Couldn't they of let it hit his house, he's not important.
When I was younger (think 1996) my parents were given tickets for a tour of an aircraft carrier in Hong Kong. It was great fun actually being on a real aircraft carrier.
LOL that would have been amusing.
They're not letting people on it this time round, which is hardly surprising at the moment given everything that's going on. It was MASSIVE though. And the number of aircraft on the deck was amazing too. Up until now I'd only ever seen stuff like this in films.
Four other ships are expected in too.
Was pretty cool, I watched it come in then walked back past Sydney Opera House and the Bridge, all in blazing (and warm) winter sunshine. Makes me pleased to be here!
did you not take pictures to share with us???
i'm jealous
That thing is ****ing huge. What's more amazing is that the USS Kitty Hawk is the smallest carrier in our fleet.
I went on a tour of a floating museum of a world war II aircraft carrier. It was rather large itself, I couldn't imagine seeing the kitty hawk in person.
When I arrived at the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command, one of the first things our class did as a group was take a tour of it. A female in the group, whose name I can't recall, gave handjobs to two of my classmates during the tour.
- Average crew number: 5300
- Average amount of soft drink consumed per day: 5040 cans
LOL, I guess you need some sort of relief from the 85 hours of study per week?
- Average crew number: 5300
My brother served on the Kitty Hawk in the mid 90's, he still says it was the most amazing experience in his entire life.
The craziest thing he saw was when they were on their way to Singapore they got caught in a typhoon and one of the F-18's that had been out earlier in the day wasn't secured properly and actually fell off the carrier! Can you imagine? A jet just falls off the boat and sinks to the bottom of the ocean, that's just insane!
That's bigger than the town I grew up in.
No wonder y'all 'Mericans're so fat!
A comparison of the US carrier fleets to the rest of the world.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/carriers.htm
Interesting tidbit from the above article.
"America has twice as many aircraft carriers as the rest of humanity combined, and America's aircraft carriers are substantially larger than almost all the other's aircraft carriers. The Navy likes to call the big Nimitz class carriers "4.5 acres of sovereign and mobile American territory" -- all two dozen American carriers of all classes add up to about 75 acres of deck space. Deckspace is probably a good measure of combat power. The rest of the world's carriers have about 15 acres of deck space, one fifth that of America's."
Up for a sea war, anyone?
Which is why America's enemies have taken to terrorist attacks, because no one in the world can stand up to our military.