A thing I have learned from watching Battleship New Jersey's YouTube channel is that if I had joined the Navy out of high school, I would have spent the entire time from 1991 to 1995 perpetually lost, and probably getting yelled at a lot. My only hope would have been to get posted to a very small ship. A minesweeper, say, or a patrol boat. Or a canoe. That would really have been idea.

(Sure, there's no way I could have ended up aboard a battlehip as they were all mothballed just before I could have joined up. But I bet you even a modern destroyer is an absolute goddamn maze.)

Tying the thought to UF, this makes me wonder how many years it was before my UF equivalent really knew where the hell anything was aboard the SDF-17. I have images of him wandering around in his off hours with some kind of tourist-map-style deck plan, and it not helping very much. "Ah, fuck, this is Daedalus again. We need to color-code this shit or something..."

Furthermore, and to bring the post even closer to being on topic for the board it's on, this gives me the thought of kanmusu New Jersey obsessively watching hours and hours of this YouTube channel, and occasionally talking to the screen when the curator-host speculates about some aspect of the ship that has been lost to time and guesses wrong.

"Ha! No, Ryan, that's not an emergency station! That rack is there because the #2 gun crew needed someplace to hide Drunk Dombrowski from the officers while he slept off shore leave."

Mind you, she's just as likely to learn something herself. "Huh, so that's what that compartment was for. I always assumed it was just overflow storage for the candy store."

Her sisters think this behavior is deeply weird, but she assumes they're just jealous because their museums' YouTube channels aren't as much fun.

--G.
"Jeez, Jersey, why do you have so friggin' many Damage Control lockers? How many DAMCON fairies does one battleship need?" "Semper paratus, Mo. Semper paratus." "That's the Coast Guard, you goon!"
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>
>Tying the thought to UF, this makes me wonder how many years it was
>before my UF equivalent really knew where the hell anything was aboard
>the SDF-17. I have images of him wandering around in his off hours
>with some kind of tourist-map-style deck plan, and it not helping very
>much. "Ah, fuck, this is Daedalus again. We need to
>color-code this shit or something..."
>

Among other things that come to mind, he would have one definite advantage and one possible advantage.

Definite advantage: "EVE, I've managed to get down to E section again somehow."

Possible advantage: Detianism may include minor improvements to memory. Edison Bell never mentioned it as far as I can tell, but it's possible. He was skimming over the full disclosure part just a bit.

Peter Eng
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>Definite advantage: "EVE, I've managed to get down to E section again
>somehow."

"I was watching you and I'm still not sure how you did that."

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

>"Jeez, Jersey, why do you have
>so friggin' many Damage Control lockers?
>How many DAMCON fairies does one battleship need?" "Semper paratus,
>Mo. Semper paratus." "That's the Coast Guard, you goon!"

You have to feel sorry for some of the Soviet and Russian ships, whose DAMCON wasn't as advanced or, sometimes, present.

-VR
"That's all you have Potemkin, ONE DAMCON fairy?" "Da, is still better than poor Moskva."
"They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind,
And I left 'em sweating and stealing a year and a half behind."

Legend has it that many treasures still remain aboard the Wayward Son that will never be found, not because its final resting place is so inhospitable to sentient life, but because Gryphon never wrote down where he left them.

>Legend has it that many treasures still remain aboard the Wayward
>Son that will never be found, not because its final resting place
>is so inhospitable to sentient life, but because Gryphon never wrote
>down where he left them.

Yes, he trusted Vision to remember them all for him.
She, seeing security as an Issue, deleted the records, assuming Gryph would remember them if it was important.

>>Legend has it that many treasures still remain aboard the Wayward
>>Son that will never be found, not because its final resting place
>>is so inhospitable to sentient life, but because Gryphon never wrote
>>down where he left them.
>
>Yes, he trusted Vision to remember them all for him.
>She, seeing security as an Issue, deleted the records, assuming Gryph
>would remember them if it was important.

For years now, I've been convinced that -the- killer app for any IRL AR implementation would be "where the hell are my keys?" for -just this reason-

< Someone as cybered up as Zoner surely would have that baked in at -some- point, right...? >

>
>< Someone as cybered up as Zoner surely would have that baked in at [BR>>-some- point, right...? ]

With the amount of hardware Zoner had in him by the end of the Exile, it's possible that he *was* the keys. Modern cars have something like that with the car key, after all. I can imagine the Daytona from Hell eventually having security levels based on how somebody started the car.

Peter Eng
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Insert humorous comment here.

>>Legend has it that many treasures still remain aboard the Wayward
>>Son that will never be found, not because its final resting place
>>is so inhospitable to sentient life, but because Gryphon never wrote
>>down where he left them.
>
>Yes, he trusted Vision to remember them all for him.
>She, seeing security as an Issue, deleted the records, assuming Gryph
>would remember them if it was important.

Also, she was created during the Exile, so how the hell did he expect her to remember?

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

s/Vision/Eve.

Sigh.