Hi roycv Roy,
I thoght that the Lock Ness Monster DID exsist, and Father Christmas,
My wife always lets me put out a mince pie for Father Christmas and a carrot for Rudolph and they have always gone on Christmas morning.
So he must do!!! if not WHO eats them ???
I know she likes mince pies but she's not too keen on raw carrot's, and she is always up before me ??😂😂

I think this is a worrying development. Has A.I. had a sense of humour all the time? Putting up such ludicrous options as possible answers suggests A.I. can make a joke.

The lovely Donald wishes to appear in passports, on banknotes and why not the father of the modern Navy with his Battleship in the fore! US Defiant I think he wishes to call it. The ship already exists in a smaller and more efficient form so nothing new, as usual!

I also worry that A.I. may know more than we do and has inadvertantly confessed to actually knowing that the Loch Ness monster does exist, can this be subtle confirmation?

I will not sleep so well tonight knowing this!

Roy

This time the AI ​​wanted to give everyone a point.

Im surprised trump not declared himself as the savour jesus christ himself.🤣🤣🤣
Philuk👍

Not according to Donald Trump, he is 🤣

Steve, is AI developing a conscience? Mr Spock? Commander Data?

Hi, Ross, this one should have been given to us on the 1st April 😁😁.

It at least it made me laugh.!!😆😁😂.. especially after the grumbles and controversy of yesterday's question.

and now May 3rd's QoD. Is AI attempting to grovel?? guilt??

I think that Ai 💥 has got, (to put it crudely), it's knickers in a twist over the May 2nd question.😆
I was going to put wheel 🤔 but I was also considering helm 🤔🤔 !! I thought either was correct and when I noticed just how many wrong answers to correct ones there had been, it didn't help me at all. That's when I just took a complete guess and hit the shortest answer...🙈.

They do, Captain's table or Ist Lt's table..

I agree Nick - I would wonder if they still have defaulters parade in the modern navy ?

Hey Pat. Anyone who gets done for bad conduct is likely to end up "Aft with his cap off"...

A crude meaning of CONDUCT

TO GET IT TO WHERE IT NEEDS TO GO ?

A train conductor. To get you to your seat.

An electical conductor. To get the electricity to where it is needed

Conduct of a vessel. To control the path it needs to go on to get the vessel where it needs to go.

TO DIRECT IT (PERSON) WHERE IT NEEDS TO GO

To bring Roy's point in, to direct HOW it is done

Yes I think the term Con comes from our cousins across the pond, anyone given Conduct in the RN will either be relishing the experience or more likely be very worried in case he/she makes a c*ck up.
To be given Conduct means you have full control of everything that happens on the ship - it's normally done to give prospective Commanding Officers to get Command Experience or indeed when The CO is not actually onboard.
Remember when HMS Nottingham hit Wolfe Rock - The Commanding Officer - Commander Richards Farrington was not actually aboard at the time. What was surprising about this that the CO, the XO and the navigator were all WAFU's - cant help but think what was the appointers doing !! But - because the ship was his Commander Farrington got Court Marshalled - did not do him that much harm as he ended up as a Commodore.
And just a point to note the Captain of an RN ship is the Commanding Officer - very few ships have a 4 Ringed Captain as CO its more likely a Commander these days - Not that we have that many ships now but maybe that for another discussion at sometime

Isn't "the con" more an American term?

Hi Pat you make a good case I recall, I have the conn as an expression that I was surprised to find may have come from conduct.

I have never heard conduct used as being in charge. Rather conduct being an approved manner of behaviour, like he conducts himself well.
Regards
Roy

William Hartnell in The Cruel Sea when Compass Rose left Harbour " Coxwain on the wheel!"

The helm is not a term used in the Royal Navy except perhaps in sailing dinghies - I put the wheel because the person steering a ship does exactly what he is told and has no input into direction or speed etc

In fact in the older ships they could not even see where they were going and the correct terms are either

You have the Ship / I have the Ship or
You have Conduct/ I have Conduct

Depending on the situation

My thoughts exactly, Roy, but the helm is the steering system. the question asked about the steering WHEEL

Who has the helm, or I have the helm, are in common use 'on board'.
Roy

Well at least I am not alone in getting it wrong. I always thought the HELM was the area where the Ships Wheel was, and included all the steering gear required to manoeuvre the boat/ship. The Wheel is just a part of the HELM, hence it is sometimes called the Helm Wheel. 😉 After doing much research to find out why I was supposedly wrong. I had to edit this. Ai has chosen as it's answer as a common term for the ships wheel. However after much research the HELM is definitely the means by which a boat/ship is guided through the water using the steering gear. The part that the Helmsman uses can be a tiller, steering oar (obviously a form of rudder itself), joystick or wheel all connected to the rudder. All of the interconnection apparatus, the part the Helmsman touches and the rudder is classed as the helm. The term Helm "instrument by which a ship is steered," from Old English helma "rudder; position of guidance, control," from Proto-Germanic *helmaz (source also of Old Norse hjalm, Old High German helmo, German Helm "handle") I doubt anyone will admit to the Ai getting it wrong.

I believe three of the answers could be correct .
Rick

If it had been WHAT IS THE NAME FOR A BOAT'S STEERING? I believe the answer should be HELM👎

Hi, Phil-
"I must say steve s you are looking good for a man of that age".

Thanks for that Phil, but you haven't seen my "War wounds"....... mainly caused with a slip of the stanley knife 🤕🤕------but I had them treated by Florence Nightingale 🙄😉.
As for the May 1st q-o-t-d you are right, Ai made it the shortest answer, but the answer was in the question this time.👍🙄. The last four questions of April were all the longest answers..😐

Another wrong answer!

Ha being crafty today it was the shortest answer but did mot catch me out 🤣🤣
Philuk👍

I understand the motion is derived from the way a Porpoise moves through the water, and is called "porpoising". They used the term a lot in Formula 1 racing when they had all that trouble with the aerodynamics. Unlike the oceanographic glider the F1 cars were not doing it on porpoise. Sorry, I just had to say it. 😉

The retractable sail was very fascinating, however, a real stroke of genius.

Process of elimination bought into play. Only one answer mentioned Wings, gliders have wings so I took a chance. They should have had "wings" in two of the choices, just to make it more of a challenge...😎😎

Todays answer is not correct they do not use sails but pitch backwards and forwards to dive and rise causing movement.
Philuk👍

I did not know that either ,but I thought it was such a clever idea I wanted it to be the answer.
Roy

How are we meant to know the answer to this one.The only reason I knew the answer is my interest in drones and have looked into underwater types during my research into building autonomy into my RC submarine

I must say steve s you are looking good for a man of that age😂
Philuk👍

Well, Roy I hoped you weren't going to ask me that!😮.
You have given me a right headache.. 🤕🤕

When I was 20 years young on board the Golden Hind with Drake, circumnavigating the World, in 1580, that meant I was 245 years old on HMS Victory when we defeated the French and Spanish at the Battle of Trafalgar, in 1805, so now I must be.... 466 😁 I think ?😁😁. That was harder than Q-O-T-D.

When I mentioned the MLC rules to Admiral Nelson he nearly had me keelhauled.😮.

Hi Steve , Just how old are you????😮😮😮
Roy

Roy,
With that comment you obvious haven't been fighting onboard one of Sir Francis Drake's or Admiral Nelson's Galleons like what I av ⛵😁😁😁⛵.......

The last 3 questions are nearly "revision questions" (April 23, 24, 25). The cable one I got wrong the last time ☹️

In my thinking if you were to the leeward of an enemy you would be leaning over and pointing your guns higher giving more range to fire.
Whereas the enemy ship would be leaning towards you with guns dipped lower and less range. Possibly having to close the lower gun ports.
But what do I know it all seems a bit dangerous to me.
Roy

Sorry, I was in the wrong topic.
I deleted it.

It's the first time I have got that question right! I chose longest answer and crossed my fingers
Roy

Answer B could have been correct if it had stated gun ports clear to windward, rather than smoke clearing, which was the killer part of that answer. Read all the answers firast before jumping in.

Not to mention the gun ports of the leeward vessel being above the waterline

That's true, Nick, but until everyone learns the problems of staying downwind in the days of galeons and vessels, the AI ​​will never give up, hahahahah.

Repeat question...

APRIL 21

Is this question bad?

I Wouold like to thank you all that said they were glad that my op went well..
I now just need to get through the stiches out and the recovery physio.
I can't wait to get back behind thewheel of my car again, but my wife is holding me back on that
so is one of my sons and he lives 250 miles away. they say fitness first. OH WELL.

Good to hear the op went well, you are one step closer to becoming bionic man

Regards
Ed

Glad to hear your op went well. Hopefully the 6 weeks will pass quickly! Sorry to hear about your brother in law. Best wishes Duncan

Glad your op went well but very sorry to hear about your brother inlaw.
My brother died in india the first i knew was when his step daugther rang me to tell me he had died and his body had been cremated in india the next day.
Philuk👍

i am back home, my op went well. I spentnone night in hospital, never slept at all.
No real pain just ached quit a bit. got sent out the next day.
then to top it the following day my brother in law has passed away. I couldn't even drive to get to see him in the hospital..
Because i am so unsteady on my feet my wife wouldnt let me go in a cab to visit him in the other hospital also because of nurovirous that was in there.
i have known him for 60 years, since I left school, he has been like a second dad to me, I am devistated. I don't know what to do now.
This is hard to do left handed, my right arms in a sling for at least 4 weeks and I cant drive for at lest 6 to 8 weeks I'm told . It's a reverse joint operation , ball and socket done the opposite way round.






















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Another one with a built in answer!