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eva_sievereply
startrek.website

Don't think they're including shuttlecraft. It's a bit hard to read but I can't see the Cerritos' Death Valley scanning through that area of the alphabet. I do note that Discovery is there in both original and -A format, which might be contentious since the ship is its own refit.

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Windex007reply
lemmy.world

There is no honour to die on that hill small pile of dirt.

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kbin.social

They're vessels but I don't think they'd qualify as ships.

If I ask you to name every ship in the Navy I do not want RHIBs, dinghys, tenders, lifeboats or rafts included, but if I ask for every vessel, then if the Navy owns a kayak I want it listed.

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lemmy.world

They have weapons, they can travel at warp. They're just smaller than the big ships.

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kbin.social

I can shoot a pistol from a jet-ski and go faster than an aircraft carrier. Is that a ship?

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Planing vs displacement.

An aircraft carrier is limited by its hull speed to about 45 pretty much no matter how much power you give it.

A slow jetski will do 65. I've heen on ones that would do that with the "slow" key where supposedly the fast key would let you do 85-90.

I've also been on a tri-tune that did 75.

An aircraft carrier is about the fastest displacement vessel but when you move into planing hulls its a different ball game.

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lolcatnipreply
reddthat.com

They don't have sleeping quarters. Being able to house the crew is the bare minimum I expect from something canned a ship.

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lemmy.world

If they don't have a place to sleep, multi-day trips they talk about using shuttlecraft for don't make sense. Clearly there's a fold-down bunk or something. I mean there doesn't look like there's any place for a toilet either, but there's no way they can be in a shuttlecraft for hours or days and not need one. They gave Scotty a shuttle and he went off to explore the universe. Does that make sense if there's nowhere to sleep?

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The Discovery shouldn't be in Tendi's lost at all, considering its very existence was redacted.

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feddit.uk

I think the people who name those ships have never even owned a passport.

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lemmings.world

It is kind of nuts how many of them are named after white men or US place names.

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