cleverlymadeup:

Khell_Sennet:

The US defense strategy is to keep ELEVEN carriers on active duty, except for the Enterprise, all current carriers are now Nimitz...

i also do believe there has always been a ship named Enterprise in the american fleet, all ships baring that name are on the wall of the observation lounge off the main bridge in the enterprise-d in star trek tng

Speaking of which, currently under construction is the USS George R. W. Bush. I kid you not.
Each of those Nimiz's cost $4 billion (basically the most expensive thing you can buy that moves) and cost half a billion each year to maintain, nevermind staff, fuel and have aircraft aboard.

cleverlymadeup:

Khell_Sennet:

The US defense strategy is to keep ELEVEN carriers on active duty, except for the Enterprise, all current carriers are now Nimitz...

i also do believe there has always been a ship named Enterprise in the american fleet, all ships baring that name are on the wall of the observation lounge off the main bridge in the enterprise-d in star trek tng

Yes and no. There are lapses when no ship bears the name Enterprise, but it is a name that recycles a lot. There have been six ships to bear the name, CV-6 Yorktown class Carrier "Enterprise" was the pride of the US Navy during WW2, it is one of the ships depicted in the captain's readyroom on both the NX-01 and the NCC-1701-D Enterprise. The next Enterprise after CV-6 is the current Enterprise Class supercarrier, a single-ship class and the prototype frame of the Nimitz. The Enterprise CVN-65 was also the first nuclear powered carrier in the US Navy, and is the sixth ship to bear the name for America's forces (England used the name 14 times on military ships). To my recollection, the CVN-65 Enterprise is one of the gold models on Picard's wall, but NOT a picture on Archer's... If I'm wrong, it's the other way around, but only one of the two starships had the CVN-65 shown.

Fact: Fire is... well, fiery (in that you can see it) because of glowing gas particles.

Fact: Jellyfish is an annoying PoS.

Fact: Nobody here will get that reference.

stompy:

The Bible, the world's best-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.

I think Ikea is distributing more catalogs than the Bible

The most sold item in a UK supermarket is... Bananas. (beating tins of beans by quite a way)

Omnidum:

stompy:

The Bible, the world's best-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.

I think Ikea is distributing more catalogs than the Bible

The Bible distributes catalogs?

not sure if this one has already been written, but cba to read all the 12 pages:

All polar bears on the north pole are left handed..or pawed, or whatever

FUCK! I lost a post because of the damn site going batshit, and I'd spent quite a lot of time typing it all.

Well, lazy recap.

The Essex/Ticonderoga classes of carrier cost the US a bloody fortune for very little use. Twenty-four completed ships, plus two hulls scrapped mid-production. Thirteen of the Essex hulls were built as the resesign dubbed "Ticonderoga". The Essex (CV-9) was the first-launch of her class, and came too late for the war. She launched in '42, and twenty of her sister-ships launched before the war ended. While some of the earlier Essex/Ticon ships did see notable action in World War 2, none of them could compare to the service history of the Yorktown carriers they followed. Mothballed after WW2, thirteen Ticons reactivated for the Korean War (all 13 saw action), half of which were rebuilt and upgraded at a very high cost. Mothballed again, and reactivated for a second time for the Cold War (not much to do in this war, a lot of floating about, little combat), as with the Korean War, the Ticonderoga hulls that were refitted once got a second revamp including the new angled deck (not a small upgrade to tear off the entire flight deck). Mothballed for a third time, and then scrapped. Of the twenty-four vessels, one was intentionally sunk off the coast of Florida to make an artificial reef, four have been converted to museum ships, and nineteen were scrapped. The ships were designed and amortized for a 50-year service life, most didn't make it past 30, the Hancock (CV-19) lasted longest, remaining active for 33 years. Despite three wars, not a single Essex or Ticonderoga was ever sunk by enemy forces, and no carrier has been sunk in combat since (though they have this bad habit of sinking perfectly good ships to make artificial reefs).

On the topic of decomissioned ships... The US Navy has mothballed and stricken the Forrestal class supercarriers USS Forrestal (CV-59), Saratoga (CV-60), and Independence (CV-62). The Forrestal and Saratoga sit in Newport Rhode Island, Saratoga awaiting conversion to a museum ship and the Forrestal awaiting the scrapyard, and the Independence shares the Forrestal's fate as it sits in Pugot Sound Washington. IF we were to gather up some cash, I bet we could buy these beauties for a steal, seing as how piss-broke the US is right now (pay in Canadian, great rates today)... We could recomission them as the HMS Yahtzee, HMS Flamewar, and my Saratoga could become the HMCS Booya.

Anarchemitis:

Speaking of which, currently under construction is the USS George R. W. Bush. I kid you not.
Each of those Nimiz's cost $4 billion (basically the most expensive thing you can buy that moves) and cost half a billion each year to maintain, nevermind staff, fuel and have aircraft aboard.

I believe you mean the USS George H.W. Bush, for Herbert Walker, the father of our current ____-in-Chief. The one who wasn't so much of a complete f***wit. If the son's legacy is anything, it is to make the father's presidency seem not so bad after all.

@Nicolo: Are you talking about Jellyfish.com?

Anarchemitis:
Science has yet to name that thing where you're about to walk into someone and you both step to the right/left until one of you steps aside.

That already has a name.

A time when your supposed to step to the right.

Geoffrey42:

Anarchemitis:

Speaking of which, currently under construction is the USS George R. W. Bush. I kid you not.
Each of those Nimiz's cost $4 billion (basically the most expensive thing you can buy that moves) and cost half a billion each year to maintain, nevermind staff, fuel and have aircraft aboard.

I believe you mean the USS George H.W. Bush, for Herbert Walker, the father of our current ____-in-Chief. The one who wasn't so much of a complete f***wit. If the son's legacy is anything, it is to make the father's presidency seem not so bad after all.

@Nicolo: Are you talking about Jellyfish.com?

Yes, the HW Shrub is the latest and final launch of the Nimitz class. The launch of George Sr meant the retirement of the Kitty Hawk (CV-63), the last diesel Carrier in the fleet. The next carrier is to be a new class called the Gerald R. Ford class Supercarrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-68) is to launch in 2015, with two as-of-yet unnamed sister ships to follow, you know Shrub Jr has his eye on the 2018 launch.

244 days left till Bush is out of office. lets hope he has the common decency to shut up, sit down, and play with his legos for the next 8 months

if they ever do make a USS George W. Bush, it will be a leaky rubber dingy

the portugese manowar (spelling?) isn't really a jellyfish, but a colony of singe celled organsisms that eahc does a specific job (stingers, digestion, etc)

Nicola Tesla always insisted in staying in a hotel room with a number divisible by three.

He also referenced a pigeon he owned as his wife.

E-dating has been going on since not too long after the invention of the telegraph. Before that it was not uncommon for people to "Date" via mail, and so there is a great historical precedent for dating websites. Most of the relationships even worked back then...

So nobody gonna chip in for the Escapist Carrier Fleet? C'mon, I was gonna go shopping around for some spinners on the screws.

Darth Mobius:
E-dating has been going on since not too long after the invention of the telegraph. Before that it was not uncommon for people to "Date" via mail, and so there is a great historical precedent for dating websites. Most of the relationships even worked back then...

guess they also started one handed typing too

US spent millions of dollars making a pen that can write in space.

Russians used a pencil.

cleverlymadeup:

Darth Mobius:
E-dating has been going on since not too long after the invention of the telegraph. Before that it was not uncommon for people to "Date" via mail, and so there is a great historical precedent for dating websites. Most of the relationships even worked back then...

guess they also started one handed typing too

DAMMIT! That's twice now I got beat to the telegraph-sex joke... Good one cleverlymadeup, very good one...

Khell_Sennet:
So nobody gonna chip in for the Escapist Carrier Fleet? C'mon, I was gonna go shopping around for some spinners on the screws.

I'll tell you what, I have been saving up for an armada of F-117s, but if you supply the flight decks, I will just get some F-14s instead...

cleverlymadeup:

Darth Mobius:
E-dating has been going on since not too long after the invention of the telegraph. Before that it was not uncommon for people to "Date" via mail, and so there is a great historical precedent for dating websites. Most of the relationships even worked back then...

guess they also started one handed typing too

Thankfully, the traditional telegraph was a one button device, so it didn't even require additional dexterity.

cleverlymadeup:

Darth Mobius:
E-dating has been going on since not too long after the invention of the telegraph. Before that it was not uncommon for people to "Date" via mail, and so there is a great historical precedent for dating websites. Most of the relationships even worked back then...

guess they also started one handed typing too

Because when I think sexy, I think "dot dot dash dot dot dot dash dash dot". Oh man, please excuse me for a little while.

Khell_Sennet:
So nobody gonna chip in for the Escapist Carrier Fleet? C'mon, I was gonna go shopping around for some spinners on the screws.

Forget the screws, during world war two (I think Britain) was in the processing of developing an aircraft carrier out of ice.
The only thing that stopped them was that the war ended while they were still testing a miniature version floating in a lake in Canada.

The ice was actually a mixture of wood pulp and water though, which made it more buoyant and not melt as fast.

yea that was the brittish, winston churchill was having the Canadians make it.
well if you make an escapist carrier fleet, I will provide the cables used to slow down the play on landing...I will use rubberbands and pantyhose

TheKnifeJuggler:

Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa, had spent most of his life in jail, but kept his sanity by counting cockroaches.

hmm, that was similair to my experience, except I think they called it the Las Angelas subway

I want a better contractor for the arrestor wires or my squadrons are not going anywhere near this fleet!

*edit I have removed this post becuase it was utterly stupid and could not be fixed. sorry for the inconveniance

No, I think they should splurge for the real arrestor wires.... I still haven't canceled the F-117s, so get some real ones quick....

funny story, true story actually, Rosie O'donnal is a lesbian. no please, ill take time for that to soak in........ well there you go.

I am Haliwali.

Really?

Darth Mobius:
I'll tell you what, I have been saving up for an armada of F-117s, but if you supply the flight decks, I will just get some F-14s instead...

Well we can use a couple Nighthawks, and some decom Tomcats too. If I can talk the Escapist into purchasing at least one carrier, could you see about some old Cobras and Comanche heli's? OOH, and some AV-8B Harriers... None of the damn sea harrier rustbuckets, I want 8B's.

Khell_Sennet:
Well we can use a couple Nighthawks, and some decom Tomcats too. If I can talk the Escapist into purchasing at least one carrier, could you see about some old Cobras and Comanche heli's? OOH, and some AV-8B Harriers... None of the damn sea harrier rustbuckets, I want 8B's.

Can the F-117 survive a carrier landing? (Hey, that's something I don't know, so it fits the thread!)

Pseudonym2:
US spent millions of dollars making a pen that can write in space.

Russians used a pencil.

Yah, I heard that one. Oh, the Russians launched the first man-made satellite into space. They launched a rocket, but it didn't come down. Instead, it caught up in some thing's gravity, causing it to hurtle around in space.

Speaking of which, Jupiter has over 30 natural satilites, and Saturn over 50. And Scientists are curious about the hexagonal shape of the cloud stucture on it's north pole.

We 'dun have nurthin' like that in Texas!

Anarchemitis:
Post your random pieces of trivia no one else would know because you somehow managed to find it.

Here's one: The internet may not be a reliable source of truthful information.

In other news, "somehow managed to find it" is now a euphamism for "pulled it out of my @rse."

werepossum:
Can the F-117 survive a carrier landing? (Hey, that's something I don't know, so it fits the thread!)

Haven't heard of any issues, but it reminds me of a fact worthy of this thread...

The largest known aircraft to land on a carrier was a C-130 Hercules, with vidproof here.
The carrier was the USS Forrestal, the one I want us to purchase (well, one of the three).

Edit: Incase anyone hasn't put it together yet, I'm a military buff. If knowledge of military hardware and history could land me a job that pays decent I'd be in Elysium, but teaching jobs pay poorly and I can't stand the math for engineering. I REALLY wanted to go into military naval ship design, but between the lack of an engineering degree, and the fact I'm Canadian, makes it unlikely I'll ever land a job like that. And I wanted so very bad to build my Catamaran Carrier, a twin-hulled supercarrier capable of launching and receiving aircraft at over twice the rate of a Nimitz, with additional deck space for VTOLs and Helis, a central castle, and increased armaments.