FARK.com: (6772700) The world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier turned 50 this week, and all 250,000 who've served aboard the USS Enterprise would like to wish the Big E a very Happy Birthday

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		The world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier turned 50 this week, and all 250,000 who've served aboard the USS Enterprise would like to wish the Big E a very Happy Birthday (wtkr.com)		124
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Mugato

2011-11-29 01:54:46 PM

Which one still has the Klingon disrupter that dumbass Ruskie threw at him?

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat

2011-11-29 02:15:35 PM

I believe it's in Alameda.

Cewley

2011-11-29 02:15:59 PM

CVAN-65: 1969-73. good times and bad times.

BravadoGT

2011-11-29 02:17:54 PM

Thank you for your service...

s11.lucyphotos.com

playblu

2011-11-29 02:18:59 PM

"Wessels"

R.A.Danny

2011-11-29 02:47:51 PM

Thank you for your service x 250,000

veedeevadeevoodee

2011-11-29 03:07:24 PM

AdolfOliverPanties

2011-11-29 03:09:04 PM

Long and hard and full of seamen.

Captain Steroid

2011-11-29 03:35:53 PM

ARCHER > KIRK

*runs*

gopher321

2011-11-29 03:48:18 PM

playblu: "Wessels"

thread over

Shadow Blasko

2011-11-29 04:01:08 PM

Captain Steroid: ARCHER > Tebow

*runs*

FTFY

fluffybunny

2011-11-29 04:08:53 PM

"All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail by"

DAR

2011-11-29 04:31:46 PM

She was/is a good ship to sail on.......1996-1998......RMC(SW)....K/DAR

baka-san

2011-11-29 05:48:53 PM

Fair winds and following seas old girl.

Foreground My Ass

2011-11-29 05:52:35 PM

taurusowner

2011-11-29 05:54:22 PM

Shadow Blasko: Captain Steroid: ARCHER > Tebow

*runs*

FTFY

What does that have to do with anything, particularly an article about an aircraft carrier and/or Star Trek? Isn't there a whole Sports section in Fark where you can rip on your least favorite players?

isabps

2011-11-29 05:56:10 PM

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: I believe it's in Alameda.

Is it? They had just started refurbing the Hornet as a museum when I transferred from there.

ThisNameSux

2011-11-29 05:56:16 PM

Little known fact, people who served on the carrier have developed cancers at a rate 335% higher than the general population.

chaddsfarkprefect

2011-11-29 05:57:40 PM

taurusowner: Shadow Blasko: Captain Steroid: ARCHER > Tebow

*runs*

FTFY

What does that have to do with anything, particularly an article about an aircraft carrier and/or Star Trek? Isn't there a whole Sports section in Fark where you can rip on your least favorite players?

You know what '80s movie meme pic I'm going to post, don't you, Lewis?

elev8meL8r

2011-11-29 06:01:23 PM

HAN SHOT FIRST

Sun Tzu

2011-11-29 06:01:59 PM

Pikers.

clyph

2011-11-29 06:02:28 PM

ThisNameSux: Little known fact, people who served on the carrier have developed cancers at a rate 335% higher than the general population.

[citation needed]

asscorethethird

2011-11-29 06:03:34 PM

Not me, I'm wishing that someone sends it to the bottom of the ocean soon, along with all the other war machines.

Fat-D

2011-11-29 06:03:56 PM

No mention of how she will be decommissioned in less than 2 years?

DarthBart

2011-11-29 06:05:23 PM

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: I believe it's in Alameda.

But where is Alameda?

Evil Kirk vs Bad Ash

2011-11-29 06:05:40 PM

The starship Enterprise is about the same size of an aircraft carrier in dry dock... someone should make a 1:1 replica. Make for one hell of an amusement park.

xkenny13

2011-11-29 06:06:33 PM

ThisNameSux: Little known fact, people who served on the carrier have developed cancers at a rate 335% higher than the general population.

Really? I hope Chekov and Uhura are doing okay.

darkscout

2011-11-29 06:06:44 PM

How much fuel have they gone through?
How much would it have gone through if it was a traditional oil burner?

imprimere

2011-11-29 06:06:44 PM

My dad served on the Enterprise.

/csb

NkThrasher

2011-11-29 06:07:07 PM

And those of us that acted as controllers for your SHF communications would like to say fark you.

/at least this isn't about the blue ridge
//mostly kidding, about the Enterprise

loonatic112358

2011-11-29 06:07:54 PM

ThisNameSux: Little known fact, people who served on the carrier have developed cancers at a rate 335% higher than the general population.

That's only from the time travel incident that Franklin Roosevelt covered up

beta_plus

2011-11-29 06:08:32 PM

asscorethethird: Not me, I'm wishing that someone sends it to the bottom of the ocean soon, along with all the other war machines.

images3.makefive.com

Saw Battle 360 series of the WWII USS Enterprise. The battles that ship went through and won are astounding, especially before 1943.

/happy b-day, big E
//live long and prosper

portscanner

2011-11-29 06:09:08 PM

7 of 9 > Kirk

shanteyman

2011-11-29 06:10:28 PM

"All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail by"

Unfortunately, her masts and sails are more for show and would 've been used to steady her in rough seas. She's a steam powered sloop of war. But still good looking !

Ehh

2011-11-29 06:11:35 PM

While on a fishing boat going to port in San Diego, I once watched the Enterprise arrive. People on the boat first thought it was an island. Then the island started gaining on us.

/that's no moon

lexslamman

2011-11-29 06:12:20 PM

portscanner: 7 of 9 > Kirk

Beverly Crusher > T'Pol > 7 of 9

four95

2011-11-29 06:13:14 PM

Happy Birthday Old Girl.

Znuh

2011-11-29 06:13:51 PM

You know, why do I remember seeing Worf's GF on TNG in like, purple spandex....

Evil Kirk vs Bad Ash

2011-11-29 06:14:22 PM

lexslamman: portscanner: 7 of 9 > Kirk

Beverly Crusher > T'Pol > 7 of 9

You's Ferenginging...

User42

2011-11-29 06:16:31 PM

I talked to a guy that was a nuke ET on the Enterprise, he said their nickname for it was "The Mobile Chernobyl". My obvious response was "What? Why?", and his answer was "It's the first nuclear ship ever, and it has eight reactors. Guess how many leak at any given time?"

Food for thought I guess...

PsyLord

2011-11-29 06:17:22 PM

Well, I can see that Star Trek has been referenced.

/got nothing
//double dumbass on me

imprimere

2011-11-29 06:18:55 PM

lexslamman: portscanner: 7 of 9 > Kirk

Beverly Crusher > T'Pol > 7 of 9

I'm guessing you're a lesbian? Never thought much of T'Pol. Give me 7 or Torres or that Dabo girl that Quark's brother married. Oh, and Troy was very much hotter than Crusher.

EggSniper

2011-11-29 06:20:59 PM

/A fine wessel

slimfast

2011-11-29 06:22:01 PM

It was the Kitty Hawk but she portrayed the Enterprise
in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

I still have fond memories of that girl I took to see the movie.

cig-mkr

2011-11-29 06:23:17 PM

Nothing like driving I-64 and going under the Enterprise at the Hampton Roads tunnel, did that several times. Another great thing was the F-14's coming into Oceana from the carrier, low, slow, loud and rattled everything in the house. Gave me a great sense of pride for our Navy.

furiousxgeorge

2011-11-29 06:24:20 PM

It's been a long road

Get'n from there to here
It's been a long time
But my time is finally near

I will see my dreams come alive at last
I will touch the sky
And they're not gonna hold me down no more
No they're not gonna change my mind

'Cause I've got faith of the heart
I'm going where my heart will take me
I've got faith to believe
I can do anything
I've got strength of the soul
No one's going to bend nor break me
I can reach any star
I've got faith
I've got faith
Faith of the heart

slimfast

2011-11-29 06:24:33 PM

Oh for....

By the way that girl I took to see the movie. That was Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. The fond memory was of the girl, not the movie.

sotted moose

2011-11-29 06:26:07 PM

I've also heard her referenced as "Three-quarter mile island" before.

Regardless, Happy Birthday, Big-E!

jagec

2011-11-29 06:26:41 PM

asscorethethird: Not me, I'm wishing that someone sends it to the bottom of the ocean soon, along with all the other war machines.

Problem: the sort of things that work best at sinking war machines are, themselves, war machines.

MycroftHolmes

2011-11-29 06:27:25 PM

ThisNameSux: Little known fact, people who served on the carrier have developed cancers at a rate 335% higher than the general population.

Little known fact, 56% of all quoted stats are made up.

Also, 4/3 of the general population do not understand fractions.

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