Al Murray
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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That engine will work in a straight line, right?
There will be the things you have at the start of the engine and the output at the end, right?
But they have to fit it into a box.
a square box in the armoured box inside the ship.
So what they've had to do is, you know, pack it in.
So it all bends round itself and it's sort of concentric and all this sort of stuff.
There's obviously a bit that has to be at the back of that box, but then everything else is curling round inside.
I expect if it was a straight line, that engine would be as long as the ship, but they have to pack it all into the space they've got.
Yeah, that's exactly what it's like.
Yeah, all crammed in together.
It's all got to fit in together.
And obviously, all of it clad in lovely asbestos.
And there are asbestos warnings absolutely everywhere in the ship.
And it says, please do not touch or damage the asbestos.
Well, at least the sign's up.
And you made a really great observation, which ties into what you just said, is that you said it's like a cottage.
It feels like an old country house, you know, ramp.
sort of rambling with lots of different staircases that pop up in different places and Bakelite telephones.
So it feels like an old country house.
But when you get into the shell room, that doesn't.