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  1. It's not just the hulls. The USN needed all the machinery. The interior fittings. Bunks, storage lockers, refrigeration, desks, chart tables and God knows what else. Just how many light bulbs were there on a Cleveland much less an Essex. All of the electrical equipment. Generators, radios, radar etc. The armament. 20mm, 40mm, 5"38s, 6", 8", 12", 16" and the ammunition for each. Fuel. Av Gas. Food. Plates, bowls, cups, flatware. Uniforms. And we still haven't even gotten to the most important part of the ship yet. The crew. Basic training. Advanced training. Plus all the administrative work to keep track of just where all of these men went. Now add on everything the Army needed from small arms ammo to bridging equipment much less lend lease.
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  2. Your torpedo circles back around and sinks your sub. "A significant emotional event". Major Nicholas Moran "Once fired Mr. Torpedo is nobody's friend.' The Mighty (and exalted) Jingles Has anyone else noted that Drachinifel's videos are more entertaining when the subject matter is less than a stunning success
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  3. As the Chieftain recently stated "I'm not doing a Drach"
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  4. Neanderthals lived through numerous climate swings and in different environment so I doubt it was climate.
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  5. A rare combination of OHC and pushrod valve operation.
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  6. This fits into the cam type of barrel engine. Barrel engine designs have been around almost as long as conventional IC engines. Most proposals have been for aero engines. One attraction is smaller cross section. None of them ever went into production. Their one main enemy has always been heat. Now could this work as a range extender. Yes it likely could. But so could a small fixed speed gas turbine.
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  7. The decline of Christianity in West has left a void. And a void will be filled by something. And we know what is filling it.
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  8. Nice to see you included the official Gloster production drawings for the Meteor 😁
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  9. Metacentric Height. First thing that came to mind. Not an ocean liner (although the lakes do get violent) the poster child for metacentric height issues has to be the excursion vessel Eastland. To capsize at the dock in the Chicago River.
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  10. Dr Jerry Pournelle once commented that you cannot predict the future. But you can invent it. Pournelle did make one accurate prediction. On the Tom Snyder show he discussed how you would be able to buy a device that would allow to read books in electronic format. Down to how you be able to get them off of the net.
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  11. I vote for the water route. Boats have been around a long time. But who ever reached the Americas first it wasn't like they just packed their bags and decided to settle somewhere new. Any migration was likely a slow process that saw family groups split off when their numbers grew too large to be supported by their normal range. But there is one thing that may have speeded migrations along the way. If hunters were following seals or walrus into their summer feeding grounds then they could have noticed one population headed back the other way in fall. I suspect that a lot of the evidence of early human inhabitation of the Americas is under anywhere from 100 meters to 130 meters of water. Also there could have been early groups that died out for one reason or another. Where did the these people come from? The obvious answer of course is Northeast Siberia. The supposed genetic evidence for a southern route across the Pacific. I don't buy it. It's too far and any landfalls along the way are simply too tough of an environment. One possible route I could see having taken place by accident is from West Africa if there were coastal people that were fishing off shore and got swept out to sea due to bad weather. It's a long shot. Plus it would have to be a breeding population. The third possibility is along the fringe of the sea ice in the North Atlantic. The only way this could happen IMO is if a population in Western Eurasia was habitually hunting seals seasonally and wound up following the sea life down into the Maritimes or along the East Coast. The similarity between Clovis and Solutrean lithic point technology is intriqueing but not totally convincing
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  12. One thing that kind of surprises me is that no one to my knowledge ever tried building a pushrod V-8 with a camshaft for each side. I know that both GM and Chrysler messed around with two cam blocks where one cam was above the other. One advantage of a twincam pushrod block with a cam for each bank is the pushrod would be extremely short compared to a normal pushrod layout. There is one production engine I know of that used pushrod with the cam mounted high in the block. Those were built by Renault. In the 80s i had an 18i wagon that used the engine. Plus it actually was a hemi! The cam drives aren't going to be anymore complicated than any other vee type OHC engine. Think of them kind of as an Under Head Cam Engine.
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  13. Then in the early 70s Olds was working on the 4 valve heads for the 454. Both pushrod and DOHC
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  14. Is the United States the greatest country? Was it ever the greatest country? Two loaded questions. The answers of which tell you more about the person giving the answer than the country in question. The answer to the question is of course never simple. As a nation the US has failed to live up to the platitudes of the Declaration and its Constitution in many ways. But it must also be looked at as a nation created in a period of time where certain attitudes were commonly held. Over time we have become truer to those ideals. But our enemies today. Our own home grown enemies would tear the whole structure down because the roof has a few leaks. To me the question of whether the US is worth saving lies in the fact that so many people across the world seek to come here. America still really is the land of opportunity. A place where you can re-invent yourself. Is everyone going to succeed? Unfortunately, no, of course not. Today we have activists and politicians that seem to be engaged in legislating "success". The recent effort in California that mandated a raise of the minimum wage in fast food restaurants to $20 an hour is one example. Laws such as these will generally fail as prices will rise and business will shed employees in favor either fewer employees that work full time or increased automation. One reason these laws fail is because the law makers generally have no idea how businesses are run. The first thing a business has to do is provide a goods or service that people want. Second it has to make a profit doing it. If it doesn't that business won't be around very long and any employees will be looking for new jobs. Enough businesses fail without legislative hurdles. The other big enemy we face is the idea of equality of outcome. It simply cannot happen. Or be legislated to happen. Human beings are born with different strengths, different weaknesses and different personalities. Some are gifted intellectually, some aren't. Some are born that they can have great physucal strength, some aren't. Some are born that they have a drive to succeed. Most aren't. All we can do as a society to ensure anything like equality of outcome is ensure that every child has the opportunity to obtain an education up to a certain basic level. One can gain an education. One cannot be given an education. One cannot recieve an education. One can only be given a chance to gain an education. Today our education system is broken. For the amount if money our education system recieves each year one would think we have the best educated students in the world. Saddly we don't. And more money is not going to fix it. The cry for more money for education began in the wake of Sputnik. And it has necer stopped. Yet the quality of our K thru 12 graduates has continued to slip. That colleges need to have remedial courses tells you all you really need to know.
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  15. I used to work for a company that manufactures machinery for waste treatment plants. The owner says it smells like money. Plus it's a growth industry. Every year there are more people. They all poop. And something has to be done with it.
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  16. I rebuild industrial centrifuges for waste treatment, oil recovery and other operations. During dis-assembly when we take the screws holding a component on they are cleaned immediately and then bagged with the bag labeled with the job #, which end of the unit, the related component, the size of the screw and how many screws. The same gets done with all the mechanical or electrical components. These then go into a parts box along with the related inspection paper work. Assembly drawings, inspection forms, damage reports
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  17. Shameless book plug for a friend. November's Fury by Micheal Schumacher. No, not that Micheal Schumacher.
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  18. Sir, today you get an A+ (or full marks) for your Japanese pronunciation. To my knowledge Japanese is normally pronounced just how it is spelled. And no l don't speak Japanese. But after reading Clavel's Shogun twice I understood the portions of the book that were in Japanese with no problems. The photo at the 5:40 mark. Now if somebody had just "accidently" fired the far left barrel of the 40mm Bofors. As an aside. I wonder if anyone ever gave thought to the use of the Bofors 400mm in the role of a direct fire support weapon for land use.
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  19. I used to work in an automotive plant body shop before I got my apprenticeship. Every once in a while there'd be a 3 door come off of the body bucks. Depends on the car and the short metal differences. Four door to two door hardtop? I'm not sure it would work as well. Four door to two door post? On a unit body the body structure is bound to be stronger. Does the two door use the same B pillar? I would think so simply from the economics of production. The rear quarter panels are different for sure. Sometimes the roofs are to but that probably more in the hardtops. If you want to go to a two door why not go pickup style. Can't be many Dart or Valiant pickups around. Although a wagon is usually a good starting point. In the past when the second generation Intrepid came out I did some sketches of a two door conversion with a mid engined drive train. Now that would be unusual. Like Hot Rod used to say 30 years ago DARE TO BE DIFFERENT
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  20. There is one "bombing" operation the USAAC carried out on US soil that I know of. Dropping food to isolated Navajo families after a very heavy blizzard. And Ed, if you're ever this side of the pond make three aviation museums must sees. The Air and Space in DC, the USAF at Wright-Patterson and the USN at Pensecola.
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  21. Any body armor before being fielded should have to be used by the approving officers over a 30 day period for the amount of time it is expected to be used by troops in the field. And in the circumstances it is expected to used in
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  22. I can just see Tony in a tweed cap and scarf.
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  23. Water craft in one form or another go a long way back.
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  24. Putting large numbers of offensive or defensive missiles into a few targets is very risky. One aspect of the concept is that arming a few hulls could pretty much take all of the missiles the US Navy had at the time. I still yhink the concept of a ship designed to take morular systems makes a certain amount of sense. The ships crew operates the ship and its organic helicopters. Crew asigned to the modules operate the modules. Most modules would be likely be air defense ones equipped with SM-1 missiles. Additional modules could be oriented towards ASW, drone operations or even to provide artillery support for Amphibious operations. If the ship pulls into port with an empty missile magazine off load the that module and swap it out for a full one. If the ship gets assigned to support an Amphibious goup replace two modules with modules equipped with 155mm guns
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  25. Sir, how dare you burn wood releasing CO2 just for your own comfort. Greta will be coming for you. 🙄
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  26. I knew that observation car was from the Hiawatha's right off the bat. It really is too bad one of the steamers from the Hiawatha's were not preserved.
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  27. The four barrel most likely works a lot better. But triple Webers would look way cooler
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  28. 120,000 years ago just what were the climatic conditions world wide. Was the Earth in period of Glacial Advance or an Interglacial. This factors into just how humans (1) would have reached Australia/Sahul and when. And this is important because people would not just have sprinted south. One of the big factors is sea crossings. Some obiviously along the Wallace Line appear to have been deep water channels even at glacial maximums. Others would have been dry land. Any deep water crossing implies one of two things. Either accidental drifting of small groups clinging to vegetation swept out to sea. Or the existence of some sort of water craft ranging from rafts to dugout canoes. Just how far bavk do water craft go? 1) How do we define human. Homo Sapiens? Inluding Neanderthals, Denisovans and Erectus?
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  29. There is talk on YouTube by an archeologist from Texas. Dub Wilson iirc. He mentions one thing that hascommonly been found on n early sites has been tutles. He had a thought that if caught live they could just be set on there backs as a way of keeping fresh meat around. Early inhabitants of the Americas were likely opportunists as much as anything else. I think certain high risk game such as Mammoth and Giant Bison may have been hunted more for their uses as hides for clothing and shelters than their meat. What would a small extended family group do with a whole Mammoth(1). How large were groups of people 10k years ago on the Plains. 1) A Mammoth kill must have attracted scavengers from miles around the kill site.
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  30. The reason its single shot. Because you never want to fire a second one 😂
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