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AstonZagato said:
98elise said:
McGee_22 said:
98elise said:
The RAF also have their own soldiers, and the Army has pilots.
It makes a lot of sense that each service has its own specialists as they need to be able to integrate into the overall organisation as well as perform their primary role.
RAF pilots do fly from RN carriers now though.
Small point of order - the RN should not be given firearms. I was on subs when the upper deck trots were given handguns and genuinely every boat in Faslane had bets on as to how soon someone would shot themselves in the foot - iirc, it was in weeks. It makes a lot of sense that each service has its own specialists as they need to be able to integrate into the overall organisation as well as perform their primary role.
RAF pilots do fly from RN carriers now though.
The conclusion was that the safest place to stand when a matelot had a gun was right in front of him - a bit like you'd treat an imperial stormtrooper.
Thats what happens when you treat handling small arms as a very minor part of your role. If you put a Marine (also Navy) in the same position it wouldn't happen.
Negligent discharges are a combination of poor training and a lack of leadership/supervision.
My job was to operate and maintain ships weapons (WE). I was trained for years. My small arms training could be measured in hours!
Edited by 98elise on Wednesday 16th August 19:23
98elise said:
AstonZagato said:
98elise said:
McGee_22 said:
98elise said:
The RAF also have their own soldiers, and the Army has pilots.
It makes a lot of sense that each service has its own specialists as they need to be able to integrate into the overall organisation as well as perform their primary role.
RAF pilots do fly from RN carriers now though.
Small point of order - the RN should not be given firearms. I was on subs when the upper deck trots were given handguns and genuinely every boat in Faslane had bets on as to how soon someone would shot themselves in the foot - iirc, it was in weeks. It makes a lot of sense that each service has its own specialists as they need to be able to integrate into the overall organisation as well as perform their primary role.
RAF pilots do fly from RN carriers now though.
The conclusion was that the safest place to stand when a matelot had a gun was right in front of him - a bit like you'd treat an imperial stormtrooper.
Thats what happens when you treat handling small arms as a very minor part of your role. If you put a Marine (also Navy) in the same position it wouldn't happen.
Negligent discharges are a combination of poor training and a lack of leadership/supervision.
My job was to operate and maintain ships weapons (WE). I was trained for years. My small arms training could be measured in hours!
Edited by 98elise on Wednesday 16th August 19:23
In the 30’s the UK government thought it would be a good idea if they gave all the navy’s aircraft to the RAF, presumably prompted by the kind of Biggles who thinks anything that flies should be light blue. It’s often brought up as one of the main reasons for the lack of success of the RN carrier force in the early stages of WW2, HMS Glorious being a prime example.
Castrol for a knave said:
I am late to the party, but I only just found out that Ginger Baker played drums on PiL's "Rise".
That must have been an interesting dynamic, two of the most gifted but belligerent w
kers in the same room.
I might have made this up but I am sure I have read somewhere that Ginger Baker could play four different beats at the same time on the drums.That must have been an interesting dynamic, two of the most gifted but belligerent w
kers in the same room. Multi tasking at it's best if true.
Cockaigne said:
The body produces 100w of power an hour just on tick over, metabolic processes. The body can produce 1000w a hour under strenuous exercise, think Matrix.
The Matrix was dumbed down saying that humans were used as 'batteries'. Using a human as a battery would be utterly pointless as it could only ever be net-negative.The Matrix was originally about using humans' brains as a CPUs - effectively a massive distributed supercomputer. Once you know that, the whole plot finally makes sense as to why Neo could control it - he was able to break out of the constraints and control the code, allowing him to do whatever he wanted inside the Matrix.
The filmmakers thought that the viewing public were too stupid to understand that, hence the storyline about using them as batteries.
Funk said:
Cockaigne said:
The body produces 100w of power an hour just on tick over, metabolic processes. The body can produce 1000w a hour under strenuous exercise, think Matrix.
The Matrix was dumbed down saying that humans were used as 'batteries'. Using a human as a battery would be utterly pointless as it could only ever be net-negative.The Matrix was originally about using humans' brains as a CPUs - effectively a massive distributed supercomputer. Once you know that, the whole plot finally makes sense as to why Neo could control it - he was able to break out of the constraints and control the code, allowing him to do whatever he wanted inside the Matrix.
The filmmakers thought that the viewing public were too stupid to understand that, hence the storyline about using them as batteries.
Halmyre said:
Funk said:
Cockaigne said:
The body produces 100w of power an hour just on tick over, metabolic processes. The body can produce 1000w a hour under strenuous exercise, think Matrix.
The Matrix was dumbed down saying that humans were used as 'batteries'. Using a human as a battery would be utterly pointless as it could only ever be net-negative.The Matrix was originally about using humans' brains as a CPUs - effectively a massive distributed supercomputer. Once you know that, the whole plot finally makes sense as to why Neo could control it - he was able to break out of the constraints and control the code, allowing him to do whatever he wanted inside the Matrix.
The filmmakers thought that the viewing public were too stupid to understand that, hence the storyline about using them as batteries.
otolith said:
mikey_b said:
Indeed - an xray of a baby's face is quite a sight.
I think you misspelled “a Lovecraftian horror”
Funk said:
Halmyre said:
Funk said:
Cockaigne said:
The body produces 100w of power an hour just on tick over, metabolic processes. The body can produce 1000w a hour under strenuous exercise, think Matrix.
The Matrix was dumbed down saying that humans were used as 'batteries'. Using a human as a battery would be utterly pointless as it could only ever be net-negative.The Matrix was originally about using humans' brains as a CPUs - effectively a massive distributed supercomputer. Once you know that, the whole plot finally makes sense as to why Neo could control it - he was able to break out of the constraints and control the code, allowing him to do whatever he wanted inside the Matrix.
The filmmakers thought that the viewing public were too stupid to understand that, hence the storyline about using them as batteries.
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