Robert Redford's boat seems ill-equipped.

Seajet said:
If you want to see real derision, try showing ' Top Gun ' to real fighter pilots !
:rolleyes:
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My late Father, a 28 year Fleet Air Arm fixed wing pilot and Boscombe Down graduate did mention, very quietly, after he saw Top Gun, that he'd loved it!
Was disappointed at the same time because he knew that it had nothing to do with reality!
 
JumbleDuck said:
Have you noticed that New Scientist articles always sound knowledgeable and convincing ... unless they're on a subject you know about, in which case they're ludicrous?
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Well, that's surprising, as New Scientist ARTICLES (as opposed to news or regular features) are usually written by the scientist whose work is being portrayed. I've been involved in writing one or two, and I am sure they were authoritative! I must admit I haven't read New Scientist for a few years, though.
 
JumbleDuck said:
Have you noticed that New Scientist articles always sound knowledgeable and convincing ... unless they're on a subject you know about, in which case they're ludicrous?
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A pity they gave up on 1st April articles some years ago. The best ones started really convincing and gradually got dafter until you had to twig. Or try googling for "ICL galactic storage device".

Mike.
 
AntarcticPilot said:
Well, that's surprising, as New Scientist ARTICLES (as opposed to news or regular features) are usually written by the scientist whose work is being portrayed. I've been involved in writing one or two, and I am sure they were authoritative! I must admit I haven't read New Scientist for a few years, though.
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My subscription is still running. I'm afraid many of their articles are written by staffers and only a minority by researchers.

Mike.
 
Re Mr Redford's yacht, I love how an itinerant floating 40' container wanders along in a fairly flat sea and decides to ram his yacht amidships, creating a big hole, which our hero then patches up with a bit of fibreglass. :)
 
mjcoon said:
A pity they gave up on 1st April articles some years ago. The best ones started really convincing and gradually got dafter until you had to twig. Or try googling for "ICL galactic storage device".

Mike.
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I must have started reading New Scientist about 40 years ago but tailed off when I moved from Chemistry to IT. Pity that seems to have gone downhill. I suppose it was easier to cover new stuff like advances in electronics or chemistry then as almost anyone could understand the articles.

I suppose the April Fool might have lost ground due to risk of getting sued. Different many years back of course when you could get away with anything.

A friend did hardware installs back when hard drive sizes were small. I think they wanted to supply British Gas with 20MB drives but couldn't as their standards called for PCs with 10MB drives. He couldn't find 10MB as drive sizes were increasing rapidly and supplied 20MB with only 10MB partitioned.

A year later he coined it in when they wanted to upgrade all PCs to 20MB. Went back and repartitioned existing drives to 20MB and charged for the upgrade. A year later I put together an offer to increase their PC RAM by a lot (2GB??) for a very reasonable price as long as they'd accept WOM DIL packaged units. WOM being Write Only Memory (Delivered on 1st April of course).
 
Perhaps I was a bit too quick to pass judgment on the outfit of Mr. Redford's boat. I looked at the preview video again, and saw that there does appear to be a sprayhood for the main hatch, and there is something hanging off the transom that might be a windvane self-steering system. That thing on the transom is off center, and is a lot less clunky than the usual Aries or Monitor, but I don't know what it might be if it's not a windvane. I do agree with the comment above that the package containing the life raft appears to be a bit light.

sprayhood.jpg


windvane.jpg


liferaft.jpg
 
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