“Stop. Don’t. Come back.”
Look what Iran can do that Trump can’t! Actually, so far everything is Iran doing things Trump can’t, like win a war or stop a boat.
Alas, Iran treats their citizens like shit, so about the same give or take on some fronts. heh
Someone earlier said there are no winners in this war, and I’m really inclined to agree.
At leaat they didn’t launch missiles at any middleschools in US.
I wonder if it’s one of those cases of military refusing to follow illegal orders.
Man, that would be nice.
Everyone is reporting on these ships making it through the strait which is still under Iranian control. Few seem to mention the part in the Gulf of Oman where the US is actually implementing its blockade. The poster child, Rich Starry, mentioned in the article, did this a few hours after clearing the strait, still far from the Arabian Sea:
That sure doesn’t look like a ship breaching a blockade without incident.
It’s too early to say how this will play out on a larger scale but for these specific ships a lot of reporting is really fucking misleading at the moment.
So you think a ship that was moving at maybe 5 knots/hr instantly turned around and in less than 30 minutes accelerated past 50 knots/hr?
The fact that you are measuring speed in knots per hour invalidates your point.
Please use a correct measurement, and try again.
…that…that is the correct measurement
I think per hour is already a part of the definition of knot (hence 50 knots not per hour). I think they are just being pedantic.
I’m being accurate. “Knots” is “nautical miles per hour,” as you correctly described.
All you’re doing is being a grammar nazi to someone who at most said the equivalent of “$30 million dollars”, which is technically, thanks to the dollar sign, “thirty million dollars dollars”.
You knew what they meant. I knew what they meant. Everyone knew what they meant. There was absolutely zero ambiguity, so you just come off looking like a prick.
I know what I’m about.
If we are being really pedantic. Knots is a measure of distance, and the fact that people have been using that wrong for several centuries does not turn a rope tied at one point into a time-changing object.
I think there point is that knots is not a measurement of distance over time so you can’t technically travel in knots per hour.
Ostensibly knots per hour would be acceleration, which makes little sense in context
And knots per hour per hour would be a measure of ever-increasing acceleration, so this is getting out of hand quickly now :)
Oh I agree jerk can get out of hand really quickly. But the real fun comes when we get into snap crackle and pop.
For anyone who is unaware, I leave this here for your viewing pleasure.
