ohmypheels:

everyone is like “omg tumblr should delete blogs that have been inactive for 2+ years” but i dont think they should

just imagine in 10 years time, in the back of your mind you remember tumblr, you open it up and you’re still logged in and you get to look at your blog and remember all this.

now imagine if you went back to see your old blog of your teenage years and it had been deleted because somebody ‘wanted your url’

how sad would that be

the-alt-historian: Life photographer Jacob Cooley took this dramatic photo of the damaged Empire State Building in 1948. Why was it damaged? Well, it was hit by a Heinkel He140 light bomber piloted by one Wilhelm Schmidt, a deranged Nazi pilot who believed that by destroying America’s most well-known landmark, he could put them out of the war. So he packed his aircraft with explosive and went out solo. Never mind that he had succeeded in making the first cross-Atlantic flight in a 2-engined bomber ever, never mind that he had done it solo, and probably could have been a great pilot if he had lived to peacetime— Schmidt’s mission has been remembered to this day only because it was so utterly ludicrous. As the maddened pilot had forgotten to take along blasting caps or any sort of detonator, the explosive naturally failed to detonate. Three people were killed, the damage was minimal, and the Americans laughed all the way to a major propaganda coup.  
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the-alt-historian:

Life photographer Jacob Cooley took this dramatic photo of the damaged Empire State Building in 1948. Why was it damaged? Well, it was hit by a Heinkel He140 light bomber piloted by one Wilhelm Schmidt, a deranged Nazi pilot who believed that by destroying America’s most well-known landmark, he could put them out of the war. So he packed his aircraft with explosive and went out solo.

Never mind that he had succeeded in making the first cross-Atlantic flight in a 2-engined bomber ever, never mind that he had done it solo, and probably could have been a great pilot if he had lived to peacetime— Schmidt’s mission has been remembered to this day only because it was so utterly ludicrous.

As the maddened pilot had forgotten to take along blasting caps or any sort of detonator, the explosive naturally failed to detonate. Three people were killed, the damage was minimal, and the Americans laughed all the way to a major propaganda coup.  

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