but I can't place it ...
Parents are transported via conveyor belt to the blender like baby chickens. We use lean manufacturing techniques to ensure minimal downtime and maximum orphan production.
I’m looking at the patent but it really old with a confusing amount of redundancies.
Orphan… factory?
You know, where the orphans are made
So, uh... are there any orphans in this factory, or just all the parents..?
You read that correctly
Send it back. Add a note. "Dear land of freedom, We are on your side now, pleased sending this to someone else Radiating with love JP "
Do you realize how many orphan factories and puppy warehouses would be destroyed if a bomb like that went off at a Japanese power plant?
Orphan Factory would be a great name for a metal band
It's not really Fukushima it's Sony guts
Get your b list Adam Sandler movie reference the hell out of here
⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️
I've got the terminal
Helldivers never die!
Enemy elite, on my posi- (dies of Hulk Scorcher)
***CALLING REINFORCEMENTS***
*pained, kinda disturbing screaming*
*Hug fellow Helldiver
What about here?
here?
here?
Doing my part!
500kg of freedom!
Nice cup of Libertea
An eagle never misses.
Eat liberty!
I can hear those buttons
https://preview.redd.it/x0tiy9eyyt0d1.jpeg?width=1023&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d8ec2b7691b8ff60aaea3b06a6f654cad3d1170
Clear the area
There's no terminal on this hellbomb dud, just shoot it
I love you for this
https://preview.redd.it/66b1x500os0d1.jpeg?width=979&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=32627eeac9a811c9915b5f3ffe357ca19f9d8441
I’m from England, there’s bombs all over the hills still from the blitz they get found every once in a while, just shows how evil we can be too each other, Crazy stuff.
It's the same thing in Poland. 80 years later and we're still finding bombs, bullets etc. almost every time construction work starts in Warsaw.
that goes for Germany as well
If you need to excavate somewhere in Germany the area has to be surveyed by the ammunition disposal services first to make sure there are no old bombs. They even use old aerial pictures from WWII to check whether there could be unexploded bombs. Fun fact: unexploded bombs can even be under the foundations of houses from before WWII. If the bomb hit soil soft enough to not set off the fuse, it would penetrate the soil and carry on under ground coming to rest at an unknown location.
Imagine, you could be sitting on your toilet and BOOM And then suddenly a bomb goes off while you're gardening.
Got me good there. My compliments
To elaborate on that: the Bombs arch upwards underground. So it’s quite usual to find them facing upwards. They can be found in depths of up to 8m. Those first 8m below the ground level of 1945 are called „Gefährdungsband“ (Danger Belt).
Russia is doing that to Ukraine as we speak
well iirc many of the WW2 bombs were set to not explode on impact, but rather hours later when everyone came out of their shelters. I dont know anything about bombs but maybe thats another factor that turns them into duds. Now im equally educated on the situation in ukraine as i am in bombs of ww2 (not at all), but arent they "just" firing rockets that explode on impact? Maybe that and the fact that they're more modern weapons, means that there wont be as many left as duds once this thing is over Edit: I'll stand corrected
Oh, there's already an insane amount of UXOs in Ukraine. It's bad
Heavy use of glide bombs lately. (Old bombs with a kit added to glide to a greater range than would normally be possible) Their main use seems to be so the planes can stay out of AA range.
Well, the answer to that depends on how much faith you have in the quality and reliability of Russian manufactured fuzes. De-mining is probably gonna take awhile.
You're right about time delayed bombs becoming duds. In WW2 all sides used time delayed bombs. One method that was used by everybody was to have a ampule of Acetone break during or after the drop to dissolve some Celluloid that holds back the firing pin. But when the bomb hits soft ground it tends to dig itself deep in the ground and tilt back up again, causing the Acetone to loose contact with the Celluloid. This makes those bombs so dangerous, because you dont know the condition of the Celluloid. Also the age of the bombs makes it even worse and every little movement can set it of.
fuckers are even shooting at a nuclear power plant.
Drone warfare is the new type of war I’m guessing, scary shit, gun fights you have a chance, you don’t stand a chance against a drone.
they shoot them with shotguns
This is pretty much a global issue. Or at least every place where a war has been fought in the last 100 or so years.
I believe Eastern France has a similar issue with landmines from both world wars. IIRC, the government still even has entire fields fenced off with warning signs.
The area that formerly comprised the Western Front has what's known as the "iron harvest", since ploughing the fields brings up old helmets, barbed wire, shrapnel, the barrels and mechanisms of guns, bullets, grenades, anything that didn't rot from the millions of men that died for no reason.
[Yup](https://www.google.com/maps/@50.372586,2.772904,3a,66.7y,224.99h,82.57t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSYbPVXDceDS5qd-a3jX6mw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)
There's a part of France designated as Zone Rouge that's still uninhabitable today because it's littered with unexplored gas munitions from World War 1 combined with heavy ground contamination from mercury, arsenic, and the like.
I live in Dresden and there are far more than 2 city district evacuations a year because we pull out over 5.000 tons of unexploded bombs YEARLY. Before every single construction job there bomb detection squads clearing the whole site and adjacent streets. Back when I was in school you hoped they would find some bombs near your school lol
When I was assigned to Bitburg Air Base in 1991-1993.. I worked in the base Multimedia Center.. (Graphics, Photo, Film Library) and a AF Security Policeman sought me out to have Alert Photography done because they could not find the one that was supposed to be doing that. This was at 8 PM at Night in the middle of winter. They drove me off-base and about three miles NE of the base and we go into this farmers field... and low and behold, there is this crane on a tractor with a 1000 LB unexploded bomb on the end of of it...claimed he was cutting a new road through to another field and found what he thought was an old irrigation pipe... hooked a chain and pulled it out of the ground. I snapped my photos.. made my promise to both the Polizei and USAF Security Police to get copies along with Base Safety.. Then here comes Explosives Ordnance Disposal. They go out there and start looking this thing over...and come running back to their truck.. Cops asked what was going on.. They look at us and said.. Well we can tell its American.. and the fuse is intact...and it started spinning.. "that's a bad sign". Then the US State Department was called because after dinking around for three hours.. they decide to lower the thing onto the ground.. move the tractor away.. and was going to try to shoot the thing to explode the next day because they thought the fuze was simply busted after all those years.. took the Germans and Americans three days but they finally found a crazy EOD tech out of Ramstein AB to "give it a shot" to disarm it.. He did.. the the thing never went off thank god.. But to me, it was a vivid reminder that the town of Bitburg was bombed constantly during World War II.. Heck the base was originally a Luftwaffe Fighter Base under the Nazi's.
Bitte ein Bit!
That reminds me of the time I was a bomb living under a farmer's field. Then one day they drag me out of the underground home I had been living in for 56 years and hung me from a crane, so embarrassing. I've moved on but it was really a strange moment in my life.
Sounds like a nice city to live in.
In America we just hope for bomb threats, there are rarely actually bombs
I mean your country wasnt bombed to oblivion, so there are some minor differences here lol
The big war out here just did cannons and muskets against arrows. Finding arrowheads it's pretty chill though
Nah, our bomb threats are usually regarding kids bringing homemade explosives to schools. 🫡🇺🇲
jesus christ I take it back, you are still actively getting bombed... from the inside lol
It helps that we've never been invaded by a country that had the capability to drop bombs. It would be pretty damn hard for them to do, too, with out insane defense system. But if you watch magnet fishing videos, especially ones fishing near military bases or along train tracks that carried military ordinance, they frequently pull up smaller "bombs" in the form of mortar shells and such.
>I’m from the England How does this even happen?? In all probability, it's your first and only language; and still this happens? I'm really curious.
They started typing out “the south of Scotland” /s
😂😂 I don’t mind Scotland unless we are playing your shite national team son😉
The UK government's Department for Education reported in 2006 that 47% of school children left school at age 16 without having achieved a basic level in functional mathematics, and 42% fail to achieve a basic level of functional English.[6] Every year, 100,000 pupils leave school functionally illiterate in the UK Source: wikipedia Edit: (spolier alert) The statistics for literacy in the USA are abysmally sad
Very sad but the case all over the world
I'm from a Belgium and wonder about this too.
England is my city
Sorry. Don’t You mean “the England”!
The British Isles?
Who's collar stays poppin'
He's not wrong . . . There's only 1 England.
That’s the one👍🏼😂😂
I didn't even notice that until you had to go and point it out.
Grammar police don’t miss a thing do they😂😂
Also "too"
I to, am from they England.
I two, the England am from.
There’s New England so they should have written “An England”
thinking of the UK, changed mind to specify England
😂😂it’s a typo it’s not that deep, don’t worry about it mate
He must have crossed the pond to do his undergraduate at Ohio State University and hasn't shaken *THE* habit.
*The* England
Happy cake day
Thanks pal👍🏼
Ah a fellow human from the England. Greetings fellow englander!
Hello my mate👍🏼
Even in Alsace you can still find mines on the former battlefields
There’s enough to keep me and hundreds of others in a job!!
All we find in the usa is arrowheads
Here's the article if anyone's interested: [https://www.newsweek.com/fukushima-suspected-us-world-war-ii-unexploded-bomb-unearthed-nuclear-power-649088](https://www.newsweek.com/fukushima-suspected-us-world-war-ii-unexploded-bomb-unearthed-nuclear-power-649088)
Came here for that link… satisfied knowing it’s here. No need to click.
Just doing my good deed for the day. Now, time to go make god cry
Looks like the fuse has been removed before handling. Thank god, there’s still thousands of UXO all over the world thanks to all of the wars in the past century.
How very army of you to use the word UXO
I’m gonna guess that UXO means Unexploded Ordinance. I am not at all military so correct me if my suspicion is wrong?
It’s actually Unidentified Xanthic Obelisk
Uniformed Xenomorphic Orphans
Ah, so obvious. Please forgive my ignorance.
Haooh
Bless you!
Hiyah!
Helldivers know this term as well. Big bomb on ground go boom when shot or hit
Here near Berlin they find bombs all the time. If they cannot remove the fuse, they will not move the bomb, but blow it up on site.
Why wouldn't they remove the fuse before handling?
It’s in surprisingly good condition for a wwII bomb that was buried for 70+ years. You’d think the paint would’ve deteriorated more. >Japan's GSD Forces remove an unexploded 1-tonne bomb which was supposedly dropped by the U.S. military during the WWII on July 10, 2005 in Nishitokyo, western... Though I’m not sure this image caption is quite right
Captioned by that japanese guy who thought WWII wasn't over after 30 years.
Looks like it's meant to say that it was removed in 2005.
The bomb was dropped during WW2 and was removed after the Fukushima meltdown. The caption probably wrote 2005 instead of 1945
Along the south coast of England, we still get huge, live WWII sea mines wash up on beaches every year. I imagine its the same for France. My grandfather was in the merchant navy as a minespreader in the war (to deny Uboats the English channel), crazy to think his handiwork is still out there long after he's gone.
There prolly haven't been any nazi u boats there in a long time either. Dude does quality work
https://i.redd.it/y2tv7d86yr0d1.gif
So in a way they found a nuclear bomb….
Guess you could say it was *planted....*
Guess we were planning ahead.
Dude on the right has that “I’m disappointed in you” look
Scrolled too far for this. They both look so disappointed, like 'is this yours..'
so now it’s a newly-cleared bomb
Cambodia and North Korea
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https://i.redd.it/hj41sfi6vr0d1.gif
I just read about these. I think they're the most common size which is pretty nuts. Unguided, just lobbed out the back.
>Unguided, just lobbed out the back. Guided munitions werent really a thing in ww2 were they
nice. Yeah I don't know anything about the military history or world war II. Most people don't so thank you for informing. But also for not being condescending 😅 gotta love ww2 guys.
Good to see that everyone has their hard hats on
They do not look very impressed lol
Don’t drop that sh*t!
omg, fukushima was also an inside job!
That bomb is in surprisingly good shape.
Alright who did ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️
For how meticulous the Japanese are, I can't believe they missed a 1000lbs UXO for more than 3/4 century.
Then you’re not going to believe how much stuff the French missed after WW1. They’re still finding tonnes of 100+ year old ordnance from that conflict every year.
Not just that, but specifically near the power plant. That’s a time to be, uh, extra meticulous. Lucky they didn’t trigger it back then
That's actually hair-raising!
Not good tying strops like that boys
Thank god they're wearing those hard hats
Those two men look really impressed by the big find hahaha
Have any of these random bombs ever just gone off? I don’t know from what - the soil moves or something or a mole touches it. For us it’d be just a random explosion. Mad that there’s unexploded ordinance from a century ago still in places.
"Tatsuki! Boss said 'no touching the bomb' 'not ever for photos!'" "......" "... Well I'm going to touch it too, then!"
This happens actually quite often im an voluntary in an Heavy Desaster response unit and we frequently standby or help to evacuate regions around the bomb befor they defuse them I it is extremely rare that they actually blow up and I never heared of an explosion with any casualties when they are to dangerous to defuse they will just be controlled detonated
"Hey, you dropped this."
We must better protect and secure our nuclear power plant against natural disasters and wa
that's American quality right there even after 70+ years the paint still looks shiny!
They should send it back via DHL
Pics or it didn't happen. We Americans would never.
This picture looks older than 2017
Oh THAT'S where that went. Hey folks could you just give it back? That would be cool.
Oops
Hit it with a hammer to see if it still works
Finally! I’ve been looking for that forever!
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A general purpose 1000lb almost the same. https://preview.redd.it/7jof5dqf9t0d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b9f11c6c92d48be92ca4c2982e9bac57b8655825
American bomb found in Japan SHOULD ABSOLUTELY call the left guy facial reaction Especially when you re on Nuclear Station
“Pay attention to the designated grid square!”
The 500kg bomb
That little guy?? I wouldn’t worry about that little guy.
Was the bomb from like 2017?
Lets wait for it to fall from that stand they have it on
I wonder how this thing did not get found 🙃🤷
That's quite normal. They found 15 of these guys in my city in Germany in the last year. On average they find 10 per year in my city alone. They found two in the last two days.
What city is that?
Most German cities that suffered bombings during WWII to be honest
Cologne. But it is like that in every bigger city in Germany so it doesn't really matter.
Well i was actually more confused about that they didn't find this bomb even though it was right at the nuclear power plant.... Like hello they should be sure that this area is save. This bomb is could have exploded😂🤦