# Apparently around half of American Millennials haven’t heard of The Hindenburg **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 13, 2024, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-around-half-of-american-millennials-haven-t-heard-of-the-hindenburg/1007225 "2024-09-13T18:59:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-around-half-of-american-millennials-haven-t-heard-of-the-hindenburg/1007225/161 "2024-09-30T21:22:03Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > (There’s a Looney Tunes script here …) It bounces of the zeppelin and lands right in Wile E. Coyote’s arms. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-around-half-of-american-millennials-haven-t-heard-of-the-hindenburg/1007225/162 "2024-09-30T21:23:15Z")
I have no idea! I do know that a dive bomber could release its payload much closer to an airship than to a regular ship, because it wouldn’t have to pull up - it would just have to raise its nose a few degrees so it doesn’t crash into its target, and keep on diving. I suppose it could also come at the target from an angle - even from the side, if it releases close enough. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-around-half-of-american-millennials-haven-t-heard-of-the-hindenburg/1007225/163 "2024-10-02T10:29:17Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > I hadn’t heard of Daddy and Peaches. I had - but I had not heard of Charlie Johns and Eunice Winstead, linked at the bottom of that page. 😲 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-around-half-of-american-millennials-haven-t-heard-of-the-hindenburg/1007225/164 "2024-10-02T14:30:39Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Would the bomb bounce off? I think overpenetration would be a bigger issue - if it’s designed to pierce ship armor, it might go right through the thin skin without even registering that it hit anything. That wouldn’t be an issue for fragmentation bombs which would probably work quite well, at least once they hit the internal frame. Then again, even overpenetration would still leave two bomb-sized holes in the ship, which are quite larger than bullet holes. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-around-half-of-american-millennials-haven-t-heard-of-the-hindenburg/1007225/165 "2024-10-04T00:46:12Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > > [@JKellyMap](#): > > > > I hadn’t heard of Daddy and Peaches. > > I had - but I had not heard of Charlie Johns and Eunice Winstead, linked at the bottom of that page. 😲 That’s fucking horrifying… I didn’t know that one either. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-around-half-of-american-millennials-haven-t-heard-of-the-hindenburg/1007225/166 "2024-10-04T01:15:16Z")
I’ve seen that before. Often on list that also have the story of the [Chalifoux children](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_Children_for_Sale) [![](https://imgix.ranker.com/user_node_img/50070/1001393607/original/their-mother-was-pregnant-when-she-sold-her-kids-and-later-sold-the-baby-she-birthed-photo-u2?auto=format&q=60&fit=crop&fm=pjpg&dpr=2&w=355) ](https://imgix.ranker.com/user_node_img/50070/1001393607/original/their-mother-was-pregnant-when-she-sold-her-kids-and-later-sold-the-baby-she-birthed-photo-u2?auto=format&q=60&fit=crop&fm=pjpg&dpr=2&w=355) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-around-half-of-american-millennials-haven-t-heard-of-the-hindenburg/1007225/167 "2024-10-07T13:48:49Z")
I find it hard to believe that someone with such excellent sign painting skills would have been out of work in the 1940s. ---
**Author:** ![Xocomil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xocomil/32/14927_2.png) [@Xocomil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xocomil)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-around-half-of-american-millennials-haven-t-heard-of-the-hindenburg/1007225/168 "2024-10-11T02:43:19Z")
I’ve heard of _Maverick_, _The Rockford Files_, _8 Simple Rules_, _Space Cowboys_, and James Garner. I had no idea Garner was in any of those things. Worse, I always confuse the TV series _Maverick_ with _The Wild Wild West_, the movie _Maverick_ with the Paul Hogan vehicle _Lightning Jack_ (which I loved when I saw it as a kid), and I always picture James Garner as Paul Sorvino. I have a bit more knowledge of James Michner than you do, in that I knew he was a novelist, but I thought his name was spelled Michener. I looked it up and it is. Score one for Millennials. @Stranger_On_A_Train, you missed one James Garner reference older Millennials would be familiar with. He played old Ryan Gosling in _The Notebook_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-around-half-of-american-millennials-haven-t-heard-of-the-hindenburg/1007225.md?page=8)