In D-Day films, most of the landing crafts are depicted as front opening. If this is...?

Answer: In addition to the other answers here, which defend front-opening land.​.​.​ Long's Digest Top Stories For You In D-Day films, most of the landing crafts are depicted as front opening. If this is true, why weren't designs changed? James W. Hoover, History Professor in the U.S. (2001-present) Written Jan 25 In addition to the other answers here, which defend front-opening landing craft as the optimal model, there is another reason for the design that was used. When undertaking ... Read More » What are common stages that PhD student researchers go through with their thesis project? Marc Donner, PhD in Computer Science Written Oct 6, 2016 Enthusiasm, "This is the greatest thesis topic ever. My thesis advisor is brilliant, and I'm even more brilliant. I'm going to receive a Nobel Prize for this work a few week... Read More » Is it true that an aluminum plant in Germany was damaged because it relied upon wind turbines to supply electricity? Apparently the voltage or watts fell below the amount necessary to smelt the metal. Karl Hase, Electrical Engineer at Hewlett Packard Inc Written Nov 7 Aluminum smelting is done at 5VDC — that's FIVE VOLTS DC, not AC. A big important part of the smelter is an AC-to-DC converter just like the one that powers your PC, except ... Read More » If Antarctica was not discovered until the year 1818, then why does it seem to appear on many older maps (dated medieval and before)? Jesus Rueda Rodriguez, Always liked digging around the dusty corners of the past. Updated Oct 21 Indeed, many maps do show a southern continent something like this: Notice the big continent in the south? Impressive huh. That's a 1570 map by Abraham Ortelius. It is huge!... Read More » What are some tricks used by police officers that most people never notice? Edward Schwartz, B.A. Psychology & Management Science, Kean University (1976) Written Jun 14, 2019 Here's a cute one. I was speeding slightly on the Garden State Parkway. Maybe going over 70 in a 65 zone. I never generally speed, but I was late for a friend's mother's fu... Read More » Is it appropriate (as a PhD student) to email other researchers asking about some details in their papers? Bruce Meglino, Professor, Organizational Psychologist, Ph.D. Director Written May 14, 2019 I did exactly that when I was a Ph.D. student working on my dissertation. I sent a letter (no email back then) to one of the founding researchers in my field requesting fur... Read More » Why do satellites use old processors? Jim Lux, Task Manager, Software Defined Radios, JPL Written Dec 9, 2017 Space is a hard business with little tolerance for failure - if your billion dollar comsat has a problem due to a rarely occurring bug, you can't just send a tech out to re... Read More » Does the graduating bottom class of the Ivy League end being as successful or more compared to the overall class at decent colleges? Kenneth Thomas, Deep Springs, Williams, UC Berkeley (etc); Javits Fellow Updated Jul 16, 2019 Perhaps the OQ hasn't heard the old joke? It goes something like this: "At Harvard, the A students go to grad school. The B students go to law school. The C students become in... Read More » When learning algebraic geometry, is there any point spending time on conics, Pappus's hexagon theorem, etc., or is it best to just go straight into varieties, Nullstellensatz, schemes, sheaves, stacks, etc? Alon Amit, PhD in Mathematics; Mathcircler. Written Jan 23 Conics: Oh, yes. Conics are a huge topic, and being familiar with them from an algebro-geometric perspective – for example, understanding that they are all rational – is an... Read More » What is the most horrifying scientific theory that many people do not know about? Huyen Nguyen, Collector of interesting stories Written Feb 11, 2019 This is a fairly recent scientific development that I believe most people haven't heard about: In November last year, a Chinese researcher He Jiankui of Southern University ... Read More » Read More in Your Feed Follow Quora on: Get the App for iOS and Android This email was sent by Quora (650 Castro Street #450, Mountain View, CA 94041). If you don't want to receive this type of email in the future, please unsubscribe.http://www.quora.com/