Nice video although I can't agree with all of it's points. I think a fully functioning and believable universe can and should have both shiny and new as well as old and used. His example of shiny was Queen Amidala's ship from episode one, it's the vessel of a head of state, of course it's going to be shiny, just like we drive our President around in a limo, not a beat up AMC Gremlin.
Likewise I think Star Wars can be both on the frontier as well as in the centers of civilization and government, it would get boring if you just limited yourself to dusty plains and hives of scum and villainy.
The other two I agree with though, I think it was a mistake to introduce midichlorians and of course Han shot first, that just goes without saying.

A quick search tells me that this is a model of a hotel ship, intended to be moored next to offshore platforms as a replacement for semi-submersible vessels. Stability is a requirement to ensure the safety of the connection between the platform and the ship itself.

Apparently, those waves are generated inside U-shaped compartments (side-bottom-side) within the hull of the ship, with air valves on top as a regulator for the motion of the water.

I wonder how much weight you have to transfer around to counteract the pitch and roll, how much energy it takes to initiate and maintain/control the interior waves and if malfunctioning valves could actually destabilize the ship.

All about the FLIP ship. It just turned 50! has been added as a related post - related requested by deathcow.

FLIP ship half sunken research vessel has been added as a related post - related requested by deathcow.

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I started watching the video before I read the description, so I didn't know it was supposed to flip.
I kept wondering "what the hell are all the crew so happy for? They just lost a multi-million dollar vessel and it looks like it's going to capsize right on top of them!"

If shipping companies such as Maersk were required to uphold proper standards for the deconstruction/decommissioning of cargo vessels they own, they'd outsource it and charter ships from third parties who, in return, cannot be held accountable.

You can see it already in the cases of the Maersk Vancouver, the Maersk Valletta and the Maersk Vigo. Those three were chartered by Maersk, and when the contract ran out while they were still at sea, the ship-owner bounced. Poor fuckers aboard were left to their own devices.

I dunno man, 140 mm Ogon launchers 2 x 22 with 132 rockets or a 30 mm AK-630 Air Defense Gun Mount 2 x 6 with 6000 rounds makes for a pretty robust Navy vessel insurance policy, besides that...... seamen are safer on beetches !

No insurance on government property! Certainly no insurance on Navy vessels...

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I hope Phelps bursts a blood vessel when he sees this.

Exposure to gravity, or lack of it, will eventually cause changes in the body as it evolves. Not the long heads and bodies vaire2ube alludes to but other things, like maybe a resistance to osteoporosis.

If you imagine everyone on earth suddenly has to live in a weightless environment I'm sure you can imagine how it would help some people and damage others. Those with dangerously high blood pressure could end up bursting a blood vessel in the brain, killing them, whereas others with dangerously low blood pressure would survive better. Weightlessness would lead to selection favouring low blood pressure in this instance. I'm not sure if this exact example would happen, but I'm sure you can imagine that making a huge change to the environment such as removing the effect of gravity would have a profound effect on our bodies, and that effect could then lead to natural selection and evolution.

See those two haunchin' CAT generator-lookin' boxes sitting next to the turret in that video of the one on the deck of that vessel? Instant wattage. Hospital emergency generators for ex., use way bigger diesel engines. I'm guessing this thing uses a similar set-up, and you could pack a lot of generator in the cabin of that modified jet.

What, exactly was the plan once they arrived at the overturned vessel?

How do you KNOW?

Physics is something that is only beginning to be understood. The Laws of Physics are subjective to change. We will probably find out soon whether the speed of light is a constant it may be that the speed of light is not a constant.

My point is, is that we have barely even tipped our toes into the way everything works, while I trust science much more than any religion I am not arrogant enough to think that there are fundamental aspects of reality that we simply do not understand on any level.

Another point is, if you ever take DMT. Most people have no words to describe what they see. As stupid monkey humans we have defined vague terms to mean something. Even if someone thinks a DMT experience is spiritual, so what? Because it is chemicals in the brain? What basis do you have to say that having a spiritual experience is not considering it is based upon the science of the Universe? Spiritual, God, dark matter, death, even consciousness are terms that ill defined with monkey brains.

I think you believe that "spiritual" must mean dogmatic religion. Science in itself can be "spiritual", contemplating the Universe can be "spiritual". I repeat that term because at this point in our culture-less society that term is taboo. I know some people consider FUCKING to be "spiritual". I am not implying that I believe in any religion, I do not, at all. DMT is like experiencing the Universe in your own head. It is the one and only experience that is convincing enough to say that we know very little, it is the most humbling and powerful experience there is. And if there is one using endogenous chemicals, more powerful, I do not want to even know about it, myself.

I cannot figure out what you are trying to debate? That there is no science behind DMT? That there is nothing to DMT? That "spiritual" does not exist? What is your point of this continued conversation? That you are scared of psychedelics? Why do you think such an experience would have been programmed into our head, the most powerful experience a person can have? How do you think DNA evolved over so many years, you ever read Francis Cricks, who helped found DNA, what his theory for DNA was? Panspermia. Yeah. The Universe is a lot trickier than just our basic Science.

One thing is clear, you are never going to know what I am talking about until you have that experience. Why not? It has never killed anyone... you will think you have died because what you are witnessing is alien and defies explanation. It will be so awesome, that you will not even care that you died or think you have died. People should do it, even if it is just to be in awe of what your own vessel is capable of doing.

Not the Largest Man Made Non Nuclear Explosion
Halifax has you beat.
The Halifax Explosion occurred on the morning of Thursday, December 6, 1917. SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship fully laden with wartime explosives, collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the Narrows, a strait connecting the upper Halifax Harbour to Bedford Basin. Approximately twenty minutes later, a fire on board the French ship ignited her volatile cargo, causing a cataclysmic explosion that devastated the Richmond District of Halifax. Approximately 2,000 people were killed by debris, fires, and collapsed buildings, and it is estimated that nearly 9,000 others were injured.The blast was the largest man-made explosion prior to the development of nuclear weapons with an equivalent force of roughly 2.9 kilotons of Trinitrotoluene (TNT). In a meeting of the Royal Society of Canada in May 1918, Dalhousie University's Professor Howard L. Bronson estimated the blast at some 2.4 million kilograms of high explosive.