Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "The Drydock - Episode 208 (Part 2)" video.

  1. 1:38:02 - And you can't try to get around this by grinding or powdering the coal to make it burn faster, because then you're essentially turning your engine rooms into giant fuel-air bombs (since powdered coal, unlike misted oil, doesn't tend to recoalesce if it gets loose - it stays powder, which is great news if you're trying to blow the ship up, but not so great if you're on the ship potentially getting blown up).
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  2. 1:33:28 - I dunno; I actually quite like how the Nelsons look, I think maybe because having the three triple turrets clustered together forward of the superstructure gives an immediate visual impression of a very concentrated mass of raw striking power, or possibly just because I like seeing like things clustered with like. Maybe the ship-aesthetics part of my mind works differently from most peoples'?
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  3. I don't know if adverse yaw in airplanes is actually related to the ship phenomenon, as adverse yaw is due to the differential drag produced by deflecting the ailerons (which are something ships usually don't have, as they generally turn just by using the rudder to - eventually - yaw the ship into the turn, whereas airplanes almost always turn by rolling, with the rudder mainly being used for things like countering the thrust differential from an engine failure, aligning the plane with the runway after touching down in a crosswind landing, or dodging unexpected obstacles during your takeoff and landing roll), but it's actually worse in airplanes, as it actually limits your maximum control authority rather than just causing a delay in control response, and, for some airplanes under some circumstances, can completely negate your ability to turn the plane in the normal manner (necessitating various interesting alternative methods of control to get around this problem).
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  4. 1:48:18 - I am very disappointed that they didn't include an option for nuclear propulsion.
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