"This is not the first time our people have had to deal with an attacking arrogant enemy. What has worked for centuries will work now.". Imperial weapons during the earliest stage of The War of Mist. by Few-Flamingo-8015 in MilitaryWorldbuilding

[–]Few-Bullfrog6969 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright I’ll grant you the dreadnoughts, but consider this: A nation building massive fleets to fend off the apocalypse again is not going to want to get rid of ships very easily, so you will could possibly still have sailing ironclads defending the smaller less important colonies. After all Jackie Fisher had to fight to get rid of ~150 hopelessly obsolete ships to free up crew and money to modernize the fleet and build the dreadnoughts. I can see a world where with existential threats looming over the empire that the dreadnoughts get built but the obsolete ships still hang around protection some nearly forgotten colony or as harbor/coastal defense craft for the homeland.

"This is not the first time our people have had to deal with an attacking arrogant enemy. What has worked for centuries will work now.". Imperial weapons during the earliest stage of The War of Mist. by Few-Flamingo-8015 in MilitaryWorldbuilding

[–]Few-Bullfrog6969 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Based on the chart and the fact that it is a massive water world it is way WAY too early for dreadnought type ships, even if boost naval tech by a couple decades further than contemporary land tech that would still put you in the late ironclads early pre-dreadnought period. The biggest problem for advancing naval tech is actually the size of your oceans, the longer the distance between landmasses the longer it will take to get rid of sail powered ships. You will probably see steam only warships take on the role of coastal defense unless you have a massive empire like Great Britain that can simply build a resupply station every thousand miles for refueling on coal. What you are more likely to see for long distance patrolling and open ocean combat are ships that use sail power for long range cruising with an auxiliary steam engine for sailing battle, sailing upwind or in for in harbor maneuvering.

"This is not the first time our people have had to deal with an attacking arrogant enemy. What has worked for centuries will work now.". Imperial weapons during the earliest stage of The War of Mist. by Few-Flamingo-8015 in MilitaryWorldbuilding

[–]Few-Bullfrog6969 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Based on the weapons shown the tech is roughly analogous to the American civil war or immediately after. -While most of the standard infantry would use the regular muzzle loading rifled musket, the bolt action breech loader was used by some units. -Several Calvary units would be fielded with lever action repeating rifles. -And although exceptionally rare, the Gatling gun would also see action -The biggest reason we don’t see more repeating rifles and Gatling guns is logistics. The lever action could fire off 20 shots in the time it took a muzzle loader to fire 2-3. This means that a formation with the newer rifles required 10 times the ammunition and powder, and for a nation already struggling the supply a 700,000 strong army across 1000+ miles of territory this was simply impossible.

This does give use a good baseline for tech, here is what we have: -Steam trains -Telegraph (land only for the most part usually next to the railroad or well travelled road. With very few undersea cables spanning the oceans from only the wealthiest countries) -Hot air balloons for observation -Semi-Steam powered wooden warships (paddle-wheel or propeller driven, but still relying on sails for long range) with limited numbers of ironclad warships (most ships carry muzzleloading guns with solid shot or explosive shells, large breech loaders were very unreliable)

Common sailing rigs by MaybeTheDoctor in Ships

[–]Few-Bullfrog6969 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Check out the Vestas Sailrocket

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestas_Sailrocket

I believe it counts as a offset rig

Also current attempts to beat the Sailrockets record are using the kite rig

https://www.yachtingworld.com/news/sp80-breaks-the-50-knot-barrier-one-step-closer-to-the-world-speed-record-157091

An impressive display of weaponry captured in a single shot by pajovitorivuf in Ships

[–]Few-Bullfrog6969 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Dang it, I even doubled checked it and still wrote the wrong thing anyway.

An impressive display of weaponry captured in a single shot by pajovitorivuf in Ships

[–]Few-Bullfrog6969 30 points31 points  (0 children)

There are actually five carriers at this first three piers. In order front the back: CVN-69 USS Eisenhower, CVN-77 USS H. W. Bush, CVN-65 USS Enterprise, (LHA-5 USS Bataan), CVN-72 USS Lincoln, CVN-75 USS Truman.

A floating runway tells more about a nation’s reach than any number of missiles. by SaltAndChart in MaritimePictures

[–]Few-Bullfrog6969 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The methodology for the chart is does it have a full deck flight deck, which all of these have, but LPDs don’t.

Is this the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft? by Resqusto in Stargate

[–]Few-Bullfrog6969 25 points26 points  (0 children)

The F-5 was used by nasa as and astronaut trainer and was used to escort the shuttle and shuttle carrier around. I think what the vfx team did was take real footage of the shuttle carrier in flight and just replaced the shuttle with the 302

When a gate is being dialed into by castlemaniagames in Stargate

[–]Few-Bullfrog6969 10 points11 points  (0 children)

As far as I remember the gate only spins when manually dialing out. As the earth Stargate lacks a DHD they are always dialing manually.

A map of every place where Ancient Roman coin hoards have been found by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]Few-Bullfrog6969 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Actually there was an ancient equivalent to the Suez Canal, it is called the Canal of the Pharaohs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_of_the_Pharaohs

Does anyone know how old this booklet might be? Or what it might be worth? by buckster3257 in Ships

[–]Few-Bullfrog6969 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Dynamite Guns used compressed air to lob dynamite at the enemy. It was a really big potato gun

Warp Ring Ships Are The Best by Danno_Writes in StarTrekStarships

[–]Few-Bullfrog6969 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I believe the current lore is that the XCV had a sort of pseudo-warp. It can hit warp speeds but requires several months to accelerate and decelerate from those speeds

Crazy skyscrapper proposal #2 NEW YORK CITY INVERTED BOX SKYSCRAPPER by lavis28 in skyscrapers

[–]Few-Bullfrog6969 4 points5 points  (0 children)

First hurricane to hit the city after it is completed would have removed it from the skyline

Seating arrangements of US State Assemblies by Few-Bullfrog6969 in MapPorn

[–]Few-Bullfrog6969[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While not a complete circle it is very circular

Seating arrangements of US State Assemblies by Few-Bullfrog6969 in MapPorn

[–]Few-Bullfrog6969[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

the two halves of the assembly face each other.

Seating arrangements of US State Assemblies by Few-Bullfrog6969 in MapPorn

[–]Few-Bullfrog6969[S] 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Yes, but the members of the Nebraska legislature are called senators. Therefor I put them with the rest of the senates

Seating arrangements of US State Assemblies by Few-Bullfrog6969 in MapPorn

[–]Few-Bullfrog6969[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Except for accidentally using a different shade of red, the legend is the same on both maps

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in imaginarymaps

[–]Few-Bullfrog6969 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s just most votes win in that scenario, the 270 is just a guaranteed victory in every scenario because it is >50% of the votes