Instead of Scrapping Aircraft Carriers

Well, now you know better.

Awesome! At first I was watching touch-n-goes but when they did put a bird down that quickly - DAMN! Well I hope they had their lids tight on their Big Gulp sodas!

DAMN! That never occurred to me. That could be why FAA training headquarters is in Oklahoma.
There's an almost constant dependable head-wind (depending on the runway you use of course.)

@Chaos Descending , were you a Nuke, by chance? I keep forgetting if that was you or Lanzman, although I know I've asked before.

Unless he read that in some book stored at his dad's house, in which case he knows better than NavyForge.

Also, @Anna, I'm pretty sure @Chaos Descending and @Archangel were nukes, not sure about @Lanzman, though it wouldn't surprise me.

Nope, I was a crypto tech.

Yep, I surely was!

Brilliant idea, just like turning old submarines into rockets.

Carriers don't run at ahead flank when doing FLOPs.

<---Nuke

Then I stand corrected. That said, could you elaborate?

I've always found it odd that Seattle has no maritime museums, or a museum ship. There was a beautiful diesel electric sub in Bremerton for years, and we let the south Koreans kill it instead of making a functional museum.

That does seem a bit odd, given the bases around the Seattle area.

Agreed. Even Philly is covered up with them. One of my favorite pictures is one I took of Olympia from the bridge of New Jersey.

Right? We made damn near every Destroyer and Destroyer Escort in the war, and there's nothing? I don't get it. Shit, we had a Russian Foxtrot class diesel sub, the B39, but we lost that to fucking san Diego.

Most military and recent ex-military aren't interested in visiting military museums.

Since 700-foot-wide bridge pylons would be seriously in the way, I wouldn't park the carriers cross-current like the illustration. Also, the hulls are kinda meant to face into the flow of the water.

As for civilian airports, they'd make good heliports.

Tell that to every 11B I've ever met that treats this as some sort of Mecca, making annual pilgrimages. .

I can quote text too!

Speak for yourself, friend. That's not been my experience when it comes to museums, they're packed with ex military.

Is that where Ancalagon's beard is being displayed?

Ok, so given the following (source = Wikipedia, search on "Bering Strait bridge"):

and acknowledging the fact that the longest "supercarriers" are ~1100 ft long, do a little back of the envelope math ...

25 mi * 5280 ft/mile = 132,000 ft / 1100 ft/carrier = 120 carriers (per bridge)!!!

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Yeah, that'll happen...
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You can cut that number by putting conventional bridge sections between the carriers. Even if we and the Russians had that many carriers laying around, and it was economically feasible, I seriously doubt that they'd ever consider doing it.

You're all correct. A great many people who visit military museums would be former military, yet not many military people might visit museums. You'd then have hundreds of thousands of such museum visitors instead of tens of millions.

Eat a dick.

We should obviously be turning old aircraft carriers into rockets.

That isn't a carrier, but it still seems just as practical is turning one into a bridge.

Yes, I knew someone would point out it's not a carrier...