Donald Trump wants the Navy to rip out an electromagnetic launch system and replace it with a steam one.
Once again, the dimwitted President has gone full Juggalo.
This mother fucker said magnets stop working in the water and are therefore a stupid thing to put on a boat.
This can’t be my original timeline. This is the demented rantings of an old man. But he happens to be the fucking president…
Fuck this.
The timeline split in 2000.
Man I wish I was in the other one and Bush wasn’t able to steal the election from Gore.
They must have it good over there.
FUUUCK
Still haunted by hanging chads. Fuck
I’ve launched off the front of aircraft carriers hundreds of times, have a Master’s degree in aeronautical engineering, and am a test pilot and even I wouldn’t suggest to the Navy how to engineer specific systems on its ships,
Naval aviator, combat veteran, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, space shuttle pilot, space shuttle commander, captain Mark Kelly significantly understates his qualifications. People who know a lot of stuff usually know what they don’t know.
Universal Healthcare? HOW WILL WE PAY FOR IT!!! billions on pointless horseshit that will also have to be fixed with billions more when he’s gone? FINE!!!
I was talking with a retired admiral this morning about this issue. He said it can’t be done without rebuilding half the ship. You would have to rip out and then relocate most of the engineering compartments.
Yeah, they are not going to do this. They will redefine electromagnetic launchers as steam launchers before they actually dismantle an aircraft carrier.
Back to the steam age we go! Forget microcontrollers and magnets, we want steam and coal!
My guess is that Kegseth really wanted to see testosterone filled Seamen covered in hot, damp steam.
Ah yes, let’s get rid of actually good technology and go back to the fucking 1800s. What next, no more nuclear powered ships, only coal engines?
Hey, enough of that! Stop insulting the Juggalos!
He most certainly is not ‘down with the clown’ .
This is consistent with all the other times the president ordered the government to spend billions of dollars to undo years of work.
Trump’s long-standing grudge against electromagnetic launchers seems to stem from his frustration about the production of the USS Gerald R. Ford, which cost roughly $13 billionto make and experienced delays and cost overruns. There’s no reason to think its launchers don’t work, however.
Anybody else have a boss that made a terrible decision that cost the company too much money. And rather than admitting they fucked up, they told everybody the entire process was wrong and needed to be fixed everywhere. Resulting in massive additional costs and an all around worse process.
