You should've checked yourself before you Shrek'd yourself.

I'm curious, how do you recognise that it's the Iowa?

I've seen that picture numerous times on the Iowa's Wikipedia page, on Google search, and on the museum in the ship itself.

Ships are built by class. (i.e. New York Class, Alaska Class, South Dakota Class.) And within those classes are individual ships, and these ships usually differ somewhat in appearance. The USS Iowa is an Iowa class battleship, as are the USS New Jersey, USS Missouri, and USS Wisconsin. They all look slightly different. Be it color, armament, or crew size.

mfw I can only post pics every 10 min. Needless to say, I have several more gifs. I just happened to post the only one without a ship firing.

bahaha, alright, thanks then!

Oh boy are you in for a treat.

Oh god I remember that episode
the crushed soda can

"The same thing can happen when you put a football on the catapult of an aircraft carrier."

How would this be possible with an aircraft catapult?

the aircraft catapult is the slide built into the deck of the ship to launch the jets off and give them extra lift. You can launch a huge amount of weight a long range. They use to show off their catapults by putting a football onto the little wheel carriage that slings the aircrafts wheels, and watching it go up and out. To prove the ships speed also, they would steam into the wind. The ball will naturally fall back towards the point it came from if launched into the wind, and the ship moving forward can close the distance. If done just right the ball falls back to the deck.

I know what it is I just have no idea how to strap a football to one and watch it fly back onto the ship.

My buddy has some crazy stories from his time on a super carrier.
The Navy is alright in my book. They're good dudes.

Dad was on the Enterpirse, first Nuke ship ever.
He still says he fucking hates it.
Probably because its a nuke ship.

The Enterprise wasnt a nuke ship. it might have been used at one point to transport the atom bombs but that doesnt make it a nuke ship. it was a air craft carrier and nothing more.

There's been more than one Enterprise.

Nuke ship means that it was powered by a nuclear reactor, friend.

Probably because aircraft carriers suck for nuke engineers. Almost as shitty as subs.

I think they just recently retired the Enterprise.

Yarp. Gonna anchor it somewhere and let it cool off.

Holy shit what is that from, looks amusing...

call of duty

I'm only thumbing you because that was clever...

commando pro xl that is all

I thought we already had prototypes? I hope we do.

stick a machine gun to train tracks and you got a railgun

the problem with railguns is that they travel so fast they do not curve with the earth and just keep going straight, never dropping. They are to bad ass for this world

Fun fact! The projectiles fired out of a railgun do, in fact, drop! Gravity plays the same role on them as it does every other object that has mass (or energy depending on your knowledge of physics). While they may not "drop" as much as other slower moving objects, they still only travel roughly 7800-8000 mph, which is about 9,000 mph too slow to actually fall and miss the earth which would give the appearance that they were "in orbit" or not dropping with the curve of the earth. Of course, if someone did invent the projectiles could in fact travel the roughly 17,000 mph needed, and fired it while still in our atmosphere, it would more than likely just burn up due to the enormous amount of heat generated by friction with the air.

TL;DR - Don't be lazy, just fucking read it. You'll learn something.