I've seen both sides argued. A lot of it depended on the perspective of the viewers. Some conservative commentators felt it expressed their view well, while those on the left saw it as a way to show what could happen if imbalances aren't addressed. I love that the movie itself is so open to interpretation and does…

I'm not so sure the Dark Knight trilogy was as blatantly right-wing as people say.

Brazil says "Wait, Avatar made this list, and I didn't make this list? Hippie"

It's too bad Gattaca didn't get the audience it deserved. If more people had seen it, it would have been an easy candidate for this list. I still think it should be here, of course.

How's that well worn copy of Twilight doing?

It's refreshing to read a story about splatting on a boat that doesn't involve the Minnesota Vikings.

There's a house a few miles away from mine like this. The owner put a unicorn sculpture in his yard, and his neighbor's complained. At which point he was like "you don't like my unicorn? Fine, I'll add ten medieval knights around it!" and then kept going until his yard was full of awesome/weird spite statues. I…

Marinette is one of the biggest shipbuilders in the US and has quite a good reputation, the ship was built there because they won the bidding for it and that's where the company is located. Ships by definition move - doesn't matter where they're built. That's like going to a car dealership in California and…

i'm sure it was no consideration whatsoever. you're very likely asking that question for the very first time.

NOAA covers the Great Lakes, too. Perhaps they had a project up there first.

Another commenter responded to me with some insight about the capabilities of this specific builder — suggesting that they went where the expertise is. That made sense. My lone recommendation isn't enough to ungray it, apparently, but this is a smarter conversation with that person's voice in it.

My complete and utter lack of specific knowledge provides me with two possibilities:

1 lowest bidder type deal
2 maybe they need some great lakes work done too. itl do it on the way, 2 birds one stone

your retarded

Yeah It's not like there isn't Ship yards in Washington Oregon or California. They practically litter the west coast not to mention the ones in the Gulf lol.

Thank you, I thought there might be a legitimate reason, I just didn't know what it was. The resource I found referenced a unique type of keel design used in this ship, I wondered if it might be a proprietary design of that builder.

MMC builds LCS ships for the Navy so they can be deployed out in the mid-east and Pacific, and its one of the oldest and few shipyards in the U.S...so its actually pretty lucky to be built in the U.S. Its like saying "why would you build a car in Japan if I'm going to be driving it in the backwoods of no where USA?"…

Most likely some senator had got a nice bit of "campaign money" to get it made there.

Because that's where the lowest bidder builds ships.

That's a good view! I guess I must be xenophobic, lol. But yes, of course they are all hardcore super babes (the only requirement females must have to be heroes!)

One way I cope is that I tend to assume that, among the alien races, I can't readily identify Gender. So the one with the big weird purple head? Female. Rock thing? Female. The Epcot Ball Thing? Female. Fish-head thing? (Who am I kidding, I know that's Tomar-Re) Species-specific facilitator-type third gender that is…