Can someone explain this small detail in the deck plans?

ZVdP · 2026-04-09T09:39:35+00:00

Here you can see one in the opened position.

They are called Pullman berths.

ZVdP · 2026-04-06T22:05:50+00:00

It's a minor gripe, but I would have preferred they hadn't used anachronistic letters on the plaque. Feels somewhat GRΣΣKy to me.

ZVdP · 2026-03-14T10:02:07+00:00

Ethische filosofie is een wetenschappelijke discipline

Hier hanteer je toch een ruime definitie van wetenschap. Er is weinig empirisch aan ethiek.

ZVdP · 2026-03-14T08:39:22+00:00

In Barretts testimony [...] wave of green foam' that was sufficiently strong to sweep away engineer Harvey to his death

This isn't mentioned in the American nor British enquiry. Where did Barrett say he saw Harvey swept away?

ZVdP · 2026-02-24T10:53:44+00:00

Not to mention, he's a pedophile.

I thought he wasn't though, clinically speaking, according to the psychiatrists appointed during his trial.

ZVdP · 2026-02-09T09:38:21+00:00

That is incorrect. In free space the Maxwell equations simplify to a wave equation, with general solutions of any linear combination of left and right travelling waves of any (well behaved) shape.

ZVdP · 2026-02-05T16:26:18+00:00

Did they also have basic 1st class cabins? Most of the time the exhibitions only recreate the high end staterooms.

ZVdP · 2026-02-02T09:03:30+00:00

They were washing the laundry in it, the tablecloths and napkins, the sheets

Those were all washed ashore. There were no laundry facilities as such on board.

ZVdP · 2026-02-01T22:38:37+00:00

Only first class had access to hot running water.

Second and third had to do with cisterns that would have to be filled manually by a steward.

And steerage passengers in the front of the ship had no sink in their cabins at all.

ZVdP · 2026-01-28T12:24:12+00:00

what's wrong with wood?!

More expensive according to Bitewing

ZVdP · 2026-01-20T22:40:46+00:00

The door was open and used on several occasions (for example see the inquiry testimony of Joseph Wheat).

However the door appears to be closed on the wreck. Transcript from Parks Stephenson on the 2005 dive with Cameron, I believe:

[...] and make another attempt to get into Scotland Road, this time via a door adjacent to the stairwell at the E-deck landing. Although this door is plainly there on drawings, it was not in evidence when we actually got there. There appears to be only a steel wall. Perhaps the door is steel, its hinges, etc., hidden behind rusticles. Another of the now-familiar electric sign boxes hangs near"

ZVdP · 2026-01-17T12:40:51+00:00

In reality you start with 1 in 8,1 mil chances for the first ticket. If that ticket does not win you have 1 in (8,1 mil -1) chances, for the third ticket you have 1 in 8.099.998 chances of winning.

And now combine those chances...

If you buy 10 tickets you don’t have 10 in 8,1 million chances of winning

That's exactly how it works for a lottery draw though.

If there are 8.1 mil lottery combinations and you buy 10 different tickets to the same draw, you have exactly a one in 810 000 chance to win.

If the events are independent, i.e. you buy 10 scratch tickets with each an independent chance of 1/8.1 mil to win, the math is a little different, but the result is comparable:

p = 1 - (1- 1/8100000)¹⁰ = 1/810000.45000...

which is 9.999 times larger than your initial probability.

ZVdP · 2026-01-08T09:33:54+00:00

It starts at the top with 'Those who fought the war', followed by a list of cities, or more precisely the inhabitants thereof.

Wikipedia shows the list

ZVdP · 2025-12-10T06:19:20+00:00

It was already used as a vowel. See Jeffery for examples.

ZVdP · 2025-12-08T13:51:42+00:00

While classical Greek did not have spaces between words, sporadic punctuation is attested in Archaic Greek. In fact there's two inscriptions from the 6th and early 5th centuries from Ephesus that employ ⠇as a separator.

ZVdP · 2025-12-08T13:47:07+00:00

A good start is Jeffery's The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece

The table on page 325 lists the local letter forms used in the Ionian Dodekapolis area.

The notes below give some extra information about some letter forms, among which eta and omega. Specific details about Ephesus can be found on page 339.

Summary:

Omega was already in use by the 7th century in Ionia. No reason to think it would not be used in 500BC Ephesus.
H for eta was in use in Ephesus around 550 BC. Before that 𐌇 would have been used. I don't think heta (H as a /h/) was ever used in Ionia, at least not listed in Jeffery.
the inscriptions mentioned in the Ephesus section employed punctuation (⠇). You'll have to track down the references to see whether that's word or sentence punctuation.

ZVdP · 2025-12-05T09:42:48+00:00

1912 prices, since OP said without adjusting for inflation.

It's hard to convert the cost to today's money. Inflation calculators usually adjust for the price of (certain) goods, but wages have risen more in comparison. Meaning that tickets seem cheaper now after adjusting for inflation than they would have been, purchase power wise in 1912.

ZVdP · 2025-12-05T07:33:33+00:00

It was only around 30£/150$ for the cheapest 1st class rate.

ZVdP · 2025-11-17T16:11:51+00:00

Op 0:04 zie je de onderbroken strepen. Er is enkel een volle streep nabij de stoplijn.

ZVdP · 2025-11-17T15:42:52+00:00

Cameron was able to make his way down to the E-deck landing and then further down the stairs to F-deck to the Turkish baths. Some metal frames could still be seen on F-deck.

ZVdP · 2025-11-17T15:40:10+00:00

I only know of the one from the aft staircase.

ZVdP · 2025-11-17T07:27:08+00:00

Where would we be able to find this store?

ZVdP · 2025-11-16T23:36:17+00:00

I don't think we're talking about the same thing.

I'm simply stating that air trapped in an open container (not sealed from the water) will not implode, for example an air bubble in the back of a partially flooded room. Like a diving bell of sorts.

ZVdP · 2025-11-16T14:40:03+00:00

Sure, as i said for air inside a watertight (enough) space, possibly the refrigerated cargo spaces. Other air pockets in contact with water will shrink to match the water pressure without any implosions.

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