Why are over 200 American aircraft resting at the bottom of the Great Lakes? Detailed answer

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Why are over 200 American aircraft resting at the bottom of the Great Lakes?

Entering the Second World War, the Americans faced the problem of training pilots for combat operations in the Pacific. It was dangerous to practice taking off and landing on aircraft carriers in the open ocean because of the threat from German submarines, so it was decided to train the pilots on the Great Lakes, for which the military converted two ships. In total, about 18 pilots received training, but during the exercises, up to 000 aircraft were lost due to accidents. Almost all of them still lie at the bottom of the Great Lakes.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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In the XVIII century. An empirical law was proposed for determining the distances of the planets from the Sun. If the distance from the center of mass of the Earth (the third planet) to the center of mass of the star is taken as a unit (astronomical unit, AU), then for Mercury it will be 0,4, for Venus - 0,7, for Mars - 1,5. Beyond Mars there should be a fifth planet with a distance of 2,8 from the Sun, and only then - Jupiter at a distance of 5,2, etc.

All these figures correspond well to real distances, but at a distance of 2,8 AU. That is, only many small planets - asteroids - are spinning from the Sun. According to some scientists, these are fragments of a once existing planet, which they called Phaethon - after the son of the ancient Greek sun god Helios. Phaeton, according to ancient legend, failed to control the fiery horses of his father's chariot and died.

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