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GrahamKennedy wrote:Woo, we made a hundred pages on this thread!

My celebration is a cute little Charlie Brown remaster

I just love those dances.

This guy totally uses the iPad music features to their potential. Totally rockin.

http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/ ... &gt1=42010

GrahamKennedy wrote:Adam Savage and some tesla coils become the most awesome thing I have seen this year.

Thanks to this, I went on a Doctor Who Youtube binge, to make up for being unable to watch the series. I found This to be rather enjoyable.

And this from the 2010 Doctor Who Proms concert (whatever that is ) was incredibly epic. Especially with the playing of the Pandorica speech. I am the Doctor

Tsukiyumi wrote:This guy totally uses the iPad music features to their potential. Totally rockin.

http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/ ... &gt1=42010

That is so cool.

The new British aircraft carriers under construction. Awesome stuff, I just wish we would spend more money on defence over here...

The lazy song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dULOjT9G ... r_embedded

Samuel L. Jackson reads a new children's book. NSFW!

Mikey wrote:Samuel L. Jackson reads a new children's book. NSFW!

GrahamKennedy wrote:The new British aircraft carriers under construction. Awesome stuff, I just wish we would spend more money on defence over here...

So on ship with 40 aircraft and a crew of 1600 that's taking 9 years to build while still being smaller then a Nimitz... Whats the point of this thing again?

Generally speaking, to have an aircraft carrier near the capabilities of a Nimitz class which they can operate with. That is what I vaguely remember about it.

I also heard that the French might be using the same design as well.

Deepcrush wrote:So on ship with 40 aircraft and a crew of 1600 that's taking 9 years to build while still being smaller then a Nimitz... Whats the point of this thing again?

It'll still vastly outclass anything short of a Nimitz/Ford, CdG or Kusneztov, and should be superior to the latter two. Moreover, a Ford costs less than 1% of the annual US defence budget and is still considered a very expensive piece of kit. It would cost more than 10% of the annual UK defence budget.

McAvoy wrote:Generally speaking, to have an aircraft carrier near the capabilities of a Nimitz class which they can operate with. That is what I vaguely remember about it.

Even better - this time we'll be able to operate with them without breaking them.

For the cost of building and up keeping a ship of this size, considering how little it can provide, just doesn't seem like a wise choice.

Wouldn't a bunch of jeep carriers be a better investment for the UK?

Deepcrush wrote:For the cost of building and up keeping a ship of this size, considering how little it can provide, just doesn't seem like a wise choice.

Little? Did you read the bit about it being a more capable platform than anything but a Nimitz?

Limited range and only a third of the air power of a Nimitz. I just don't see a reason for the UK to build a ship this big that is that under powered.