Posted on 02/21/2022 10:12:22 PM PST by BenLurkin
During WW-2 we could build a ship in 90 days. Why is it that these cruise ships all seem to be built overseas. As an aside, that is too darned big for me.
I’m right there with you.
Agree entirely. I don’t get it. It looks like a gigantic floating disaster waiting to happen. Hopefully it doesn’t.
I’ve been on a few cruises and I just don’t think they’re for me. Certainly, jumping on one during the pandemic doesn’t sound very clever.
You actually believe the “pandemic “ is real?
Like the Vasa?
Its size may restrict it from some ports. Key West, for example, is in opposition to such huge ships from docking there.
We did not make the investments in the building yards to accommodate this size ships. Very few commercial ships are built in the United States
The good thing about building ships that big is you don’t have to pay icebergs no nevermind anymore.
My own idea of a vacation is to get away from people but if it’s your thing enjoy! It is impressive.
O/T, my youngest son turns 20 today. I give him credit, he has matured a lot over the past year. He’s working two jobs while finding himself after high school. Who knows, he might be ready for college in a year or two, starting at a community college, of course.
A few reasons:
1-For the cost of less than a moderate hotel room per night, you get the room, food (and sometimes drinks), and entertainment.
2-Let someone else do the driving on vacation (no flying or interstate highways for me, I live 15 minutes away from Port Canaveral).
3-Being able to disconnect from everything. No one in my squadron can call me. I ignore email and news and get to do nothing but relax.
Remember a movie called Goliath Awaits?
Decent flick.
Yep, there's that. There's also Shelley Winters with her "we're all gonna die!" that just had me cracking up every time I watched it.
wonder how many Mk 48 ADCAPs it would take to sink her?
Who knew then that Fred Grandy (Gopher) would become a pub rep!? I read on wiki he does a morning radio talk show in the DC area now.
Yes, which has to be costing them business; it's certainly costing them mine. Odd, because these companies have taken a real shellacking over the last couple of years. But blind ordoxy is more important than profits, apparently.
Jimmy Valentine wrote: “During WW-2 we could build a ship in 90 days. Why is it that these cruise ships all seem to be built overseas. As an aside, that is too darned big for me.”
A WWII Liberty ship was about one seventeenth the size of Wonder of the Seas. Nor did a liberty ship have any of the features of WOTS. Union contracts make it too expensive to build a cruise ship, or any other ship, in the USA.
moovova wrote: “That’s a HUGE norovirus/coronavirus Petri dish”
You’re far more likely to get noro from someone attending public schools. At least on a cruise ship you know that everyone else is vaccinated.
“At least on a cruise ship you know that everyone else is vaccinated.”
Which means absolutely nothing, well, except they are likely to die from it.
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