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Buy Your Own Aircraft Carrier
Vodalian writes "Distinction as the last surviving Aircraft Carrier built in England for WW II and commissioned as the HMS Vengeance in late 1944, this unique vessel served the British then the Australian Navy as HMAS Vengeance prior to her sale to Brazil In 1956. Undergoing reconstruction and overhaul in Rotterdam from 1957 to 1960 she was commissioned as the Minas Gerais in December of that year. During her service with the Brazilian Navy she was overhauled from 1976 to 1980 completing a 5-year refit in 1981. She was decommissioned on the 16th of October 2001 and is currently for sale."
Frist Psot?
For a second I thought it said *build* your own aircraft carrier .... now that would have been a feat :)
It's just a guess, but I think you'd need something bigger than a creek to sail that in!
"Much work is lost, for the lack of a little more." -Edward H. Harriman
No reserve, I'll give em' $50 bucks. Buyer pays shipping
Corporations this is your chance to become a world power by buying your very own aircraft carrier! Of course you have to fund the personnel to run the carrier and then get some fighter jets but imagine the countries you can frighten into accepting your tyrannical contracts!
i can't even imagine what a nightmare it'd be getting that thing wired for cable...
well, it's nothing one behind the ear wouldn't cure
This goes along with my plans.
1. Change name ti L. Bob Rife
2. Create cable TV monopoly
3. Start own religion
4. Work on meta-virus
5. Buy aircraft carrier
6. Get residents of 3rd world country to do my bidding!
Sweet!
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$4,500,000(USD)
of course that is the sticker price. surely you could beat the salesperson down 15%.
well, maybe "beat" is the wrong adjective when the salesperson is saling a weapon of war.
This article is proof that Saturday is always slow at the Slashdot office
This would make one hell of a bass boat... Think of the size of the trolling motor you'd need.
...but man, she gets around more than my ex-girlfriend...
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According to an article I read, while the flight deck elevator (that brings planes up to the top from the hangar) works, the actual hangar deck has been converted to a soccer arena.
If 15,000 of us put in $300, we could get this baby.
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Oh, the LAN parties we could have on the SS
Oh well. I thought they were selling something cool, like Minas Tirith or Minas Morgul.
Someone call Larry Ellison! Would make a great addition to his MiG fighter jet.
Maybe George W. should buy it and write "Saddamz aircraft carria" on it. That should convince the few unpatriotic people who still doubt the justification for attacking Iraq.
I don't need a signature.
(Showing my age, with apologies to de voice of John Bird, played by de honorable Idi Amin Esq.)
De-Commissioned November 2001, Sold to Private concerns 2002, Sale did not complete.
Bin Laden gets sea sick
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Does she run Linux?
As always, I must present the downside:
1. Do you know how to drive an aircraft carrier? I don't think it has merely a gas/brake/steering wheel.
2. Which country was going to let you bring that monstrosity into their port again...?
3. Don't these things require a crew of 1000's? Or at least 100 people I'd imagine, more if something goes wrong!
4. It costs me $20 to fill my car up at the gas station...dear god, I don't even want to think of this!!!
But beyond that, a cool purchase to be sure. It would be even funnier if it were on ebay.
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And anyone who slacks on the rent gets shot off the catapult
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So which billionaire Chinese man is going to buy this and raise thousands of orphan girls to raise into a karate-kicking, boot-toting army?
See that ship over there? They're re-broadcasting Major League Baseball with implied oral consent, not express written consent -- or so the legend goes.
$4.5m seems like a bargain until you tot up the running costs. Those admiralty drum boilers are thirsty beasts - HMS Belfast (a mere cruiser) had 4 of these, consuming ~26 tons of furnace fuel oil per hour at full steam. Plus of course the wages for your private army of mercenary sailors, uniforms, medals, rum, ex-soviet MiGs, an elaborate escape submarine - it soon adds up. It's not easy being an evil genius these days...
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Connection closed.
Oh...
set up a paypal account to gather the 4,5m USD, ship it to international waters, close to a big communication node, set up a server farm aboard of it, and say f... you to RIAA/DMCA/Whatever for the sake of freedom of speech and thinking !!! Of course no "illegal activities" like terrorism, drug trafficing etc.
What do you think about it ?
- Acquire necessary parts and materials.
- Assemble.
How to turn any boat into an aircraft carrier:- Place aircraft on boat.
How to sink an aircraft carrier:If I bought that aircraft carrier, then flew in on it dressed in a flight suit with the crotch all puffed up, people might be tricked into thinking -I- was a hero too?
Thought not.
-- I am. Therefore, I think!
Capacity: 3,196 Tons ...
Endurance: 12,000 Nautical miles @ 14 Knots, 6,200 Nautical Miles @ 25 Knots
So that's roughtly 4 nm/ton city, 2 highway.
Great for running around town, but where would you park it?
They still have 1 (one) aircraft carrier remaining...The "São Paulo".
But, heck, who needs aircraft carriers when you can have this baby?
LOL...and before the flame war starts...please understand this is just a joke. The list of other ships still commissioned is quite impressive.
Warning: Opinions known to be heavily biased.
Is there a corporation rich enough to become a "super power"?
GE accounts for 1% of the US GDP and it's about the biggest F'ing company in the world (in terms of dollars and diversity) AND they make weapons systems.
So, I'd say 'No'.
Of course, they could kick France's ass, but then, so did Greenpeace.
The opposite of progress is congress
"L. Bob Rife" who creates his own religion and navy? Neal Stephenson was lucky that $cientology didn't sue him for violating their IP.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
No, no, you make 'em walk the plank!
Or you keel-haul 'em. *ouch*
"Scrub the poop-deck? Where's that at - is it near the Lido deck?"
"It's only a model."
"Shhh!"
"The same thing we do every day, Pinky, try to take over the world."
Back in abot 1971 I saw this ship at anchor in Rio harour. i was told by my Brazilian host that the first aircraft launched from the flight deck by the Brazilians had gone down, not up - and splashed. Since then, no pilot brave enough to have a second try had been found.
Consciousness is an illusion caused by an excess of self consciousness.
before buying this baby. Would Redmond be in missile range lying infront of the coast of Vancouver?
IANAL, but imagine a beowulf cluster of in Soviet Russia all your belong are base to us welcoming the new SCO overlords.
We haven't had a carrier since the Bonaventure!!!! Please donate and help us out!
ttyl
Farrell
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I was thinking the same thing. People, please contribute to my paypal donation fund, as I really want to buy this thing! You'll be more than welcome to join me on her when we rechristen it Enterprise and start a floating city in the Pacific.
My brother-in-law was looking for a new fishing boat. I figure I'll tell him about it. He'd have room for lots of salmon on this baby.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
Ben
One Aircraft Carrier: $4,500,000.
Slashdot registered users: 6,000,000.
Online geek community with own aircraft carrier: Priceless.
... Puget Sound.
Okay, now somebody make the joke about Battleships and Windows NT, please.
am I the only person who read that as 4 nanometers/ton? I heard about $100 toilet seats, but ... wow.
Yawn.
Well I want to see if it runs well :)
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Ask Slashdot: A few months ago, we discussed how to buy an aircraft carrier. After a hectic fundraising bid, me and all my "friends" were able to purchase the Brazilian sea whore through PayPal. I thought "Brazilian Sea Whore" was such a rad name that we rechristened it with the name. Unfortunately, now there's a problem. We ran out of food and the situation makes Lord of the Flies look like a comedy. A portion of the crew has broken off into a Klingon language faction and is proposing mutiny. We've descended into cannibalism but we're not sure how to decide who dies first in a fair way for everybody. So my question is this: what do you think about using /. ID numbers in descending order as a valid way of choosing who gets cooked next? While some of the lower ID numbers are pretty fat and would last for weeks, it's probably not a good idea as they would make ideal emergency rations. Not like we don't have an emergency already...
Laws are for people with no friends.
852000 gallons/tankful
42 gallons/bbl
20000 bbl/tankful
$25/bbl
==> an even half-million bucks to fillerup.
Do you think we'll have time to run in for a donut and a lottery ticket?