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en wat deed de norden-bommenrichter?

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and what did the norden bombsight do?

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het heet de norden mark 15-bommenrichter.

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it's called the norden mark 15 bombsight.

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de kleinzoon van de norden mark 15-bommenrichter.

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well it is the grandson of the norden mark 15 bombsight.

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waarom praten we dan over de norden-bommenrichter?

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so why do we talk about the norden bombsight?

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de bommenrichter zal hem vertellen wanneer hij de bom moet droppen.

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

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de norden-bommenrichter werkt niet zo goed onder die omstandigheden.

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and the norden bombsight doesn't work as well under those conditions.

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malcolm gladwell: het bizarre verhaal van de norden-bommenrichter.

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malcolm gladwell: the strange tale of the norden bombsight

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en dat is de opperste ironie in verband met de norden-bommenrichter.

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and that's the greatest irony of all when it comes to the norden bombsight.

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typisch voor de norden-bommenrichter: de bom miste haar doel op 250 m.

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

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intussen vertelde niemand in new york aan carl norden dat zijn bommenrichter was gebruikt in hiroshima.

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meanwhile, back in new york, no one told carl norden that his bombsight was used over hiroshima.

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er is een postscriptum aan het norden-verhaal van carl norden en zijn geweldige bommenrichter.

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there's a postscript to the norden story of carl norden and his fabulous bombsight.

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hij wond zich altijd op als mensen de bommenrichter zijn uitvinding noemden, want in zijn ogen kon alleen god dingen uitvinden.

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in fact, he would always get upset when people referred to the bombsight as his invention, because in his eyes, only god could invent things.

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de hele oorlog lang hadden die dus hun eigen norden-bommenrichter -- die overigens ook niet goed werkte.

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

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de bommenrichter van 1,5 miljard dollar van de luchtmacht werd gebruikt om een bom van drie miljard te droppen die helemaal geen bommenrichter nodig had.

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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.

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aan de norden-bommenrichter werd half zoveel geld besteed als aan het beroemdste militair-industriële project van de moderne tijd.

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half as much money was spent on this norden bombsight as was spent on the most famous military-industrial project of the modern era.

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in de loop van 22 bombardementen dropten de geallieerden 85.000 bommen op deze chemische fabriek van 300 hectare, met behulp van de norden-bommenrichter.

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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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meesterverteller malcolm gladwell vertelt het verhaal van de norden-bommenrichter, een baanbrekend stuk technologie uit de tweede wereldoorlog, met een volkomen onverwacht resultaat.

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master storyteller malcolm gladwell tells the tale of the norden bombsight, a groundbreaking piece of world war ii technology with a deeply unexpected result.

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om je een idee te geven van hoe inaccuraat de norden-bommenrichter was: in 1944 was er een beroemd geval waarbij de geallieerden een chemische fabriek in het duitse leuna bombardeerden.

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and then to give you a sense of just how inaccurate the norden bombsight was, there was a famous case in 1944 where the allies bombed a chemical plant in leuna, germany.

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het leger van de vs besteedde 1,5 miljard dollar -- miljard dollar in dollars van 1940 -- aan de ontwikkeling van de norden-bommenrichter.

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and the u.s. military spends 1.5 billion dollars -- billion dollars in 1940 dollars -- developing the norden bombsight.

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de beroemde uitspraak van norden luidt: "voor we die bommenrichter hadden, misten de bommen hun doel meestal op anderhalve kilometer na, of meer."

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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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