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Congrats, great answer. Everything I learned on the boat just taught me that I have so much to learn. So many minor details that a ship designer thought up wen
by mpyne 14y ago
Congrats, great answer.
Everything I learned on the boat just taught me that I have so much to learn. So many minor details that a ship designer thought up went into each successive class of U.S. submarine. There were many days when I'm surprised again that we haven't lost more submarines due to design flaws or misfeatures.
- glurgh 14y agoHah, that is surely one of the many differences between reading about a sub and serving on one. Me: US navy nuclear submarines are a much-cited example of the successful design, development and deployment of high-reliability systems. You: I sometimes wonder how it is that more of us are not sleeping with the fishes. Still, everyone from designers to crews must be doing something right since it's apparently possible to drive such a machine into a rock at flank speed[1] or through a boat[2] or have it commanded by someone exhibiting strikingly poor judgement[3]. Without killing everyone on board and better yet, the planet. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711)#Collision_with_seamount http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711)#Col... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Greeneville_(SSN-772)#The_Ehime_Maru_incident http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Greeneville_(SSN-772)#The_E... [3] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/12/michael-ward-affair_n_3071602.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/12/michael-ward-affair...