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Okay, I have paid my Free Association dues for the day.
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Sadly, Boaty McBoatface is no more and it is now the Sir David Attenbrough. Further proof, as if any were needed, that democracy is a lie.
I know, right! It’s all going to be great…
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effectively, yes. He lived in the US for 59 years
( admittedly, he did invent some cool telephone equipment while still in Austria).
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If the government says there’s nothing that can go wrong, that’s the time to start worrying.
I kinda feel like the Predator and similar drones are really just specialized multi-warhead cruise missiles, with a long loiter time and a recoverable first stage.
Good old 121.5 MHz. The Channel no one listens to
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No, it doesn’t, not always. I’m amused that you did that smug “here is the dictionary definition of the word you used wrong” thing without actually looking up the word in dispute.
So, in your estimation, if a naval ship wants to contact a civilian ship and includes practical information about which ship they’re trying to contact, instead of just shouting randomly into the ether, that’s excessive consideration of feelings and could cost lives?
How about the fact that an inch is precisely (re)defined as 25.4mm? LOL
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“Dōmo arigatō, Captain Roboto”
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Because I fully expect the public won’t hear about it until…what year is it now?..maybe 2076+, I look forward to my ancestors hearing about all the ducks, whales, and tin cans this thing follows extensively during the first trials.
It says, “Th’ law ‘o th’ sea says spy wit’ ye eye th’ rules 'o gold.”
Back in the 1980s it was an “actual radio conversation” between a British ship and an American lighthouse. By then the joke was already several decades old.
In addition to the European invention and development of radio mentioned by GulliverFoyle, there’s also long-distance radio communication, pioneered by Italian. Guglielmo Marconi.
The telegraph was invented and developed by various Europeans.
The telephone is widely considered to be invented in Canada by a Scotsman, Alexander Graham Bell. (He later became an American citizen but continued to do his inventing in Canada.)
Television involved many inventions and developments from both sides of the Atlantic.
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The USS Coral Sea was decommissioned in 1990.
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What are the laws with respect to finding an unoccupied ship in international waters? Can I claim salvage rights on this thing?
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Not to just be argumentative, but Iran claims different and more area as their territorial waters than anyone else recognizes. They absolutely order ships in international waters to stop and be boarded. I have been on the receiving end of such threats numerous times. What we do not know is the exact positions and timeline for the incidents, or what rules of engagement the crews were operating under. An interesting remark from the USN a couple of weeks ago was " the majority of the issues that led to the 10 sailors being held by the Iranians had to do with manning, training and equipping issues rather than operational problems". My personal theory (having no more data about the incident than anyone else, but a lot of experience in those waters), is that the inexperienced boat crews made navigational errors, then were intimidated by the radio threats of the IRGC, and made a bunch of other mistakes, including forgetting the code of conduct that they once had to memorize. I am not entirely sure that all the details of the incident will ever be released. But regardless, there are a bunch of players out there that would love to board an unarmed and unmanned Naval Vessel, if it strayed from the flock.
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Give it time.
The first military UAVs weren’t armed either.
I’m with another poster. In a few iterations of the hardware we’ll have a torpedo shaped thing with maybe a little bit above the water for radio telemetry and possibly other sensors and it will be a weapons platform.
As for ‘why not submarines.’ What if it goes down because faulty programming causing it to take on water for a full dive? Being underwater basically kills anything but ULF radio and the bit rate for ULF is insanely low. So while it’d be a wet dream of sorts to have a fleet of unmanned subs that could be anywhere in the world, in practice for now it’s got too many technical hurdles and the software is too untrustworthy to do much on its own.
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