Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Friday, September 18, 2015

Because It's Friday

Down in the engine room of a steamship.



Note the lag time between when the Bridge orders a bell change and when the engine responds. A good Conning Officer has a feel for how long it takes for the ship to respond to an engine order.
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2 comments:

John in Philly said...

And there is a lot more going on in the fireroom and the engineroom then is shown in this clip.

In the old days of manual boiler tending, the water level, the amount of fuel oil and the amount of air all changed in response to a throttle change.

And in the US Navy steam turbine enginerooms, there was only 20 percent of the power available to go astern than there was to go ahead.

And if you tried to take steam to fast from the firerooms, you could drag boilers off the line.

And this leave aside the technical discussion of superheaters with separately fired furnaces.

Even in steam turbine destroyers, there were still reciprocating pumps.

9/18/2015 10:55 AM
CenterPuke88 said...

Immediately reminded me of Fritz Lang's Metropolis...just missing the lights.

9/18/2015 12:04 PM

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