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Originally posted by TheSmutPeddlerDOTcom
I saw a thing on the Discovery Channel about that ship 3 or 4 years ago, it said then that the only way to get any "real estate" on the ship would be to get invited. Awesome idea though.
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Do you have any idea the amount of stress and flex that thing would be under? It would destroy itself.
No matter how you slice it there will be times when the front of the ship will hit a swell before the ass end. A structure of that magnitude which looks to be about 3 or 4 times larger than an aircraft carrier which is SOLID and not all just open air levels with golf courses, would bow and flex.
I'm no airline pilot, but something tells me that trying to land a passenger jumbo jet on a surfaces that has a nast bow in it and can gain or lose 5-10 feet of altitude in a few seconds is not the easiest or safest thing to do.
It's different on a carrier where the platform is solid, and not flexing. But that big stupd ship WILL flex. Also, the fighter jets slam into the deck pretty hard. I doubt a passenger jet could handle it.
Even without the airport on top the thing is still to massive for our technology.
The biggest man made structure so far is that Island that the japanese built to land planes on... and that danm thing is sinking. We are just not ready for it yet.