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Should be a wild four years.

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10g
Under 1g easily, far, far less than that probably.

Unless you slam into an immobile object or another aircraft carrier you're barely going to take any force at all.
Assuming the reporting on the merchant ships identity is accurate, the Carriers got a 2 to 1 weight advantage on it. Its also not reporting any flooding. The reactors are fine. Its not like they were playing a game of naval chicken at full speed.

The only thing that's fucked is either the port tugs or the carrier bridge crew, depending on exactly where the collision took place. Either they fucked up in open waters near the port and let a civilian ship get close enough to become a collision risk, or a tug crew fucked up so badly that they assisted the cargo ship right into a terrifying piece of military hardware.

Either way, the aftermath is gonna be interesting to watch play out.
 
you see what im getting at? its a nuanced issue

Go find out and report back before shitting up the board with retarded conjecture
Here I did it for you. 1 google search lead me to this pdf that goes over the various safety features of naval nuclear reactors. It describes the levels of defense against accidents that have been designed into the reactors

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The first being the type used.
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Even the fuel pellets themselves are designed to withstand shock.
 
I'm not going to lie; I HATED this pick, but her credentials are surprisingly decent and she sure knows how to give a compelling opening statement. I hope she and her team makes American education great again if confirmed.
I liked her opening statements. Her remarks were nice and she reminds me of my grandmother.

I pulled my kids from school not long ago. There were some red flags earlier in the year and I just haven’t been impressed with the instruction. It is more hands-on work for me now but they are all responding really well to more individual attention and a more peaceful learning environment. Turns out learning to read is much easier when you aren’t fighting off future doctors engaging in their lunchtime rowdies.

I still get emails from their old school and their screeching, enraged response to the ICE raids only further solidified my resolve. Hopefully McMahon can clear out the rot in education for those families that haven’t given up on public schools altogether.
 
We get it. We're saying "you're wrong."
Valid, Ive been wrong before and Ill be wrong again.

I dont wanna shit up this thread anymore than I already have with this increasingly offtopic convo

I dont mind disagreement, I dont mind if you call me a dumb nigger while you disagree with me, What I think is counterproductive is trying to shut down the whole conversation just because the questions being asked or the discussion seems to call into question "established facts"

I was surprised to see how many people in this thread that so quickly resorted to trying to silence discussion about something because they see this as "settled science" and any question asking isent just seen as foolish but actively to be fought against?

I heard more than 1 reply that sounded as if they were nuclear engineers admonishing a new colleague for a foolish error in logic that any greenhorn should know. But even suppose you were? Go pick up a current medical book and compare it to one from 100 years ago, whole concepts have changed. Now realize nuclear science isent even that old in its entirety and medicine has been around for as long as we have been around yet it still reveals new understandings and facts all the time.

We are talking about putting a nuclear reactor on the high seas, its not just reductionist to assume we have fully mastered any challenges associated with that, its dangerously arrogant in my opinion. I dont want to act or assume like I have some exceptional knowledge about this area I just feel asking questions and thinking about things in unique ways and risk being wrong is important.

I think if you really think im stupid and wrong you can find alot more interesting and funny ways to exploit that then try and shut down an autistic line of thinking but I also recognize this thread isent my blog, I try to find balance and dont always get there.
 
Fundamentally recreating traditional architecture is the equivalent of reshoring manufacturing, as the skillsets and human capital have to be reintroduced (design and technical), while government needs to prioritize it (like Made-in-America) in order to perpetuate a preference cascade in the profession.
We have lost the ability to construct meaningful things with stone and marble.

Or did it simply become obsolete?
 
Valid, Ive been wrong before and Ill be wrong again.

I dont wanna shit up this thread anymore than I already have with this increasingly offtopic convo

I dont mind disagreement, I dont mind if you call me a dumb nigger while you disagree with me, What I think is counterproductive is trying to shut down the whole conversation just because the questions being asked or the discussion seems to call into question "established facts"

I was surprised to see how many people in this thread that so quickly resorted to trying to silence discussion about something because they see this as "settled science" and any question asking isent just seen as foolish but actively to be fought against?

I heard more than 1 reply that sounded as if they were nuclear engineers admonishing a new colleague for a foolish error in logic that any greenhorn should know. But even suppose you were? Go pick up a current medical book and compare it to one from 100 years ago, whole concepts have changed. Now realize nuclear science isent even that old in its entirety and medicine has been around for as long as we have been around yet it still reveals new understandings and facts all the time.

We are talking about putting a nuclear reactor on the high seas, its not just reductionist to assume we have fully mastered any challenges associated with that, its dangerously arrogant in my opinion. I dont want to act or assume like I have some exceptional knowledge about this area I just feel asking questions and thinking about things in unique ways and risk being wrong is important.

I think if you really think im stupid and wrong you can find alot more interesting and funny ways to exploit that then try and shut down an autistic line of thinking but I also recognize this thread isent my blog, I try to find balance and dont always get there.
You rub people the wrong way because you are consistently over multiple topics confidently incorrect in glaringly obvious ways, and then put it on others to prove you wrong instead of the other way around. It makes people less likely to be patient with you.
Questioning something is fine, if you have cause to question it. To not have cause or to not even check and to do it anyway is unproductive.
 
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