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The Drydock - Episode 118
🕑 Added 2020-10-30 22:00:01 +0000 UTC
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The Legacy
Relatable. I love them too.
Vintage Car History
Yes, they do. All five of the cats in my house hate me. Just ask them- they will say, 'Meow'.
I am sure they hate you to.
Oldcityguy
In DK Brown's Nelson to Vanguard, he comments that US Navy power plants were more efficient and powerful, with much higher pressure boilers and turbines designed to efficient use said steam. He suggests without futher elaboration that this was due to The US Navy buying the power plants from General Electric, Westinghouse, and Allis Chalmers instead of ship-builders or goverment agencies. Do you have any further insight about this?
Vintage Car History
I hate cats.
Tristan Dailey
For the last question on Titanic, there is a very helpful livestream by Titanic Honor and Glory discussing the collision.
Bjarki Hilmarsson
Since you're an engineer, here's a numberphile video on calculating bomb blast radius :) https://youtu.be/SUnAvL-ThMs
John Hargreaves
Interesting discourse on blast wave effects; interestingly enough a French sound engineer in the 1920s to the 1950s developed a high energy low frequency weapon that caused serious disruption to the bodies organs (useless in use as it was difficult to protect the users and the target to be protected from the effect, the inventor died from its effect), therefore the effect of blast waves should also have some understanding of the very low frequency effects on humans of the blast waves which causes rupture of organs. kind regards.
John Hargreaves
Oxygen is not the real problem and until CO2 scrubbers were invented sbmarine operations were severly limited - Drebbel probably understand this and would considered a rudimentary CO2 scrubber.
HMS Fear God And Dread Nought
My grandfather was drafted to fight in Vietnam. When he was loading onto the bus to go to basic training, a petty officer got on the bus, read a list of names, his was one of them, said, "Congratulations, you're in the Navy, get on the bus behind you." So his Vietnam tour of duty was aboard the USS Murray, serving in the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean.
