
Sacred Cow Shipyards
@SCShipyards
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Just your neighborhood Dockmaster taking a serious, quasi-historical, (mostly) sober look at some of the famous ships and other such things from science fiction
Just, y'know, floating around
Joined March 2021
You can learn more from any random Discworld book than you ever could hope to learn from The Great Gatsby.
@SCShipyards I got full marks in English from 6th grade on. I never did course work, I just read books. Primarily Discworld. I would fill out a book report form for each book.
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There are only 10 types of humies:. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
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RT @_grathew_: @SCShipyards It's â…“ cube. We need to do the rest.
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RT @Beelzebugge: @SCShipyards The Death Star (as designed by geocentrists).
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It's things like this that make you feel ok about your "social media empire". The tweet this is from is two days old. The user has nearly three times my follower count. I dare say we're doing ok.
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Relatedly, you need no more than four colors to color a map of your world and have no adjacent countries sharing colors. Sometimes you can get away with three, depending on the age of the map.
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I like that everyone is acting like this was a surprise to the DDG. I guarantee the conversation in the CIC was something like this:. GM2 Schmuckatelli: Please, sir?.CICWO: No. GM2: . please?.CICWO: No. GM2: . but. TAO: He said no. GM2: Doggoneit.
Two Venezuelan F-16s armed with air-to-surface missiles carried out a low-altitude flyover of the USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109) earlier today in the Southern Caribbean Sea, as a reported “Show of Force” against the U.S. Navy. The Jason Dunham is one of several Arleigh Burke-Class
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Kind of surprised it's a persistent object, rather than teleporting where needed.
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RT @Hambrabai: @NOTA_USA @SCShipyards @KevorkAlmassian Hell, if parade performance was everything, places like Spain, Chile, and North Kore….
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RT @Six_senseNeo: @Prestersean @SCShipyards @SandyofCthulhu Ferengi know what makes money and capitalize that by not wringing their custome….
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It's always sad when otherwise supposedly intelligent humies fall for choreographed parades of mockups. Granted, suckers like this have been around about since "military parades" were first devised, but you'd think they'd EVENTUALLY learn.
The inconvenient truth, that's becoming clearer by the day, is that the U.S. doesn't have the world's leading military anymore, and not even the second: it's likely a distant third behind China and Russia despite spending much more than both of them combined. Most serious
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RT @RocketPulpHack: Nobody seems excited for the Bespectacled People Looking At Screens Cinematic Universe (BPLASCU). .
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