Main(e) man Micah
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Main(e) man Micah
@Mainefly
With a love of aviation since childhood I'm a co-host on @AirplaneGeeks, @TJITReward, & a regular on other well known international aviation podcasts.
Portland, ME Katılım Mart 2010
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@drmfitch And in Ohio, part of the eastern time zone, if we move the permanent daylight savings time in the winter the sun will rise until after 9 AM.
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@Mainefly Either option is flawed. Time zones are political things not related to health or astronomy. High noon occurs at 2pm here because having more time zones is inconvenient for business. Northern areas, Maine is in the south from where I live, do not see the same problems or benefits
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Don’t they remember doing this in the 70s and what a huge mistake it was. The only way to avoid a clock change, is to make standard time, standard! That’s the whole point of standard time.
NEWS CENTER Maine@newscentermaine
A House committee's 48-1 approval of the "Sunshine Protection Act" reignites the debate over making daylight saving time permanent. newscentermaine.com/article/news/n…
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On this day in 1939, the U.S. Navy attempted something no one in human history had ever done: pull men out of a sunken submarine alive from the ocean floor.
The day before, USS Squalus was on her 19th sea trial off Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Her main induction valve, the giant pipe that feeds air to the diesels, failed during a routine crash dive. Tons of seawater poured in through a 31 inch opening. The aft compartments flooded in seconds. 26 men drowned where they stood.
The 33 men forward of the bulkhead slammed the watertight doors. The boat settled on the bottom at 240 feet, half-flooded, the air going stale, the inside temperature dropping fast.
Lieutenant Oliver Naquin, the captain, made a brutal calculation. If everyone lay still, breathed shallow, and stopped talking, the air would last about 48 hours. He gave the order, then released a marker buoy. The buoy had a telephone inside and a sign on the outside that read, in capital letters: 'SUBMARINE SUNK HERE. TELEPHONE INSIDE.'
Her sister boat Sculpin found the buoy on the surface and picked up the phone. The line snapped almost immediately in the heavy seas. Now everyone topside knew where the men were, but had no idea if they were still alive.
Enter Charles 'Swede' Momsen. Momsen had spent the better part of a decade trying to convince a skeptical Navy that men could be rescued alive from sunken submarines. He had personally invented the McCann diving bell, a 21,600 pound pear-shaped chamber that could be lowered on a cable, locked onto a sub's escape hatch, and used to ferry men to the surface in groups. It had never been tested in a real emergency. Most of the Navy thought it never would be.
The bell was rushed up the coast on the minesweeper Falcon. The first dive brought up seven men. The second, nine. The third, nine more. Each trip took hours of careful lowering, sealing, ferrying, and surfacing.
On the fourth and final trip, with eight men inside, the cable snapped.
The bell hung free in the dark at 240 feet, dangling from a frayed wire. A new line was rigged but would not hold the full weight. Momsen made the call: lift it by hand. Six men on the Falcon's deck took the wire. The men inside the bell were ordered to blow ballast in 15 second bursts to lighten her, then hold. The crew on deck pulled. The bell would not move. They tried again. Nothing. On the third attempt, she finally began to rise.
39 hours after Squalus went down, all 33 survivors stood on the deck of the Falcon.
It was the first successful deep-sea submarine rescue in history. Every protocol that every modern navy in the world uses for sub rescue today traces back to what Swede Momsen and his crew did off New Hampshire in those 39 hours.
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@curatorWH @aniemyer I think I’d rather have the pastrami and pickles.
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From humble Jewish immigrant delis on New York’s Lower East Side serving pastrami, pickles, and rye. Kosher dining has evolved dramatically. Today chefs worldwide create kosher cuisine with gourmet techniques, proving kosher food can be both deeply traditional and world class.
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@tanyaweiman All about a personality crisis,
You got it while it was hot…
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Listening to the New York Dolls to perk myself up. It's working!
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JET. LAGGED. But in an extremely satisfied "I've had an absolutely incredible time!" sense. ☺️✈️🛩️
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South Korea’s First Trans-Pacific Submarine Deployment Reaches Canada - Naval News navalnews.com/naval-news/202…
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Welcome to episode 134 of The Journey Is the Reward!
On this episode, Micah and Brian are back with a packed show featuring international adventures with Eric the Mapmaker, listener mail, and the ultimate puzzle of frequent flyer routing. Cheers and fly safely! @Mainefly
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#BathBuiltinAction | At sea with Bath-built USS Gridley (DDG 101) 🌊
Bath-built Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Gridley (DDG 101) transits the Atlantic Ocean, April 30, 2026.
Gridley is deployed with Nimitz Carrier Strike Group as part of Southern Seas 2026 which seeks to enhance capability, improve interoperability, and strengthen maritime partnerships with countries throughout the region through joint, multinational, and interagency exchanges and cooperation.
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Wow wow wow. Yes. The only family vacation I can remember growing up that wasn't to visit relatives was this one, where we drove from CT to Maine and stayed a few days. Loved it. I'm the little blonde in the front, my sister the redhead was in the back. Obviously very 70s! 😂😂😂
SightBringer@_The_Prophet__
⚡️Children remember the moments when the family becomes fully alive. That is the core. Vacation is just the common vessel. A child does not encode childhood as a spreadsheet of responsible parenting. They encode atmosphere. They remember the motel pool, the gas station stop, the smell of sunscreen, the weird restaurant, the long drive, the sunset, the parents laughing differently, the feeling that normal life cracked open and something larger appeared. That is why ages 5 to 10 hit so hard. The child is old enough to form durable narrative memory and young enough for the world to remain enchanted. Parents still feel mythic. A beach, cabin, lake, theme park, road trip, or even a cheap rented house can become sacred geography. The real mechanism is interruption of routine plus emotional safety. Ordinary life teaches stability. Trips create myth. The family leaves the repeating loop of school, work, chores, screens, exhaustion, and time pressure. For a few days, the child experiences parents outside their normal roles. Mom and dad are no longer just managers of homework, food, discipline, bedtime, and logistics. They become companions inside an adventure. That imprints. The money matters far less than parents think. Luxury is mostly adult vanity. Children remember intensity, freedom, attention, surprise, and togetherness. A $200 trip can beat a $10,000 trip if the child feels wonder and the parents are emotionally present. Many adults are starved because their childhood had no sacred interruptions. Everything was duty, stress, survival, noise, pressure, or emotional absence. No mythic family scenes. No private homeland in memory. No recurring proof that life could be warm and strange and alive. That matters for the adult psyche. People draw from childhood memories during loneliness, fear, ambition, loss, and love. Those memories become inner architecture. Deepest compression: a good childhood is not built only by protection. It is built by unforgettable shared worlds. Take the kid somewhere. Break the loop. Make the ordinary world disappear for a few days. That becomes part of them forever.
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#SundayFunday #BOTD #NYC #OTD #History: Brooklyn Bridge, Happy Birthday May 24, 1883! @LRonLacy's wonderful bird's eye view shows how the bridge overwhelmed anything else in Manhattan, the #USNavy warships (including monitors?) and ferries, etc.
USAS 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺@USAS_WW1
#OTD: USS Franklin was the worst damaged #USNavy ship at sea in #WWII. Only USS Arizona had more deaths. She sailed Ulithi to Pearl Harbor through the Panama Canal to Brooklyn, New York arriving April 28, 1945. There she was repaired but never served again.
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@tanyaweiman 🎼🎶🎵Love is rosé,
But you better not drink it,
Only good when it’s in the glass,
Whole bunch of tannins,
So you better not risk it,
Drinking it might kick your ass.🎵🎶
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Oh thank god part 2! Very attentive bartender, but he keeps trying to get me to order rosé. I don't like rosé!! 😂
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Such very sad news!
Royal International Air Tattoo@airtattoo
We’re very sorry to let you know RIAT will not be taking place this year. Ticketholders will be contacted by the end of May via email about their RIAT26 tickets. In the meantime, you can find further information and updates on our website and FAQs page. We appreciate your loyal support for RIAT and look forward to welcoming you to the show in 2027. More information can be found here: airtattoo.com
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@USAS_WW1 The cause of the accident leading to the loss of the boat is still controversial. No final findings have ever been truly released. A catastrophic battery explosion from hydrogen ventilation is one theory, as a runaway torpedo, there are others even more obtuse.
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Bath built is best built! @GDBIW
U.S. Navy@USNavy
United by the sea 🇺🇸🌊🇯🇵 U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Howard (DDG 83) arrives at Shimoda, Japan for the 87th annual Black Ship Festival. The festival commemorates the 1854 arrival of Commodore Matthew C. Perry and his “black ships” to Shimoda, and the subsequent signing of the Japan-U.S. Treaty of Peace and Amity marking the start of diplomacy and trade between both countries.
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And one more caveat. If you’re a professional painter, you can wear white painters pants anytime during the year, anywhere in the world, as long as you’re painting.
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And remember, while macaroni salad can happen anytime over Memorial Day weekend, if you are a man, & don’t live in Florida, white pants can’t be worn until Memorial Day proper.
Just a little reminder of the rules
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Memorial Day weekend, that means it’s the first batch of macaroni salad. Something I only make in the summer. It’s gotta be made at least one day before being eaten, and being that the cookout is Saturday I figured I’d give it two days.
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Quase ninguém conhece isso, que na verdade é o sistema de partida por cartucho explosivo do avião Canberra. Uma tecnologia antiga onde um disparo literal gerava a pressão necessária para girar as turbinas.
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