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mirth

QuoteHMS Hermes (95) at Pearl Harbor, 1924.

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

mirth

QuoteUSS Albuquerque (SSN 706) approaches USS Frank Cable (AS 40) in Sattahip Bay, March 10, for tended support during its visit to Thailand.

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

mirth

QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth and USS George H. Bush with escorts

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

mirth

QuoteJS Atago (DDG-177)

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

OJsDad

Quote from: mirth on August 02, 2018, 06:12:18 PM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22607/the-navy-could-need-more-than-15-years-and-over-1-5b-to-scrap-uss-enterprise

Reading that article and the talk about how bad US Naval shipyards are at the moment, you can see the need for increase defense spending just to get those, and many other areas of neglect throughout the DOD back to where they need to be. 
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besilarius

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mirth

QuoteHMS Superb fitting out on the River Tyne, circa winter/spring 1909.

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Staggerwing

Hey look- it has it's own floating Carefree Small BuildingTM!
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Armstrong Vickers was located just a couple of miles up river from where I live. All gone now, obviously :-)
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OJsDad

'Here at NASA we all pee the same color.'  Al Harrison from the movie Hidden Figures.

trailrunner

Quote from: OJsDad on August 06, 2018, 12:11:56 PM
http://amp.timeinc.net/thedrive/the-war-zone/22639/this-is-the-only-photo-of-a-u-s-navy-supercarrier-being-sunk?source=dam

I've used photos of that sinkex in my briefings. One of the guys on my team was on the ship when it took the first hit.  The reason it took four weeks is that for the first shots, we were trying to get as much data as possible, so there was a lot of instrumentation to download and deliberation between shots.


OJsDad

I figured it the four weeks was on purpose and that not all the shots were meant to sink her. I'm also thinking there were important things missing like avgas and munitions.
'Here at NASA we all pee the same color.'  Al Harrison from the movie Hidden Figures.

mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus