wait holy shit the orc juggernaught actually IS a steamship, it's got paddlewheels!!!!!!
June 1, 2026 at 5:03 AM
wait holy shit the orc juggernaught actually IS a steamship, it's got paddlewheels!!!!!!
her paddles are even on the plans!
September 28, 2026 at 9:18 PM
her paddles are even on the plans!
I had no idea that UK carriers had paddlewheels, as shown in the second photo.
December 9, 2024 at 4:10 PM
I had no idea that UK carriers had paddlewheels, as shown in the second photo.
Just read a breathless press release claiming a ship is the first "hybrid" to burn fossil fuels and use windpower, and my dudes you are not even fucking close.
October 26, 2023 at 7:47 AM
Just read a breathless press release claiming a ship is the first "hybrid" to burn fossil fuels and use windpower, and my dudes you are not even fucking close.
It's also possible that they were struggling to get their head around Waverley itself. As the last of its breed it's pretty extraordinary.
For one thing it can be going at 16 knots *and then stop in its own length*. That's extraordinary.
For one thing it can be going at 16 knots *and then stop in its own length*. That's extraordinary.
February 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
It's also possible that they were struggling to get their head around Waverley itself. As the last of its breed it's pretty extraordinary.
For one thing it can be going at 16 knots *and then stop in its own length*. That's extraordinary.
For one thing it can be going at 16 knots *and then stop in its own length*. That's extraordinary.
Paddlewheel Graveyard. Tucked secretly among the spruce trees and the west bank of the Yukon River. Most abandoned when ground travel became more popular. #yukon #DawsonCity #klondike #goldrush #paddlewheels #riverboats #canadaheritage #urbandecay
February 8, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Paddlewheel Graveyard. Tucked secretly among the spruce trees and the west bank of the Yukon River. Most abandoned when ground travel became more popular. #yukon #DawsonCity #klondike #goldrush #paddlewheels #riverboats #canadaheritage #urbandecay
I can’t believe you would say that! I do entirely neurotypical things, like identifying steamboats from their paddlewheels!
March 21, 2026 at 12:15 PM
I can’t believe you would say that! I do entirely neurotypical things, like identifying steamboats from their paddlewheels!
Some minerals I didn't know much about, part 2:
Carpathite - an organic mineral, natural form of coronene (coron- prefix meaning 'Crown'), a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH).
Paddlewheelite - uranium mineral named for its crystal structure, which features nano-paddlewheels!
Carpathite - an organic mineral, natural form of coronene (coron- prefix meaning 'Crown'), a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH).
Paddlewheelite - uranium mineral named for its crystal structure, which features nano-paddlewheels!
Behold, the #MinCup35 bracket!
Use it to follow along, plan campaigns to support your favs, or make predictions on how voting will shake out. We start at the top left on September 1st, then alternate left and right as we work our way down.
Use it to follow along, plan campaigns to support your favs, or make predictions on how voting will shake out. We start at the top left on September 1st, then alternate left and right as we work our way down.
August 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Some minerals I didn't know much about, part 2:
Carpathite - an organic mineral, natural form of coronene (coron- prefix meaning 'Crown'), a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH).
Paddlewheelite - uranium mineral named for its crystal structure, which features nano-paddlewheels!
Carpathite - an organic mineral, natural form of coronene (coron- prefix meaning 'Crown'), a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH).
Paddlewheelite - uranium mineral named for its crystal structure, which features nano-paddlewheels!
Paddlewheels for Peace.
We are the laughingstock of the world because of our moronic and psychotic president. Deservedly so.
February 22, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Paddlewheels for Peace.
Some say that if you put your ear to the stone, you can still hear the paddlewheels turning in the distance....
October 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Some say that if you put your ear to the stone, you can still hear the paddlewheels turning in the distance....
In this pre-print, we've been using 3D electron diffraction again, this time to study metal-organic polyhedra containing Zn(II) paddlewheels in work led by Matt, Bea, and Calum.
chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....
chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....
3D electron diffraction shows structural flexibility in rare Zn(II) paddlewheel-based metal-organic polyhedra | ChemRxiv
Zinc paddlewheels are widely found in metal-organic frameworks, but found more sparingly
in porous molecules. Here we report some of the first examples of metal-organic polyhedra
containing zinc paddl...
chemrxiv.org
July 7, 2026 at 8:19 AM
In this pre-print, we've been using 3D electron diffraction again, this time to study metal-organic polyhedra containing Zn(II) paddlewheels in work led by Matt, Bea, and Calum.
chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....
chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....
so it's like a trackhoe, but it's on a little barge and has paddlewheels?
would that make it a paddlehoe?
would that make it a paddlehoe?
May 29, 2026 at 5:50 PM
so it's like a trackhoe, but it's on a little barge and has paddlewheels?
would that make it a paddlehoe?
would that make it a paddlehoe?
Yep. And paddlewheels for submarines. Makes them go twice as fast.
August 15, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Yep. And paddlewheels for submarines. Makes them go twice as fast.
There were leaf boats and handmade paddlewheels in the vernal brook in my great uncle Carle's meadow on Ashley Lake
May 15, 2024 at 11:14 PM
There were leaf boats and handmade paddlewheels in the vernal brook in my great uncle Carle's meadow on Ashley Lake
And paddlewheels down the Ole Mississippi…start the banjos and minstrel show!
December 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
And paddlewheels down the Ole Mississippi…start the banjos and minstrel show!
You can also see the paddlewheels through a porthole. This is slowed down to 0.25 speed.
September 3, 2026 at 10:16 AM
You can also see the paddlewheels through a porthole. This is slowed down to 0.25 speed.
The problem here is that even though they're offset, the steam usually arrives in the other two cylinders via the HP cylinder, and you can immediately see the issue if it's not taking any...
The paddlewheels wanting to shove everything in the other direction likely didn't help either.
The paddlewheels wanting to shove everything in the other direction likely didn't help either.
February 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The problem here is that even though they're offset, the steam usually arrives in the other two cylinders via the HP cylinder, and you can immediately see the issue if it's not taking any...
The paddlewheels wanting to shove everything in the other direction likely didn't help either.
The paddlewheels wanting to shove everything in the other direction likely didn't help either.
They use paddlewheels at the Melbourne zoo
October 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
They use paddlewheels at the Melbourne zoo
Before it was "Pool 1" this was a fairly calm and shallow part of the River known as "Cheever's Landing," able to land big steamboats. "Saint Paul" is shown here just below the U of M campus in 1904. Travel was also very weather dependent, in a high dry summer you could walk across the river here.
June 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Before it was "Pool 1" this was a fairly calm and shallow part of the River known as "Cheever's Landing," able to land big steamboats. "Saint Paul" is shown here just below the U of M campus in 1904. Travel was also very weather dependent, in a high dry summer you could walk across the river here.
Oxovanadium(IV) Thiocarboxylate Paddlewheels Containing Ancillary Group 10 Metals: A Comparative Study on Pd and Pt Derivatives | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Oxovanadium(IV) Thiocarboxylate Paddlewheels Containing Ancillary Group 10 Metals: A Comparative Study on Pd and Pt Derivatives
Vanadyl-containing paddlewheel structures have recently joined the pool of molecular spin systems showing respectable coherence times (Tm). We extended the investigation of [PtVO(SOCR)4] (R = Me, Ph) ...
pubs.acs.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Oxovanadium(IV) Thiocarboxylate Paddlewheels Containing Ancillary Group 10 Metals: A Comparative Study on Pd and Pt Derivatives | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Hey Steve, glad you are here with us tonight, too. Some of my early years were spent in the heartland, taking paddlewheels from St. Louis to St. Paul, Omaha to Chicago. I loved it!
September 15, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Hey Steve, glad you are here with us tonight, too. Some of my early years were spent in the heartland, taking paddlewheels from St. Louis to St. Paul, Omaha to Chicago. I loved it!
While they're at it, let's replace the turbines with paddlewheels.
This is absolutely ridiculous. For all its potential pitfalls, the Ford aircraft carriers are built entirely around the EMALS system, and "replacing" it with steam catapults - which require large amounts of space and personnel - is simply not a realistic option. www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...
Exclusive | Trump Orders Navy to Restore Old Technology in Aircraft Carriers, Costing Billions
The Navy spent years fighting the president’s push to go back to steam catapults.
www.wsj.com
August 13, 2026 at 10:44 PM
While they're at it, let's replace the turbines with paddlewheels.
So if Trump wants paddlewheels, does Trump get paddlewheels?
August 15, 2026 at 9:19 PM
So if Trump wants paddlewheels, does Trump get paddlewheels?
Skimmer boat? DC Water runs a small fleet, backed up by US Army Corps of Engineers debris boats for the bigger flotsam. But there are not cute paddlewheels, if that's what you're seeing. www.google.com/maps/place/W...
www.google.com
December 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Skimmer boat? DC Water runs a small fleet, backed up by US Army Corps of Engineers debris boats for the bigger flotsam. But there are not cute paddlewheels, if that's what you're seeing. www.google.com/maps/place/W...
Souvenir pennant in Japan, my collection.
"Shimoda", Shizuoka Prefecture.
Shimoda is a town located in the Izu Peninsula. This pennant depicts the U.S. Navy frigate USS Susquehanna (a KUROFUNE, a Black Ship), which arrived in Shimoda in 1854.
Length 86cm (33.8in). Circa the 1970s. #vintage
"Shimoda", Shizuoka Prefecture.
Shimoda is a town located in the Izu Peninsula. This pennant depicts the U.S. Navy frigate USS Susquehanna (a KUROFUNE, a Black Ship), which arrived in Shimoda in 1854.
Length 86cm (33.8in). Circa the 1970s. #vintage
July 31, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Souvenir pennant in Japan, my collection.
"Shimoda", Shizuoka Prefecture.
Shimoda is a town located in the Izu Peninsula. This pennant depicts the U.S. Navy frigate USS Susquehanna (a KUROFUNE, a Black Ship), which arrived in Shimoda in 1854.
Length 86cm (33.8in). Circa the 1970s. #vintage
"Shimoda", Shizuoka Prefecture.
Shimoda is a town located in the Izu Peninsula. This pennant depicts the U.S. Navy frigate USS Susquehanna (a KUROFUNE, a Black Ship), which arrived in Shimoda in 1854.
Length 86cm (33.8in). Circa the 1970s. #vintage