I am not sure, I see the professionals who leave a house making me want to vomit with this upside down lamps and chairs that look like paperclips

I am aware of the way classes are made. My issue is that the Kennedy is being built to the same specifications as the Ford. Any modifications will have to be done to both.

Whaaaat? Tell me more. I have not heard of this

On a side note, I don’t understand the Ford Class at all. The entire point of the ship is apparently to increase the launch and recovery rate of aircraft, and it seems to carry about the same (seems to be a lot of conflicting information on that).

I don't completely understand what he wants to investigate. He pretty much just said he believed in it.

Yah, talking to moon landing deniers, Chemtrail nuts, and other truthers is like trying to explain the function of a particle accelerator to a cow

Actually, most Russians believe in the moon landings. For some reason unknown to me, Russia’s love our space program more than we do. I would say about 5%-10% of the articles on mainstream Russian media are talking about what different space programs are doing. I have never figured out why, but Russian people are…

You are thinking retroreflectors, you can put a powerful enough laser at one and detect it bouncing back to you.

Sooo, when can I go?

I was actually thinking exactly that. Not gutting the ship but installing a single magnetic catapult and APUs on deck, just use one of the older ships as a test ship. Most navies (including ours) will install new systems on a retiring ship for test. It may cost more up front, but will be much cheaper than trying to…

Thanks for the clarification. You make a good point. Most weather observation stations are at airports, which back in the 1950s were a grass or dirt strip, but now have several 2 mile x 300 foot runways that are black and have a line of jets with their engines running waiting to takeoff

“The mainstay of the of the F35 program is the export market...”

I can see where they come from. There have been so many outlandish claims by people like Al Gore who has no actual clue of what he is talking about (all polar ice would be gone by this time he said, and the planet will be uninhabitable by 2050-2100). Global Warming is real, i have a friend that flew in a P-3 Orion as…

Yah, it’s always nerve-racking for me getting on those regularly scheduled test flights with passengers...

No, it doesn't. They may start production wary, but you are never going to fly on an airliner that has not received its certification from the FAA.

The issue is that it is a serious risk of the equipment meant for duty becoming a technology demonstrator. Much of the early production F-35s are just that at this point. In an era where we have to put off refueling our carriers, you don’t want the first batch to be test ships. Almost everyone agrees that the steam…

It seems perfectly in context to me. This thing was supposed to be ready ages ago, but will not be ready till the end of the decade, maybe later. I wish people wouldn’t insult your awesome work. It’s not like you are saying the Navy is bad or something, you are just saying that the Navy needs to rework its procurement…

We should rename it the Shinano.