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September 20

Das Boot

I watched Das Boot (director's cut) and there are some things I didn't understand:

Light

Sometimes they turn the lights inside the sub to red. I guess that this is for adaptation (eye)#Applications and that the goggles some officers wear are dark adaptor goggles. Is that so?
If so, what is the blue light for?

--Error (talk) 08:59, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This answer confirms my understanding for the red light, but is not suitable to WWII blue light. --Error (talk) 17:52, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This forum says:

Blue light was emergency light to spare the batteries.

Other forums say it doesn't make sense because blue lights were white lights with filters. Although if the blue lights are connected to the emergency batteries, it could make sense.

--Error (talk) 18:53, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Torpedoes

The German cargo ship SS Weser at Vigo is said to be interned. I understand that means she wouldn't move around freely but stay at port. It is inspired by MV Bessel which was actually interned off Vigo. I understand that crew would have some freedom of movement in Axis-friendly Spain, enough to acquire fresh food and such, but what about the torpedoes? Were they the normal cargo of Weser, which happened to be seized by Spain? Was Weser sent to Vigo as a floating resupplying base? Were they transported to Weser while in Vigo? Are torpedoes easy to transfer discreetly into the sub? --Error (talk) 08:59, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Is the film a fictional story? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 13:22, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Based in a novel based in Lothar-Günther Buchheim's wartime experiences in the German submarine U-96 (1940). Thanks for your cooperation. --Error (talk) 13:33, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

See U-Boats in Spain - Kriegsmarine U-boats in Spain and Portugal during WW II which answers at least some of your questions. It seems that German supply ships were not interned in Spanish ports, but tolerated by the Spanish government by prior agreement.

The U-Boat War in the Atlantic, 1939–1941 has details of U-boat supply ship operations. Alansplodge (talk) 20:20, 22 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I almost lost your answer. Perhaps it is advisable to user Template:Ping when more than one day has passed. --Error (talk) 01:07, 26 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

movie or TV still (science fiction)

[1] What show is this from? Thanks. 2601:648:8201:5DD0:0:0:0:5265 (talk) 17:46, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Orville. Maineartists (talk) 19:53, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. 2601:648:8201:5DD0:0:0:0:5265 (talk) 02:30, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fortnite stops working for no apparent reason

Any ideas why? Only works on Fridays and Saturdays. Only one of two weeks. It's getting on my nerve. I at least want to know why. A logical reason, not just "because it hates you". Thanks. -- L10nM4st3r _(talk) 18:09, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fortnite Help Center might be a better options. 136.56.52.157 (talk) 20:43, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yea, my device is kinda crappy compared to a phone/computer and I cant acces that website, and I don't want to ask my parents as a first option to do it for me as the last time I did, they said "Fortnite is probably broken and epic games will fix it at some point", if so, "some point" is at least a century from now. -- L10nM4st3r _(talk) 21:16, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm... Only Fridays and Saturdays? Sounds like "parental control" settings. 136.56.52.157 (talk) 21:55, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

My parents dont disable games like that. Oh, it shows a message "Checking for updates" when it does this. Even if I just updated. (also I don't really have "grades", I'm homeschooled and a young adult. I shouldn't be at school anyway I think.) -- L10nM4st3r _(talk) 22:15, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There's probably a setting to change 'automatic' to 'manual' updates. I doubt that that will fix it, but maybe? 136.56.52.157 (talk) 01:17, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If there is, I'll need to wait until friday [to change it]. Most likely next friday. (Oh, I'm on the Switch. Should have said that sooner) -- L10nM4st3r _(talk) 12:21, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This site has useful info regarding Nintendo Switch updating: https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-update-nintendo-switch/ (system and game updates). You can turn automatic updates off, but setting it to do updates in sleep mode would be better. 136.56.52.157 (talk) 19:45, 23 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I've already updated to the latest version. It happens right after updating. It works only AGES after it last updated, that's my problem. And I cant figure out why. (I already set it to update automatically, in sleep mode) -- L10nM4st3r _(talk) 08:10, 25 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Clowning at the White House

Hello! I started Skeeter Reece because his wife turned up at the Teahouse and asked for help. She says that he was in an "Easter performance at the White House (1982)." If someone could find a usable source for that, that would be great. There are mirrors of a deleted version of the WP-article like peoplepill.com, those don't count. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 18:18, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

All I've found on Newspapers.com (pay site) is that the Reagans spent 1982 Easter Sunday at Barbados. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:59, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hm, perhaps George H. W. Bush felt the need for some fun ;-) Thanks for the effort! Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 06:48, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Bush couldn't do that. It wouldn't be prudent. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 11:16, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

But perhaps it was prudent at that particular juncture? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 05:39, 22 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Putting this here for historical reference. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:06, 22 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If so, this caption in Egg rolling#United States is wrong (or they flew back the next day). (Also, who's to say that Reece wasn't Bunny #1 or Bunny #2?) Clarityfiend (talk) 22:55, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The deleted version stated that he performed at the White House as an opening act for the Smothers Brothers. The Smothers Brothers visited the White House on November 12, 1987 as representatives of the American Lung Association to kick off the Christmas Seal campaign.^[2][3] They did not then stage a performance, though. There is also a ghit for "The Smothers Brothers at the White House in 1988 with Ronald Reagan" on a facebook page, presumably an image caption, but I cannot find the post. Other than much earlier animosity with LBJ, I don't find another White House connection. I suspect the claim about an opening act for the Smothers Brothers at the White House is mistaken. --Lambiam 13:18, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I found a grand total of 23 entries for "Skeeter Reece" on Newspapers.com, none of which seem to pertain to the question. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 15:06, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This was not correct. Skeeter performed at the White House On Easter in 1982 with some other performers from Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus. Marlin Perkins (from Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom) also performed that day. Skeeter took quite a few pictures of him, because he was a big fan.

Later, in 1994, he and Albert Alter opened for the Smothers Brothers at the Britt Music Festival in Oregon. Mamadancer (talk) 00:56, 22 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

He isn't on the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library's list of entertainers at the White House in 1982. Clarityfiend (talk) 12:21, 22 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have any photos showing him at the White House in 1982? --Lambiam 12:53, 22 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, we do, but they are not good. The camera's aperture was set wrong, and they are very light. How would I show them to you on this format anyway? Mamadancer (talk) 01:08, 23 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Easter Egg Hunt, cuts, clowns, contests, balloon blowers, crowd. South Lawn If it was this event, he may be in those videos somewhere. I'm not saying it's usable if he is, but it would be interesting. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 13:19, 22 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There could be something in here:[4] Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 13:24, 22 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]