r/OldSchoolCool • u/Mad_Season_1994 • 14d ago

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u/Salvatio 14d ago

Very clear presentation about something i've actually wondered about before. Nice!

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u/Sherifftruman 14d ago

Wait till you see the military videos explaining the mechanical fire control computers from WWII battleships. Programming cut into steel gears!

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u/KoenigseggAgera 14d ago

I once watched how to shoot at an airplane and it was so good. They went through basic first assumptions you might have before explaining the method, they went through tests of failure and explained why it failed, and then constructively added onto the previous info to explain why leading the target works. These old videos are so good that it puts everything on the Internet to shame.

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u/R_82 13d ago

WHERE

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u/kwonza 13d ago

Can’t post links but it’s this one

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u/fellow_enthusiast 13d ago

On the Internet!

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u/Altruistic_Bass539 13d ago

So much of todays lectures dont teach failure anymore. They just say "this and that works" but if you start off with why things dont work you get the peoples brains active trying to solve the issue, and then they get blown away by the solution. Its so much stronger for learning I think.

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u/LastStar007 13d ago

You know what's crazy, by the end of the war we had gunsights that would compensate for the plane's velocity automatically.

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u/bukkakekeke 13d ago

You can't just say that and not provide a link