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  1. 4 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Interesting.  I thought they closed off the floating dry dock and pumped out the interior, but apparently not.  They pump out the spaces in the dock itself.

    Don’t have to build water tight doors this way I guess. 

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  2. Battleship New Jersey Curator explains the reasons why they can’t just park the ship in mud or encase it in concrete like the Mikasa. 29:25 mark. 
     

    And yes, someone needs to pull him aside and discuss his method of wearing a belt. 

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  3. 8 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:


    I was aboard New Jersey about a month ago. Really nice shape but it’s in a rough location.

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    It’s less than ideal, but he’s clearly monetized his media and built up support to keep the NJ in good shape. Him being around the Texas is a very good thing. 
     

    That last picture reminded me that they had a periscope in one of the engine rooms to observe the exhaust and refine the mixture in the boilers to make the ship less visible.  

     

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  4. 7 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    I think I’ve watched all 1,500+ of his videos.  I can tell you where the New Jersey’s captains silver service set is stored, how they moved ammo through the ship from turret to turret, and how the steam system worked, among other things.

    Yup. It’s good stuff, and he has certainly taken the camera to every nook and cranny of that ship

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  5. 40 minutes ago, totallynotabuttpirate said:

    All this publicity should help the foundation with fundraising. 

    I believe the battleship New Jersey curator is going to pay a visit in preparation for that ship’s upcoming dry dock visit. He has a pretty solid YouTube following so that should help too. 

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  6. 27 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

    They still haven't done anything with the Astrodome right?  Put your hands together Houston.

    Great idea. The Roman figured this out 2000 years ago. Flood the dome and stage mock battles with the Texas reliving the a ruins it participated in. 
     

    Profit. 

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  7. 1 hour ago, PRONG HORN said:

    I think they should drag it onto the land like the boats at Seawolf park in Galveston. In 50 years no one will really care about it, so If it's not cheap and easy to take care of, they'll eventually quit on her.  It will just cost too much.  

    I think that becomes an issue as the hull is designed to be supported from all sides in the water and starts to sag otherwise. HMS Victory was having that issue. Perhaps, as suggested above, encased in concrete like the Mikasa might be an option. 
     

    Where to park it so that it draws the visitors needed to support its upkeep will be interesting.  

     

     

  8. 33 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    The tailgating at old Aloha Stadium was top notch.  There's not nearly enough parking around this stadium to replicate that.

    I wasn’t really thinking about tailgating. I was thinking about playing in a more than half empty decrepit stadium. This looks like it could be a more intimate atmosphere with a usually full, albeit smaller even when built out, stadium. And it’s right next to downtown if that suits anyone’s needs for generic Hawaii and beaches. 

  9. 51 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    Throwing the offensive coordinator under the bus in his first game at Nebraska, whom you hired from Pitt in the offseason, is a nice touch.

     

     

     

    If only one could surmise that an offensive system runs better with an actual NFL talent under center. 

  10. 1 minute ago, Porterhouse said:

    I can’t even remember the discussion. I just thought it was hysterical that only bottom 90% fly coach. It’s an absurd notion. 

    I had more than a few private jet owners tell me that they did just that. One I really respected had us fly him to JFK where he met his kids. He told us they were flying coach over to Europe from there, because he wanted his kids to have some understanding and appreciation for what the average joe was doing. Or catch a ride on a ULCC and be see how many doctors are onboard when the FA’s ask for help with a medical emergency. 

    You’re correct. It’s absurd.

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  11. 1 minute ago, Brew said:

    Ours has the pee in the tube device, but I’m going to pass on that. Not to mention the thought of sitting in a Cessna for 18 hours sound horrible. I’m not flying commercial to Hawaii because I hate being on a plane for very long, much less a Cessna.

    To each their own. I wouldn’t be relieving myself next to someone else, but by myself? No big deal. 18 hours in a Cessna? Yeah, that’s a special kind of suck.

  12. On 7/25/2022 at 2:08 PM, Porterhouse said:

    ???  The guy’s an idiot but your comment makes no sense. 1% (and 0.1%) guys fly coach all the time. 

    Can’t wait to fly out of Love Field Wednesday morning with my whole family. 

    I’ve flown Brian Kelly in a private jet before so he travels that way sometimes too. He may have been traveling on donated hours or as supplemental lift, but he knew a shit ton about the product which suggests to me that it might have been on his own dime as well.

  13. 13 hours ago, Brew said:

    That is a big old nope for me. Every time I fly on our plane, I have to take a leak like an hour into it. 5 hour flight commercial, no problem. 2 hour flight on our C90, I’m counting down the minutes. It’s all in my head, but it is stuck there at this point.

    Sporty’s has devices that solve this little conundrum.  Or you could just buy a jar or repurpose a Gatorade bottle.

  14. I thought it was ok. I think part of the problem is that I was invested in the original GOT characters after having read the series, and everyone in the prequals are figures from the lightly fleshed out backstory.

    So I’ll give it some time to see if they can build up a character or three with the depth and dialogue that we saw in the original series. 

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  15. 3 minutes ago, freyguy said:

    It's not an original thought, but I am to the point that I feel we unfortunately need to be showing the injuries and deaths from each of these shootings to the public in repeated, gory detail.  Gun nuts will still keep their heads in the sand while jamming their guns up their collective asses, and their wives will cry that their darling precious childrens' innocence isn't being protected.  But frankly we're long past other of ways to convince the rest of the populace on this.

    It would be shocking at first, but eventually we’d become desensitized to it. 

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