US Navy massive explosion tests aircraft carrier

[boingboing]

Originally published at: US Navy massive explosion tests aircraft carrier | Boing Boing

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[anothernewbbaccount]

Coincidentally (cue spooky music) I got sucked into an episode of ‘Impossible Engineering’ this morning, that was all about the building of these behemoths. From 2018, it showed USS Gerald R Ford afloat and USS Robert F Kennedy in construction.

So this test ‘meddles with the mettle of the metal’.
I guess it also steels the steel. Thankfully, it did not pleat the plate!

[lumbercartel]

But if it meddles with the mettle of the metal, does anyone get a medal?

[docosc]

@boingboing

The explosion, which occurred in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast, registered as a 3.9 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale according to the US Geological Survey. Yikes. That can’t be good. According to the Navy the tests are being conducted “within a narrow schedule that complies with environmental mitigation requirements, respecting known migration patterns of marine life in the test area.”

And we know that the ocean critters keep to a strict schedule, don’t we? Any expolsion that registers on the Richter scale is a big boom. That had to be detrimental to living things for a wide range.

Was going to add to puns, but @anothernewbbaccount beat me to them. Ah well…

[Bernel]

Just another case of ‘We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us’ or maybe “We had to destroy the oceans to save them”.

[Pwr]

The video says “the explosives weighed over 18kg”…technically true, by 1000x, but [facepalm]

[Yasif]

OK. I’ll bite…

Only if they pedal their predictions pedantically in the Pentagon they may get a pendant if not a parade!

[Pwr]

Also - did they reveal the gender of the ship

[Tamsin_Bailey]

All ships are girls, even the ones with boy’s names.

Another pointless “reveal”.

[Yasif]

@Pwr

technically true, by 1000x

Scaled down by the same amount the visuals remind me of the old joke:

Which English actors name sounds like a fart in a bath?
Edward Woodward

[llamaspit]

@docosc

That had to be detrimental to living things for a wide range.

If they had bothered to keep the camera on the surface of the water for the next 30 minutes, the numbers of dead fish floating to the surface would be shocking.

[anon33932455]

@Tamsin_Bailey

All ships are girls, even the ones with boy’s names.

Another pointless “reveal”.

Although, Lloyd’s of London stopped this practice a few years ago.

https://apnews.com/article/daf770f8e6e89d47dd92b8b9ca5998fa

[Richard_Kirk]

Not a patch on the ‘Good Old Days’ though…

Operation Hardtack I

[Papasan]

The U.S. Navy Song (Anchors Aweigh)

[generic_name]

Fish and cetaceans were not amused.

[MBrody]

Screw this. I hate weapons of war. Hundreds (maybe thousands) of sea creatures were going about their business without a care in the world until humans decided to come in and kill them.

[Brainspore]

@Tamsin_Bailey

All ships are girls, even the ones with boy’s names.

Gender is a military-industrial construct!

[Mister44]

Damn it - beat me too it…

@Tamsin_Bailey

All ships are girls, even the ones with boy’s names.

Another pointless “reveal”.

“I tell you, life ain’t easy for a girl named Gerald R Ford.”

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I like how you can see the shock wave travel so fast through the water.

[lava]

goodnight fishes

[Tamsin_Bailey]