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Anyone want an AirCraft Carrier?
Captain,Simmonds
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man.. talk about the ultimate toy...toy box even...
O how I wish... :)
I'm not 100% sure but I think shes one of the Colossus class, a 'light' aircraft carrier type built for the British Navy.
Damn...
I so wish a four tonne solid gold/diamond meteorite would fall from the sky into my yard...
Anyway, we could rent the ship out to Terrorist Groups\ Countrys to make money to keep the site up:)
I hope some super rich pain in the butt doesnt buy her for a 'ski boat'. She deserves to be well used.
Just so you know folks shes actually a pretty small carrier.. as far as carriers go, shes designed as a support carrier.
It's only worth about 15 million or so.
plyon races at Mach 2.2...:D
we should also scuttle her onto a seamount.. call her terra nullius and claim full soverignty as a small nation..;D
be interesting to see if she does actually sell, and to whom, I just hope they dont scrap her... that would be an abysmal waste
anyone got Richard Bransons phone number by any chance ?
ps.
we would be the coolest site on the net... Hi we have our own war fleet.. now all we need are some decommisioned F15's and someone skilled enough to repair them... Oh and we'll need someone to make ordinence too.... maybe a good mechanic... maybe even buy a surplus nuclear reactor at auction for her, LOL...
[B]Just so you know folks shes actually a pretty small carrier.. as far as carriers go, shes designed as a support carrier.[/B][/QUOTE]
Small WW2 carriers were called escort carriers!
[QUOTE][B]If you were going to auction off something as a joke you'd pick something like a Nimitz class, or the New Jersey or something equally implausible[/B][/QUOTE]
Actually it's Iowa-class.
(ships in that class are Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, Wisconsin)
726 would be also good choise.
Or maybe Seawolf hunter-killer.
[B]we would be the coolest site on the net... Hi we have our own war fleet.. now all we need are some decommisioned F15's and someone skilled enough to repair them... Oh and we'll need someone to make ordinence too.... maybe a good mechanic... maybe even buy a surplus nuclear reactor at auction for her, LOL... [/B][/QUOTE]
I agree, lets do it!
Worf
Really, we [i]would[/i] be the coolest site on the web... And they really can't stop us from becoming a nation; they could prevent us from seceding from their country, but what we'd be doing is closer to emmigrating. :) With Sanfam and Biggles as our leaders (and Striker providing the underwater cable necessary :p), we can lay the foundations for the Internet v2 :eek:
I'm willing to donate... $510 towards the cause... :)
Dont think the US will sell us F-15s. I say we go for some MiGs. + there Cheeper
[B]I dunno, the cancer-curing, Jesus-conjuring keyboard was pretty good... [/B][/QUOTE]
That was at amazon.
[B]That was at amazon. [/B][/QUOTE]
Yeah, but a bunch of people found it funny enough to post the same thing on Ebay. And did anyone catch the article about the guy selling his kidney for something like 50,000 pounds, because his daughter needed some kind of exotic treatment he couldn't afford? Needless to say, Ebay now has a "no Human tissue" regulation. :)
Nimitz... (Nimitz class)
>>>>OR<<<<
New Jersey (Iowa class)
and dont pick me up on semantics... names and classes of carriers and warships are so regularly disputed its not funny.
The current crop of carrier designs are 'support carriers', designed for supporting interdiction and special forces missions etc.
Anyways, lets hope they quietly go away and start again with the auction for a realistic price, my bet is this was always intended to be a publicity stunt even if they are genuine about selling it.
On the 'new country' stakes... nobody has put a test case before the international court in regards to 'terra nullius' (land belonging to no-one), other than Sealand, (and that is a man made structure, basically an oil rig type platform). Actually dropping some rocks on a sea mount somewhere hasnt actually been tried.
As usual, the easy part would be building the island itself. Garnering enough support to survive as an independent country without being annexed by your closest neighbour, is the hard part.