And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
There's great videos out there of those ships running to ground with as much speed as they can muster before they get chopped into paper clips. Parts of "Blade Runner 2049" were shot on one of those ship breaker beaches.
After a career in aviation, where folks constantly competed with each other to devise ways to shave off ounces, I cannot comprehend the weight of ocean going ships.
What are those men going to do, air up the tires?
ReplyDeleteSoon to be razor blades, at the breaker's yard.
ReplyDeleteTurning it into pakistani Re-bar.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if those are considered "good" jobs?
ReplyDeleteANY job is a "good" one where there are very few jobs and a whole lot of people.
DeleteThere's great videos out there of those ships running to ground with as much speed as they can muster before they get chopped into paper clips. Parts of "Blade Runner 2049" were shot on one of those ship breaker beaches.
ReplyDeleteIf not for the people shlepping the hose, the anchor chain would look so much like a watch fob chain...yeah! you see it now too!
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Those men are underfed.
ReplyDeleteAfter a career in aviation, where folks constantly competed with each other to devise ways to shave off ounces, I cannot comprehend the weight of ocean going ships.
ReplyDeleteThose 5 guys aren't going to succeed in dragging that ship to deep enough water to reflect it. They need like 8, maybe 8 inatead.
ReplyDeleteOxygen and Acetylene...till nothing left...just like a ant pile.
ReplyDeleteScientists still don't understand why they beach themselves...
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