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I have a thought experiment I was wondering about the other day. If you were given access to modern shipbuilding knowledge/science/computer modeling, but needed to build a ship using only techniques, budgets and materials that might be available to a major naval power in the early 1800's, could you make a fighting ship that would be noticeably superior to leading examples of the time. I assume yes, even just on superior understanding of hydrodynamics and rigging, but I'm interested on hearing from people who have more knowledge than I do.
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Tias posted:I actually misspoke (wrote!), the ones I've ordered is the first Aubrey-Maturin (Master and Commander), and it's already great fun! I felt like an idiot when I got around to reading the first book in that series and realized that the two main characters start off by immediately challenging each other to a duel. I have no idea how I missed it the first time around, I think I figured they were just being politely rude to each other and that was it. Maybe it was just the switch from trash fiction to a book that trusts its readers to understand subtext and so doesn't explicitly say things like "I challenge you to a duel!"
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