Comments by "TheEvertw" (@TheEvertw) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. I liked that detail. "There's curls of smoke coming out of various apertures, but no-one really knows what happened within the turret except that it stopped firing". Rest in Peace, gentlemen.
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  2. "Uncomfortably close", "Somewhat pedestrian". Brilliant.
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  3. ​ @MrWeezy312  They are so stupid. Every sailor, of every age (even antiquity) knew the earth was round, for the simple reason they could see the curve as they pulled out of port. They would soon be unable to see the piers while they could easily see the buildings higher up hills. And every sailor that tried to navigate the oceans knew you needed a globe to plot a straight course to your destination, and that maps are always compromises that are either true in direction or distance, but not both. Many are true in neither.
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  4.  @kielbasamage  Except if you are super rich. Then they will forget about you even when the courts find your tax reports were fraudulent.
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  5. ​ @brotlowskyrgseg1018  Yeah. The flat earth hoax has absolutely nothing to do with facts. They believe it because they choose to believe it, and no fact or argument is going to change that.
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  6. The engagement with TF34 might have been so decisive that it would have ended the war almost one year early. Without its surface fleet, the Japanese Home Islands would have been open to devastating attacks.
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  7. I love the stories from this battle. Proper David - Goliath. My favorite: "They are getting away!"
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  8. Thanks for discussing how much the fire would have plunged. I had always had a gut feeling that the plunging fire theory did not hold water. These are long guns, not howitzers, so the arriving angle would not be very much higher than the angle at which a round was fired. It would also have meant that the designers of the armour belt were incompetent idiots, which is not likely. Being a wet ship that is heavier than originally designed would have exacerbated the depth of the trough, making the final scenario more likely: the designers would have assumed the trough would have been smaller.
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  9. Make that A post-war De Ruyter. There have been three post-war De Ruyters up to now; it is one of those names that is re-used as soon as a ship goes out of the inventory in memory of our most famous admiral.
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  10.  @slytlygufy  You get what you pay for.
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  11. As long as it lands
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  12. The main reason that people are sucked down with a ship is, of course, that most people are inside the ship and unable to reach an exit. But I fully agree with your analysis. The same effect can be seen horizontally when water flows past an obstruction like a stone. Depending on the size of the stone, and the volume of water, the eddy current that flows back to the stone (i.e. down in case of a sinking) can be strong enough to keep objects trapped behind the stone. But I love your practical demonstration with the food colouring.
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  13.  @planereality3675  You are very rude, mate, and also dead wrong. I understand that a favorite idea with flat-earthers is "if the earth is round, why do navigators use maps". The answer is of course that maps are easier to store than globes for the same level of detail. However, every navigator will tell you that maps are compromises that try to optimize for either true directions (Mercator projection), true distances, true surfaces, or true shapes. Maps can never get all those aspects right because the earth is a sphere, and you can only navigate accurately over long distances if you account for that. E.g. the Mercator projection is popular with navigators because it gives a correct heading for sailing from point A to point B. But the scale of that map is not constant: a specific distance on that map represents different distances on earth depending on latitude. Now I ask you, if the earth were flat, why would there be different projections for maps? And why can those projections be explained using a sphere? And you are wrong about globes never being used on ships: there have been globes made for navigators, such as those by (again) Mercator. While globes are difficult to use for actual navigation, they are very good for doing sanity checks on your calculations.
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  14. "Some very, very unfortunate snipers" Some might have actually preferred being evaporated in an instant to dying slowly from a gangrene-infected gunshot wound...
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  15.  @planereality3675  Globes were first used by sailors. Ever wondered why every captain's cabin contained a globe? Now you know.
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  16. You forgot that add that after the humiliating defeat of the largest part of its surface fleet, the Japanese War cabinet committed ritual sepuku, and the Emperor, left without the will to fight, started negotiating in earnest for peace. This single, decisive victory shortened the war by almost 1 year. If only Halsey...
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  17. "Hydrodynamics ... depressing" Electro-magnetics: hold my beer.
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  18. Awesome story! Someone should make a movie out of it!
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  19. Good point about the navigational problems. Add to that the radio silence that is maintained at most times, it is amazing that any planes got home at all.
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  20. Thank you for this episode.
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  21. I love applied science naval history!
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  22. The people in the USA pay too little in taxes. That is why there are no budgets to do "nice" things. They struggle to keep the bridges safe, for pete's sake.
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  23. Thank you for explaining the function of the bulbous bow: that has always been a mystery to me.
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  24. Amazing that for the same power output as a 200-300 kg modern outboard engine, you needed 275 TONS in 1820. That is progress.
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  25. Always amazed by American arrogance. "We can't do that, so it must be impossible". These were the same A-holes who flatly denied there were problems with their own torpedoes in spite of the feedback they got from the front. These incompetent idiots in the top of the BuOrd got a lot of people killed that didn't need to.
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  26. Considering that the map of the French wrecks at Las Aves has the compas oriented wrongly by about 90 degrees (the island is at the south end of the lagoon, not the south-west end as indicated, and oriented east-west instead of north-south), I'd say the Master Navigator was at error. Presumably that map was part of the official inquest, so using his information.
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  27. Great video! Love your understated humour.
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  28. I keep forgetting that these ships were designed as move and counter-move on what the other navies in the world were doing. That is very different from modern ships, which are designed mainly as platforms to house as many as budget allows of the latest & greatest weapon and sensor systems. Very interesting to hear the various design goals for these ships "built as response to the xxx class in the yyy navy".
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  29. A great example of the endless corruption of the English (semi-)government. Nothing has changed since then.
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