Who Likes Ships? We Have Aircraft and Trains.
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Detective D
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The Bond version
The real life version:
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Detective D
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Lockheed experimented with stealth on navy ships after they had success with the bombers.
The idea was shape, and also materials to try to reflect radar and sonar also. Initially it was going to be trialed on a submarine, but no one would fund it or sign up to buy it, so they took the geometry tech of the materials for reflection and made a boat.
The Bond boat was written based on that premise. In the movie, amusingly, when the "big fight" with the military and the stealth ship occurred, as they could not achieve electronic lock or position they used old school visual targeting and a broadside of naval guns to shoot the stealth ship full of holes
Clever writing that, I am sure they knew Americans have a soft spot for giant naval ship guns.....The real ship ended up going to auction to be scrapped.
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It's slated for scrap now isn't it?
End of an era. Like the red barns in the midwest all falling in on themselves after being around for over a century. Sad and inevitable in our society I suppose.
It's going to be sunk off the Gulf coast of Florida to form the world's largest artificial reef.
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Well then, depending on regulations they pass regarding it, people might be able to go see it for a few years more yet
It's funny when I think on stuff like this. It is easy to do so given my background in rural WI dairy farming. The scale of economy from that era to modern day, how skewed things have gotten. Look at some of the buildings and equipment they made back then, and look at stuff nowdays.
People will say stuff like : it cost blah blah back in 1935, but that's like $500,000 in today's money!!"
And All I can think of is "so like.... 10 chevy trucks. And not even the good ones."
Not any more, but maybe 30 years back, that ship could have been refurb'd into a real fancy shmancy "event" type experience, like a recreation of sailing the Atlantic on the titanic of sorts. People would have paid good money for a unique type of "cruise". Hop on in the US, get dropped off in Europe, either fly back or spend a week there, and the same for people from over there.
Except it would have cost so much to overhaul in "today's money" there is no way it could be done.
That's what is funny, to me. It costs so much for somthing like that we couldn't even repair that ship. Make me wonder how the cruise ship companies manage, how do they build a new ship?
So they will sink it instead.
It's just a shame. But, not like I could afford it either so what do you do right?
edit: That's how it is for the red barns from my earlier post. They are caving in because the roof needs replacement. Who can afford a roof that big for a building like that? Even farmers today, the bank won;t finance it because it is not a "critical building" to the operation, and farmers nowdays live like big business with a fluid cash balance between debt cieling and current debt. So even on active farms, the barns go bad and get bulldozed.
It bothers me. Like we can;t afford our own heritage because of how the financials work now days.
