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[lustindarkness]

What's the boiling point of Water in F?

Whatever it is outside right now, at least it feels that way today. :melt:

[Grey Fox]

Thank you.

[Jacob]

[11B4V]

Someone has a problem and they don't realise it.

Shut up Siege. I know you know at first glance.

[celedhring]

You know what struck me from that graphic? The fact that WWI battleships were such death traps compared to age of sail vessels. If you look at the losses per ship, in older battles those ships never lose much of their compliment %-wise, while all big ships lost in Jutland sank with all hands.

EDIT: I just checked and apparently the British didn't lose any ship in the other battles, so seems I may have jumped to conclusions. Cool drawing anyway.

[Admiral Yi]

You know what struck me from that graphic? The fact that WWI battleships were such death traps compared to age of sail vessels. If you look at the losses per ship, in older battles those ships never lose much of their compliment %-wise, while all big ships lost in Jutland sank with all hands.

EDIT: I just checked and apparently the British didn't lose any ship in the other battles, so seems I may have jumped to conclusions. Cool drawing anyway.

I think a function of faulty flash guards  on the British ammo hoists and not something generalizable to all battleships of the era.

[CountDeMoney]

Someone has a problem and they don't realise it.

Shut up Siege. I know you know at first glance.

OMG JAM IS WHAT YOU PUT ON TOAST

[MadBurgerMaker]

[lustindarkness]

I'll check my coffee tomorrow morning with a thermometer.

150° F. Too hot to drink more than a sip for a few minutes, so just perfect.

168°, a bit hot.

157° just perfect. I'm getting back in bed enjoy this one.

[Josquius]

Trying to setup what should be a simple modal on my website.
Trouble is.... I have  the rest of the site set up with a floating left division and a right division. You know, one of those trendy fancy pants parallax one pages.
For some reason this means every single existing example of a modal I can find on the internet doesn't work for me.

[MadImmortalMan]

You know what struck me from that graphic? The fact that WWI battleships were such death traps compared to age of sail vessels. If you look at the losses per ship, in older battles those ships never lose much of their compliment %-wise, while all big ships lost in Jutland sank with all hands.

EDIT: I just checked and apparently the British didn't lose any ship in the other battles, so seems I may have jumped to conclusions. Cool drawing anyway.

I think a function of faulty flash guards  on the British ammo hoists and not something generalizable to all battleships of the era.

They were loaded with men just to shovel coal, weren't they? Just having more crew would mean more deaths.

[Admiral Yi]

They were loaded with men just to shovel coal, weren't they? Just having more crew would mean more deaths.

Not totally clear on the relationship between your post and mine.  I was talking about a design flaw on British ships whereby a hit on a turret would in some cases send fire/explosion down the ammo hoist to the magazine, blowing it up.

[Josquius]

Think its just a case of what these metal ships were.
You're on the b3 floor and...no way in hell are you getting out quick as it goes down. Never been on a dreadnought but pre-dreadnoughts....quite a maze.
On a sailing ship on the other hand there are gun ports aplenty (given the size of a canon I guess they can fit a man?)

I really should visit the victory some day.

[MadImmortalMan]

Another thing I was told was that when a cannonball hit a wooden ship the splinters would explode into the interior like shrapnel. I assumed wooden ships would be more dangerous for that reason, but I suppose it's a lot harder to sink wood.