Got Four Million?

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-06-01 02:22pm

Maybe the Canadian government could buy it since they allready bought 4 crappy subs,whats one more piece of junk for our navy.

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2003-06-01 03:06pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:
StarshipTitanic wrote:He could beach it and fill the ballast and holds with concrete. Maybe operate a small-scale airport.
Hope your not serious.

Of course not!

I say use the money to buy the SS United States, which would be the perfect SD.net sea platform.

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2003-06-01 03:16pm

Don't you all see who's going to buy it? Bill Gates of course, only he and Warren Buffet have the money to buy it, refit it, and get an air force to go with it!

Of course they could also just buy a whole new one, probably cheaper too.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-06-01 04:21pm

Montcalm wrote:Maybe the Canadian government could buy it since they allready bought 4 crappy subs,whats one more piece of junk for our navy.

Actually, your navy a Colossus class carrier from 1946-48. As for the Upholders, they where the best SSK's in the world for years, and are still in the top five, the lease price for all four is about the cost of building a single one of them and at the end of its team each will be bought for 1 pound sterling. You can't beat that deal. Course a diesel sub is utterly useless to the RCN.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-06-01 04:22pm

StarshipTitanic wrote:
Of course not!

I say use the money to buy the SS United States, which would be the perfect SD.net sea platform.

Some cruise line recently signed a contract to buy her, and will be returning it to service.

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2003-06-01 06:21pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:
StarshipTitanic wrote:
Of course not!

I say use the money to buy the SS United States, which would be the perfect SD.net sea platform.
Some cruise line recently signed a contract to buy her, and will be returning it to service.

Ah, just found an article on it! Yay, I was always hoping to take a ride on her...

It's Norwegian Cruise Lines, BTW.

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2003-06-01 06:25pm

It's interesting to see that one of the United States' contemporaries, the SS Norway (ex-SS France of The French Line), is also in their fleet. The SS Norway is also the longest passenger ship ever built.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-06-01 06:29pm

Hey, Microsoft might have the cash to renovate it. Imagine that; a whole new way to enforce their EULA's...

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2003-06-01 06:40pm

What do you think Flight Simulator is for?

MASS BRAINWASHING/TRAINING, THAT'S WHAT!

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-06-01 06:44pm

StarshipTitanic wrote:It's interesting to see that one of the United States' contemporaries, the SS Norway (ex-SS France of The French Line), is also in their fleet. The SS Norway is also the longest passenger ship ever built.

She also just had a major boiler explosion.

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2003-06-01 07:00pm

Well let's see...there are about 1000 people that are members of SD.Net, we devide that amongst $4 million dollers...That means we each pay about....

Ok, everyone save up $4,000 American dollers and send it all to pay pal, we'll buy this thing no problem.

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2003-06-01 07:27pm

it would also cost for fuel and food and any other thing that is needed to make a carrier work

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2003-06-01 07:32pm

Anget Fisher wrote:it would also cost for fuel and food and any other thing that is needed to make a carrier work

Well, we'd just take over some business like Microsoft with it, and then we'd use some of the funds to keep it working.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-06-01 07:59pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:
Montcalm wrote:Maybe the Canadian government could buy it since they allready bought 4 crappy subs,whats one more piece of junk for our navy.
Actually, your navy a Colossus class carrier from 1946-48. As for the Upholders, they where the best SSK's in the world for years, and are still in the top five, the lease price for all four is about the cost of building a single one of them and at the end of its team each will be bought for 1 pound sterling. You can't beat that deal. Course a diesel sub is utterly useless to the RCN.

I know we had carriers and i noticed you got your info on Hazegrey,but their info is incomplete we had at least 4 carrier,maybe 6 i`m not sure but they forgot the HMCS Bonaventure in the list.

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2003-06-01 08:07pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:
StarshipTitanic wrote:It's interesting to see that one of the United States' contemporaries, the SS Norway (ex-SS France of The French Line), is also in their fleet. The SS Norway is also the longest passenger ship ever built.
She also just had a major boiler explosion.

I never said it was intelligent to run the Norway for this long.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2003-06-01 08:40pm

Stormbringer wrote:A Zero is flying condition would be worth more than that carrier. Better to use some crappy modern planes.

Who said I would care about worth?

~Jason

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-06-01 11:24pm

Anget Fisher wrote:it would also cost for fuel and food and any other thing that is needed to make a carrier work

Not to mention the costs needed to update everything and refit the ship. That would probably cost many times the initial cost of the carrier.

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2003-06-01 11:45pm

The Chinese will probably buy it and turn it into a casino.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-06-02 12:01am

Montcalm wrote:
I know we had carriers and i noticed you got your info on Hazegrey,

And you managed that how? I haven't visited that site in months. I use warships1 as my main referance, though in this case I went off memory.

but their info is incomplete we had at least 4 carrier,maybe 6 i`m not sure but they forgot the HMCS Bonaventure in the list.

If you count every escort and light fleet carrier ever in service at any point with the RCN its around ten.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-06-02 01:30am

Sea Skimmer wrote:
RogueIce wrote:
Anyone ever tell you you take the fun out of these things?
Yes. But there are a damn lot of ships which I'd like to see and by all rights should have been saved but end up in the breakers yards. This ship isn't one of them.

U.S.S. Oregon would be a perfect example of a ship that should have been saved. One of dozens, actually.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-06-02 01:37am

Frank Hipper wrote: U.S.S. Oregon would be a perfect example of a ship that should have been saved. One of dozens, actually.

Hell that ship was fucking saved, then the Navy took her back as an ammo barge and she ended up scrapped post war. Damn, out of all the predreadnoughts built, only a single one was preserved and shes encased in concrete. The scrapping of Goben is another crime.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-06-02 01:55am

Sea Skimmer wrote:
Frank Hipper wrote: U.S.S. Oregon would be a perfect example of a ship that should have been saved. One of dozens, actually.
Hell that ship was fucking saved, then the Navy took her back as an ammo barge and she ended up scrapped post war. Damn, out of all the predreadnoughts built, only a single one was preserved and shes encased in concrete. The scrapping of Goben is another crime.

Oregon was absolutely complete, from boilers to breech blocks, until FDR decided to have her scrapped. This was partially carried out, and the fact that she was eventually sold to a Japanese company for final scrapping in 1956 gives rise to the question, did we really need that steel to win the war?
BTW, Here's a fun little site, Pre-Dreadnought Preservation.

Necro99 · Post by **Necro99** » 2003-06-02 09:30pm

HOLY FUCKING MOTHER OF GAWD!!!!!

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-06-02 09:38pm

*Staring at the site, jaw dropped. Sir Nitram comes over, also stares*

Nitram: When we win the Lottery... Can I buy that?

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2003-06-02 09:42pm

If I were Bill Gates I would commission a new Microsoft headquarters. A supercarrier!! Things cost about $5billion to make.. any sensitive new software is probably produced by microsoft anyways, or they could design their own.. land in staff on planes and helicopters and the troll the coasts bombing the shit out of their competitors!