Post #2491108
2026-05-13 08:15 UTC
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@johl@mastodon.xyz 2026-05-13 08:26
#Esperanto in Japan has an extraordinary history. There is even a Shinto-based new religion (Ōmoto) in which L.L. Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto in 1887, is worshipped as a Shinto god (kami). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oomoto
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@yetzt@social.yetzt.me 2026-05-13 08:35
@johl@mastodon.xyz today i discovered that you discovered that the discovery of the discovery of the jet stream...
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@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-05-13 08:54
@johl@mastodon.xyz oishi! he knew what he did. great way to make sure your work doesn't fall into enemy hands.
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@wesdym@mastodon.social 2026-05-13 14:51
@johl@mastodon.xyz While Wasaburō is correctly credited with the first direct evidence of the jet stream, but it had been speculated since the mid-19C, and its effects had been tracked worldwide after the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883. He didn't 'discover' it, but instead found evidence of what was already widely speculated. The military knew about it, but not enough was known about it at the time to make use of it. Wasaburō himself tried and failed to. (Though a lot was learned from his efforts.)
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@wesdym@mastodon.social 2026-05-13 14:56
@johl@mastodon.xyz In fact, much of what became known about the jet stream was discovered DURING WW2, 20 years after Wasaburō's reports. It required enough experimentation, and thousands of sorties by countless warplanes supplied that data. By 1944, US meteorologists finally had enough data to product actually useful military information about it. Perhaps ironically, that knowledge was used to plain bombing sorties of Japan -- sorties which might have otherwise failed, with planes ditching in the ocean.