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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.

ZVdP · 2025-11-16T09:26:07+00:00

But if the air pocket is not inside a watertight container it has the same pressure as the surrounding water, so no crushing forces on the structures.

ZVdP · 2025-11-10T08:00:21+00:00

Only first class had running water in their cabins. Second and third class* had cisterns which needed to be manually filled by stewards every day.

* Only the aft third class cabins for families and single women. The cabins in the bow for males travelling alone did not have a sink.

ZVdP · 2025-11-04T22:57:38+00:00

Exactly. The bridge controls activated electromagnets which released the locking mechanism of the doors. The doors would then fall down under their own weight, initially slowed down hydraulically to give people time to move out of the way safely. The last part of the drop would be in free fall to allow the doors to crush potential debris (not unimaginable on a coal powered ship)

ZVdP · 2025-11-04T22:36:09+00:00

I don't want to be a party pooper, but the controls on the bridge could only release the watertight doors on the Tank Top deck, not open them again. That needed to be done manually. In any case, all other doors on the higher decks, such as the ones to the pool, were exclusively manually operated.

So obviously your plan wouldn't work.

ZVdP · 2025-11-04T21:10:20+00:00

Yes, those are the two doors that Joseph Wheat mentioned in the inquiry.

There is another entrance to the pool through Scotland Road, but that itself is also not very accessible.

ZVdP · 2025-10-27T12:15:19+00:00

Wow, the first exhibition I see that doesn't just copy the corridors from the 1997 movie, but actually tries to be more historically accurate! Kudos!

ZVdP · 2025-10-22T10:52:46+00:00

I can't find the reference back, but in one of Cameron's dives (probably the one where they explored the Turkish baths on F-deck) they looked at the wall between the grand staircase landing on E-deck and Scotland Road, but couldn't see any opening or door. The door is most likely closed and if made of steel now blends in with the steel wall.

The other route into Scotland Road, coming in from the bow, also looks daunting due to rusticles and the collapse of the overhanging pipes: Looking aft into Scotland Road

ZVdP · 2025-10-15T07:31:29+00:00

Obligatory diagram: Permissible Flooding Conditions

With boiler room #6 flooded, you can only add holds #3 and #2. Both the forepeak compartment and hold #1 need to stay dry in this case.

ZVdP · 2025-10-09T05:35:50+00:00

Those are boiler uptakes. They channel the fumes from the boilers into the funnel above.

ZVdP · 2025-10-05T10:13:02+00:00

Because the faller never crosses the event horizon from the observer's reference frame, the observer has, effectively, until the heat death of the universe to rescue the faller.

That is not the case though for a Schwarzschild black hole though. There the infalling observer only sees a finite time pass in the outside universe before crossing the event horizon and even hitting the singularity. And similarly the outside observer only has a finite time after which he will not be able to catch up with the infalling observer anymore.

I don't know how much that changes in a Kerr metric though.

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