I dont think it would happen. Radar, infrared, flight ops, and double hull construction would make it more than unlikely. But, an interesting concept though.
I'm not thinking embarrassing, I'm thinking mortifying. How many people would die? 6000 crew... Not all of them may make it out. The thought makes me sick.
10:14 I think Professor Susan needs to rethink her math. She is incorrectly comparing the bouyancy of a solid iceberg to the hollow hull of the proposed ship. You can see at 10:41 that the ship is not a solid block of ice, but a hull made of ice. Therefore, the bouyancy of the ship would include the volume of air within the hull below the waterline. Also at 10:41 you can see the draft of the ship is about three times the freeboard, or about 150 feet which would certainly make its operational capabilities very limited. But it's not 500 feet.
but,i dont get the "unsinkable" part of the project if they made it hollow. i mean,an iceberg will be unsinkable,and hard to break,but if you make a hull,it will be very different,and so much easyer to destroy it than a steel carrier.they fuck the whole concept.
@@xiro6 unsinkable is a Little less exagerating than the unsinkable Claim of the Titanic. to sink this you would have to create a hole through many meters of pycrete. when i first heard About it i quickly came About the Question: "what happens if you drop a heavy, Thermite-filled, Bomb on such an object of ice?" if the Thermite melts through it it would probably sink, also the Explosion caused by the sudden boiling of the water might shatter it, or at least cause severe cracking.
@Victor Otero The ‘unsinkable’ part doesn’t come from the fact that it is made of ice in of itself, but rather the fact that the ice would have been chemically reinforced and kept frozen by a huge system of pipes, not only making it more survivable that normal carriers, but also making it way easier to repair (most ships don’t sink within minutes after being struck, but rather hours). Something Dark Docs neglected to mention as he really doesn’t do all that much research.
Let's see, in the early 40's Germany had built a pressurized cabin bomber that could fly up to about 50,000 feet. The British were trying to make a ship out of Ice. Those Whacky Brits!
You've probably already heard of it, but the highest air combat (known/recorded/official) of WW2 was a Spitfire intercepting a Ju-86 at ~44,000 ft over Britain; the 86 escaped but was damaged, and that encounter ended such high altitude nuisance incursions for some time thereafter. The channel Mark Felton Productions published a very good video about that encounter here on YT, the title of which is "Germany's U-2 - WW2s Highest Air Combat."
@Deplorable Centrist or the Brits had thing that won war such as Radar, breaking the Enigma code, Jet Aircraft that weren't death sentences for the pilots
@Deplorable Centrist The 3rd Reich lost the war and that's good. I'd look like a complete fool greeting with a rised right arm. By the way you're a poor fact checker. Nazi Germany never went beyond a primitive stage of research uranium reactor, let alone gathering any nuclear ernergy production. The engineers had some clever ideas indeed, which were sent to void by dull buerocrats of a dictatorship, or the Leader himself. But that's ok so far, cause if the European war had lasted couple of months more, the first nuclear bomb would have hit Berlin instead of Hiroshima. Leave the dead in her graves.
I just found this channel and it's perfect. I like everything about it. I really appreciate all the editing (must be a lot of work) that keeps each video visually interesting, while I hear stuff I've never heard before. Extra likeable thing - the videos just end in a black screen - no nagging for Likes, Subscribes etc. Classy.
This is nuts. I was talking to a buddy at work this morning, about Pycrete. He had to help his father in law move his portable woodmill. The saw dust had gotten wet and froze to the wheels. He was working on it with a sbudbar to chip it away.
Me and some buddies made some around c4 and made some bricks of it to shoot at with army weapons on our ranges amazingly a 6 foot brick 5 foot thick was able to not be blown up by a mk19 he round the c4 of course blew up the 5 pound brick of pycrete around it
I'm wondering if the carriers of the day could have been augmented with a pyke-crete shield, like having 2 walls extended from the hull of the carriers like pontoons? This would have protected the carriers from both ice and German torpedoes, as well as limiting the amount of material required.
The aircaft carrier built of ice and the incendiary Bat Bomb were not altogether impractical ideas but were overtaken by other technologies. The Pykrete Carrier was obsoleted by long-range aircraft and the Bat Bomb was made irrelevant by the atomic bomb.
If you read the description above it says "As images and footage of actual events are not always available, Dark Docs sometimes utilizes similar historical images"
The drawing at 12:44 is not to scale ... which is a bit worrying because its so deceptive. There are people the same height as aeroplanes and landing fields the size of tennis courts it's all very mental what were they thinking!!!
Interesting video. I have a correction, Habakkuk wasn't made because normal carriers couldn't navigate in ice, Habakkuk in particular would have operated anywhere in the North Atlantic, not necessarily near the Arctic. The reason Habakkuk was made was because, first, fleet carriers are vulnerable to submarine attacks (the British already lost several CVs early in the war in anti-submarine patrols, namely HMS Courageous and would later lose Ark Royal to an U-Boot too), fleet carriers were also valuable and were needed for other roles, and they could only operate smaller single engined aircraft rather than twin or four engined patrol aircraft. Interesting ship, it would have been awesome if it had been built, but with longer range patrol aircraft, escort carriers rolling off US shipyards by dozens, and the British getting a new base for patrol aircraft in the Azores, it just wasn't needed. A shame.
My dad used to talk about this, a rifle that could shoot arose the corner and pontoon skis so that troops could cross any river and still shoot. Thanks!
The prototype was built by consciencious objectors who didn't know what they were making. If that's not Canadian then I don't know what is eh. Not taking away from the brave Canadian souls that were lost in defending the way we live. Much respect and thank you.
And after that another possible SR71 topic: their weird flight plans, how they dove to break the sound barrier, and the very real risk of climbing and accelerating too much uncontrollably. Basically everything related to their extreme efforts to save fuel.
@@tieck4408 It didn't have to dive to break the sound barrier. It would do that three times under on its own power. Which is why they couldn't climb and accelerate too much, it would tear itself apart.
In Jasper National Park at the lake there is information on the prototype experiment and it notes that remnants of the experiment rest on the lake bottom. I stumbled upon this while in the park.
I would imagine so, but how to keep the inside from melting? If you build a building out of pykrete, you still have to live inside it--and with people comes heat, lots of it, from our bodies to actual heaters through ventilation, to appliances like stoves.
@@_-.-_-_.._--.-_-_----_-.--_._- ....you run cooling lines inside the walls. When they turned off the coolers for the prototype, it took almost 2 years to melt ( at least according to the information board on the shore of Patricia lake ). But realistically it wouldn't be worth even cooling it. There would be winter again as well as the ice shelf it was built on would have moved and the camp would need to be built somewhere else.
Imagine being the guy first in line to have his subordinate tell him they should make an aircraft carrier out of ice. I bet that guy wss like "you want to fucking do what?"
Spent some summers at Patrica Lake and was told this story. They say there are remains of the compressor or other parts of the prototype still on the bottom.
It's very easy to laugh at such a "silly" idea. But the D-day Mulberry floating harbours were built so big and quickly they were never even tested once. It could have been a disaster, but it all worked out fine for first and only time
It wasnt that the allies were worried about their carriers being sunk by tomorrow icebergs but by uboats, considering hms courageous, hms eagle, and hms ark royal were lost to uboats. The Brits had tried using their fleet carriers as anti sub groups and failed plus at the time the Royal Navy was stretched thin between the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, Indian and pacific theaters. The carrier air arm was just too stretched to deal with the uboats effectively until escort carriers started rolling off. With the gap in the mid Atlantic that land planes couldn't cover they wanted an unsinkable floating airfield that could support 4-engine land based aircraft to cover that gap that would immune to anything the Germans could throw at it. Don't get me wrong I love listening to dark docs but please get the story right when you present. Also dont show the Graf Spee scuttled when talking about sunk allied shipping...
If you could get an iceberg and somehow turn it into a plateau and tow it to whatever position you wanted it to be in and then somehow keep it there like anchor it to the bottom of the ocean floor then you'd have yourself an island a big island to put an airstrip on and you can house a lot of men just by you could you know you can make all your equipment you could die no carve out a base in it even blow the water line you could also make a submarine base blow the water line by carving it out now as far as keeping the men warm that would be another thing I don't know how you keep people warm that was living in this thing maybe you can put bases on the surface maybe you could line the interior with some kind of war material and put a heated but it would you know yeah you can line them the interior walls with something that will protect the ice and still have heat maybe I don't know
Mythbusters tried to make a very crude boat using the same material. They got a boat and it worked but far from ideal, likely more trouble then it’s worth ultimately was the conclusion.
I know the Brits captured an intact U-Boat that the Germans intended to scuttle and procured an Enigma machine subsequently cracking to code, didn't that play a big role in defeating the U-Boats?
Rifle:puts a little dent in the ice Ice:I am invinsable German U-boat:let's fire a torpedo Ice ship:'shatters into little bits' Inventor:back to the drawing bourd
Who was the narrator for this video? His voice sounds very much like Robert Beltran, who played Cdr Chakotay in Star Trek Yoyager. Great speaking voice.
I heard that the Army used Prince Albert National Park lake called Kingsmere to do artillery tests and there may be brass shells in the bottom of the lake. Not too many people know this fact. SASKATCHEWAN 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 🍁
10:25 She's clearly not understanding buoyancy here. IIt would not be 90% underwater. The ship is would not be solid ice, like an iceberg. Second of all the ship would have been over 10% wood, that's going to decrease the density even further. This is obvious, you should have caught this error.
My head rapidly spun around while projectile vomiting for a solid minute after hearing that. It's like, "Thanks for the input lady. Let me help you put your helmet back on."
We probably have plastics, combined with wood/ sawdust, that would be as strong as Pykrete, but wouldn't melt... "Trex," makes a wood/ plastic material, they use to make decking and other things...
I have a recommendation! Could you please examine the claims of Dr. Stephen Greer, with an emphasis on his interview with Richard Doty, former Air Force intelligence officer. I feel his interview smacked of veracity. Very good and important stuff. Thanks for your consideration.
Absolutely mental. It's incredible how far we can go with ideas when we're forced to.
In my grandparents lifetime they witnessed the Wright brothers airplane and Skylab😆
When an iceberg sank a British ship so the British decided to sink other people's ships using an iceberg.
Manuel Moreno
Sounds legit
Touché
They learned their lesson from the Titanic.
sounds like a line from the goon show !
well all the work was done in Canada despite what the empire wants you to think. i would like a video on the AVRO ARROW.
Imagine how embarrasing it would be if a modern aircraft carrier hit an iceberg and sank
I dont think it would happen. Radar, infrared, flight ops, and double hull construction would make it more than unlikely. But, an interesting concept though.
Iceberg can't sink a Carrier😑
US marine what if the iceberg was dropped from a plane?
@@blackbird8632 what if everyone ate too much ice cream and pooped giant icebergs??
I'm not thinking embarrassing, I'm thinking mortifying. How many people would die? 6000 crew... Not all of them may make it out. The thought makes me sick.
I love how in-depth your recounting of these events and stories are.
Keep up the great work!
Willy he either doesnt do his research or he often misspeaks. at the beginning of this vid, he sets the stage as WW1.
10:14 I think Professor Susan needs to rethink her math. She is incorrectly comparing the bouyancy of a solid iceberg to the hollow hull of the proposed ship. You can see at 10:41 that the ship is not a solid block of ice, but a hull made of ice. Therefore, the bouyancy of the ship would include the volume of air within the hull below the waterline.
Also at 10:41 you can see the draft of the ship is about three times the freeboard, or about 150 feet which would certainly make its operational capabilities very limited.
But it's not 500 feet.
but,i dont get the "unsinkable" part of the project if they made it hollow.
i mean,an iceberg will be unsinkable,and hard to break,but if you make a hull,it will be very different,and so much easyer to destroy it than a steel carrier.they fuck the whole concept.
@@xiro6 unsinkable is a Little less exagerating than the unsinkable Claim of the Titanic.
to sink this you would have to create a hole through many meters of pycrete.
when i first heard About it i quickly came About the Question: "what happens if you drop a heavy, Thermite-filled, Bomb on such an object of ice?"
if the Thermite melts through it it would probably sink, also the Explosion caused by the sudden boiling of the water might shatter it, or at least cause severe cracking.
@@xiro6 The hull would be thick enough to survive multiple hits in the same location. They were looking at 40 foot thick hull.
@Victor Otero The ‘unsinkable’ part doesn’t come from the fact that it is made of ice in of itself, but rather the fact that the ice would have been chemically reinforced and kept frozen by a huge system of pipes, not only making it more survivable that normal carriers, but also making it way easier to repair (most ships don’t sink within minutes after being struck, but rather hours). Something Dark Docs neglected to mention as he really doesn’t do all that much research.
Pikecrete ice and wood mixed is how it would be made mythbusters and a few others have done tests and proved it could work
I live in Alberta and have been to that lake several times. You can scuba dive down two the old ship.
It was very top secret back then.
Let's see, in the early 40's Germany had built a pressurized cabin bomber that could fly up to about 50,000 feet. The British were trying to make a ship out of Ice.
Those Whacky Brits!
You've probably already heard of it, but the highest air combat (known/recorded/official) of WW2 was a Spitfire intercepting a Ju-86 at ~44,000 ft over Britain; the 86 escaped but was damaged, and that encounter ended such high altitude nuisance incursions for some time thereafter. The channel Mark Felton Productions published a very good video about that encounter here on YT, the title of which is "Germany's U-2 - WW2s Highest Air Combat."
@Deplorable Centrist or the Brits had thing that won war such as Radar, breaking the Enigma code, Jet Aircraft that weren't death sentences for the pilots
@Deplorable Centrist there tanks were disasters lol
@Deplorable Centrist The 3rd Reich lost the war and that's good. I'd look like a complete fool greeting with a rised right arm.
By the way you're a poor fact checker. Nazi Germany never went beyond a primitive stage of research uranium reactor, let alone gathering any nuclear ernergy production. The engineers had some clever ideas indeed, which were sent to void by dull buerocrats of a dictatorship, or the Leader himself. But that's ok so far, cause if the European war had lasted couple of months more, the first nuclear bomb would have hit Berlin instead of Hiroshima.
Leave the dead in her graves.
It’s just a pity the Germans didn’t put all that ingenuity and high tech into peaceful applications.
I've been to that exact spot in Jasper. I recognized it immediately. I had no idea such an endeavor had ever taken place there. Fascinating!
I just found this channel and it's perfect. I like everything about it. I really appreciate all the editing (must be a lot of work) that keeps each video visually interesting, while I hear stuff I've never heard before. Extra likeable thing - the videos just end in a black screen - no nagging for Likes, Subscribes etc. Classy.
When an iceberg sinks your ship so you use an iceberg to sink everybody’s else’s ships, Cha cha real smooth
It was worth exploring.
I love your videos. You always have the best war docs anywhere.
Mark Felton
I'm surprised there hasn't been a movie made about this guy.
This is nuts. I was talking to a buddy at work this morning, about Pycrete. He had to help his father in law move his portable woodmill. The saw dust had gotten wet and froze to the wheels. He was working on it with a sbudbar to chip it away.
Me and some buddies made some around c4 and made some bricks of it to shoot at with army weapons on our ranges amazingly a 6 foot brick 5 foot thick was able to not be blown up by a mk19 he round the c4 of course blew up the 5 pound brick of pycrete around it
Ive heard about this couple times but getting it covered by you is a joy
Lesson: don't entrust journalists to build technical stuff
Mike Nica
Drop the “en” and everything after the word journalists…
@@applesucks2633 lol
@@applesucks2633 lmao
@@applesucks2633 Yes, just trust your government and corporations. They always tell the truth.
S. SESTRIC you really can’t trust either
Ricocheting bullets at Admiralty testing pycrete with small arms.
Take that Carrier turn it upside down, put a bend in it, and replace the Hoover dam.
I'm wondering if the carriers of the day could have been augmented with a pyke-crete shield, like having 2 walls extended from the hull of the carriers like pontoons? This would have protected the carriers from both ice and German torpedoes, as well as limiting the amount of material required.
I saw a Mythbusters episode where they vastly improved the Pykerete by replacing the wood pulp with alternating sheets of newspaper
The aircaft carrier built of ice and the incendiary Bat Bomb were not altogether impractical ideas but were overtaken by other technologies. The Pykrete Carrier was obsoleted by long-range aircraft and the Bat Bomb was made irrelevant by the atomic bomb.
*German U-Boats sunk 150,000 tons of Allied shipping*
Docs: *shows sinking of St. Istvan*
If you read the description above it says "As images and footage of actual events are not always available, Dark Docs sometimes utilizes similar historical images"
@@mileshigh1321 Yep. Even feature length Documentaries utilize this method.
The drawing at 12:44 is not to scale ... which is a bit worrying because its so deceptive. There are people the same height as aeroplanes and landing fields the size of tennis courts it's all very mental what were they thinking!!!
Clever "the project melts"
Dark docs Deserve A show on Discovery Channel
Interesting video. I have a correction, Habakkuk wasn't made because normal carriers couldn't navigate in ice, Habakkuk in particular would have operated anywhere in the North Atlantic, not necessarily near the Arctic. The reason Habakkuk was made was because, first, fleet carriers are vulnerable to submarine attacks (the British already lost several CVs early in the war in anti-submarine patrols, namely HMS Courageous and would later lose Ark Royal to an U-Boot too), fleet carriers were also valuable and were needed for other roles, and they could only operate smaller single engined aircraft rather than twin or four engined patrol aircraft.
Interesting ship, it would have been awesome if it had been built, but with longer range patrol aircraft, escort carriers rolling off US shipyards by dozens, and the British getting a new base for patrol aircraft in the Azores, it just wasn't needed. A shame.
My dad used to talk about this, a rifle that could shoot arose the corner and pontoon skis so that troops could cross any river and still shoot. Thanks!
I have seen pictures of the rifle that shoots around a corner. It was featured in a sporting magazine years ago.
These is not a joke
I was just talking about this to a fellow attending the same physiotherapist as I am... His father was one of the carpenters at Patricia Lake.
The prototype was built by consciencious objectors who didn't know what they were making. If that's not Canadian then I don't know what is eh. Not taking away from the brave Canadian souls that were lost in defending the way we live. Much respect and thank you.
8:54 That made me laugh out loud. That is really sneaky.
Indeed
can you make a video about when sweden almost shot down the sr-71?
And after that another possible SR71 topic: their weird flight plans, how they dove to break the sound barrier, and the very real risk of climbing and accelerating too much uncontrollably. Basically everything related to their extreme efforts to save fuel.
@Al Pacino search for "sr-71 sweden"
@@tieck4408 It didn't have to dive to break the sound barrier. It would do that three times under on its own power. Which is why they couldn't climb and accelerate too much, it would tear itself apart.
@@Eargesplitten-Loudenboomer indeed cruising at 1800 sound barrier back on the other continent
If the entire crew were from Scotland, would that make those onboard an iceberg ship, scotch on the rocks?
Seriously this channel is so good! Please keep at it and thank you!
Lord Mountbatten was killed and assassinated in the 60s on his boat with a bomb by the IRA.😔
I would like to this done with today's technology. So many times people come up with amazing things that is just a little too soon for their time.
So she says to me, she says “but Rabbi, I don’t Habakkuk!”
SL-1 reactor accident would make a great dark doc
An interesting idea that came to nothing at the time. I’m glad it’s remembered. Pyecrete be used in the future
In Jasper National Park at the lake there is information on the prototype experiment and it notes that remnants of the experiment rest on the lake bottom. I stumbled upon this while in the park.
Could pykrete be a useful building material in Antarctica?
I would imagine so, but how to keep the inside from melting? If you build a building out of pykrete, you still have to live inside it--and with people comes heat, lots of it, from our bodies to actual heaters through ventilation, to appliances like stoves.
@@_-.-_-_.._--.-_-_----_-.--_._- Good for storage, I suppose- also pavement.
@@_-.-_-_.._--.-_-_----_-.--_._- ....you run cooling lines inside the walls.
When they turned off the coolers for the prototype, it took almost 2 years to melt ( at least according to the information board on the shore of Patricia lake ).
But realistically it wouldn't be worth even cooling it. There would be winter again as well as the ice shelf it was built on would have moved and the camp would need to be built somewhere else.
old book "Untold Stories of World War 2" details this, too.
12,000 M29 series vehicles were produced, most of them of the Amphibious "C" model.
I’m totally making some of this this winter.
I love crazy shit like this lmao
"Crazy shit" was walking on the moon when Neil Armstrong was born in 1930.
@@User31129 yep he was 39 years old in 1969
@@clash3583 Lol well played.👍
Me too
Check out the pigeon guided bomb.
Very few channels get an automatic like from me... I've lost count how many you have earned by now! Great work, as always!
Long Live Dark Docs!!!
Imagine being the guy first in line to have his subordinate tell him they should make an aircraft carrier out of ice.
I bet that guy wss like "you want to fucking do what?"
Tahts cool but can you please make a video about operation diamond please???🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I agree
Its those optimistic ideas that helped the Allies win the war.
Noice noice this is dope
They would've had a better chance to just put engines on an iceberg.
Spent some summers at Patrica Lake and was told this story. They say there are remains of the compressor or other parts of the prototype still on the bottom.
It's very easy to laugh at such a "silly" idea. But the D-day Mulberry floating harbours were built so big and quickly they were never even tested once. It could have been a disaster, but it all worked out fine for first and only time
Love me some Dark Docs!
How much wood can Chuck Chuckerson chuck
It wasnt that the allies were worried about their carriers being sunk by tomorrow icebergs but by uboats, considering hms courageous, hms eagle, and hms ark royal were lost to uboats. The Brits had tried using their fleet carriers as anti sub groups and failed plus at the time the Royal Navy was stretched thin between the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, Indian and pacific theaters. The carrier air arm was just too stretched to deal with the uboats effectively until escort carriers started rolling off. With the gap in the mid Atlantic that land planes couldn't cover they wanted an unsinkable floating airfield that could support 4-engine land based aircraft to cover that gap that would immune to anything the Germans could throw at it. Don't get me wrong I love listening to dark docs but please get the story right when you present. Also dont show the Graf Spee scuttled when talking about sunk allied shipping...
Both is a term that means you're listing two items. You've listed three.
@@MinistryOfMagic_DoM thanks, made the correction
When thinking outside the box leads to fantasy island.
Dolphins don’t have lips. They can’t say human words.
not sure why this image is here 2:39 when you are talking about WW1?
They toyed with the idea of using Whipped Cream for a while.
They couldn't figure out how to keep the cherries from falling off the top..
Logging roads were made like this in the late 1800s and early 1900 so that people could work longer . Michigan...
Shame they couldn’t figure a way to skin the steel ship on the outside with this.
Icebreakers become ships of the line
If you could get an iceberg and somehow turn it into a plateau and tow it to whatever position you wanted it to be in and then somehow keep it there like anchor it to the bottom of the ocean floor then you'd have yourself an island a big island to put an airstrip on and you can house a lot of men just by you could you know you can make all your equipment you could die no carve out a base in it even blow the water line you could also make a submarine base blow the water line by carving it out now as far as keeping the men warm that would be another thing I don't know how you keep people warm that was living in this thing maybe you can put bases on the surface maybe you could line the interior with some kind of war material and put a heated but it would you know yeah you can line them the interior walls with something that will protect the ice and still have heat maybe I don't know
When it comes to ice region ships, you go to the Danes.
Using a double barrel shotgun to demonstrate the use of a rifle.
This guy is a real hero, to me. He thought outside the box. He didn't let Big Gov take away his ability to think and innovate!
Are you serious his idea failed....
Soon in a theatre near you: Habakkuk vs. the Hanebu´s
This was awesome.
When he was sporting a goat Pyke looked like Doc Venture
Indeed!!!
Indeed!!! I wonder if that is who he is based on?
Mythbusters tried to make a very crude boat using the same material. They got a boat and it worked but far from ideal, likely more trouble then it’s worth ultimately was the conclusion.
You can't get rid of the habakkuk
a rumbling sound then 3 sharp knocks
Ha- Ba- KUK-Kuk-KUk
Talk about making lemonade out of lemons!
I'm melting for this channel =)
7:15 My grandfather was a cook at the Château Frontenac, the Québec hotel where the demonstration took place.
I know the Brits captured an intact U-Boat that the Germans intended to scuttle and procured an Enigma machine subsequently cracking to code, didn't that play a big role in defeating the U-Boats?
when your drink was hot so you get a chunk of your ship
wow we have the same life frustration and disappointment
It's an old story.
But, never told so well! 👍
Rifle:puts a little dent in the ice
Ice:I am invinsable
German U-boat:let's fire a torpedo
Ice ship:'shatters into little bits'
Inventor:back to the drawing bourd
Yeah... when things freeze, they contract. They don't expand.
Who was the narrator for this video? His voice sounds very much like Robert Beltran, who played Cdr Chakotay in Star Trek Yoyager. Great speaking voice.
first heard of it,from a BBC radio program,some time ago,very interesting concept!
Sounds like it would make a nice skating rink
I like how they always talk of tonnage of ships lost but not how many men.
I heard that the Army used Prince Albert National Park lake called Kingsmere to do artillery tests and there may be brass shells in the bottom of the lake. Not too many people know this fact. SASKATCHEWAN 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 🍁
12:12 Nice concluding sentence. Tight.
sir, I love your channel a lot
Operation ICE!
Cold Docs...
Didn't they do an episode of this on Myth Busters?
Would it sink if it hit an iceberg?
we needed a video on this
what happens when ice hits ice
Awesome
10:25 She's clearly not understanding buoyancy here. IIt would not be 90% underwater. The ship is would not be solid ice, like an iceberg. Second of all the ship would have been over 10% wood, that's going to decrease the density even further.
This is obvious, you should have caught this error.
My head rapidly spun around while projectile vomiting for a solid minute after hearing that. It's like, "Thanks for the input lady. Let me help you put your helmet back on."
We probably have plastics, combined with wood/ sawdust, that would be as strong as Pykrete, but wouldn't melt... "Trex," makes a wood/ plastic material, they use to make decking and other things...
Cool idea, failure notwithstanding.
I have a recommendation! Could you please examine the claims of Dr. Stephen Greer, with an emphasis on his interview with Richard Doty, former Air Force intelligence officer. I feel his interview smacked of veracity. Very good and important stuff. Thanks for your consideration.
I like Dark Chocks !
I remember seeing stuff on using an ice sheet as a landing strip but didn't know about the flipping carrier concept