Gothamist: Fleet Week 2008: Ships, Helicopter Raids & More

Abraham Rappahannock

Thu, 22 May 2008 08:56:17 -0500

anyway those sailors are fucking hotties!

Spiritof76

Wed, 21 May 2008 18:25:25 -0500

Remember the Challenger space shuttle? The Columbia? Any of the dozens of launch vehicles that had to be self-destructed even in recent years? Yeah, it's a good idea to put try to send up tens of thousands of tons of nuclear waste (including spent, not depleted, uranium) on what are potentially giant powder kegs, so we can all be showered with waste if one blows. Especially plutonium, which is extremely toxic if inhaled. Not to mention the trillions of dollars it would take to build the tens of thousands of launch vehicles needed, each with enough fuel to achieve escape velocity.

TheTruth

Wed, 21 May 2008 10:13:29 -0500

Depleted uranium is heavier than monkeys.

tingo

Wed, 21 May 2008 01:43:26 -0500

Nuclear energy is probably our best bet nowadays. Better embrace it. And yeah, why the hell can't we send the waste to space? Never understood that. We send monkeys.

steveballmer

Tue, 20 May 2008 23:13:06 -0500

I remember fleet week! We used to come to town and .... opps I better not saY. Lock away your daughters people!

bxbrian

Tue, 20 May 2008 22:11:51 -0500

@nik13 Huh? What about garlic and curry? Retard flamers are confusing the hell out of me.

finnthecat

Tue, 20 May 2008 21:22:18 -0500

we're not much of a racist, are we?

nik13

Tue, 20 May 2008 21:04:50 -0500

Stink coming off unwashed outer-borough subway riders is more dangerous than nuclear powered warships. Garlic & curry are WMDs on congested mass transit. Especially in NYC heat, among population averse to water like stray cats.

bxbrian

Tue, 20 May 2008 19:59:47 -0500

agreed. my friend is set to work on a part of the fleet in VA. no significant threat to the nuke ships based on their design. and this comes from someone who's very "earth-conscious"

Spiritof76

Tue, 20 May 2008 19:22:52 -0500

NYC "bars nuclear-powered craft from the harbor"--which means many of the newer Naval carriers are effectively banned. Not "many." All. Only one carrier still on active duty is non-nuclear, the ancient Kitty Hawk, and it's planned to be decommissioned later this year. The JFK, which visited in 2005, was decommissioned and mothballed last year. The only carrier older than the Kitty Hawk still in use is the good old Enterprise, and that'll be gone in four years. Who came up with this stupid decision to ban nuclear ships anyway? I have no love for war, but this smacks of peaceniks or antinuclear protesters run amok.