Comments by "Dave Sisson" (@Dave_Sisson) on "Drach's F.A.Q. - Just what are those lines on battleships?" video.

  1. I have this image of them choosing the crew they would most like to get rid of, if the ship sinks, So the captain would be an irritating smart arse, the officers would be an idiot who somehow fluked their way through naval college and a bully who persecuted people at naval college but never got caught in the act. The CPO would be a formerly capable man, who appears to be going senile, etc.
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  2. I was a corporate librarian for big companies in the city until I (and hundreds like me) got "Googled out of a job" early this century. These days I index the occasional book as I remember what I was taught during my four years at university. I would be happy to produce a proper index with a proper thesaurus for free, IF Drach asked me to and was prepared to answer half a dozen short questions about what he wanted to be. But it would take me quite a few months.
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  3. I do some historical work on ski lifts and I thought they were the only transport that measured speed in metres per second? (They range from 6.5 m/s down to 0.8 m/s.)
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  4.  @camberweller  TYPO. ...what he wanted IT to be.
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  5. Drach has ruined the answer I often give to people who ask what they were... They are oars, because ships in that period often ran out of coal and they had to have back up propulsion. I'm not sure if anyone believed me though.
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