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the air force's 1.5 billion dollar bombsight was used to drop its three billion dollar bomb, which didn't need a bombsight at all.

It's called the Norden Mark 15 bombsight.

And what did the Norden bombsight do?

The Norden bombsight is the Holy Grail.

The bombsights that were available were incredibly crude.

And that's the greatest irony of all when it comes to the Norden bombsight.

And the bombsight will tell him when to drop the bomb.

And the Norden bombsight doesn't work as well under those conditions.

So why do we talk about the Norden bombsight?

Well it is the grandson of the Norden Mark 15 bombsight.

There's a postscript to the Norden story of Carl Norden and his fabulous bombsight.

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What if I could aim sound the way I aim light?

And as was typical with the Norden bombsight, the bomb actually missed its target by 800 ft.

Now I cannot tell you how incredibly excited the U.S. military was by the news of the Norden bombsight.

And whenever the Norden bombsight is taken onto a plane, it's escorted there by a series of armed guards.

And by the way, all those precautions to keep the Norden bombsight out of the hands of the Nazis?

Well because we live in an age where there are lots and lots of Norden bombsights.

Meanwhile, back in New York, no one told Carl Norden that his bombsight was used over Hiroshima.

So they had their own Norden bombsight throughout the entire war which also, by the way, didn't work very well.

Let me know when you've got them. Let's shoot.

He aimed, but missed.

The policeman aimed his gun at the man.

And as Norden famously says, Before that bombsight came along, bombs would routinely miss their target by a mile or more.

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Forget about trying to hit the bull's eye in darts, just aim for the same spot over and over again.

And the U.S. military spends 1.5 billion dollars billion dollars in 1940 dollars developing the Norden bombsight.

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When he aimed, he never missed.

Well, the reason it's such a bad job is that there's somebody shooting at you a lot of the time.

But he said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 ft.

I ended up narrowing the subject to Monet's Haystacks.

In practice, the Norden bombsight can drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 ft., but that's under perfect conditions.

And over the course of 22 bombing missions, the Allies dropped 85,000 bombs on this 757 acre chemical plant, using the Norden bombsight.

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Step one is that the Taliban prey on families that are large, that are poor, that live in rural areas.

Growing up is about aiming to succeed wildly and being fulfilled by failing really well.

The targets aimed at are always and only military objectives.

Half as much money was spent on this Norden bombsight as was spent on the most famous military industrial project of the modern era.

But also, if there is something that we cannot reach because it is too high on a cliff, we have a little laser system which will actually zap the rock, evaporate some of it, and actually analyze what's coming from that rock.

So they're putting a lot of strategic investment focused in this area.

They target poor families and convince the parents to send their children.

Thus the targets aimed at are clearly identified and monitored.