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The U.S. Navy Is Having a Hell of a Time Dismantling the USS Enterprise
Popular Mechanics ^
| 8/9/18
| Kyle Mizokami
Posted on 08/16/2018 10:52:50 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: PeterPrinciple
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The budget is hiding in Algore’s Lock Box.
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posted on
08/16/2018 11:19:28 AM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Rebelbase
What?
Scuttle her over the Marianas Trench.
Is it any surprise that THAT ship refuses to be destroyed? The name alone speaks of a heritage that says, “Bring it, Bro!”
To: PeterPrinciple
Let us know how that works out.
To: Rebelbase
Is the reactor still usable? Not necessarily in a naval vessel but for any other purpose?
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posted on
08/16/2018 11:21:36 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: Billthedrill
They removed the nuclear fuel so the remainder is contaminated rust/sludge inside the piping system. I say the reactor compartment out to sea and dump it somewhere deep.
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posted on
08/16/2018 11:21:55 AM PDT
by
shotgun
To: Rebelbase
Ive asked you and asked you to please stop posting videos on Free Republic from my family reunion.
46
posted on
08/16/2018 11:21:58 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: BBQToadRibs
*cough* laurentian abyssal *cough*
Cc
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posted on
08/16/2018 11:23:54 AM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(Do you know what really burns my ass? A flame about 3 feet high.)
To: blueunicorn6
“Imagine putting seats on the catapults and shooting teenagers into the sea!”
I think you’re onto something here. That could work
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posted on
08/16/2018 11:24:19 AM PDT
by
Figment
To: Rebelbase
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posted on
08/16/2018 11:24:32 AM PDT
by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: shotgun
I say the reactor compartment out to sea and dump it somewhere deep. We can't do that anymore since the 1972 London Dumping Convention. These days we take the reactor vessels to Hanford and bury them.
To: Rebelbase
Strap the propulsion system to a Saturn V rocket, and shoot it into the sun.
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posted on
08/16/2018 11:32:08 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.)
To: PeterPrinciple
The Russian idea is to let their decommissioned nuclear ships sink at their piers.
CC
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posted on
08/16/2018 11:34:04 AM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(Do you know what really burns my ass? A flame about 3 feet high.)
To: roadcat
If scrapped, it would end up as Chinese cars. Which, like the post Fukushima cars, we won't check for radiation at the ports of entry...
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posted on
08/16/2018 11:36:52 AM PDT
by
null and void
(The only people opposing voter ID are people who benefit from voter fraud.)
To: Billthedrill
“thirty-year investments”
50 years active duty
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posted on
08/16/2018 11:45:22 AM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Celtic Conservative
The Russian idea is to let their decommissioned nuclear ships sink at their piers.
Seriously. Sneak the Enterprise into Vladivostok Harbor and scuttle her there. Who would notice?
To: Rebelbase
"Captain, they're tearing her apart!!!"
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posted on
08/16/2018 11:47:43 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Rebelbase
Give it to John McCain, he’ll wreck it within a week.
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posted on
08/16/2018 11:49:44 AM PDT
by
bigbob
(Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
To: Rebelbase
Tow it out to Point Nemo with a pack of hunter killer submarines and have them torpedo it and hit it with the latest weapons until it sinks into the a few miles of water.
As it passes 10,000 feet detonate a 1MT fusion bomb to scatter the parts and render analysis impossible.
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posted on
08/16/2018 11:52:40 AM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(Coming in from the cold .... been a LONG while.)
To: Rebelbase
That makes WAY too much sense! When the cost of salvage/recycling so far exceeds the value of the materials reclaimed - it no longer makes sense to recycle. Pull the nuke plant, then use her for a target where you want a reef.
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posted on
08/16/2018 11:56:50 AM PDT
by
TheBattman
(Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
To: Rebelbase
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posted on
08/16/2018 11:58:15 AM PDT
by
Kommodor
(Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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