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108 points

He thinks that because “batteries are heavy” that it’s impossible to build an electric boat.

Is he not aware that aircraft carriers exist?

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12 points

I’m pretty sure aircraft carriers are nuclear powered.

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34 points

They’re pointing out that aircraft carriers are heavy as fuck and float just fine.

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Fair enough.

I guess I assumed that people were thinking of electric-battery powered boats based on the discussion. But if its just a matter of weight, we all know that boats can be arbitrarily heavy and still float (as long as they are big enough to compensate for that weight).

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39 points

No electric, though. If it had electric, it would be too heavy. And if there was a shark 10 feet away? Not a chance.

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7 points

How do you think nuclear power works?

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You’re completely right. But it is incredibly fucking hilarious to me that, out of context, your question to an assumed layperson is that they should know how nuclear power (a very complex subject that I (a power plant operator who worked at a nuclear power plant in various contracting capacities for about ten years) cannot fully explain) works.

Idk, it’s like overhearing from a table over in a restaurant “how do you think brain surgery works?” How the fuck should anybody without intense familiarity with such a niche subject know that?

But yes, you are absolutely right. All you have to do is google “do nuclear subs have batteries” lmao. We all could have that level of knowledge with two seconds of “work”.

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No-no-no, this sucker’s electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 jigawatts of electricity I need.

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5 points

ONE POINT TWENTY ONE JIGAWATTS??!!

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71 points

They make diesel electric subs that run on battery only when they are under water. Since like WW1

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62 points

Yes, but diesel floats on water, so it lifts the battery. Checkmate, you peepeehead

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38 points

Submarines famously sink. Double secret checkmate!!!

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5 points

Since the fucking Boer War. It was old technology by the time WWI started.

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6 points

I’m fairly sure he doesn’t know that in WWII, the US used some ships made of concrete.

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It’s a reference to a previous speech in which he attempted to create an imaginary dilemma of having to choose between being electrocuted or eaten by a shark. That’s the “clever question”, because the boat salesman had never heard anyone ask that question.

The boat salesman was probably just being polite, because it’s a stupid question. It’s not a dilemma or even a contradiction. He’s just making a sort of false equivalence and hoping that people are afraid of sharks so he can sell them his opinion on electric boats. In the same speech he also spent considerable time talking about how people ought to be afraid of sharks.

The addition of a snake and the credibility of his late uncle is a wonderful development of the story. He’s probably going to add more stuff to it until he touches some topic that people actually care about…

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I really wish i could get away with this shit at my job. Like, “…and then my uncle, who was the victim of a radical abortion, someone once told me that, and the left has no idea, no idea, most people do…” and then my colleagues just applaud and I get a promotion.

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There was something about his stories being completely made up every time he starts with someone calling him “sir”.

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