Interesting. I didn't think my comment showed up, as I couldn't see it. It seems that I lost the featured commenter privileges I used to have here once upon a time because I rarely comment here.
pauljones
pauljones
It was a very impressive and enjoyable rant, though. As a guy who loves ships, and particularly old ocean liners (SS United States, SS France, RMS Queen Mary), I completely agree. Cruises and cruise ships are just a terrible idea.
Um... Satire. The article is satirical in nature. Note the sardonic references to the Titanic, romantic getaways with your life preserver, etc.
As a rule, the spread of something like Legionnaires or some other virus is a much more common threat than a fire or a collision, but when it comes down to it, a fire would scare me more than anything else. If I get sick, I'm going to be incredibly unpleasant for a week or so, complain about the experience for the…
Mainly because it's not quite relevant to the argument.
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I would agree that if a platform were designed to be scaled up two full size categories and across two different market niches, then you would likely be quite correct in that creating that variation would not be a problem. The European Ford Transit is a fair example of a platform designed to accommodate many different…
Also, that custom Mustang that you pictured? Look up its build history. It's not quite as straight-forward as you're thinking.
The Lincoln LS shared a mid-size luxury sedan platform with the the S-Type, a platform that was later cut-down into the Thunderbird. It was not a smaller platform stretched to fit a car that was two size categories larger and a significantly more luxurious.Which is what we're talking about.
Read my reply to PS9 above; there is a very big difference between taking a larger platform (300, Charger) and shortening it into a slightly smaller coupe (Challenger) and taking a smaller platform (Corvair) and ballooning it out to make a much larger vehicle (Greenbrier).
I sense that you're misunderstanding argument. Significantly.
If you want to go for a bit more of a macabre note, Iron Bottom Sound (also known as Savo Sound) off of Guadalcanal has roughly 50 major wrecks from WWII, along with countless other debris.
It can be a huge technical problem if the platform isn't designed with that in mind.
The Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facilities, particularly the one in Philadelphia, were also once quite impressive. In recent years, though, there has been a concerted effort to get rid of these old ships once and for all in order to mitigate the environmental effects they were having just from being stored.
The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group in Tucson, Arizona where obsolete military aircraft are stored.
Which young actress/model will he put through a creepy, humiliating filmed audition that he'll mysteriously lose the recording of? Who will surpass Shia LeBeouf as the most annoying kid in Hollywood? And how will Megatron come back from the dead this time?
...And you just argued my point for me.
I would highly doubt that the new Lincoln MKS will be built on the Mustang platform; there is simply far, far too much of a size difference between the two cars. Unless we want the 1971-1973 Mustang busses back, that size difference would be enough to kill that idea. Also consider that just because the new Mustang…
All of this, I think, still does not address the point.