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US Nuclear Sub Crashes Into US Navy Amphibious Vessel
Kugrian writes "Showing that it's not just the British and the French who have trouble seeing each other on the high seas, a US Nuclear submarine yesterday crashed into a US Navy heavy cruiser. The USS Hartford, a nuclear-powered attack submarine, was submerged as it crashed into the USS New Orleans in the strait of Hormuz, resulting in the spillage of 95,000 litres of diesel fuel. Both vessels were heading in the same direction when the collision occurred in the narrow strait and were subsequently heading to port for repairs. A spokesman for the 5th Fleet said that the USS Hartford suffered no damage to its nuclear propulsion system." According to the USS New Orleans' Wikipedia page, it's actually an amphibious transport dock.
This is the cover story, but what *really* happened?
Dude, I think I can see my house from here.
You guys are so negative.
The headline should be "US Navy perfects underwater stealth technology."
Dual Opteron < $600
Am I the only one who smells something fishy? Million dollar machines crashing into eachother? For the second time in a month? Somethings up.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits" - Albert Einstein
Erm, what? The USS New Orleans only had 2600 deficiencies when inspected: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_New_Orleans_(LPD-18). Learn to read your own links.
Disconnect and self-destruct, one bullet at a time.
This reminds me of an old story:
Radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Operations 10.10.95
Americans: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the north to avoid a collision.
Canadians: Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision.
Americans: This is the captain of a U.S. Navy ship. I say again: divert your course.
Canadians: No. I say again: divert YOUR course.
Americans: THIS IS THE USS MISSOURI. WE ARE A LARGE WARSHIP OF THE US NAVY. DIVERT YOUR COURSE NOW!
Canadians: This is a lighthouse. Your call.
I'm a Programmer. That's one level above Software Engineer and one level below Engineer.
"usually Slashdot is pretty quick to get the news but his happened yesterday folks"
That was true back when slashdot was in paper edition, but since they switched to this new-fangled website thingy, it just haven't been the same.
One day, my lawn will have a real grass instead of this painted-over green dirt.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Last I checked, in the English language, at least, when we say "a million", we usually don't mean a literal million. That's what "one million" is for. "A million" tends to just mean "a hell of a lot".
That sound you are hearing is the noise of a million whooshes flying right over your head ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
I hope you understand that there are things Sailors can't talk about
We won't ask, and you won't tell.
You can't take the sky from me...
Because the surface ship is expected to not see the boat.
Rosencranz: "I've frequently not seen the boat."
Guildenstern: "No, no. What you've seen is not the boat."
On a boat which costs 1,000,000,000 could be a radar with alarm which costs about 750. I am sure there were more radar systems on them than one.
I cannot imagine why these boats could collide at all. I guess it was a virus or trojan in the Win32 NT Military Edition system or it was overwhelmed by spam.
As military ships are becoming more and more like floating computers, the malware and spam are turning into ominous issues.
Q: What is long and hard and full of seamen?