Captain Cook @CaptainCookOG

We would have shot them.

Amiri King @AmiriKing

a month ago

Imagine relaxing in a grotto listening to Nocturne op. 9 no. 2… You are sipping prosecco with your friends and taking in the moment… All of a sudden a vessel full of retards comes barreling at you at 39 knots while blaring Wacky D’s newest mixtape. Moment ruined.

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𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗩𝗢𝗬𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗧 𝗔 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘 𝗘𝗠𝗣𝗜𝗥𝗘 In 1740 Commodore George Anson set out on one of the most ambitious voyages in Royal Navy history. His expedition, with orders to attack Spanish interests throughout the Pacific, was plagued by violent storms around Cape Horn, disease, shipwrecks, and staggering losses. However, Anson’s remaining ship, HMS Centurion, seized the Spanish treasure galleon Nuestra Señora de Covadonga and returned to England with its hold full of treasure. More importantly, lessons learned from the voyage changed the way the British operated at sea and helped pave the way for a century of global maritime dominance.

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Here’s the HMS Resolution un Botany Bay, Australia circa 1769

If the Earth were flat, the crow’s nest would have been the most pointless, high-altitude torture chamber in naval history. 🏴‍☠️ For centuries, sailors willingly climbed 75+ feet into the freezing air, enduring violent, stomach-churning sways caused by the mast's lever-arm effect. They didn't do this for the view. They did it because they understood a physical reality that flat-earthers still struggle with today: spherical geometry. If the world were a flat plane, a sailor on the deck with a telescope or “spyglass” could see an oncoming ship at the exact same distance as a lookout on the mast. But the horizon isn't an optical illusion - it’s the effect of curvature of the Earth. The surface of the waters follow the curvature of the planet below: curved. Let’s look at the undeniable nautical math (Distance in NM ≈ 1.17 × √Height in feet): • From the deck (~10 ft eye height): The horizon is only about 3.7 NM away. • From the crow’s nest (~75 ft eye height): That horizon pushes out to roughly 10.1 NM. That’s nearly triple the visibility range. In the Age of Sail, that extra 6.4 nautical miles was a decisive military advantage. At a standard cruising speed of 6 knots, spotting the enemy 6 miles earlier gave a captain an entire hour of strategic lead time! An hour to secure the weather gage. An hour to choose whether to engage, flee, maneuver, or set an ambush before the enemy even knew you were there. It was the literal difference between life and death. The "Sail Obstruction" Cop-Out: Flat Earthers might claim crow's nests were just built to see over the sails. It's an empty argument. If blocking the view was the only issue, you could solve it safely and cheaply by placing one lookout at the bowsprit and one at the stern taffrail. No dangerous, top-heavy structures required. The crow's nest existed primarily for one reason: to cheat the curvature of the Earth. Something Flerfs refuse to admit.

Rescued East African slaves taken aboard HMS Daphne, a British naval ship used to prevent the transportation of enslaved people, 1868. From the collections of The National Archives.

When HMS Victory entered service, she was the most powerful warship on Earth. When she was launched in 1765, she represented the absolute peak of British naval engineering. Built from around 6,000 oak trees, carrying 104 guns across three gun decks, and crewed by more than 800 men, Victory was less a ship and more a floating fortress. At 227 feet long and weighing over 3,500 tons, she was one of the largest and most heavily armed warships of her age. Her hull was so vast that it took six years to build and decades more to fully equip and maintain. Then came Trafalgar. On 21 October 1805, under the command of Horatio Nelson, HMS Victory led the British fleet directly into the combined French and Spanish line. The battle changed European history. Britain’s victory secured command of the seas for more than a century and confirmed the Royal Navy as the dominant naval force on Earth. More remarkably, HMS Victory still survives today. Over 260 years after her launch, Nelson’s flagship remains in Portsmouth, a reminder of what England once built in oak, iron and ambition. Few nations have ever produced ships with this level of craftsmanship, power and grandeur. Follow @oaksandlions as we explore the heritage, traditions and enduring spirit of England. #England #EnglishHistory #EnglishHeritage #RoyalNavy #HMSVictory

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@rustyrockets @GingerChin Need to follow @VonConspirator He has tick/Lyme disease protocol on his profile! Hes cured people of Lyme and all Sorts of other things y’all!!

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@VonConspirator Sex bot at this bar….

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@VonConspirator Sex boat in the drinking area…..

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@realstewpeters @LynneHFox5 They have a second penis already erected to replace the one on the statue expecting millions of MAGA fools flocking to suck it.

@volcaholic1 Is it just more or can this asshole not bounce while he’s talking, bloody disgraceful.

@_HenryBolton There’s at least 1. Me.

@benonwine Likely riddled with syphilis and inbreeding.

@AlpacaAurelius Minus the fucking sparking water with carbon dioxide and cold steaks, warm steaks would have melted the damn butters smh.

@SpeakerJohnson @RepNicole No we don’t, plus that’s not even a real photo. It’s AI. Fucking stupid wankers.

@TedLogan1010 Still more believable than the official explanation of gravity….

On this day in 1770, my friend Sir Joseph Banks was clearly high off something because he wrote in his diary: “The sea was covered in sparks of fire… I tasted it and found it full of small animals.” I’ll have whatever he was smoking 😂🤣

@4dots899721 @iLeedy1987 @VonConspirator @TedLogan1010 Feels pretty good to have a first edition signed copy of a book you actually liked eh.