Just a matter of time before some squid is shooting cafeteria trays off the bow.

It’s not modular, in the sense that you can’t take it apart, but pretty much all large naval ships are built in pieces and then welded together. More efficient that way apparently (or more cynically, easier to distribute pork around to multiple shipyards).

GW /= GWh. One is a rate of energy delivery and one is a capacity.

I don’t know about eBay but a quick search on Alibaba showed 50 people willing to sell you parts or plans for an electromagnetic catapult. Weirdly, all the plans seem to be in English with government markings on them...

It’s not as if existing arresting gear, catapults and radar systems, or the previous Nimitz Class design for that matter, are ineffective.

Maybe you just completely missed the fact that it has a turbine or fuel cell on board to keep the batteries charged.....?

I think the battery is mostly there to help even the load on the onboard generator and be available for those high demand situations. I can’t see anyone buying a truck that only runs for ~1 hour or less, that’s why it would use hydrogen to recharge the batteries on the fly.

Also:

Eh. I only kind of agree. Certainly, a vote is a concrete way of influencing the world, and therefore has intrinsic value as a political act. However, Kaep’s protest is having a MUCH greater influence on the world than any one person’s vote ever will. In fact, I would argue that a celebrity stating in public who they…

Does it strike anyone else as weird that people are getting so worked up over one person refusing to participate in a show of patriotism that typically has a ~99.99999% participation rate, meanwhile voting, an unquestionably more consequential and meaningful show of patriotism, has participation rates in the dumper,…

Not to mention that Stewart doesn’t really say why what Kap did was so bad. He just calls him an idiot as if that settles the argument right there. If had thoughtfully said, ‘What Kap is doing is wrong because XYZ’ you can respect that; instead he puts no thought in at all.

The point is that he was being perfectly quiet about it and then someone threw a stink. So when asked for his opinion, he gave it, and then idiots came around with their dumb opinions and misunderstandings of what free expression actually is. It is extremely offensive for couch warriors to sit and complain about how…

This shit has been going on as long as there has been injustice for people to protest about. Kaepernick is saying things that make people deeply uncomfortable. Maybe there is a fundamental flaw with how we view policing in this country. Maybe that flaw is what makes the police force, an institution which is supposed…

My favorite response was left out:

This guy is definitely a Cardinals fan.

the best clap back

I’ve noticed a very disturbing trend. Not one of the friends on Facebook I’ve noticed has actually addressed Kaepernick’s point about cops executing black people with impunity, and then escaping charges scot-free as their crooked friends in the justice department and internal affairs let them skate.

Everybody is…

Who?

My favorite part about Blue Lives Matter is how the guys that are constantly thanked for quietly and thanklessly doing their thankless jobs are suddenly the loudest martyrs the day we stopped thanking them and people feel the need to apologize for it

“They only showed him kill that guy on replay” is my favorite comeback of all time now. Find that hill and die on it, buddy.