Oh come on, now we aren’t even related to military vessels!
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The Olympic, Titanic’s sister ship was fitted with weaponry during World War One. It also rammed a German Submarine, U-103.
If the Titanic had not had the unfortunate adventure with the iceberg, who knows what it’s role would have been in that time period.
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Some of Olympic’s fittings and rooms still exist, they were reconstructed in a pub in North East England when she was scrapped
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The Battleship knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn’t. By subtracting where it is from where it isn’t, or where it isn’t from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the Battleship from a position where it is to a position where it isn’t, and arriving at a position where it wasn’t, it now is.
Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn’t, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn’t.
In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn’t, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the Battleship is, and where it wasn’t. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the Battleship must also know where it was.
The Battleship guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the Battleship has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn’t, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn’t, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn’t be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.
Best Regards,
Varg
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I see your tug boat and i raise you…
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I didn’t even realize it was a reference! It’s even funnier the second time!