Diesels. There is no way that ship can go that fast in that wind with that much sail area. Even with very efficient wing sails. Captain Technicality says it’s a sail-assisted vessel. And it is most definitely not the first.
I was wondering about that, too. Thank goodness we have a boat expert here.
Wind power is a little like solar in that the available energy density is relatively low*. If you’re really going to power a boat with sails, you both need a lot of sail area and you need to optimize the hull shape for low resistance. Both of those tend to make the boat less useful for carrying either people or cargo at scale.
It's not even a real ship....yet. Just some fancy drawings and CGI.
He does come in handy more than you’d expect!
I could trot out my "solar powered clothes dryer" story again... for at least the third time!
That's not woke. Wokism is saying "The white man is evil and invented slavery." Old Star Trek never did that.Upfront, I see NO Star Trek spin-off's comparing to the original series. That said, using your 'venacular', the original series was "woke" at the the time! Most episodes were social commentary applicable to this day. A black woman kissing Kirk? First time ever in TV!
Or perhaps you simply look past the episode "Let that Be Your Last Battlefield" (featuring the late, great Frank Gorshin), which was indicative of the stupid racial tensions in or country at the time (100 years after 750K plus people gave their lives to "resolve" the issue!)
I don't think you know anything about the original series, Gene Roddenberry or what he was saying at the time!
Oh, well, if that's what wokism is then darn near no one is woke. Because virtually no one saying that. And anyone who tells you that lots of people are saying that is lying to you.
I am glad you haven’t had to sit through a DEI class.
Ok, I usually don't do this on the LOL thread. But I must, as I agree with you. The problem is that these idiotic splinter viewpoints on both sides are not only given megaphones, but as well use lying and deceptive tactics (is there a difference?), partial truths, and "newspeak" to "prove" their point.
I think I need to hear that one…
Thanks, truly hilarious!
I have.
I teach Orgo. Vollhardt and Schore is a pretty tough text. Right, @CI(VII)
"Nerd sniping" has entered my everyday lexicon. Anytime I encounter a technical problem that I can't let go until I've solved it, I tell my wife I was nerd sniped, and she understands.
At my old office, the younger engineers had the Answer Triangle, which was the corridor between my cube and those of two other more senior engineers. Standard practice with a difficult problem was to stand in the middle of the Answer Triangle and (in a voice slightly louder than normal conversation) say "I'm having real trouble with Problem X and I don't know how to solve it." About 5 minutes of discussion would ensure, and about 90% of the time the problem would be solved. I knew about it, but I'm not entirely sure that the other two knew what was going on.
Turns out, that's an extraordinarily difficult problem. There was extensive discussion of it on the XKCD forum when that comic came out. Someone eventually solved it using a 2D Fourier transform; I'm quite familiar with the Fourier transform, and I have no idea either how that solution worked or why that transform would be involved. Since the 2D transform is used mainly in image processing, I suppose some insight came from that field. (I frequented that forum at the time.)
Turnabout is fair play. Were they aware that you were using their own trick on them?
Link please, I know an electrical engineer who’s favorite math thing is the Fourier transform that would love that.
