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Mighty warship feels the sting (Australian jellyfish attack USS Ronald Reagan!)
news.com.au ^
| 27th January 2006
| Roberta Mancuso
Posted on 01/27/2006 12:23:44 AM PST by naturalman1975
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Be afraid... be very afraid.
To: naturalman1975
SciFi Channel is probably working on one of their boffo Original Movies about this. It will be written, filmed, and premiered within the month. January, I mean.
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posted on
01/27/2006 12:26:52 AM PST
by
Darkwolf377
(http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/#quotes)
To: Darkwolf377
Let's see... a squid gets sucked into a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and DOESN'T DIE! It mutates into an incredibly cheesy looking CGI devil-squid that the crew of the carrier must stop before it gets onto the mainland and takes over the world... Criminy, sounds like I should apply for a screenwriting job there...
To: Darkwolf377
Oh great, my buddy probably had to deal with that. He works in one of the AC&R shops in engineering.
To: Archangel86
"Let's see... a squid gets sucked into a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and DOESN'T DIE!"
now we know where Al Gore came from...
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posted on
01/27/2006 12:33:49 AM PST
by
ferri
(Be Politically Incorrect: Support the Constitution!)
To: naturalman1975
Those things are the most dangerous creatures prowling the seas today. A sting from one (and in a worst case scenario several) of them on a swimmer will lead to what is described as the most intense pain imaginable (together with intense backache, headache, shooting pains in their muscles, chest and abdomen, nausea, anxiety, restlessness, vomiting, and potentially pulmonary oedema and complete heart failure), and when a person is out at sea that basically implies drowning. The Irukandji (the name of this particular type of jellyfish) is worse than any shark (living or extinct) that ever called the sea home.
Now, sharks are obviously the most known of the aquatic dangers, but to be honest with you the Irukandji is a far greater danger. When it comes to jellyfish most people know better (at least I hope they do) than to mess with them, and thus they will stay away from the Portuguese Man-o-war (which I had float maybe 10 feet from me once), and the larger variety of Box jellyfish .....however the irukandji (which is related to the Box) is only mere centimeters long. For all practical purposes it cannot be easily seen, and woe unto anyone who swims into a mass of them. Now that is one bad way to go.
Now, this article doesn't say whether it was irukandji that got inside the Reagan, but the photograph shown is of the Irukandji.
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posted on
01/27/2006 12:36:21 AM PST
by
spetznaz
(Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
To: spetznaz
You're right. They cause extremely nasty conditions.
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posted on
01/27/2006 12:37:53 AM PST
by
CarrotAndStick
(The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
To: naturalman1975
The nuclear-powered ship suffered a similar problem in June 2004 when a main condenser was fouled with several hundred squid and octopi following a four day port visit to Valparaiso, Chile. I'll bet that the next day the dining halls had a seafood special.
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posted on
01/27/2006 12:38:04 AM PST
by
iowamark
To: naturalman1975
A handful of people today protested its presence but their plans to kayak out to the "killing machine" were thwarted by tight security. ROTFL
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posted on
01/27/2006 12:42:02 AM PST
by
iowamark
To: CarrotAndStick
They cause you not to wear pants ?
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posted on
01/27/2006 12:42:45 AM PST
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
To: naturalman1975
you know damn well the crew had a laugh about it,
if there anything like me,despite the problems caused they probably were all like "hey that was pretty cool" and laughed the whole time,
i seen a video of a test torpedo launch on a ship and it only shot out half way, right away the crew started going into hystirics,
i love our military
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posted on
01/27/2006 12:48:29 AM PST
by
MetalHeadConservative35
(Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes. (i fear the greeks even when they bring gifts))
To: MetalHeadConservative35
Of course they did - I'm an ex-sailor myself. As long as nobody gets hurt (or maybe I should say permanently hurt) a lot of things are very funny. I once dropped a boat into the water - having neglected to put the bungs in. I knew what to do though - I boarded her and 'went down with my ship'. Only thing I could do at the time.
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posted on
01/27/2006 12:55:09 AM PST
by
naturalman1975
(Sure, give peace a chance - but si vis pacem, para bellum.)
To: naturalman1975
The warship stands 77m high from the waterline, 344m long
That's about how big Australian jellyfish are :)
To: Archangel86
Starring Angie Everhard and Mark Harmon. And lots of cheesy rubber monsters! And don't forget how all these movies have two titles...
Nuclear Octo-Squid:Terror Downunder!
Followed two months later by Nuclear Octo-Squid 2:The New Breed
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posted on
01/27/2006 1:08:54 AM PST
by
Darkwolf377
(http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/#quotes)
To: miliantnutcase
He needs to cobble together some kind of ray gun in the engineering shop. "Die jellyfish, die!!!"
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posted on
01/27/2006 1:09:44 AM PST
by
Darkwolf377
(http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/#quotes)
To: naturalman1975
A handful of people today protested its presence but their plans to kayak out to the "killing machine" were thwarted by tight security.
Talk about bringing a knife to a gun fight.
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posted on
01/27/2006 1:12:29 AM PST
by
kb2614
(Hell hath no fury than a bureaucrat scorned.)
To: naturalman1975
What is needed is tons of peanut butter to go with all that jellyfish.
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posted on
01/27/2006 1:22:22 AM PST
by
Old Seadog
(Inside every old person is a young person saying "WTF happened?".)
To: naturalman1975
Haha.
All I can say is Ick. Cleaning jellyfish and squid of the machinery has got to be a form of punishment.
To: kb2614
5 metre race, from a standing start, Kayak versus Carrier, though... who would win that one?
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posted on
01/27/2006 1:40:25 AM PST
by
naturalman1975
(Sure, give peace a chance - but si vis pacem, para bellum.)
To: naturalman1975
Anyone have any ideas what a torpedo would do to a kayak?
*I'm going to have this image stuck in my head all day now. :p
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