All these ships have black boxes just like aircraft. So what happened will come out sooner or later.
Buzz Lightbulb said
04:31 PM Apr 1, 2021
I heard that it was blown around by wind but that information might have come from this forum.
peter67 said
05:47 PM Apr 1, 2021
Buzz you saying forum members can be windy?? very funny.
bgt as a passenger I like sitting on aircraft black boxes, they always find them after an accident. They are painted flouro orange so why call them black, anyone know?
Magnarc said
08:45 AM Apr 2, 2021
The bloke that painted them was colour blind?
DMaxer said
09:36 AM Apr 2, 2021
I think that name originated in the RAF during WW2 to describe anything that was a bit of a mystery.
Whenarewethere said
09:52 AM Apr 2, 2021
peter67 wrote:
Buzz you saying forum members can be windy?? very funny.
bgt as a passenger I like sitting on aircraft black boxes, they always find them after an accident. They are painted flouro orange so why call them black, anyone know?
Because it is a box & orange objects are round.
In photography you use a black box for light metering, but it is actually internally black with a hole in the side. The internal space gives you, for the purposes of general photography a good enough perfect black reference point.
If they said the plane or boat had an orange sphere then that would make sense.
If the "black box" or "orange sphere" fails to provide any useful information, they should have painted it yellow!
In science, computing, and engineering, a black box is a system which can be viewed in terms of its inputs and outputs (or transfer characteristics), without any knowledge of its internal workings. Its implementation is "opaque" (black).
bgt said
09:40 AM Apr 3, 2021
Er I didn't ask why they were black. I've been defamed, humiliated, miss quoted and whatever else.
But most ships, trains and planes have black boxes installed. And if you have a car with a navigation system in it you also have a black box. It will tell the policed you were visiting your girl friend and not at Maccas having a cheese burger.
Whenarewethere said
10:05 AM Apr 3, 2021
& if you have a dashcam it will show that you have parked outside her house & depending on card size how many times in the past!
Recoup said
10:58 AM Apr 3, 2021
This must be the biggest BS I have seen ,
Trafficked Children, Bodies, Weapons Found on Evergreen Ship Blocking Suez Canal
Even the Beetoota Times would be embarrassed with this fake news site...
Clarky 1 said
09:07 AM Apr 6, 2021
DMaxer wrote:
I don't think the good ship Venus that Doug, bgt and I were referring to was any part of the navy, Possum. I think it was in a class all of its own.
The Good Ship Venus was indeed a private boat.
No one knows where it is today as it has sadly been retired from service mainly due to it not being able to stick to a schedule no matter who was the skipper.
It was also reported that it had other more operational design faults.
Apparently it had a figure head up on the bow which had excessive ball weight in the area near the top of the head.
Reportedly there were other areas of excessive ball overhang which then caused the problem of the ship becoming too heavy on the oars.
To compensate they moved all the oarsmen to the rear but then the ship began taking water over the stern.
They then emptied the water tanks and threw the food, the wife and the dog overboard and it then sailed on happily apart from the generator annoying other sailors when they were drafted up at night close to other boats.
For a while there was a bloke in charge of weight distribution but he was found to cause more instability. It was something to do with the tail of the dog they said. This was fixed when the dog went overboard.
This old ship certainly had a colourful life. Someone said that if they could buy it they would remove the figure head but no one seems to know where this old girl is. Others said that removing the figurehead would take all the fun out of sailing her.
The last report is that she apparently went down on an exposed ...................!!
Cupie said
11:22 AM Apr 6, 2021
Clarky 1 wrote:
DMaxer wrote:
I don't think the good ship Venus that Doug, bgt and I were referring to was any part of the navy, Possum. I think it was in a class all of its own.
The Good Ship Venus was indeed a private boat.
No one knows where it is today as it has sadly been retired from service mainly due to it not being able to stick to a schedule no matter who was the skipper.
It was also reported that it had other more operational design faults.
Apparently it had a figure head up on the bow which had excessive ball weight in the area near the top of the head.
Reportedly there were other areas of excessive ball overhang which then caused the problem of the ship becoming too heavy on the oars.
To compensate they moved all the oarsmen to the rear but then the ship began taking water over the stern.
They then emptied the water tanks and threw the food, the wife and the dog overboard and it then sailed on happily apart from the generator annoying other sailors when they were drafted up at night close to other boats.
For a while there was a bloke in charge of weight distribution but he was found to cause more instability. It was something to do with the tail of the dog they said. This was fixed when the dog went overboard.
This old ship certainly had a colourful life. Someone said that if they could buy it they would remove the figure head but no one seems to know where this old girl is. Others said that removing the figurehead would take all the fun out of sailing her.
The last report is that she apparently went down on an exposed ...................!!
I have it on good authority (no less an Authority than the WHO strongly supported by the CCP of course) that the mast was the problem, it being an overweight Pizzle Mizzen mast.
-- Edited by Cupie on Tuesday 6th of April 2021 11:25:14 AM
-- Edited by Cupie on Tuesday 6th of April 2021 12:11:55 PM
DMaxer said
11:32 AM Apr 6, 2021
From memory, I think Mr Freeman the ship's cook had a pretty limited menu to offer.
peter67 said
06:33 PM Apr 6, 2021
Next thing you know we'll be in the library trying to figure out if the butler did it.
I heard that it was blown around by wind but that information might have come from this forum.
bgt as a passenger I like sitting on aircraft black boxes, they always find them after an accident. They are painted flouro orange so why call them black, anyone know?
The bloke that painted them was colour blind?
I think that name originated in the RAF during WW2 to describe anything that was a bit of a mystery.
Because it is a box & orange objects are round.
In photography you use a black box for light metering, but it is actually internally black with a hole in the side. The internal space gives you, for the purposes of general photography a good enough perfect black reference point.
If they said the plane or boat had an orange sphere then that would make sense.
If the "black box" or "orange sphere" fails to provide any useful information, they should have painted it yellow!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_box
In science, computing, and engineering, a black box is a system which can be viewed in terms of its inputs and outputs (or transfer characteristics), without any knowledge of its internal workings. Its implementation is "opaque" (black).
But most ships, trains and planes have black boxes installed. And if you have a car with a navigation system in it you also have a black box. It will tell the policed you were visiting your girl friend and not at Maccas having a cheese burger.
& if you have a dashcam it will show that you have parked outside her house & depending on card size how many times in the past!
Trafficked Children, Bodies, Weapons Found on Evergreen Ship Blocking Suez Canal
bestnewshere.com/trafficked-children-bodies-weapons-found-on-evergreen-ship-blocking-suez-canal/
Even the Beetoota Times would be embarrassed with this fake news site...
The Good Ship Venus was indeed a private boat.
No one knows where it is today as it has sadly been retired from service mainly due to it not being able to stick to a schedule no matter who was the skipper.
It was also reported that it had other more operational design faults.
Apparently it had a figure head up on the bow which had excessive ball weight in the area near the top of the head.
Reportedly there were other areas of excessive ball overhang which then caused the problem of the ship becoming too heavy on the oars.
To compensate they moved all the oarsmen to the rear but then the ship began taking water over the stern.
They then emptied the water tanks and threw the food, the wife and the dog overboard and it then sailed on happily apart from the generator annoying other sailors when they were drafted up at night close to other boats.
For a while there was a bloke in charge of weight distribution but he was found to cause more instability. It was something to do with the tail of the dog they said. This was fixed when the dog went overboard.
This old ship certainly had a colourful life. Someone said that if they could buy it they would remove the figure head but no one seems to know where this old girl is. Others said that removing the figurehead would take all the fun out of sailing her.
The last report is that she apparently went down on an exposed ...................!!
I have it on good authority (no less an Authority than the WHO strongly supported by the CCP of course) that the mast was the problem, it being an overweight Pizzle Mizzen mast.
-- Edited by Cupie on Tuesday 6th of April 2021 11:25:14 AM
-- Edited by Cupie on Tuesday 6th of April 2021 12:11:55 PM
From memory, I think Mr Freeman the ship's cook had a pretty limited menu to offer.