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2005-01-14 Home Front: Tech

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Posted by Steve 2005-01-14 11:32:04 AM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Wonder if they assigned this sub to this duty to break Jimmah's balls?

Posted by tu3031 2005-01-14 11:57:35 AM|| 2005-01-14 11:57:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I kind of feel sorry for that sub's crew; imagine having that albatross of a name hung around your neck as you perform such vital - and anti-Carter - work.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2005-01-14 12:07:00 PM|| 2005-01-14 12:07:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 With a name like Jimmuh Kotta, I've a feeling that this is going to be a "hard luck" sub.

Jack.

Posted by Jack Deth 2005-01-14 12:17:50 PM|| 2005-01-14 12:17:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 We don't do no surveilling. We does "hydrographic surveys" and if ya ask what that means, I'll hafta burn outcha eyeballs.

Ex-Nuke

Posted by Almost Anonymous2520 2005-01-14 12:33:58 PM|| 2005-01-14 12:33:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I know! I know! It means finding how much salt is in the water! Am I right?

Posted by Shipman 2005-01-14 1:25:36 PM|| 2005-01-14 1:25:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I wish they'd kept the name classified too.

Posted by HV 2005-01-14 5:04:14 PM|| 2005-01-14 5:04:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 One of the missions Parche carried out was the maintenance of taps on undersea phone lines between the Russian naval bases of Petropavalosk and Vladivostok (the famous âIvy Bellsâ mission).

Wasn't this work part of Operation Holystone?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-01-14 5:27:57 PM|| 2005-01-14 5:27:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I always thouht the Jimmie Carter was for hunting rabbits.....

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-01-14 6:18:10 PM|| 2005-01-14 6:18:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I strongly hope they eventually take a swapped out Los Angeles class and turn it into a "Sea View". With significant modifications to insure that everybody knows it is an peaceful oceanographic research vessel, it would be invaluable. The Los Angeles class is horribly oversized, which would be perfect for recovering dangerous nuclear weapons materials and waste lost or dumped at sea and mapping resources potentially worth trillions of dollars. Filled with oceanographers and geologists, the amount of research would be worth quintuple the cost of operations. It could even serve as a launch and recovery platform for hundreds of torpedo-like ocean survey systems, that operate independently for a month or more. And this is not a pipe dream, because the Glomar Explorer and Challenger have proven themselves unbelievably valuable as research surface vessels. Just one such ship could re-start oceanic exploitation as extensive as the industrial revolution.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-01-14 7:49:33 PM|| 2005-01-14 7:49:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 With a vessel named Jimmy Carter, the thirst for real knowledge must be insatiable....

Posted by Frank G 2005-01-14 8:02:33 PM|| 2005-01-14 8:02:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Carter as POTUS was too naive, letting the Soviets lie and deceive him at every turn! On the other hand, I'm pray to God the USDOD never names anything after Commie Bill Clinton or his wife, espec iff its mission involves de facto warfighting or "showing the flag" anywhere in the world.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-01-14 8:21:50 PM|| [http://n/a] 2005-01-14 8:21:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Ima thinker a Dry Dock would be appropriate to name after Hillary

Posted by Frank G 2005-01-14 8:23:23 PM|| 2005-01-14 8:23:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 ooooooh, you are soooo bad!

Posted by Tom 2005-01-14 8:26:10 PM|| 2005-01-14 8:26:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 #12 Frank---mean spirited, heh, but as to accuracy, well, who's the source?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-01-14 8:30:23 PM|| 2005-01-14 8:30:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 #14
The source is none other than Jimmy Carter.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-01-14 9:23:04 PM|| 2005-01-14 9:23:04 PM|| Front Page Top

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