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[antiaircraft]

Well that's good to hear. Still, it sounds like a bit of a soft target if somebody really motivated wanted to do a lot of damage...

 

Or maybe the bomb's fake and it's just an elaborate trap. xD

[CAV of Gang Green]

No. It's an actual bomb.

 

But once again, secruity is tight. And besides, the bomb is deactivated.

[antiaircraft]

Well hey, it's not like I'm planning an attack or anything. :shiftyeyes_anim:

 

So we just went from flash drives to battleships and nuclear bombs. I wonder how that's connected. xD

[CAV of Gang Green]

I know you're expecting me to make an epic paragraph like I did before, but I'm too tired (3 AM in NYC). I'll do it in the morning.

[antiaircraft]

Eh, no worries, I was actually just kinda asking a rhetorical question anyway. :P

 

So I take it most people around here start school at about the same time?

[Creeper unidog]

I go to school at 6:30 am and I wake up at 5:45 am since school starts at 7 here =w=;;

 

I HAVE EXAMS WHY AM I ON HERE D<

[livvy]

Dun use caps! It makes the voice in my head yell. T_T

 

And I suppose most schools start within an hour of each other... though we are in different time zones, so I'm sure that messes with things.

[Unstream]

I have my first day of school in a couple of days. I'd be lying if I said I was looking forward to it, but at least I bought all of my supplies and I just finished my summer homework a few minutes ago :thumbsup:

[IrishLiz]

I've read a few Lifehacker posts, but no, I'm not really familiar with that site. I do recall thinking that some of the stuff they recommended was a little suboptimal, but I can't remember what exactly I was reading at the time.

 

Yeah, I don't read it all the time. They have some interesting ideas, but a lot are a little crazy for me. It's fun to read some of the McGyver stuff. :)

 

Anyways, one of the writers is huge on carrying Ubuntu, etc. on flash drives. He wrote a few posts on different setups you can put on flash drives with Ubuntu and some free programs and such. It was a while ago, so I don't remember exactly. He used to give them out to people for fun.

 

That sounds pretty awesome, CAV. I've been to the Midway, an aircraft carrier in San Diego, that was pretty awesome. No bombs though.

[Spritzie]

That reminds me (the sub thing) of when my dad and I were in Long Beach, CA and we stayed on the Queen Mary. (The sister ship of the Titanic, now a hotel.) Next to it, they have the Russian sub, the Scorpion. You can tour it. Even though it's painted and nothing is function, they have signs saying everything still works, so not to operate the sub. :laughingsmiley:

[Unstream]

I went on a sub once, but it was one you knew didn't work anymore because giant chunks of the hull were missing :P

[Spritzie]

This one, you could tell if wouldn't work, because everything was heavily painted with crazy colors. But I loved that it said it was operational, so not to operate it. It was permanently placed next to the Queen Mary, so it wasn't going anywhere.

[Noog]

I've never been anywhere interesting like a sub :P

 

Well...I've been too the Alamo...but that's not interesting XD

[Spritzie]

I didn't think the sub was all that cool. I loved the Queen Mary much more. They restored it, and turned it into a hotel. The 1st class staterooms became the guest cabins. You could walk all the decks, see the area where the pool was. They have a chapel set up. It was awesome.

[Noog]

That's kinda silly.

 

What isn't silly? Swedish ice hotel.

[Spritzie]

Why would it be silly? It was a cool experience, since it's the Titanic's sister ship. You kind of got the feeling of what the Titanic could have looked like. I loved it. And from across the bay, it eerily, did look like the Titanic.

 

An Ice hotel sounds way too cold.

[Noog]

It's in Sweden, so you're cold in the first place :P

[Spritzie]

It has to be somewhere cold in the first place, otherwise it wouldn't last very well. But still, I despise being cold. Especially when I'm inside. There's just something wrong about it.

[Unstream]

The ice hotel actually looks pretty awesome from what I've seen of it.

 

Haha yeah, I have to agree though. Subs are pretty boring. And horribly cramped. The ship would be cool though, I think. You could do Titanic reenactments :P

[Noog]

The ice hotel actually looks pretty awesome from what I've seen of it.

 

Haha yeah, I have to agree though. Subs are pretty boring. And horribly cramped. The ship would be cool though, I think. You could do Titanic reenactments :P

 

Hopefully these reenactments wouldn't be TOO in depth. ;)

[antiaircraft]

Does that mean we get to shoot giant chunks of ice at the hull? :P

 

Random Titanic facts:

- If the Titanic had run head-on into the iceberg, the damage from the impact would have been dealt to its bow, which was much stronger than the rest of the hull. It's likely that if this were the case, only a few compartments would have flooded, and the ship wouldn't have sunk.

- The Titanic's middle propeller was not designed to run backwards. When the ship's engines went into reverse, the middle propeller just stopped. The ship's rudder was mounted behind this propeller, so it only worked well when the middle propeller was running. If the ship had turned at full speed instead of trying to reverse at the same time, it would probably have avoided the iceberg.

[Tyler.]

I've been in the Queen Mary a couple times

it feels really creepy, people say it's hainted

[-Ryan]

Hello everyone. ^^

 

Really? I wanna go there sometime then. :O

 

 

[Spritzie]

Does that mean we get to shoot giant chunks of ice at the hull? :P

 

Random Titanic facts:

- If the Titanic had run head-on into the iceberg, the damage from the impact would have been dealt to its bow, which was much stronger than the rest of the hull. It's likely that if this were the case, only a few compartments would have flooded, and the ship wouldn't have sunk.

- The Titanic's middle propeller was not designed to run backwards. When the ship's engines went into reverse, the middle propeller just stopped. The ship's rudder was mounted behind this propeller, so it only worked well when the middle propeller was running. If the ship had turned at full speed instead of trying to reverse at the same time, it would probably have avoided the iceberg.

 

Really? I'd never know that. I used to love reading stuff about the Titanic.

 

I've been in the Queen Mary a couple times

it feels really creepy, people say it's hainted

 

I didn't find it creepy. I thought it was very cool... kind of like stepping back into the past. I'd wanted to the whole, Ghosts of the Queen Mary tour, but we didn't have time.

[CAV of Gang Green]

I've been on the NY Circle Line, but I haven't been on any other boats.