New US Warship built from Twin Towers Steel

opinion guy

Hmmm I'm not sure how i feel about this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8337868.stm

Its certainly a statement - u blow up our buildings and we'll build warships out of them. but it also seems quite warped to me somehow in someway i can't really express.

Thoughts ?

humanji

I'm trying to think up a witty comment involving WWII Kamikazi pilots, but I'm drawing a blank.

ShooterSF

It's good to see America taking a pro recycling attitude. The green party would be delighted...

My name is URL

Well it's very American

that's all I'll say

Neamhshuntasach

So now the real reason behind 11/9 surfaces. Conspiracy nuts will have hard ons for days over this one.

dvpower

... now, if Al Queda were to sink it by crashing passenger jets into it, that would be *impressive*.

rizzee

@ Wilson10 - I think he's dyslexic

jumpguy

I agree, it's abit twisted in the way that it seems the US are vouching more for war and retaliation than peace and rememberance, as is usual when it comes to death. Great recycling though.

Prof.Badass

Personally I think it's a bit weird. But I'm not american so why should i care?

Whatever floats their boat i guess.

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longshanks wrote: »

why do you give a fuck onion gay?

Banned.

Kiera

wilson10 wrote: »

Where did onion gay come from ?

The French?

bigeasyeah

Sweeeeeeet

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opinion guy wrote: »

Hmmm I'm not sure how i feel about this:

You need to pick another username.

ScumLord

This video needs updating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWS-FoXbjVI

ejmaztec

It should be a catamaran named Titanic 2.

RMD

"We have to remember. It's a way to honour them,"

Suppose best way of honouring the dead is to build an item used to cause further death. Only in America tbh.

GLaDOS

dvpower wrote: »

... now, if Al Queda were to sink it by crashing passenger jets into it, that would be *impressive*.

Or if they were to crash skyscrapers into it!

sceptre

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Or if they were to crash skyscrapers into it!

Plane is to Skyscraper as Boat is to x.

Solve for x.

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sceptre wrote: »

Plane is to Skyscraper as Boat is to x.

Solve for x.

?

Joey the lips

It brings new meaning to this steel has the sweat and blood of a thousand men.....

jumpguy

Hadassah Shaggy Xylophone wrote: »

?

Yes Hadassah Shaggy Xylophone, where is the love?

GLaDOS

sceptre wrote: »

Plane is to Skyscraper as Boat is to x.

Solve for x.

Surely it would be:

Plane is to Skyscraper as x is to boat.

Solve for x.

(cos the plane and x are the attacking objects and the skyscraper and boat are the victims)

ScumLord

Joey the lips wrote: »

It brings new meaning to this steel has the sweat and blood of a thousand men.....

It'll probably freak out superstitious Muslims. I bet Psyops is spreading all kinds of propaganda throughout the middle east as we speak.

jif

right lets see them knock that fcuker down now then.....said Obama.

bigeasyeah

x = profit

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jumpguy wrote: »

Yes Frada, where is the love?

Are you the OP's brother?

Overheal

Warship my pale ass. BBC spin.

USS New York (LPD-21), the fifth San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, is the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named after the state of New York. The New York has a crew of 360, and can also carry up to 700 Marines.

I guess Amphibious Transport Dock just doesnt have the same ring to it.

If you wanna talk about Weapons she only has 2 Close-in defensive cannons and 2 Point-Defense RAM launcher pods.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_New_York_%28LPD-21%29

peasant

Why a warship?

What's wrong with a bridge, for example?

My name is URL

Overheal wrote: »

Warship my pale ass. BBC spin.



I guess Amphibious Transport Dock just doesnt have the same ring to it.

It can carry up to 700 marines and it's not a War Ship?

I guess they're heading to the Bahamas and not Baghdad then =p

Tipsy Mac

Strange and kind of a touch sickening in a way that salvaged steel from a terrorist attack on innocent people is now going to be used to attack more people, some of them also innocent.

ScumLord

Overheal wrote: »

Warship my pale ass. BBC spin.



I guess Amphibious Transport Dock just doesnt have the same ring to it.

It's still a ship in involved in war stuff, so technically it is a warship.

Overheal

My name is URL wrote: »

It can carry up to 700 marines and it's not a War Ship?

By the same logic a shipment of food and fuel is used for war, too. And a C-17 is a warplane! Look out!

Manic Moran

I certainly can't think of anything better to do with seven tons of steel. It's hardly the entire warship, mind. It is not unusual for the US to name it's warships after battlesites, see the entire Ticonderoga class for example, so why not put some of the ruins into the ship named after the location?

It's not entirely unprecedented as a concept to have symbology incorporated into a ship. For example, HMS Coventry had the Cross of Nails from Coventry Cathedral on board when it went to the Falklands. There's a bit of symbology for you: An item from a house of peace on board a destroyer. After the Falklands War, divers recovered the cross from the shipwreck, and the Royal Navy went and immediately built another HMS Coventry.

Besides, if it makes anyone feel any better, landing ships like that tend to see more practical everyday use in humanitarian missions. The recent tsuanmis in the Pacific rim being a perfect case in point: They have plenty of cargo room and room for helicopters.

NTM

My name is URL

Overheal wrote: »

By the same logic a shipment of food and fuel is used for war, too.

If it's feeding soldiers and fueling tanks then yes, it's wartime military logistics

Grolschevik

It's guaranteed to go down, so...

kowloon

If they really wanted to make a statement they should have used the steel to make a new world trade centre, exactly the same as the old one.
Even more the ship it would serve as a giant F U to the taliban/Iraq/Iran/North Korea or whoever leads the axis of evil this week.

Overheal

My name is URL wrote: »

If it's feeding soldiers and fueling tanks then yes, it's wartime military logistics

Sure. But when you hear the term "Warship" you think The Yamato not a Transport Vessel.

Overheal

Manic Moran wrote: »

There's a bit of symbology for you

>_<

Symbolism. Symbolism.

Fratton Fred

When was the last time a warship killed anyone? Most of em saunter around hot places protecting shipping and allowing their crews to stack up on duty free

Manic Moran

Overheal wrote: »

By the same logic a shipment of food and fuel is used for war, too. And a C-17 is a warplane! Look out!

Dude, it's a combatant vessel, manned by the Navy, it is armed, and has a definite primary role in conventional warfare. How can it not be a warship?

At least the C-17 is unarmed and is theoretically available for private purchase, though I can't think of any private carriers which might want to buy one. I'd still call it a warplane, though.

Symbolism. Symbolism

Fair one.

NTM

Takk

kowloon wrote: »

If they really wanted to make a statement they should have used the steel to make a new world trade centre, shaped like a giant F U, to the taliban/Iraq/Iran/North Korea or whoever leads the axis of evil this week.

FYP

kowloon

Overheal wrote: »

By the same logic a shipment of food and fuel is used for war, too. And a C-17 is a warplane! Look out!

You could fly the C-17 into something. :eek:

Manic Moran

Fratton Fred wrote: »

When was the last time a warship killed anyone? Most of em saunter around hot places protecting shipping and allowing their crews to stack up on duty free

Didn't a German warship kill a couple of pirates last month? I'm fairly sure a French frigate racked up a couple of kills as well. US warships occasionally lob Tomahwk missiles at ground targets.

If they really wanted to make a statement they should have used the steel to make a new world trade centre, shaped like a giant F U, to the taliban/Iraq/Iran/North Korea or whoever leads the axis of evil this week

Problem is that the North Koreans/Iranians/Whoever tend not to tourist in New York, so New York has to come to them.

NTM

walshb

ShooterSF wrote: »

It's good to see America taking a pro recycling attitude. The green party would be delighted...

Yeh, but how damn safe can the steel be?:)

I wouldn't trust travelling on it.

Overheal

kowloon wrote: »

You could fly the C-17 into something. :eek:

And believe me, they fly over my house all the time on approach to the AFB. Sometimes its creepy to hear their engines going to idle as they approach your house just a thousand or so feet up in the air.

LD 50

peasant wrote: »

Why a warship?

What's wrong with a bridge, for example?

They've too many of those as it is.

humanji

peasant wrote: »

Why a warship?

What's wrong with a bridge, for example?

How do you invade a country using a bridge?

Neonlight

peasant wrote: »

Why a warship?

What's wrong with a bridge, for example?

I with peasant on this one.


Build a bridge and bring both sides together By The Redwalls great tune

Still trying to get my head around Onion gay very hostile maybe he,s Muslim?

Joke Mods;)

Firefox10

RMD wrote: »

Suppose best way of honouring the dead is to build an item used to cause further death. Only in America tbh.

Yes....but but are they not usually used freeing some poor population from tyranny and oppression?:rolleyes:

Nodin

peasant wrote: »

Why a warship?

What's wrong with a bridge, for example?

Less easy to kill people with. Generally speaking.

Overheal

humanji wrote: »

How do you invade a country using a bridge?

Try telling that to Medieval Europe.