Submarine Liner

[All Seeing Eye]

Split your hairs that thin and you are going to go bald,

I wasn't splitting hairs, I was expanding on what you said because you remembered the thread incorrectly.

so knock off the defensiveness.

There wasn't any "defensiveness". I explained the thread you were talking about more precisely. How about YOU knock off the "defensiveness".

 

[Trekker4747]

That's actually not a bad idea.

He didn't mean a space ship the size of an aircraft carrier - he meant LITERALLY an aircraft carrier, was a bit surreal, worth a search though.

I think you should go re-read the thread. The idea was for the aircraft carrier to undergo a "refit" so it would become a space ship. The runways on top would be covered over with a hanger to keep out the vacuum of space and the inside of the vessel would be altered to allow for different rooms within a rotating inner section for artificial gravity and also it would be altered to fit a large propulsion engine such as a nuclear pulse drive.

[emphasis mine]

Ummm. "Keep out the vacuum of space." You realize that space isn't a cold weather pattern, right? That there's nothing to "keep out." Quite the opposite, actually.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

This is now sounding quite a bit like Space Battleship Yamato.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

[emphasis mine]

Ummm. "Keep out the vacuum of space." You realize that space isn't a cold weather pattern, right? That there's nothing to "keep out." Quite the opposite, actually.

It's JUST A SAYING, do try to relax.


Good grief.

 

[USS KG5]

I wasn't splitting hairs, I was expanding on what you said because you remembered the thread incorrectly.

I remembered it quite precisely, and I was being quite polite over an incredibly silly question I thought.

If the thread title had been "Could we put something weighing as much as an aircraft carrier into orbit" then you would be right to expect serious answers, as it is it was a very silly thread.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

That's actually not a bad idea.

He didn't mean a space ship the size of an aircraft carrier - he meant LITERALLY an aircraft carrier, was a bit surreal, worth a search though.

I think you should go re-read the thread. The idea was for the aircraft carrier to undergo a "refit" so it would become a space ship.

Somebody's been watching too much Starblazers...

The main reason for the thread was to ascertain whether something of that mass and weight could be put into orbit using current tech.

It can't.

I'm surprised you needed a whole thread for that.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

You guys are soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo funny.

 

[Hofner]

Hey, getting back on topic, maybe we could launch this submarine liner into orbit after painting it a very special color.

So they'll live a life of ease, everyone one of them has all they need.
Space is black, the Earth is geen in their yellow submarine.

Sorry Tachyon Shield, I just couldn't resist.

Robert

 

[Trekker4747]

[emphasis mine]

Ummm. "Keep out the vacuum of space." You realize that space isn't a cold weather pattern, right? That there's nothing to "keep out." Quite the opposite, actually.

It's JUST A SAYING, do try to relax.


Good grief.

No saying *I've* ever heard.

 

[Scout101]

Well, HE just said it, does that count?

 

[All Seeing Eye]

[emphasis mine]

Ummm. "Keep out the vacuum of space." You realize that space isn't a cold weather pattern, right? That there's nothing to "keep out." Quite the opposite, actually.

It's JUST A SAYING, do try to relax.


Good grief.

No saying *I've* ever heard.

Well there's always got to be a first time for you the hear something hasn't there. Now you've heard it, catalogue it and then you wont make the same mistake next time.

 

[Trekker4747]

You'll forgive me if I don't adopt, or accept, a "saying" that you came up with.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

You'll forgive me if I don't adopt, or accept, a "saying" that you came up with.

Lots of people say it. That's usually when a small minority of people such as yourself step in with the whole "a vacuum is a vacuum, you can't keep out the vacuum of space duh huh" as though we don't already know that.

IT'S A SAYING, WE KNOW THE VACUUM OF SPACE DOESN'T GET KEPT OUT, IT'S A SAYING.

ok?

 

[SilentP]

Not to poke the beehive here, but I've never, ever heard people use 'keep the vacuum out' as a sentence or phrase, let alone as a saying.

Are you sure it's not you and the people you've heard say it that are the small minority?

Besides, it would be kinda like saying keeping the air out of a bottle of water. It's kind of counter intuitive to say that instead of keep the water in...

 

[Alpha_Geek]

My statement stands. Taccy, go learn. Concepts are great, but without good science behind them they'll all just be drawings on cocktail napkins, or ramblings on internet forums.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I think you all need to chill out a bit.

 

[sojourner]

I think regardless of how he said it, everyone knew what his intent was. Everything after that is just trolling.

 

[Trekker4747]

I think you all need to chill out a bit.

Don't you mean "chillax?"

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I think you all need to chill out a bit.

Don't you mean "chillax?"

Yeh, that too.

 

[Jerikka Dawn]

This is the best thread on the entire Internet.