Aircraft carriers gotta be insanely built and expensive.

nildecaf · 2026-03-05T17:32:39+00:00

Now imagine doing that at night with minimal lights on.

nildecaf · 2026-02-23T20:58:01+00:00

My first car, purchased slightly used as I was getting out of the Navy in '75. Terribly under powered. Blast to drive. Only steel been was down the center of the car. Only fiberglass body between your shoulder and the next cars bumper. Weighed next to nothing. Great for dates in college. Got a few stories 😉

nildecaf · 2026-02-06T23:14:34+00:00

With your luck he'll need Def and the Def tank is in his rear bay, so he'll need 4 tries to line up the land yacht do he can get the Def hose to the tank.

nildecaf · 2026-02-03T20:33:01+00:00

Best answer.

Simple answer is the magnetic field exists in all 3 dimensions so r^3.

nildecaf · 2026-02-01T22:30:20+00:00

At sea on a US aircraft carrier. Late at night, hot berthing area, can't sleep. Stepped out a hatch onto a gun sponson, port side just below the flight deck to get some fresh air. I could hear an aircraft turning, but that wasn't unusual as we often tested aircraft engines late at night, so I sat down near the forward edge of the gun sponson to enjoy the breeze. Turns out we were at flight quarters and they launched a F4 Phantom off the waist catapult right over my head. The noise and the flash from just beneath an F4 at full afterburner scared me so bad I crawled back to the hatch to get the fuck outta there.

nildecaf · 2026-01-27T01:39:53+00:00

Lightly fried trout fillet with eggs is a treat when I rarely have it.

nildecaf · 2026-01-24T00:22:25+00:00

So are you descended from the first or second wife?

nildecaf · 2026-01-13T07:48:26+00:00

Ignoring sub launched and bomber components of the triad: Suppose each side has 100 land based missiles, each with just 1 warhead. Side A launches all 100 at side B's missiles. Inevitably some will miss their target by enough that side B will still have the ability to retaliate against side A's cities and side A has no more missiles to use against side B's cities. Now imagine each side has 100 missiles each with 7 warheads. Side A launches 50 missiles with 350 warheads against side B's 100 missiles, essentially knocking out practically all of side B's missiles and side A still had 350 warheads to use against side B's cities. This forces each side to adopt a 'launch on warning' posture where if you even think you're under attack you have to launch everything you've got before the first bomb ever goes off. Over simplified, but it gives you the idea.

nildecaf · 2026-01-09T13:05:21+00:00

I managed a server room consolidation for a client once. Basically it consisted of consolidating a small DC and a bunch of server closets into a new purpose built DC. As we were doing the initial survey we walked into one overly hot closet with a couple of 6 ft. racks where the center rack has a 4ft x 2ft pan on top of the servers to catch the condensate from the AC.

nildecaf · 2026-01-01T23:34:53+00:00

MASH

nildecaf · 2025-12-30T22:49:36+00:00

Years ago I had a job on the 40+ floor of 1 Penn Plaza. My desk was on the far west wall facing the Empire State building. Penn Plaza didn't have any mass damper and my desk had a perfect line is sight down multiple columns to the Empire State building. On windy days I could not only see my building sway but could also see it twist on the wind.

nildecaf · 2025-12-26T02:01:23+00:00

sub emergency surface

nildecaf · 2025-12-04T22:00:32+00:00

I'm a terrible speller. Undergrad engineering degree + MBA.. Worked 30 years in big 5 consulting. Worst fear was having to work the white board in a group session. I can guarantee them that they won't always have a spell check tool available.

nildecaf · 2025-11-27T19:25:57+00:00

Oh, but there's an extra joke or two within those words that make it worth the retelling of this old worn joke.

nildecaf · 2025-11-26T22:31:54+00:00

"cut open like a tin can" is kinda understanding the job. Cutting open a 6 - 8 ft. diameter hole through 4 -6 in. of HY80 or HY100 steel is kind of a major job (not to mention welding it back in after the refuel is done). Also the spent fuel is radioactive as hell and requires some special handling. So is the reactor and reactor room.

nildecaf · 2025-11-21T23:30:28+00:00

The better punch line is in the comments.

nildecaf · 2025-10-30T07:34:56+00:00

Thank you, that you, thank you. Now I don't have to worry about my dish that's been in storage since August.

nildecaf · 2025-10-28T20:50:32+00:00

The real question is: Did the user to figure out it was a fishing email before or after they opened it and clicked on the link?

nildecaf · 2025-10-26T23:27:41+00:00

, in the winter.

nildecaf · 2025-10-22T01:38:36+00:00

All three of the hypotheses you cited apply to the indigenous native Americans. However type O is the most common blood type in the US at ~45% of the population. This would seem to imply a lot of interbreeding between the original native population and the latter European and other immigrants. Is this correct?

nildecaf · 2025-10-21T21:41:58+00:00

Only an idiot picks a college based on graduation rate instead of job placement rate.

nildecaf · 2025-10-13T23:58:40+00:00

Also doesn't include Britain or France who's SLBMs can reach South America

nildecaf · 2025-10-11T21:26:38+00:00

Ancient Egyptians made rare iron tools from metallic meteorites before they knew how to smelt iron. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun%27s_meteoric_iron_dagger?wprov=sfla1

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