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QuinceDaPence@kbin.social 10 months agoThey'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.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They have weapons, they can travel at warp. They’re just smaller than the big ships.
QuinceDaPence@kbin.social 10 months ago
I can shoot a pistol from a jet-ski and go faster than an aircraft carrier. Is that a ship?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No it’s a boat. A ship is capable of carrying a boat.
Rootiest@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So a shuttlecraft is a boat
ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 10 months ago
You aren’t outrunning an aircraft carrier, those behemoths can outrun most of their escorts if they want
QuinceDaPence@kbin.social 10 months ago
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.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 10 months ago
They don’t have sleeping quarters. Being able to house the crew is the bare minimum I expect from something canned a ship.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
nxdefiant@startrek.website 10 months ago
static.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/…/720?cb=20…
Yeah, that couch can absolutely be a bed, and I bet the other side folds out into a toilet. Entire back area is probably a sonic shower.