What is Digg?Sponsored by HTC
You and You and You. view!
youtube.com - You don't need to get a phone. You need a phone that gets you.
185 Comments
- kavendano14, on 11/02/2009, -15/+89Knock, knock
Who is it?
9/11
9/11 who?
YOU SAID YOU'D NEVER FORGET - fadetoone, on 11/02/2009, -0/+51Well I guess that's all well and good, but this video is fairly useless.
- Awwzm, on 11/02/2009, -13/+54"Strength forged through sacrifice. Never forget."
- FyberOptic, on 11/02/2009, -1/+36Kind of sad how they've already had time to recycle the steel and make a ship out of it, and yet there's still pretty much nothing in the spot where it came from.
- hawkspur, on 11/02/2009, -1/+25San Antonio class ships are often used for humanitarian aid. There aren't exactly a large amount of amphibious landings to be had, so I daresay that most of what these ships do as of today is combat piracy and help hurricane victims.
- RealmDown, on 11/02/2009, -5/+29Obviously you're a troll going for a record number of buries.
I'm glad to help. - SpookyET, on 11/02/2009, -16/+38This ship proves that the United States Government have learnt nothing. They chose to create a war-machine and validate why we have been attacked in the first place instead of using the steel for a peaceful purpose--a new bridge, railway line, monuments to freedom, or rebuild Ground Zero.
- logpony, on 11/02/2009, -11/+28Lulz at your use of "Middle East" as if it describes a homogeneous group and that we are "kicking" this group's collective asses. Jesus, do you wake up every day screaming "Dey took er jarbs?"
- jtscira, on 11/02/2009, -0/+14How about we rebuild the ***** BUILDINGS ! WTF ? Its gonna be going on 10 years.............*****.
- swift535, on 11/02/2009, -2/+14Here is an article with a picture for a better look, and more information for those interested:
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/uss-new-york-co ...
I found it interesting. Didn't realize they were in the process of building other ships named after the 9/11 events as well (USS Arlington & USS Somerset FTA) - boozedrinker, on 11/02/2009, -0/+12And I think you are far too ***** sensitive, Mr. Duprey.
- synapzgap, on 11/02/2009, -1/+13trollgohome
- DaneGleesac, on 11/02/2009, -1/+12and why is that? like hawkspur said above, this class of ship is often used for humanitarian aid.
- LonesomeFighter, on 11/02/2009, -1/+11politics takes more than 8 years. but manufacturing a ship doesn't.
- hawkspur, on 11/02/2009, -1/+11http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_New_York_%28LPD-2 ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio_class_amp ... - zKman, on 11/02/2009, -3/+13"The 9-12 project is not for families directly affected by 9/11, just people building their careers on it." - Colbert
- FormerBabby, on 11/02/2009, -9/+18Glenn Beck is that you?
- diggerado, on 11/02/2009, -0/+9It would be cooler if the bullets were also made of WTC steel :)
- sodade, on 11/02/2009, -4/+13Pointless patriotic posturing FTL.
- DougKodey, on 11/02/2009, -0/+9how do you live with yourself?
- Grova, on 11/02/2009, -4/+12Name: USS New York
Namesake: The State of New York
Awarded: 25 November 2003
Builder: Northrop Grumman Ship Systems
Laid down: 10 September 2004
Launched: 20 December 2007
Christened: 1 March 2008
Commissioned: 7 November 2009 (scheduled)[1]
Motto: "Strength forged through sacrifice. Never forget."
Status: Christened
Badge: USS-New-York-(LPD-21)-COA.png
General characteristics
Class and type: San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock
Displacement: 24,900 tons full
Length: 208.5 m (684 ft) overall,
201.4 m (661 ft) waterline
Beam: 31.9 m (105 ft) extreme,
29.5 m (97 ft) waterline
Draft: 7 m (23 ft)
Propulsion: Four sequentially turbocharged marine Colt-Pielstick diesel engines, two shafts, 41,600 shp (30 MW)
Speed: In excess of 22 knots (24.2 mph)(41 km/h)
Boats and landing
craft carried: 2 Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC)s or
1 Landing Craft, Utility (LCU);
14 Expeditionary Fighting Vehicles (EFV) or
14 Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAV)s
Capacity: Embarked Landing Force: 699
(66 officers, 633 enlisted)
surge capacity to 800.
Complement: 28 officers, 332 enlisted
Armament: Two Bushmaster II 30 mm Close in Guns, fore and aft
two Rolling Airframe Missile launchers, fore and aft.
Aircraft carried: Launch or land
two CH53E Super Stallion
two MV-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft
four CH-46 Sea Knight
four AH-1 SeaCobra or
four UH-1 Iroquois helicopters. - RealmDown, on 11/02/2009, -1/+9A: Your troll topic of the moment.
- peruvianprinz, on 11/02/2009, -2/+10I'm waiting for the USS Clunker made with steel from all the cars that were traded in.
- DougKodey, on 11/02/2009, -0/+8You are a sick person if you laugh at such loss of human life. You should seek professional help.
- BotchaMcCoola, on 11/02/2009, -4/+12If the suicide 911 criminals could see this they would hate seeing a strong smart USA reaction. But they would love the other ways we have shot ourselves in the foot by over-reactions. When will we stop losing completely?
- themastersb, on 11/02/2009, -2/+9Remember the 5th of November.
- SpookyET, on 11/02/2009, -1/+8Perhaps, you should seek medical attention to be able to follow my logic.
- chrisdodges, on 11/02/2009, -10/+17Yeah not very catchy. I'm going to bury it so I dont see it again.
- BotchaMcCoola, on 11/02/2009, -2/+9Middle East? Wasn't it the Hamburg cell with some rich Saudi supporters?
- censormagnet, on 11/02/2009, -0/+6is that what you call the murder of 3000 people now? sacrifice?
sacrifice is when someone willingly gives up something of theirs, not taking from others - CrazedLeper, on 11/02/2009, -1/+73,000+ USA citizens. 4,000+ US soldiers, 1,000,000+ in Iraq. ???? from Afghanistan.....and counting.
- bphicke, on 11/02/2009, -0/+6Try swallowing the load next time.
- SpookyET, on 11/02/2009, -0/+6It is an amphibious transport dock (also called a landing platform dock or LPD, hence LPD-21), an amphibious warfare ship, a warship that embarks, transports, and lands elements of a landing force for expeditionary warfare missions. Its primary mission is not humanitarian aid.
- 3nder99, on 11/02/2009, -1/+6Trained in Afghanistan and Pakistan, who recruits from all over the Middle East, who receives their religious support from Saudi Arabia, who pushes its Wahabbi Sects all over the Middle East through Maddrassas.
You know, if countries like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia would just take care of the ***** going on in their own country, no one would have to worry about anything. The problem being, Pakistan prefers to make treaties with terrorists who break them within months, and Saudi Arabia only pays lip service to fighting terrorists and singles out only those who attack inside Saud.
Basically they don't give a ***** as long as their homegrown nut cases attack other countries. - 4NDr01D, on 11/02/2009, -1/+6nothing like forging Swords into Plowshares....
oh wait... - fleischner, on 11/02/2009, -3/+7But your masthead, Rosie O'Donnell, insists steel has never been melted by fire. What happened *after* the thermite?
- BohicaTwentyTwo, on 11/02/2009, -0/+4USS Obama?
- fugazied, on 11/02/2009, -0/+4Wargala you have missed a number of happenings in that entire middle east mess including but not limited to: US abandoning muslim fighters in Afghanistan after Russians were pushed back, US abandoning muslim fighters in Iraq after they tried to overthrow Saddam, the US training Saddam's men in torture techniques, the US supporting Saddam in the 80s, killing many thousands of muslims with bombs in Iraq, the US backed by corrupt Saudi kings doing their bidding to maintain access to energy reserves, US engaging in CIA operations to remove specific muslim leaders they did not like, all the way back to the US helping remove Mohammed Mosaddeq in Iran. The US cannot maintain a legacy of supporting dictators when it serves their overall goals (of keeping access to oil) and not expect blowback. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowback_%28intellige ...
- 3nder99, on 11/02/2009, -2/+6You do realize they only used 7.5 tons of steel from WTC in the ship? Out of thousands of tons?
The vast majority of that steel is indeed being used for peaceful purposes to rebuild our infrastructure. - Laminarcissus, on 11/02/2009, -0/+4@defwheezer:
It cost about a $1 billion. Or in military terms: "One large." - LonesomeFighter, on 11/02/2009, -1/+5i like to think they got 40 extremely horny big cocked gay men as their treat causing them to be in extreme pain.
- AmazingSteve, on 11/02/2009, -8/+12Hey look what we did with the forensic evidence!!!
- UselessTrivia, on 11/02/2009, -0/+4Perhaps it doesn't seem like much to the untrained eye from ground level. It only has steel going up a few stories but the vast majority of work being done is below ground level.
Most people aren't aware that they're building a new transit hub under the WTC site. Basically a huge new subway station. The collapse also required a massive shore-up of the foundation to keep it from eroding away and losing a chuck of lower manhattan under water.
They haven't gotten to the "Steel climb" phase yet where the frame starts making rapid progress upward. Once that starts happening you'll all of a sudden see the building go from three or four stories to new floors being added every week. - jgubbe, on 11/03/2009, -0/+47.5 tons ain't *****. I pack more rebar than that on my shoulder almost every day. When placing reinforcing steel an Ironworker should place 15-20 tons a day.
7.5 tons of iron is only 30.67 cubic feet of steel. Or 367 feet long, 1 foot wide, and 1 inch thick (367' x 12" x 1").
The amount of steel from the trade center that they used is very small amount of the steel in that ship.
So I wouldn't say that the ship is built from World Trade center steel but that it has some steel from the buildings. - algaeturd, on 11/02/2009, -1/+4Exactly. It's an embarrassment to the country. Remember all the loving embraces going around post 9/11? Well, that all quickly turned to hatred towards each other as Bush ***** this country in the ass and forgot all about the people who died in NYC that day.
No landmark, no memorial, just a big hole in the ground.
Such a disgrace to the memories of the people who died there while a war is still being fought that had absolutely NOTHING to do with that fateful day. - noangelcame, on 11/02/2009, -4/+7You're being dug down because people want to forget that this is an unsolved crime that was never properly investigated.
- AndrewDB, on 11/02/2009, -1/+4So, let me get this straight, out of a national tragedy, we create .. a boat.. that can be sunk?..
Does anyone .. not see.. the irony in that?
Wouldn't it be better to .. I don't know, create a landmark? - inactive, on 11/02/2009, -6/+9Thanks Professor for your wonderful insights on the dynamics of 21st century geopolitical issues however,
I think the whole "us kicking their asses" and putting bases in Saudi Arabia etc WAS THE #1 ***** REASON BIN LADEN et. al cited for attacking us. So perhaps you should go back to peer reviewing your publications. - mmittimm, on 11/02/2009, -0/+3You win.
- mmittimm, on 11/02/2009, -0/+3You're getting buried down because your comment was stupid, not because "doing forensic analyses of crime scenes is uncool". All this "evidence" you speak of was either incinerated by the incredibly high heat (you know, hot enough to damage the internal structure of a skyscraper to the point of falling) or tainted by the thousands of people who've worked at ground zero. Oh, and these black boxes you have your panties in a bunch about? Yes. They were likely destroyed when a 110 STORY BUILDING fell on them.
You ought to change your username, calling yourself physicsguy is like spitting in the face of physics guys everywhere. -
Show 51 - 100 of 187 discussions
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is