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B-Tender wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2020 5:32 pm
CaptQuint wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2020 5:04 pm 76 years ago today, Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, the largest ground invasion in history.

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CaptQuint wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2020 5:04 pm 79 years ago June 22, Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, the largest ground invasion in history.

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megman wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2020 5:45 pm
CaptQuint wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2020 5:04 pm 79 years ago June 22, Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, the largest ground invasion in history.

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CaptQuint wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2020 12:18 pm Essex-class carrier solid bronze screw, 24,744 pounds.

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I searched. Apparently no one knows which carrier this was from
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how many screws are on a boat like that?
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porky wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2020 6:04 pm how many screws are on a boat like that?
Looked it up. Four of those suckers!
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thats fucking nuts
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Workers at Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) tension the bolts that will keep the 30-ton bronze propeller affixed to one of the 4 shafts protruding from the hull of the U.S. Navy’s nuclear aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78).

The 21-foot propellers were cast and milled of solid bronze by Rolls-Royce at their facility in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Rolls-Royce Senior Vice President Jay McFadyen commented in a phone conversation this afternoon that the propellers are slightly smaller in diameter than the propellers found on the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, however they’ve been optimized from a hydrodynamic and a surface porosity standpoint for greater efficiency. He notes that the propellers take approximately two months to build and were delivered by truck to the yard in Virginia.

“Installation of the propellers culminates more than 10 months of focused work by numerous trades in support of installing the underwater shafting,” said Rolf Bartschi, Newport News Shipbuilding’s vice president, CVN 78 carrier construction. “The configuration of the blades, the weight of the propellers and the extremely tight tolerances required make this a challenging installation. I commend the rigging and machinery installation mechanics for a job well done.”
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porky wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2020 6:24 pm thats fucking nuts
No, the nuts are what hold the screws on.
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megman wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2020 6:36 pm
porky wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2020 6:24 pm thats fucking nuts
No, the nuts are what hold the screws on.
And the screws are what makes the boat go woosh through the water.
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Size of flag flown on a Spanish ship during the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805

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CaptQuint wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2020 12:27 am Size of flag flown on a Spanish ship during the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805

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Are they going to restore that flag or just stop the degradation?
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Antknot wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2020 12:46 am
CaptQuint wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2020 12:27 am Size of flag flown on a Spanish ship during the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805

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Are they going to restore that flag or just stop the degradation?
It's battle damage so the latter
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Greyhound with Tom Hanks is fuckin excellent
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CaptQuint wrote: Thu Aug 13, 2020 1:02 pm Greyhound with Tom Hanks is fuckin excellent
It's only available on Apple+ though, right?
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Homebrew wrote: Thu Aug 13, 2020 7:19 pm
CaptQuint wrote: Thu Aug 13, 2020 1:02 pm Greyhound with Tom Hanks is fuckin excellent
It's only available on Apple+ though, right?
Yes, I had to buy a new phone and was offered a free year of Apple TV. Apple TV is straight trash as 90% of the content is an added fee.
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I'm gonna watch the movie again
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CaptQuint wrote: Fri Aug 14, 2020 11:07 am
Homebrew wrote: Thu Aug 13, 2020 7:19 pm
CaptQuint wrote: Thu Aug 13, 2020 1:02 pm Greyhound with Tom Hanks is fuckin excellent
It's only available on Apple+ though, right?
Yes, I had to buy a new phone and was offered a free year of Apple TV. Apple TV is straight trash as 90% of the content is an added fee.
I'm confused.

Apple+ charges you extra to watch some of their content, on top of a subscription fee?

If I did their 7 day free trial, they'd charge extra to watch Greyhound?
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CaptQuint wrote: Thu Aug 13, 2020 1:02 pm Greyhound with Tom Hanks is fuckin excellent
I liked it as well, good battle scenes.
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FSchmertz wrote: Fri Aug 14, 2020 12:40 pm
CaptQuint wrote: Fri Aug 14, 2020 11:07 am
Homebrew wrote: Thu Aug 13, 2020 7:19 pm
CaptQuint wrote: Thu Aug 13, 2020 1:02 pm Greyhound with Tom Hanks is fuckin excellent
It's only available on Apple+ though, right?
Yes, I had to buy a new phone and was offered a free year of Apple TV. Apple TV is straight trash as 90% of the content is an added fee.
I'm confused.

Apple+ charges you extra to watch some of their content, on top of a subscription fee?

If I did their 7 day free trial, they'd charge extra to watch Greyhound?
No, you could watch anything they own or produced, most of the content there they don't own
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There's a documentary about the end of rhe war in the pacific called Apocalypse 45 coming out in a few weeks, looks interesting.
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Apocalypse 45? Sounds like a current events thing
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