The thought behind the weld was simple. He asked experts if their sons were on board would they rather have a gasket design function 100% guaranteed or have a weld there to back it. The result was both, the belt and suspenders approach. Yes it makes it more difficult. Yes you have to reweld. But like he said, it's our sons, I'd prefer we had some redundancy. As far as surface vessels go, who knows, we may go back to nuke powered destroyers loaded up with electronic weapons.

USS NAUTILUS, the first nuke powered naval vessel and Rickover's dream, pulled into port in February 1957 to be refueled. The refueling was complete by Mid-April 1957. Source

VIRGINIA CLASS Submarines have a life of the ship core. 33 years, no refueling.

Because a huge carrier is so hard to see, I have to listen for it.

no he just screwed up the conversion to metric....

but you also forgot that minimum wage is 7.50, so after taxes your 5 bucks is pretty close

Fail.

"A number that is ten greater than the largest number which is expressible in the English language using no more than 140 letters or numbers."

If you're only better by 1, you didn't try hard enough.

You'll see him about the same time you see Jesus' Brother Bob

Until I trip on the ice in front of a big box store, break the watch open and sue the both the manufacturer of the watch for using Tritium and the big box store for having unsafe practices in regards to ice that could cause both personal injury and environmental concerns in the form of Tritium leaks. The irony of course being that nuclear power plants (which produce tritium as a by product) and big box stores are both things that most Americans don't want in their back yard.

The tritium at Vermont Yankee was contained as well... until it wasn't anymore. But I do agree that they should have to clean it up and pay the price. The generl public does need more confidence in nuclear.

You mean Graving Dock 3, the Jimmy Carter, part of the wall collapsing, and subsequently having initial float-off moved up to the next day, regardless of the fact that equipment was still on the bottom of the dock. But close enough.

Or better yet, grab some EB Green. There's got to be at least one ex-Electric Boat employee working at Vermont Yankee with some laying around at home.

But was it curiosity that killed the cat or was it already dead?

But Justin Long is Apple signed. Once you're apple signed you're not allowed to work on any non apple hardware. Therefore I can assure you we will not be waiting a justin long.

Must have been hard to come up with that one.

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 14, @05:08AM from the calls-to-onstar-have-gone-unanswered dept.

Really? I couldn't see it. this is what i saw