I assure you, both the Lincoln and Stennis have flight decks that measure 1,049 feet in length. Many optical tricks can be played when the background is the ocean.

Sea Control is one of the fundamental tenets of US Naval doctrine. Ensuring that all sea lanes are open for commercial travel and free, unencumbered access is a large part of why we exist. The photos above illustrate another tenet - Power Projection - a tool we use to achieve the other tenets, as well as being a…

Not all have been mothballed. The USS Wisconsin is still in "inactive reserve" at Norfolk. It is not functioning, but could be made ready for sea in - I think - about 30 days? I know it was reactivated for the first Gulf War.

It is indeed. To both.

I agree that CIWS is a last-ditch defense layer, but recent software updates have given these guys the ability to network with each other, share each others' targets and tracks, and pick and choose accordingly to ensure an even fire distribution. Helps against multiple incoming projectiles immensely.

One of the lesser publicized facts of US Carrier groups is that there is always at least one LA-class attack sub that is part of that group. Since there are two carriers right there, odds are very good that there are two or more US subs quite close by. I wouldn't be too worried.

Worth mentioning is the fact that three aircraft carriers can reduce any small to medium-size country to dust in an amazingly short time span. We're talking about ~150 Super Hornets, each dropping several tons of high explosives, then rinsing and repeating 24/7.

No, that's about it. There are usually some M/H/SH-60 Seahawks in and around the area, though they may have been in the hangar bay.

Me too, buddy.

Yeah. A meteor.

Eat yer heart out, Paul Bunyan.

Bravo.

Bad news, bro - that's in most new Ford products. My 2012 Mustang does that.

The '11+ Mustang GT's gauge lights, with the premium cluster, are unbelievably bright at full blast. I actually have to squint my eyes to try to block it out. I use the panel brightness knob quite often.

That's my point exactly - if people would just take a little time out of their lives to understand the things around them, there would be a lot less paranoia and panic in this country. Indeed, in this world. We've gotten so ignorant as a country that anything and everything freaks us out and leaves us with lasting…

Big Brother would never do anything to betray you, the peoples', trust!

And belief in danger to life is entirely dependent on one's knowledge of the subject at hand. Knowing what other events generally indicate an imminent crash, and knowing that not a single one of those other events is happening, would alleviate that belief to a large extent. Generally, one is not about to crash into…

Well first, I've never experienced anything resembling hard sleep on an airplane. I've been worken up from actual hard sleep by mortar attacks (quite close ones), and my first thought is, "Not again." I'm not what you'd call "excitable".

Also, generally such announcements are automated because:

*Hears automated announcement saying we're making a water landing