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09-08-2007, 10:56 AM | #31 |
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Cool. Thanks for coming out of lurk mode to post that link. I wonder how the first people to build one thought of doing it? It seems like nobody understood how they worked until a few decades after they started making them.
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09-08-2007, 01:44 PM | #32 |
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This is the Jap Battleship Yamamoto, with it's 18 inch guns, sunk in 1945. I don't know why they were using a small bulbous bow, 40 years before the effects on speed and efficiency were really understood. Maybe for ramming whales.
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09-08-2007, 03:55 PM | #33 |
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Does that work for whales too? Because thats what I thought of when I saw this pic:
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09-08-2007, 05:49 PM | #34 |
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are we back to whale penis?
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