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The Taming of the Screw (2000)
- mmooss 2y agoThis essay must be quite old: "... our newest generation of submarines, the Seawolf-class, does not even use propellers. Neither will the future generation, the Virginia-class, still on the computer design screen." The first Virginia class submarine was commissioned in 2004. [0] [0] https://www.navy.mil/Resources/Fact-Files/Display-FactFiles/Article/2169558/attack-submarines-ssn/ https://www.navy.mil/Resources/Fact-Files/Display-FactFiles/...
- puzzlingcaptcha 2y agoThe exhibit in question opened in 2000, so the article is likely from 1999. https://www.si.edu/exhibitions/fast-attacks-and-boomers-submarines-cold-war-event-event-exhib-2649 https://www.si.edu/exhibitions/fast-attacks-and-boomers-subm...
- gmiller123456 2y agoArticle says "copyright 2000" at the bottom.
- srean 2y agoComing from ColinWright, I was more than half expecting this to be about kinematics of rotations and translation, well, screw theory, no Lie (*). Nonetheless this is going to be a good read. An Akula class submarine, mentioned in the article, an uncharacteristically silent Russian attack submarine, was leased out to the Indian navy. I remember that there were intelligence failure from the Indian side that led to the leak of propeller acoustics of 'some' submarines - data for the Kilo class and the Scorpenes were leaked, not sure about Akula. (*) In the off chance that the other screw is interesting too, there is this https://archive.org/details/theoryscrewsast00ballgoog https://archive.org/details/theoryscrewsast00ballgoog to take for a spin, especially for those who have enough time on their hands.
- 082349872349872 2y ago> no Lie [How very Sophusticated, an alternating screw theory]
- srean 2y agoThanks for humoring.
- gpderetta 2y agoAside from the article itself being interesting, it is nice to see bits of the old internet resurfacing from time to time.
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- lerp-io 2y agokinda looks exactly like a cpu fan
- dang 2y agoRelated: The Taming of the Screw (2000) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18553301 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18553301 - Nov 2018 (23 comments)