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"Unless everyone on both ships was asleep, this statement doesn't have to be true. If anything, it seems eminently plausible the destroyer's crew was playing ch
by rsync 9y ago
"Unless everyone on both ships was asleep, this statement doesn't have to be true. If anything, it seems eminently plausible the destroyer's crew was playing chicken with the freighter thinking they were playing against a human opponent, when in fact they were dealing with an automated system."
Interesting you should mention this because, IIRC, the book has an aside about ships that (unknowingly) play chicken with lighthouses.
- nulldev 9y agoIs that in any way related to the somewhat apocryphal / mostly untrue anecjoke about the aircraft carrier and the lighthouse? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_and_naval_vessel_urban_legend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_and_naval_vessel_ur...