The Drydock - Episode 075
Added 2020-01-04 10:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Given the Patreon and youtube channel subscription are increasing, and the fact that Drach has a finite amount of time, I think we will have to accept that there is only three realistic solutions 1) the patreon question will need to have some sort of selection mechanism (perhaps a lottery with significantly more chance of being selected than the non-patreons), the tier of patreons for a 1 question/month will have to go up, or the quality of the answers will need to be abbreviated or otherwise reduced in quality. These are not palatable choices, but short of us cloning Drach I think it is the realistic options we have. Of course, we Patreon subscribers can help too. I for one will refrain from asking niche hypothetical questions which will only interest myself (no more Federation Galaxy class vs Romulan warbirds for me :P).
Colonel Cheng
2020-01-17 19:19:05 +0000 UTCMatt, With respect, the numbers don't work. It is a matter of 'proportion'. He's got 460 patrons. 98K subscribers. Plus non-subscribing viewers. I speculate that they ALL ask questions. As it stands now, with a monthly Pat-Q&A, the numbers are already skewed towards the patrons. 25% of DDock time is spent serving less than .5% of his audience. That is why I am 'content' with the current setup. And since my questions tend to be "How many oars does it take to propel an Essex-class carrier?" I'm happy to hear the questions of others. All that being said, your suggestion might well prove to be the correct solution.
Kevin Kennelly
2020-01-05 11:45:48 +0000 UTCI think Drach should simply two full Drydocks a month as Patreon only questions...Why not?
Matt Blom
2020-01-05 08:16:07 +0000 UTC2:14:01 "I might have to find some other way of dealing with these Patreon questions." As a patron, I am more than content with the time you put into Pat-Q&A. I find it ironic that you launched this channel with 'The Five Minute Guide' and now you're producing "two-and-a-bit hour" segments. Sisyphus much?
Kevin Kennelly
2020-01-04 16:37:12 +0000 UTCRegarding the waterline plate: I've been on dozens of ships including the Missouri (during combat) and have never seen such a placard. It would have no use to the crew and any crewmember knows what decks are above or below the water line simply by the deck level number. It was, in my opinion, put there once the Iowa became a museum ship to let the tourists go, 'Oooooooh! We're below the water line! isn't that neat?"
Vintage Car History
2020-01-04 12:18:54 +0000 UTCBarnes Wallace worked for the same naval, airship and aircraft company I did (admittedly me much later) in the company's design office in Barrow (where he work on airship design and the wellington bomber) there is a blue plaque and some record of his work. The bouncing bomb was originally designed (in the golf ball form) to attack the submarine bunkers in the French Atlantic ports as the bunkers were resistant to normal bombs. The idea was to skip the bombs using fast attack bombers and skip the bombs through the entrance of the submarine bunkers at their weakest point destroying the contents.
John Hargreaves
2020-01-04 11:53:16 +0000 UTCBetter... Stronger... Faster... Napoleonic Daft Punk?
Vintage Car History
2020-01-04 11:14:05 +0000 UTC
