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14 hours ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor (
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I have following this guy on Face Book. It might interest some of you..
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📝 Question of the Day?
8 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Well as all of the answers are wrong, I decided to guess what the Ai was thinking, and got it wrong. So it's just the same as not answering.😁
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17 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Just a simple question and don't have ago at me me Doug 😉. When does the 30 days in the questions roll to the next 30 days? Or when does it start?
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18 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Now. The new score presentation I understand. 😊👍
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19 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Well Doug. Thanks for the explanation (again) I will give it up just for you 😉. However this is the clearest explanation so far. With my simple logical brain I found it strange to hover over the the individual score to see I had answered (as of today) 21 questions and got 17 correct but my % score was 57%. I had completely forgotten that we actually get 30 questions set and get a not answered registered as a wrong answer.
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📝 Question of the Day?
19 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Well blow me down Captain. That old 30 day thing again. 😀
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19 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Hi Stepehen. It is a bit strange. I noticed when I hover over the "SimpleSailor 53%" it says 21 played 16 correct, which is 76%
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20 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Well, here I go again (A song I think). Since my last rant about the scoring I have been oscillating between 50% and 53%. I have had every question correct since re-joining at 50%, so I would have assumed that the score would increase each day. But NO. It is stuck in some ground hog day thing. Thanks for todays question I have found out a lot about the Indian Ocean. I didn't realise it was geologically interesting.
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23 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Hi Doug. I am just turning into a grumpy old man. But I have not lost my sense of humour, hence the P90 joke. 😀😀
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23 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Hi Stephen
When I put your expression into MathCad on my Pentium P90 CPU it crashed the PC. Are you sure you got it right😂😂😂😂
When I put your expression into MathCad on my Pentium P90 CPU it crashed the PC. Are you sure you got it right😂😂😂😂
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23 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Hi. Sorry, but I am still going on about the scoring. As mentioned before. I came back after a week of not answering questions (No internet access) and I was at 50%, I got yesterdays correct and it went to 53%. I log in today and I am at 47%, I get todays correct and and now back to 50%. This should be done on the number of clicks you do, not days the number of rolling days.
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📝 Question of the Day?
25 days ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Just as I predicted. I have been away for a week and have not been able to get on site. Now because I have not answered a weeks worth of questions I am at 50%. Why should I be penalised for not answering? Surely it should freeze if no answer is given?
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1 month ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Not so lucky guess. 😁Had to be Seraph or X1. I chose the wrong one.
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1 month ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Well I am going to give up with this. Not sure how it could be the RV Atlantis in 1938 as it was launched in 1996. I went for Calypso as the only sensible option. As it happens I will be away for a week and will not be able to get on the inter-web off things. The last time I didn't answer a question my score went down. So by the time I get back it will probably be at ZERO. If it is I am off. I am sad about it as I very much enjoy researching the answers as it keeps the old grey matter active.😌
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1 month ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Didn't we have this question already. Ground Hog Days or is it Deja Vue ?😂
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1 month ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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I remember the K-129 sinking and operation to eventually locate it. It was on the BBC news a number of times in the 60's. I think the USA eventually helped as they had the deep diving gear that the Russians didn't have.
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1 month ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Well once again the Ai is making it's own history up. After some research and logical deduction I chose what appears to be the wrong answer. My research came up with the K-140 as being the first to fire a submerged salvo.
Quote from records "The first Soviet submarine to try a ballistic missile salvo launch was the Project 667A or Yankee class SSBN K-140. In late 1969, the commander of K-140, Captain 2nd rank Yuri Beketov, was given the task to prepare his crew for the launch of eight R-27 Zyb (SS-N-6 Serb) SLBMs out of the total of 16 carried."
I give up. You go down the ranking for not answering questions and you go down for answering questions that don't actually have the right answers. It would be interesting o know what Ai programme is used to set the questions.
Quote from records "The first Soviet submarine to try a ballistic missile salvo launch was the Project 667A or Yankee class SSBN K-140. In late 1969, the commander of K-140, Captain 2nd rank Yuri Beketov, was given the task to prepare his crew for the launch of eight R-27 Zyb (SS-N-6 Serb) SLBMs out of the total of 16 carried."
I give up. You go down the ranking for not answering questions and you go down for answering questions that don't actually have the right answers. It would be interesting o know what Ai programme is used to set the questions.
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Well after some research and more deciphering of what the Ai was actually trying to ask I got it right. so my score has gone up. On the question of scoring I had not realised that if you didn't answer a question you were classed as getting it wrong and 3% was deducted. The particular question was the one where the Ai got it completely wrong so I didn't answer. Ho ho, life goes on 😊
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Well I got that one right. Just by deduction as the answer Ai gives is not an exact one. According to the Royal Navy Loss List. Gunboat no 28 (HMS Grappler) was grounded at Lles de Chose France, (I actually think it was Iles Chausey, as there was a French fort there) captured and burnt by the French. Registered lost 30/12/1803
For those interested in Royal Navy history this link might be useful, particularly if the Ai could read it .
For those interested in Royal Navy history this link might be useful, particularly if the Ai could read it .
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Well, I am not going to answer this, as after some research I cannot find the answer. Be pleased to know what the Ai thinks it was. Maybe someone could enlighten me 😀
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Well that one got me a bit confused. As an Electronics Engineer, I thought I can't get this wrong because I know my stuff. However with the option of the Telegraph being in the answer I had two choices. Bell's patent was for "the method of, and apparatus for, transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically" Of course we all call it a Telephone. Anyway I chose the obvious and got it right. 😁
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Well I got this correct as I have been researching polar sub expeditions. But good old Ai got it wrong again. Skate (SSN-578) was the first to surface at the North Pole on the 17th March 1959. It did surface again in 1962 but that was August 62, when it did the first rendezvous with the Seadragon (SSN-584) Both subs surfaced. A commemorative envelope was produced to celebrate the occasion.
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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This is getting silly. It certainly was not the Explorer in 1959, most of that year it was in refit and didn't get back to sea until August 1959. But an Amercian sub called the USS Skate did surface at the North Pole in September 1959. As RNinMunich says it was the Dreadnaught in 1971. There is a book about it called "Breaking Through" which seems to be a free download from here:
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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I came across this from "Marine Insights" while checking to see if it was a belt or something else.
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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I agree DGoss99, but I have given up on the score side of it. As far as I remember the milky sea does not glow but is white from the massive spawning of coral, and it spreads for miles. I chose Bioluminescence because it mentioned a luminous white. But I only watch nature programmes that are obviously fake 😂
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Well according to a Nordic science web site it was birds. There is no mention of a sunstone. The questions should be based on fact and not Nordic myth. I chose birds because my scientific research came up with that answer. Please go stick the sunstone somewhere, where the sun doesn't shine.
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Well I got that right by guess work. However the description of how the sunstone works is a bit off. "(a form of calcite), which could detect the direction of polarized light in the sky." The calcite crystal could not detect anything, it is the user that is detecting and using the polarised light with their eyes. I must look into this a bit more because to find a bit of crystal, look into it and then have a eureka moment by thinking, "Wow I could use this for navigation" is interesting. Sorry for the rant. Bad head this morning 😂😂😂
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Well I got that one wrong after considerable research, I couldn't find anything out about the Straights of Gibraltar and submarines. Only that the USS Triton was launched in August 1958 and commissioned in November 1959. So maybe the running through the straits was done on her shake down trials.☹️
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Well I got that wrong. As my teacher used to say "read the question two or three times before you answer" 😀
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 SimpleSailor ( Midshipman)
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Still a bit confused with the scoring. I am not that bothered about it. But, I had been at 97% for ages and I got yesterdays wrong, so it dropped to 93%. Today I log in and I am at 90% and get the answer correct which took me to 93%. I haven't had my morning cuppa yet so my head is a bit fuzzy, but, shouldn't it have started at 93% and taken me back to 97% ?😂😂
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