February 10, 2015
Rollercoaster
Just another day in the glorious Pacific Ocean for the USS Lunga Point.
You may also title this "The crew of the USS Lunga Point throws up in unison."
"Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" also works, if you're into that sort of thing.
UPDATE. No, the Lunga Point hasn't broken in half. Click "more" to see what's going on in the picture!
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Posted by: Wonderduck at
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I completely don't understand what's going on in that picture. The ship has broken in half and the bow section is capsizing, while the island and stern remain upright? Why aren't the planes sliding off into the water?
Geoffrey Broke's Alarm Starboard (fantastic book) has a v. scary account of a being on a destroyer that nearly capsized in the north Atlantic.
Posted by: AlanL at February 11, 2015 12:12 AM (MgVWN)
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Yours is the same reaction the picture got when I posted it elsewhere... and, in fact, mine when I first saw it.
Would it help if I said there are actually
two carriers in this picture?
Posted by: Wonderduck at February 11, 2015 01:42 AM (jGQR+)
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... And the island of the front one is under the water or has fallen off?
Posted by: AlanL at February 11, 2015 02:23 AM (UGO4c)
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I couldn't get my mind wrapped around the perspective until this morning. The brain just isn't prepared for a situation in which a flight deck appears to form a square.
Posted by: Ben at February 12, 2015 09:19 AM (S4UJw)
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February 01, 2015
Kongo Sisters
As much as we'd like it to be true, I'm afraid that the ships of the Kongo-class of battlecruisers/fast battleships didn't actually look like this:
I know, it's hard to accept. But we must accept reality... in truth, they looked like this:
There are worse things.
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