The ship was in drydock (not in the water), so it was already in maintenance-and-repair mode, so things like the fire-pipes (sea water for fire hoses, IIRC) were probably empty, and even if they weren't, the pumps to keep the system charged may have been shutdown. As for flammable materials: non-asbestos pipe insulation can burn (steam pipes all over the place), wire insulation can burn as a secondary fire (generally needs a hot ignition source, ship's emergency batteries can catch fire, the emergency diesel engine fluids can catch fire. And being under maintenance, there could have been cans of paint or solvents or any number of other flammable products on board.

Since I can't read the full article (due to both registration and source language), can someone who does read Japanese, go through the article and check to see how through they were about correcting for atmospheric refraction, using proper ephemeris data for the base distance, etc? Somehow, I think SOHO, STEREO, and professional ground-based solar observatories have a better handle on this.

Facebook has advertisements? Since when? ...hears a whisper... Oh you mean there are actually people who still access Facebook on something other than a phone!?! And they don't have Adblock installed either!?!

They are exactly that, commercial grade reels on commercial grade projectors. However, they are 2nd-run reels sent after the movies are "done" in their normal theater runs. Those then make their rounds to (single screen) theaters on well-established military bases. By the time they make it to Korea or Kuwait they are already 4-6 months late, and you'll see the DVD in the PX in another month. Now, if you're deployed further than that (Iraq, Oman, Bahrain, Afghanistan... ) you aren't getting even those, so you're stuck with cam-rips if you want to see almost any movie you couldn't buy before leaving civilzation. Even care packages from friends or relatives tend to take 4-12 weeks to show up, depending on where you're deployed, and how much spare room is on the cargo plane or helo.