"PS. I am fine."

The narrator reminds me of William Shatner combined with Steve Irwin.

I believe there's an episode of Star Trek (TOS) about the increasing automation and dehumanization of warfare.

And nonsensically, but hey.

Holy crap, Bob Costas needs to retire and shut up forever. He's getting almost evangelistic in his complete and utter disregard for logic and reason.

Neither did I hear him say that we should ban alcohol, since clearly if people didn't drink, these things wouldn't happen.

It was pretty depressing. I'm an enlisted Navy guy, so guess who I was rooting for! But watching that kid's entire life crumble before his tear-soaked eyes really kinda put a damper on that situation.

I have moved, on separate occasions, from Wisconsin to Norfolk, VA, and from Norfolk to NAS Patuxent River, MD and back again in one of these (only with a SHO on the trailer, not whatever the hell that is).

I tried the clone-a-willy thing a long time ago. I assure you, the process is entirely not conducive to the achievement of the end state goal. That is a very technical way of saying that sticking your theoretically erect penis into a precisely 76°F gel and not moving for two minutes is a very, very good way to no…

In the military we have to make people do things they don't want to all the time (that bucket of human excrement in the fan room isn't going to clean itself up), so finding ways to make people want to do things is always an interesting challenge. There is always the old standby - I'll send you to captain's mast and…

As with most preventable disasters (Challenger leaps to mind), the engineers and scientists had been warning for a while before that some nasty shit was going to go down if something didn't change. As with most preventable disasters, middle and upper management either ignored or fired the engineers and scientists…

A million dollars today was worth $449,167.16 in 1984, 28 years ago. Assuming the rate of inflation stays roughly constant over the next 28 years, that's how much a million bucks will be worth in 2040. Less than $500G. Just, you know, keep that in mind.

Following your logic to its - er- logical conclusion, he shoulda just got out a baseball bat and beat him in the head repeatedly while he was down. He didn't fuck up that poor kid's brain enough!

The good news is, those dome mics have clipping protection built in. If the input level (i.e. a football) exceeds a certain level (i.e. a gazillion dB), the amp shuts off to protect his ears. He's a shoo-in for the Pirates' bean-bag toss/catch team contest at their next game, though.

Perhaps I should've been more specific; of course all eight were critical, but did you regularly hook all eight of them up to the shafts?

The Nimitz-class's two A4W reactors provide 260,000SHP, whereas the Enterprise's eight reactors provided 280,000SHP. 20,000SHP makes much more of a difference than 70 feet of length.

I think I can speak for all my fellow sailors on Gizmodo when I say we're all going to miss the Big E a lot. I never served on her personally, but I know a lot of people that did, and they had nothing but great things to say about her.

Nope, only one retrofit. They last ~25 years a pop. The Enterprise really has eight nuclear reactors, as opposed to the Nimitz-class's two reactors. They were from a much earlier era, when nuclear reactors were still a new thing.

This ship was designed when nuclear reactors were still in their infancy. Consequently, they are smaller and less powerful. However, the Big E's eight reactors combined actually produce more power than a Nimitz-class carrier's two reactors do. Therefore, the Enterprise lays claim to the fastest carrier on the water,…

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