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Old 07-21-2019, 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by chiefmg
...also the engine order telegraph.
Is this still a thing? I mean, as a discrete, mechanical device?

I'm not a maritime guy, but in the course of my work I did outfitting on the DCL Dream and Fantasy (Meyer Werft hull numbers 687 and 688.) On those ships, propulsion commands were part of the same Siemens integrated control system which also commanded steering, ballast movement, and pretty much every other order which the bridge might send below. I do not recall seeing a traditional mechanical telegraph.

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No, there are no longer mechanical EOTs. The throttle control also functions as an EOT when in engine room control. When in bridge control the pointer in the engine room doesn't move.

When the ship's elevator isn't working and you don't want to lug your bags any further than you have to.

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Originally Posted by olderguy
Not to rain on the parade, but it used to be cool to tell jokes about black people and other ethnicities too. Because they weren't white males either.
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Originally Posted by y8s
Not to rain on the parade, but it used to be cool to tell jokes about black people and other ethnicities too.

Q: How many non-white people does it take to change a light bulb?

A: Under typical circumstances, one.
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I haven't heard a good Polack joke in forever.
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Originally Posted by Erat
I haven't heard a good Polack joke in forever.
I know, it's a sacrifice we have had to make for the good of society. Kinda like having to pay people (that aren't your property) to pick your cotton/tobacoo/etc.



But feel free to make fun of the John Deere 7660 harvester.
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Originally Posted by y8s
. . . But feel free to make fun of the John Deere 7660 harvester.
Job destroyer?




jk, for real.
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Meanwhile, I struggle to have the built-in OLED on an esp32 (coded in the Arduino IDE) to display a simple variable.
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Yeah the other videos are pretty slick too.

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Originally Posted by good2go
Job destroyer?

jk, for real.
I'm definitely in the camp of "technology doesn't steal jobs, it creates neater jobs"

I mean someone gotta make the harvesters right? Also who are the people working the fields? Adivina...
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THERE IT IS!

**** YOU DIRECTLY IN THE GOAT-HOLE, YOU PIECE OF **** LITTLE DEFECTIVE OVERCURRENT SUPPRESSOR!







I have been trying to talk to a spacecraft in orbit around the earth for nearly a week without success, and you are seriously the root cause of my problems?


Die in hell. I have ordered a complete replacement for not just you, but all of your lot in this pitiful weatherproof enclosure, and shall wield a sledgehammer to ensure that you are removed from service.
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You might want to suppress your overcurrent just a bit, perhaps.
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
THERE IT IS!

**** YOU DIRECTLY IN THE GOAT-HOLE, YOU PIECE OF **** LITTLE DEFECTIVE OVERCURRENT SUPPRESSOR!

I have been trying to talk to a spacecraft in orbit around the earth for nearly a week without success, and you are seriously the root cause of my problems?


Die in hell. I have ordered a complete replacement for not just you, but all of your lot in this pitiful weatherproof enclosure, and shall wield a sledgehammer to ensure that you are removed from service.
Tell us how you really feel.


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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
Not all conservatives aren't agnostic. Religious beliefs are not the same as socio-political philosophy.


I found it, @Joe Perez , from November, 2016. It was a 2 x 2 matrix. Now, what I don't know is in which thread we were looking for this. Here, or Political, or some other.
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Originally Posted by sixshooter
You might want to suppress your overcurrent just a bit, perhaps.
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Originally Posted by triple88a
(backwards lug nuts)
There's no possible way that photo wasn't staged. That level of stupidity would tear a hole in the fabric of spacetime were it actually to exist.


Unrelated: I simply cannot wrap my brain around how, in a pre-computer era, people were able to create cutaway drawings of such convincing precision and detail as was commonplace in the 1980s. I've always been fascinated by cutaway drawings of complex mechanical things...








Did you know that Native Americans invented the wire recorder? It's true: your cat has been to outer space, and yet you probably don't even know where you are.
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