and then the armed version, which is called reaper. and all the different technologies about it. you see this all the time on the news, and i ve had students now do dissertations about it, about what does it mean that these people are fighting in afghanistan and killing our enemies from air-conditioned, darkened trailers in las vegas? and how do they feel about it? and what do they say about it? and what is their reaction to it? one of my students who just finished his dissertation last summer was an air force fighter pilot, and he went in and did an anthropological study of these remote systems. and none of them actually said what samuel dana green said, but they said very many things that are very, very similar to that. and a few summers ago the air force held a symposium which i was invited to give the keynote for, called the future operator. who are we going to be, they asked themselves. because pilots are no longer the social who have always been the social backbone of
spacious and comfortable. it looks as though you might as well have a gymnasium here and a beautiful galley here and the lovely ward room, which actually was pretty lovely. that s the one part of it that may be accurate, although not quite that big, and everybody enjoying a grand time below decks. looking again at the cross section, all these questions become very interesting when you start to open up and look inside this tin can and say what is going on in there. well, one thing that was the life below decks. very simplified geometric representation here was pretty intense and pretty difficult at times, and turned out to be a major bottleneck in the combat effectiveness of not just this monitor, but all of them. same thing in the turret in different ways, the ability to fire coherently at the enemy, accuracy, we heard a little bit about that now, out of the turret and out of the pilot house. a more complicated story. i was really drawn, and i mentioned my literary background
years about the monitor was the work that they ve done here in the museum with children. and in what is now the monitor and pop culture gallery, a few years ago was basically full of children s art about the monitor versus the merrimack battle. and it was just amazing to see how this ship which still speaks to me after i wrote a book about b. it ten years ago and clearly speaks to all the people here in this room still in different ways speaks to children who are learning about it. and you found in these images everything from some kids just drew sailing boats, didn t want to deal with it at all. other kids drew, you know, fiery representations of the battle. one was sort of like jackson pollack, just scribbly mess, but the title said war is messy. and this one i actually published in the book from a young man named austin duch sto who lives here in virginia, just a very, very beautiful simple rendering of the ship where in a sense he really captured ericsson s origi
be on the deck up above. and keeler would describe lying in his bed looking up at the skylight. and the water would roll in and then roll out. and there would be fish swimming around in the skylight. it reminds you of something from jules vern s 20,000 leagues underneath the sea. it mentions the monitor in its first page. so very much a model for what later becomes a modern vision of a submarine home. again, the turret is of course the iconic picture of what the monitor was all about. there are many other interesting novel design features worthy of note and worthy of study. but the turret, as you see again on the refrigerator that anna got in that wonderful new exhibit on pop culture monitor really was the thing that said monitor to people. here, again one of the famous pictures, very carefully lined up so that the dents from the virginia s shells are very clearly shown to the photographer. you can see the pilot house there in the background and the two guns pointing out. sam
hello from asia. i m chloe cho. chinese stocks mark their in three months as concerns about the banking and monetary policy weigh on and i m ross westgate in europe. stocks fall and investors continue throughout the weakening dollar to a 14-year low. hello and welcome to cnbc s worldwide exchange. of course, it s thanksgiving in the u.s. today, so all markets there are closed. so the ftse cnbc global 300 runs on without any u.s. influence later in the day. at the moment, it s down 31 points. we had, as chloe said, the asian session is down heavily. the ftse 100 down 1.5%. . xetra dax down 1.8%. tons of action on the currency markets this morning. the dollar has hit a 14-month low against the yen. the dollar at the moment, 86.89. we ve been as low as 86.30. traders have been down. euro/dollar has pulled back from its session high. we re up near 1.51, just back to 1.5066. sterling has dropped back a little bit, 1.65. and euro/sterling, is up to .9112 at the moment. we l