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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."
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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
Sounds like something right out of Snowcrash.
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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Great place to throw a party, cruise outside the reach of the law in internatinal waters.
Hope the weather is good tho.
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.
$4.5 million sounds like a steal. It probably costs more than that to keep it in port for a year, let alone what it would actually cost to operate.
...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.
My uncle bought an old Russian diesel sub. in 1996 for 150k he turned it into a floating restaurant on the Mississipi river.
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
Lets put together a trust fund to buy this thing in the name of nerd news and matter-ful stuff. With the sizable readership of this site we could probably drop in a few bucks a piece to purchase it. :)
"I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
-Hoban Washburn
Oh well. I thought they were selling something cool, like Minas Tirith or Minas Morgul.
Seriously, that thing would make one hell of a house. You could just more it up to a dock. Barge on the Seine my butt. I want an aircraft carrier in New York Harbor.
On second thought that would make one hell of a target for terrorists. Better put it somewhere in New Jersey.
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So a complement of 1.300, each paying $400 a month rent...
That's easily a half million rent a month! So living aboard, for a year, would generate $6 million, which covers the cost of upkeep and purchase in 2 years, and profitable in 3!
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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.
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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 you will find that there is a charitable fund set up to buy this and turn her into a floating museum, as befits her place as the last surviving WW2 british aircraft carrier
A lot less interesting than the 'world domination' plans, but then, this carrier is outdated and wouldn't last 2 minutes against a modern navy, hence why it is for public sale.
An infinite number of monkeys will eventually come up with the complete works of
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?
$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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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:No remotely modern aircraft is capable to land on it?
Wanna bet?
There is one aircraft that not only can take off and land on it, -but- is also the only aircraft that is permitted to take off and land while *any* aircraft carrier is docked in port.
Harrier Jump Jets are reasonably modern as I recall.
With the angled ramp as it is (or even perhaps angled a little bit more) the AV8-B would be able to take off with a minimal amount of fuel and without using the Catapults. If I'm not too terribly mistaken the British are doing that for thier light carrier fleet - harriers included.
Landings would be no problem - at least no more problem than a normal Carrier Landing (controled crash anyone?)
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-- Wiccan Army, 13th Airborne Division "We will not fly silently into the night"
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?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Our crazy NY mayor Bloomberg is actually doing this already. He is taking old cruise ships and outfitting them for low-income housing.
I just hope they got rid of those silly hyper-contaigious diseases that were going around. Some 409 surface cleaner should do it. Well, a lot actually.
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.
Seriously, if someone gave me $4,500,010 right now I would buy an aircraft carrier and a lot of candy.
A way to make it profitable would be to go around the world and offer paying tours. Or even cruises (though that would require a lot of people...) Enough to supply the fuel, pay back the loan you took out to buy it and fit it with enough computers and a network to run it all from the bridge, but most of all, have the COOLEST HOUSE ON EARTH.
...so...COOL...
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.
Get your former CEO elected as Vice President of the United States.
Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves.
Don't forget all those hidden fees when buying this carrier.
-Insurance (Ow.)
-Crew (you could get away with under a crew of thousand without aircraft and weapondry, I'm sure)
-Supplies
-Fuel (that's gonna kill ya)
-Licencing (I'm sure the government isn't just gonna let you run around with a spare carrier without some sort of tax)
-ATM fee
I don't care if it is only 4.5 mil. You're gonna have to have deeeep pockets just for upkeep, let alone taking it out for a spin... And you can stop with the Neal Stephenson jokes now. They've all been taken.
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There are actually two modern fighters that could easily land and take off. One is the Harrier as you mentioned. The other is the Joint Strike Fighter, which also has vertical T/O and landing capability...
"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!
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You're probably thinking of an American Nimitz-class nuclear carrier, with its 5 acres of deck space and 5,000 crew. This one is WWII-vintage, and not quite so large. It's actually quite small, by aircraft carrier standards.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
One Aircraft Carrier: $4,500,000.
Slashdot registered users: 6,000,000.
Online geek community with own aircraft carrier: Priceless.
For whatever reason, durring construction its hull sat around for something like 5 years for budgetarty reasons. At least 2 or 3 of its sister hulls diddnt get out of the construction phase.
... 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 :)
Application #1: With current issues regarding DMCA laws and a whole bunch of bogusness... I'm rather shocked someone isn't considering buying such a beast in order to start up an off shore server in international waters. Pirate telivision / radio would also be a logical application.
Application #2: Organizations such as Green Peace need boats in order to get around and block access. This is a big boat.
Application #3: Off shore power plant. Production of things like hydrogen or other fuels.
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
Hmmmm. This must be some new, European definition of "free" that hasn't yet spread to the US.
Shhhh! You're supposed to pretend that it's the United States which has been trying for centuries to become a fascist, totalitarian empire, and Europe which is trying desperately to preserve Western civilization. It's the new fad, you see.
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Yep this is a small carrier.
Smaller than the amphib assault ships the Navy has.
The only current aircraft one could operate off this would be A-4s, Harriers, Hawkeye AWACS, Trackers, and helos.
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Make its average density greater than water.
Alternately, make the water less dense:
-kgj
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.
Someone I know has thought fairly seriously of doing just that:e r/
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The M.V. Cowichan
(pronounced) M V COW-ITCH-en
and affordable:
Reduced to $190,000(CDN) OBO
Boy, I guess it's safe to say they will never attack america.
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?
"Brazil ain't the richest of nations (or the free-est, for that matter),"
Man, do you at least know Brazil to say that? Really sad to see that education, even in the "rich free countries" is going down to the drain...