What's the big deal? They keeping JFK and Elvis down there or something?

Obama's REAL birt certifict?

It is amazing that inside a ship they have an information booth.

If these pics were allowed to remain online, the Japs might see them.

hmmm, a Naval ship's big secret...

 

/just guessing

PvtHike: What's the big deal? They keeping JFK and Elvis down there or something?

I think it's more likely that they promised to maintain the ship and have instead allowed it to slowly be consumed by rust.

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Wow, these are fascinating. Especially that one with the electronic panel, that looks an awful lot like something we worked with back in the CIA, that....

...hold on. Someone's knocking on the door. Probably Jehovah's Witnesses...

LANDSHARK!!!

Here's a bunch of photos I took of a family of sasquatch last night*

Sorry, Sasquatch just stopped by, and told me to take them offline. He wouldn't sign a photo release.

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That link makes my browser shiat itself...

BokChoy: thisispete: Cache

That link makes my browser shiat itself...

Yeah. What I did see before I gave up was interesting and hardly controversial.

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How much of the ship is underwater?

Why are photos of the inside of a 70 year old ship still classified?

thisispete Your "cache" was sanitized.......God I hate the government! Fark all the businesses that luv taking up the arse!!!

That's nothing, I've got a dash cam video of chasing F15s around in a foo fighter, I can't show it to you because apple owns the image format from the alien recorder.

I saved a bunch of those pictures for the sole reason that they don't want me to have it

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Thank you very much!

Toy_Cop: Why are photos of the inside of a 70 year old ship still classified?


Because they still use some of the mechanicals. Or minor variations thereof.

I don't see what they are trying to hide...

Toy_Cop: Why are photos of the inside of a 70 year old ship still classified?

"They'd like us to remove photos of the non-public parts" is not the same as "classified". I'd say it's because they don't want people to see the rusted out mess below decks. It's a PR thing.

threadjackistan: PvtHike: What's the big deal? They keeping JFK and Elvis down there or something?

I think it's more likely that they promised to maintain the ship and have instead allowed it to slowly be consumed by rust.

It's either that, or they sold exclusive photo rights to some publication or cable channel as part of their fundraising. Have run into that a couple times in the past.

OhioUGrad: henryhill: [farm4.staticflickr.com image 469x640]

How much of the ship is underwater?

Looks like a Mad Men scene with the Luckys and the Patio can. Also, wasn't Patio directed toward women? Mmm, it's the Navy after all.

Pelvic Splanchnic Ganglion: Toy_Cop: Why are photos of the inside of a 70 year old ship still classified?

"They'd like us to remove photos of the non-public parts" is not the same as "classified". I'd say it's because they don't want people to see the rusted out mess below decks. It's a PR thing.

oh, I guess I should've RTFA instead of just looking for the pretty pictures.

Thanks for the link Pete! Looks like the Navy I was in.

I toured the Queen Mary while it was being converted into a tourist trap. The tour went through restored and un-restored areas to give people a feel of the work involved.

I was just at the Intrepid last month with my nephews. Went to go see the space shuttle which was awesome.

But what surprised me was the Intrepid's score card on the hanger deck. Holy fark, that ship kicked ass around the world like it was going out of style.

While looking down to see where the voices were coming from we nearly stepped on this condom box, from a brand that was popular in the 1950s





One Quarter Dozen . . . 'cause it takes too long to say "Three." 


/ it's the military, so "Tree."

Because Semen Recruit Jerry Sandusky once showered aboard the ship. I wonder if they might have an endless tape loop of rhythmic slapping sounds they could play over the intercom?

Not in all that bad of shape for spaces that haven't been maintained in 40 odd years, although those photographed were probably all above the waterline. I've pulled flakes of rust the size of dinner plates off of bulkheads on active ships when I was in the Navy.

Be interested in seeing the spaces down below (more humidity/condensation).

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Thanks. You are awesome.

I spent almost 4 years on the JFK crawling around shaft alleys, pump rooms, and the main spaces. I would pick the below deck stuff anytime over the touristy stuff on the hangar bay and flight deck. Working in a 140 degree mainspace in the Persian Gulf was something you really have to experience to properly appreciate.
I heard a 30+ ton propeller cavitate in the open air when we were going through massive waves that broke on the flight deck in the middle of a hurricane, that was memorable. Especially when I was just 30 feet away as deep you as get in the aft shaft alleys. We ended up pulling 7 people out of that hurricane after their cargo ship sank in the storm without any lives lost.

s1ugg0: I was just at the Intrepid last month with my nephews. Went to go see the space shuttle which was awesome.

But what surprised me was the Intrepid's score card on the hanger deck. Holy fark, that ship kicked ass around the world like it was going out of style.

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Any scorecard from a Fast Carrier Task Force CV is pretty impressive:

Here's the USS Yorktown (CV-10) in Charleston, SC:



And here's the USS Lexington (CV-16) in Corpus Christi, TX:



And for what it's worth, the Intrepid is an interesting case study in what happens when a warship museum is more concerned about turnstile numbers than historic preservation. They've made a lot of irreversible changes to the structure of the ship. The rear hangar deck looks nothing like a ship; it looks like any museum space you'd see on land, and the aft gallery deck (between the hangar and flight decks, where pilots would be briefed prior to missions) has been gutted, glass installed all along the aft bulkhead, and turned into a large restaurant.

Just doublechecked and yes I have been onboard the USS Intrepid. I toured it back when we hit New York City during Fleet Week 1996 (or 1997 not sure anymore).
It was "less than exciting" after serving on an active duty carrier for almost two years at that point, and being confined to the upper levels for this one. I mainly wanted to see Central (the main hub where they control engineering things) and the Oil Lab but those sections were all off limits of course, But admittedly my perspective was more than bit a jaded.

andyofne: Rich Cream: Toy_Cop: Why are photos of the inside of a 70 year old ship still classified?


Because they still use some of the mechanicals. Or minor variations thereof.

They aren't. There's nothing classified about them.

Some museums consider it a safety issue. Pictures of areas not on tour can encourage people to get off the tour route and go exploring, and even though there may be locked doors and other things keeping tourists from wandering off the route, you can't stop everyone. And a lot of unrestored spaces have all sorts of potentially nasty things. Asbestos, lead paint, or (in the case of the battleship Texas and the cruiser Olympia), if you get down far enough you might find a corroded hull plate and go sliding through into several feet of mud. So maybe the museum staff is erring on the side of not having a discussion with their insurance provider.

thisispete: SweetDickens: thisispete Your "cache" was sanitized.......God I hate the government! Fark all the businesses that luv taking up the arse!!!

That's creepy. Now when I go there I get a message from Google saying "Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. Please try your request again later."

Still, I checked my Firefox cache and this is the kind of thing you're missing out on.

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What a mess, Janeway is going to be pissed.

Got a few 404s from the link, thisispete, but most made it. Thanks.

Dick move with the withdrawal, Intrepid people.

BokChoy: thisispete: Cache

That link makes my browser shiat itself...

Yup. There's something bad there. Totally spike one core on my CPU and kept chewing up memory on both Firefox and 64 bit IE.

I shut it down before my computer burst into flames.

UNC_Samurai: s1ugg0: I was just at the Intrepid last month with my nephews. Went to go see the space shuttle which was awesome.

But what surprised me was the Intrepid's score card on the hanger deck. Holy fark, that ship kicked ass around the world like it was going out of style.

[www.susanandjames.com image 587x332]

Any scorecard from a Fast Carrier Task Force CV is pretty impressive:

Here's the USS Yorktown (CV-10) in Charleston, SC:

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And here's the USS Lexington (CV-16) in Corpus Christi, TX:

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And for what it's worth, the Intrepid is an interesting case study in what happens when a warship museum is more concerned about turnstile numbers than historic preservation. They've made a lot of irreversible changes to the structure of the ship. The rear hangar deck looks nothing like a ship; it looks like any museum space you'd see on land, and the aft gallery deck (between the hangar and flight decks, where pilots would be briefed prior to missions) has been gutted, glass installed all along the aft bulkhead, and turned into a large restaurant.

Starbuck: "Why can't we use the starboard launch?"
Tyrol: "It's a gift shop now."
Starbuck: "Frack me. "

Speaker2Animals: Soundstage for the moon landing?

"One small step for a glub? What the hell is a glub? And why is Neil swimming?"