Shipbucket

Thanks for recognizing this was a nonsens project shown at a popular science magazine. Sorry if this drawing scratched your small clean sane logic world. If it hurts too much ask a mod for cure.

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Found it!

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Huh, well, I'll be damned. It does indeed say Oregon, though the illustration suggests either Virginia or even South Carolina (hard to tell since it's so damn stylized)

That said, IIRC Oregon was already a museum ship by then. There were also quite a few old pre-dreadnoughts to choose from, most of them too slow and poorly armored by contemporary standards to be of much use.

Yes, clearly you need to be outright rude to someone who's just screwing around with drawings. No wonder this forum is slowly dying.

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The forum is not dying anywhere. In the next uploading session we are propably getting record setting ammount of new drawings to the archive. People just tend to draw more these days and complain less

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It absolutely floors me that people actually complain about something like this that is obviously meant to be humorous. That some people want to actually stamp it out is even more absurd. Come on, where's your sense of humor?

By the way Ashley, I would make the tracks go the full length of the ship to minimize ground pressure.

I think the difficulty with postings like this one, where the intention is (so we are lead to beleive) one of humorous intention is that it isn't so very obvious at the time - given some of the other postings that are meant to be taken seriously. In submitting this material the person responsible is not breaking any rules, so there is nothing much to say other than its a question of what we find funny. I mean, my elephant impersonation including my trouser pocktets pulled out for ears has been known to raise a chuckle, but not when I last tried it in church.

Popular science or not or ground pressure facts. lets not forget that the space shuttle and saturn5-apollo rockets were carried to the launch pad on a 3,000 ton launch pad crawler in addition the german coal mining firm Rheinbraun use the 13,500ton Bagger 288 mining Excavator which both use crawling tracks.

As for ground pressure the job that The Bagger 288 is required to perform the large surface area of the tracks means the ground pressure of the Bagger 288 is very small (17.1 N/cm2 or 24.8 psi); this allows the excavator to travel over gravel, earth and even grass without leaving a significant track. It has a minimum turning radius of approximately 100 meters, and can climb a maximum gradient of 1:18. The down side for both however is speed as both are very slow movers.

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