“Just because it looks taller, doesn’t mean most of the weight is up top”

“don’t spew BS without actually knowing the numbers.”

“Let’s say it’s like 4 inches higher, which seems kinda generous.”

Met a guy once who’s sole job as an AF reservist was to ferry Vipers. It sounded like a dream job. Just ferry a Viper from point A to point B. Sit in that place for a week or so, and ferry it back. Sometimes one way, but more often than not it was a round trip.

Yeah, that first sentence is a contradiction in its entirety. lol

It’s derogatory to very small population. Meanwhile to a giant population of people it’s just what they call these types of limes. The logic that terms that coincidentally offend should be avoided is absurd. Let’s rename fanny packs while we’re at it.

Try it in a Gin Gimlet.

“Joey Bosa is a walking Barstool Sports Instagram post”

I waited for the Xbox One S to go on sale, hit up Craigslist, and picked up a standard Xbox One with Kinect and 5 games for $140.

Keep fighting the zipper merge, folks. I’ll keep cruising along in the right lane and merging 50 cars ahead every time.

Color, yes, but location is pretty well understood.

You were obviously on an older ship. Modern freight vessels aren’t designed this way anymore. This is why you can manage to sail a triple-e class vessel with a crew of 13. And the trend is moving further in that direction. It’s easier, and cheaper, to increase reliability in design than it is to pay personnel to be on…

Ohh with secondary or even tertiary sensor input to support dead reckoning corrections to the IMU, then you can have a decently robust system (at least in the open ocean with minimal navigation hazards). Here navigation accuracy of 100 meters is perfectly fine (dead reckoning is highly susceptible to cumulative error…

“Automation won’t be able to reliably or cheaply do that soon, will it.”

My company does designs for ships, subs, and autonomous systems (surface, subsurface, and air vehicles). Believe me, the IMU drift issue will be around for a very long time. It’s one of our biggest challenges in the undersea environment.

Auto-reset circuit breakers are pretty common-place.

“I have been on a commercial vessel that lost it’s steering once. Oilfield work boat about 10 years ago. The crew fixed it without calling anyone in.”

You laugh, but the possibility exists. Navy ships are complex systems and inevitably some software or hardware will come from a foreign company. And what the item inevitably requires troubleshooting, someone will have to call them (although it’ll likely be someone ashore not a sailor). Generally speaking though, you…

IMUs are terrible ideas at sea. IMUs are great for short distances or short periods of time. The example your linked to for example can drift up to 10 degrees per hour. That’s terrible. Their are better IMUs in the industry, but they all have the same issue.

“Who fixes it if it breaks down in the middle of the ocean? Thing with having a Ships Engineer and their crew is that they can detect problems before they become major and do repairs while underway to reduce downtime.”