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Originally Posted by TorpX
Being snotty doesn't make you smarter, or even appear smarter. You might want to think a little more before you post.
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No, before YOU post, you might want to actually understand what the person you are responding to is trying to indicate. Otherwise you end up with threads like the above.
For example, if someone writes: "My dog died when he was 24. He was old, sick, blind, deaf, and could barely move around. We finally took him to the vet and had him put down." then an appropriate response doesn't start by saying that your vet lived to 86 years old.
Why not? Because the age of the vet has nothing to do with the subject at hand. Even if you could prove to everyone's satisfaction that no vet had ever died under the age of 24 in the history of the universe, it still wouldn't have anything to do with the topic at hand.
It's the same thing here. The bearings taken by a ship's captain (regardless whether he is zigzagging) have nothing, zero, zip, zilch, nada, rien, to do with the problem of a u-boat captain hitting an enemy vessel with a torpedo and nothing to do with whether this problem can be solved by using a two-bearing, three-bearing, or four-bearing method.
In case that's not clear, let me restate it. I don't care ... not even in the smallest, part of my mind ... how many bearings a captain needs or doesn't need to zigzag effectively. I am concerned with the problem of the u-boat effectively calculating an intercept solution that's close enough for a two-torpedo salvo to hit with at least one fish.