Apart from perhaps the risk of asphyxiating first or being blown away by the escaping gasses probably yes on a good day with a trailing wind. Kubrick was meticulous about getting the details right in filming 2001.
The zero gravity sequences in the shuttle were particularly well done.
ISTR some of the stop motion sequences and heads up displays took almost forever to film because he wanted it all tack sharp. A decade and a half later the humble Beebon could do it in realtime a la Elite.
You wouldn't lose 90% on a normal commercial airline as that would require flying at more than 50000ft. 75% is closer for around the high 30's.
I've met people like that. Fruitcakes is too polite a word for them.
This cap; does it affect the dark money flow? Only, I'm thinking, if you were to take the dark money and expose it to light for a nanosecond, you'd be able to regenerate the darkcashflow and recharge your pockets with dark money, thus creating a Dark Ponzi Scheme.
smaller than Tom's."
Jim was jealous but he was pretty.
I have never seen any ship with a reversed wheel. Not even historic replicas.
x-posted to uk.rec.sailing...
Andy
Thereby creating a Pyramid of the Dark. I wonder if it sharpens knives, too?
smaller than Tom's."
Envious rather than jealous?
Indeed. What changed were the orders given, not the direction of action.
Ian
On 11/11/2011 23:34, Andy Champ wrote: :
Can't say I have ever seen a replica Viking longboat with a wheel. ;-)
Not x-posted.
me neither
Didn't they have a *steering board* (in Danish) and hence starboard?
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Close, but the derivation apparently is Old English.
The modern form is the tiller which of course continues to turn you in the opposite direction to the movement of the tiller.
A few early cars were steered by means of a tiller. That must have been fun.
Anyone remember BEV trucks? IIRC they had a lever that moved up and down for steering.
Chris
Doesn't the officer of the watch say "Steer 200" to the helmsman, so if you're going due south that means the same as if he said "Starboard 20"?
As I said, I was quoting a report, on a TV program about the sinking of the Titanic. A couple of other points:
My brother-in-law has sailed all over the world, and around it, I'll ask him if he has ever heard of this theory.
Exactly. And there is at least one confirmed (as opposed to apocryphal) case of this causing the loss of a ship - in the 1880s the German Navy switched from old style to new style helm orders, and it was confusion of the two conventions which led to the armoured ships KAISER and GROSSER KURFURST colliding, and the latter sinking with heavy loss of life.
not according to Wiki it wasn't.
So before the change, in order to turn to starboard, which even then required the wheel to be turned to the right, as now, the order was then 'Turn to port"?
Think of the way you move a tiller to turn to starboard - that was the old-pattern convention (dating back to when ships were steered by whipstaff). The change to giving orders in terms of the way the wheel needed to be turned came from the second half of the 19th century onwards, and could lead to confusion if a newly-trained officer gave a hurried order to a veteran helmsman, or an old-school officer barked incautiously at a new-trained helm..
Correction to earlier post: The rammer in the collision was the KONIG WILHELM (not the KAISER). The rammee was the GROSSER KURFURST, as stated. The latter sank. Witness accounts attest to the confusion over helm orders (as covered in several contemporary accounts).
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