The Drydock - Episode 118

Relatable. I love them too.

The Legacy

Yes, they do. All five of the cats in my house hate me. Just ask them- they will say, 'Meow'.

Vintage Car History

I am sure they hate you to.

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?

Oldcityguy

I hate cats.

Vintage Car History

For the last question on Titanic, there is a very helpful livestream by Titanic Honor and Glory discussing the collision.

Tristan Dailey

Since you're an engineer, here's a numberphile video on calculating bomb blast radius :) https://youtu.be/SUnAvL-ThMs

Bjarki Hilmarsson

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.

John Hargreaves

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.