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To: sodpoodle

During World War II we were going to build unsinkable aircraft carriers out of a mix of ice and wood shavings called Pykrete.


3 posted on 09/08/2018 2:59:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
said, "During World War II we were going to build unsinkable aircraft carriers out of a mix of ice and wood shavings called Pykrete"

From wikipedia:
"Habakkuk II was closest to the COHQ model and would have been a very large, slow, self-propelled vessel made of pykrete with steel reinforcement. The size would have been a length of 1200 meters and a width of 180 meters"

For a comparison the Lexington-class aircraft carrier was 270 meters long 33 meter beam.

55 posted on 09/09/2018 12:06:41 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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