To a speedy recovery and health

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Outstanding. Or sitting, depending on doctor's orders.

Glad THE BEARD is safe

Yay! Remember to be kind to yourself!

Modern resaying for the digital editting age: You can have it in any color you want as long as the Hue setting is set to either max or zero. Explanation: in picture editing software, you can choose what color to draw and paint with. Color selection includes a Hue slider which governs how light or dark a given color is. Slide it all the way up and all colors turn white. Slide it all the way down, and all colors turn black.

This is also a tribute to Henry Kaiser's WWII fleet of escort carriers that flowed off his assembly lines to win the convoy battles. Look it up.

F W Webb (B 1836 - D 1906) locomotive engineer of the LNWR is supposed to have beaten Ford to the quote.

And, quantity has a quality all its own.

@@zraal3759 Yes. During WW2 the Germans produced about 4,000 almost perfect Tigers. The Russians stopped counting at 85,000 T34s.

@@snidecommenter7117 yep. World war II showed the practical application of the affect of producing wonder weapons slowly vs producing good enough weapons in quantities.

@@snidecommenter7117 Tigers were hardly "perfect", they had poor reliability, and required a lot more maintence and resources to stay operational. It was crafted, which made production slow and expensive, which is why only 2000 units of both models was made. Tank is only worth something if it actually shows up to fight, and in numbers that matter. They were adequate for their task, which was breakthrough operations, and that's it. Though it does fit theme of story very well because Panther, while even less reliable tank, could be produced on assembly line, and was only 40% more expensive and could be produced about as quick as its far less capable precedesor, Panzer IV. When Americans faced need for breakthrough tank for advancing into France, they came up with 2 heavy/breaktrough designs, only to settle on uparmored Sherman instead. Which was designed, put to production, and fielded so quickly, there was not even time to test it on proving grounds, normally required for any new piece of equippment.

I understand that reference.

That and the ability to make field repairs is a way of looking at it as an anagram made out of a name given to the Ford GPW of WW2. For it & the Willys Overland Company's offering (the MB) both had Just Enough Essential Part - as a JEEP transport.

The Apes do love throwing things, rocks, spears, relativistic speed heavy metals...

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A Tiger was as good as 5 Shermans but the Americans always had 6.

@@snake57 Oh? Ever seen maintenance on a Tiger, panther or a Sherman? Know what you have to do to take the Final Drive out of either the Tiger or Panther? You have to pop the turret, pull the transmission through the turret ring, then you pull out the final drive. With the Sherman? Unbolt the lower front Glacis plate, bang, there is your final drive. Another fun one, you want to replace an inner road wheel on a Panther. You have to remove 5 road wheels before you reach the one you need to replace, a job that takes a good maintenance crew hours. With an M4 Sherman? Unbolt the bogey, take it off, place a new bogey on, bolt it up, takes twenty minutes. You can have the best battle tank in the world, but its precisely zero use if the thing has broken down on its way to battle. The M4 was rugged, reliable, easy to maintain, and despite the myth stating otherwise actually had the highest crew survival chance upon being knocked out of ANY tank during WWII with the single exception of the British Churchill. As for that ridiculous it takes 5 Shermans to kill a single Tiger, you know where that ridiculous saying comes from? It comes from the fact that the US Army NEVER deployed single tanks. The MINIMUM number of tanks they would deploy was a platoon. You know how many tanks are in a US Army Tank platoon in WWII? Thats right, FIVE.....

forget the Shermans, it's more like a tiger vs a swarm of T-34s. you needed a hammer to even shift the damn things, but they made 50+ T-34s for every tiger made

Also aliens. Hmm might make good allies.

Allien1: The readings show this fleet was build in one system, in one shipyard, no longer than a year ago. Allien2: (swears for the mercy of the gods) Allien1: Yep. That's what I said.

Drones, essentially...

In an idealized system maybe. Even if it works, powers that be will want improvements. In terms of recognition AI is inferior to a child. That features like heating would likely be used regardless of a passenger. Fuel injection freezing/Expanding and contracting of materials with temperature differential/Motherboard locking up from freezing. And in space we most clearly see Newtons third law: Action and reaction, so big guns would be a lot more efficient mounted on something bigger than them. While quantity can be a strength, it isn't always. Go to war with a thousand firecrackers or one grenade?

​@@johnkackley3838i read this thought firecrackers then remembered that firecrackers do not equal firework rockets

Just remember, the scariest boats in ww2 were the PT boats

​@@kirishima.nue13scarriest boats of WW2 are U-boat and carrier. Even now... In space it would be stealth ships...

It's good for them they're backing off. Because those ships may still just be pebbles. With how we adapt and learn... They would be facing true rocks very soon.

Also quality vs quantity is also a believable factor since we can even look to our own history.

Without figuring out interchangeable parts and mass production I don't think a civilization would have the precision measurement abilities to get to space.

@@Bananabanana347 Just look at Germany during WW2. Masterwork craftsmanship for their ships, tanks and fortifications, pretty much unbeatable 1-1 on the field. Then the allies come along with America's Sherman tank, which were basically Lego blocks on tracks with a variant for every occasion and endlessly replaceable, The British with the DH-98 Mosquito, a wooden plane that ran circles around the Luftwaffe, or the Soviets PTRD 41, their single shot bolt action anti tank rifle that was developed in like 22 days and outfitted the *entire* army within like two years. Sometimes, the lower tech, good enough, mass produced quantity route wins out over immaculate, handcrafted quality.

Russian tanks had no frills like upholstered seats. Crews of lend lease tanks had to carefully guard their vehicles against soldiers looking for leather to repair their boots.

works of art only insofar as their production was terribly inefficient every 15th tank effectively different from the ones that preceded it in some small way, assemblers had to file parts to make them fit in the factory and every variant changed the vehicle in some manner that made many components incompatible meanwhile soviets kept variation to a minimum, and any part was generally compatible on any tank (from the same factory, things became dicey with cross-compatibility) and changes were added in batches with application to the whole of the production effort at once and soviet production tanks had upholstered seats, just american upholstering was of a much higher quality

@@quentintin1 But the Panzers came off the line looking gleaming and awesome. The Soviets didn't care much about looks. They cared about how many they could get to the front in the least amount of time. It's not the quality, but the quantity that made the difference. The Russian tanks were also simpler to operate and maintain. German supply lines were getting longer. General Winter and Mud, the two greatest Russian generals in history also played a role. But the Germans tended to try to overengineer. A solution to every possible problem. The Russians just wanted something that functioned at the lowest cost possible. It's a crucial difference in philosophy.

wherent the panzers always breaking down with tank crews having to abandon them?

@@blank_3768 greatly overstated, a lot of tanks broke down all the time, be it because of poor design, overloaded components or it's that one tank that managed to last the entire war the abandonnement part was more an effect of the german army being constantly on the retreat after Stalingrad, thus every small issue a tank encountered spelt doom for it's ability to continue the war

Yeah the hand crafted Tigers Vs the off the assembly line T-34s and Shermans

And as the war progressed - the US stuff got better. People talk about German superweapons. After about 1942 US aircraft began to be superior to what we faced. The Germans couldn't match the P47 and the P51, the M1 rifle was the best rifle of the war, US artillery and more important - artillery fire direction was superior. Even the Sherman tank could be considered to be the best tank of the war for it' reliability and the fact that it kept its crews alive. The proximity fuse was another unheralded wonder weapon. And a secret weapon we had was the fact that the people who ran our industrial mobilization were from the automobile industry. All the factories were designed for mass production. And the automakers brought in something that wasn't really considered as important by the military - ergonomics. Having stuff that's easy and intuitive to use is a huge combat multiplier. Trivia Note: The Sherman tanks used in Europe after D-day all had stabilized main guns that could be fired while the tank was moving. The reason nobody was trained how to use the stabilization system was because the system was classified at a higher level than the people in the tanks had. So they could not be trained how to operate and maintain it for 'security reasons.' (The navy did something similar with the Mark 14 torpedo. All of the instruction manuals and maintenance manuals were literally in a safe in the basement of the Navy Ordinance Bureau.)

@@colincampbell767 It wasnt that it was classified it was that the original guys were trained in how to use the system but their replacements were not plus lack of maintenance.

@poiujnbvcxdswq Where the P-51 had a clear advantage was that it was better at the high altitudes that the Bombers flew at. The Fw-190D matched it but it came out too late and at that point germany did not have enough good pilots left.

Operation Plumbob There's a manhole cover zinging through space proving you right 😂😂

I do find interesting they become spacefaring without an industrial revolution prior. But I guess that it might come out as any way as possible

Well, a finely crafted ship takes time. Maybe they united early and instead of as many wars they took to space with a large artesian effort.

The only thing that I can think of that makes that work is UE has become a totalitarian state (even with a president) for a while so human intelligence & ingenuity have devolved. Whether people (in story) recognize that or not is up to debate. I think some did and were trying to fix it, and others only realized even later on and maybe not realizing how long the slide was. And yes plot armor 😀

Quantity is a type of Quality. Welcome to Space Station "It Go Brrr" and hope you enjoy your stay.

Except the Tiger was pretty shit, the Shermans were far better suited to every area of the conflict, especially later versions. The whole 5 shermans to kill a tiger is entirely a myth, a 76mm Sherman could happily fuck up a tiger or panther, hell Shermans in France had a 3.2 K/D against Panthers

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Which explains his moustache..

That's actually the ships produced in the shipyards in Vanport (among other locations), and was a direct inspiration for the story!

@@darkPrince10101 I will admit I missed that part. But still equally amount awesome that I was added to the story.