{"id":44675,"date":"2018-08-27T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=44675"},"modified":"2018-08-26T21:45:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T01:45:30","slug":"critique-of-a-retro-futuristic-battleship-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/08\/27\/critique-of-a-retro-futuristic-battleship-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Critique of a retro-futuristic battleship design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/navalgazing.obormot.net\/The-Battleship-of-the-Future?when=2018-08-24T12:04:28Z\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Naval Gazing<\/em><\/a>, a bit of informed criticism of a September 1940 <em>Popular Mechanics<\/em> article on the future of battleships:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I recently ran across the following spread from a 1940 edition of <em>Popular Mechanics<\/em>. It&#8217;s an interesting study in the way that outsiders get warship design very, very wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_44676\" style=\"width: 828px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Battleship-of-the-future-Popular-Mechanics-1940-09.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44676\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Battleship-of-the-future-Popular-Mechanics-1940-09-818x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"818\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-large wp-image-44676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Battleship-of-the-future-Popular-Mechanics-1940-09-818x640.jpg 818w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Battleship-of-the-future-Popular-Mechanics-1940-09-150x117.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Battleship-of-the-future-Popular-Mechanics-1940-09-480x376.jpg 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Battleship-of-the-future-Popular-Mechanics-1940-09-768x601.jpg 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Battleship-of-the-future-Popular-Mechanics-1940-09.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-44676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to see full-size image.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Naval Gazing, a bit of informed criticism of a September 1940 Popular Mechanics article on the future of battleships: I recently ran across the following spread from a 1940 edition of Popular Mechanics. It&#8217;s an interesting study in the way that outsiders get warship design very, very wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,230],"tags":[140,477,30,61],"class_list":["post-44675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-military","category-ww2","tag-design","tag-magazines","tag-navy","tag-ships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bCz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44678,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44675\/revisions\/44678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}