Also, would high tensile steels be what are used for naval ships? Or would you want softer steel to absorb and deform when struck, rather than shatter or crack?

#42 | Posted by jpw at 2025-12-23 01:46 PM | Reply | Flag:

Stronger steels mean less steel in a lot of applications.

-rather than shatter or crack?

Steels (and weldments) go through what's called Charpy Impact testing. Toughness = a materials ability to absorb impact.

I had no idea

#33 | Posted by donnerboy

Just like most everything you comment on.

And yet, still appears smarter than you.

#38 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-12-23 01:17 PM | Reply | Flag:

It really doesn't take a lot to accomplish that.

Do you have any evidence that different alloys or materials have been used to reduce tonnage of vessels?

#27 | Posted by jpw at 2025-12-23 12:22 PM | Reply | Flag:

I have experience in design of offshore jacketed platforms and tension leg platforms (floaters) with respect to payload.

And yes, increased tinsel strength in steels can reduce the weight of the vessel/platform by a significant amount.

Yamato Class was 71,659 tons.
Iowa Class was 57,540 tons.
Bismarck Class was 51,800 tons.

So, the USS Lewzer Class is nowhere near the biggest. Not even in the top 10.

#18 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-23 12:52 AM | Reply | Flag:

As material science advances, so does the efficiency of said ships.

Imagine being so clueless about how to better the country, that you have to inspire tearing things down.

There is a reason Democrats are below 18% in approval ratings.

bUh tHe bLuE wAvE!!!

LMAO The Biden Administration had 4 years to put Trump away and just couldn't do it. They sat on the Epstein documents for 4 years to protect Donald Trump??? You clowns are hilarious and you have nothing.

No link to a promise

What I thought...

-Democrats never promised to release the Epstein Files.

Do you have a link to Trump "promising" to release the Epstein files?

Why'd Trump send military personnel there to get killed in the first place?

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-22 02:04 PM | Reply | Flag:

^ Hiding

Posted by Dbt2 at 09:35 AM | 13 COMMENTS | permalink

This reads like someone may have been worried about legal action being taken against the company for unverified sources.

Zionism isn't center left.
Zionism is hard right.

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-22 01:00 PM | Reply | Flag

George Soros would like a word with you...

Trump also bombed Syria.
Three days ago.

U mad bro?

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-22 11:54 AM | Reply | Flag

Trump bombed a group of terrorist involved in killing of military personnel.

Wedding? Funeral?? You hiding bro?

As long as Trump is hiding the Epstein Files it's fair game to pretend anything might be true about him for that minute, or an hour, or a year, until that doddering old pervert dies.

#12 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-22 12:32 PM | Reply | Flag:

Who else never released the files when they had the power to do so? Hint: inappropriate shower Daddy

You've now seen more of the files than the guy you voted for exposed.

#19 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-22 12:26 PM | Reply | Flag:

Selling off the reserves was BAD for national security. And you're an idiot.

Lewzer said he was going to fill that up to the top.

He didn't.

Promises made.

Promises not kept.

#18 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-22 12:25 PM | Reply | Flag:

LMAO He hasn't been in office for a year yet.

Yeah, gas is down too.

Kinda happens when you tank the economy.

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2025-12-22 09:06 AM | Reply | Flag:

Or you sell off the SPRs.

If you don't think Donald J Trump is bisexual, count up the number of times he talked about going down into the rally audience and kissing the men and beautiful women. What normal man would say that he wants to go into a mixed group and kiss the men? Then look at the video of Donald J Trump standing at a podium miming -------- on a microphone.

#8 | Posted by Hickory at 2025-12-22 10:35 AM | Reply | Flag

Lets pretend it's true for a minute.... You're trying to convince us that gay/bi people are pedos? Because that's what it looks like.

If you don't think Donald J Trump is a pedophile, Google the name Katie Johnson; she was 13 years old, and her deposition was never challenged.

#8 | Posted by Hickory at 2025-12-22 10:35 AM | Reply | Flag:

I Googled it and this is what came back.

"Katie Johnson" is a pseudonym used by an anonymous woman who filed a federal lawsuit in 2016 alleging that she was sexually assaulted as a minor by both Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein in 1994
. The lawsuit was ultimately dismissed and withdrawn, and serious doubts were raised about the case's authenticity and the accuser's identity.

Traitors huh? When did congress declare war again?

#7 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-12-21 10:02 PM | Reply | Flag:

When did Congress declare war on Syria? Obama bombed a funeral and a wedding and you haven't said a word since.

But Obama could drone-strike funerals and weddings in a country we weren't at war with.

You are not wrong. ALL of them could and should have done exactly this, ordered the DEA to reclassify it. Biden could have kept his promise by doing exactly this. But instead he slow walked the process, and handed it off to an agency that should not even exist, the DEA should be abolished.

Doesn't mean he's not still a loathsome piece of fascist excrement, doesn't mean it should be schedule 3 instead of being unscheduled entirely, doesn't mean the drug schedules should even exist. But it's a small step in the right direction.

#21 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-12-20 09:54 AM | Reply | Flag:

It should have been done a long time ago. I think Trump went this route because this subject is always dead on arrival in the house. Hopefully the research is done properly and we learn more about the medicinal uses of MJ. I'm also not in agreement with what Texas just did to hemp products. None of it makes sense until you look at who's being paid off.

Some of us aren't stupid piles of ----, sport.

#34 | Posted by jpw at 2025-12-20 09:32 AM | Reply | Flag:

Well, that sure is an accomplishment.

STFU you raetarded blowhard.

It's a serious question, so you'll ignore it.

#36 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-20 09:34 AM | Reply | Flag

"If" More desperation.