alt Hacker NewsSS United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef
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Was strangely difficult to find on Wikipedia what the "SS" actually means
It's a sad day. I crossed the Atlantic in it long ago. Some great memories.
Only love from all the Philadelphians who have sat eating Swedish meatballs and looking at it in wonder. Will be dearly missed
If this is interesting to you, there's still one ocean liner left: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Mary_2
Buy a ticket while you can.
Incase anyone was unaware part of the consideration for where to sink it is access for divers -- the top will be around 55ft deep which will make it accessible for recreational divers
Would a metall ship, that is artificially erroded a a solar driven scarficial annode, count as geo-engineering, when the resulting algea bloom fell out over a dead spot of the ocean?
Ikea in south philly will never be the same :<
Well that's symbolic as heck. A component in a piece of ritual magic maybe. Somebody should feature it that way in a comic book.
I've had a lot of chick-fil-a sitting in my car looking at this thing.
Other than it changing hands a couple of times and it languishing for decades, both of which are pretty normal, the cleanup of the ship sounds largely successful. Almost like an example of how all cleanup projects should go.
Honestly read this as satirical after my brain inserted "intelligence" after reef. It certainly feels like that.
i read "United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef" and thought, thats no news... /s
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> The SS United States, once the fastest passenger liner in the world, is scheduled to be sunk in the Gulf of Mexico in November, creating what will be the world’s largest artificial reef.
This sentence may anger someone into causing a controversy... hope this doesn't hit his favorite channels.
They should sink the US as artificial reef.
"Oh, better that her shattered hulk
Should sink beneath the wave;
Her thunders shook the mighty deep,
And there should be her grave;
Nail to the mast her holy flag,
Set every threadbare sail,
And give her to the god of storms,
The lightning and the gale!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Ironsides_(poem)