Navy retiring the Enterprise

>>32793738
This news is like 4 years old idiot.

>>32793738
I wish they'd designed these ships so that removing the reactors didn't require cutting the ship down to nothing. It'd be great to have the Big E or a Nimitz as a museum ship.

>>32793738

CVN-80 is going to inherit the name "Enterprise." There will always be an Enterprise.

>>32794496
>Let's make sure history never forgets the name...ENTERPRISE

>>32793738
F

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>>32793738
Hey guys. They're retiring the Enterprise!

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>>32795350
I remember that episode.

>>32793738
That ship has been decommissioned for a couple years now,
T. Dad served on the Enterprise

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>>32795350
Two things I think about that episode now.

1. Shooter McGavin got OLD

2. TNG was lazy with starship battle scenes, while DS9 was pretty badass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89WcIwjlQxA

>>32796554
It's still in decent shape and could have been refit if really needed (although that wouldn't be a very good idea).

>t. NNS worker

>>32796571
DS9 was the best series. The character developments were awesome. One of the few shows out there were you just can't help but to
like the bad guy.

>>32796571
>DS9 was pretty badass
DS9 had fuck all for battle scenes until they were getting blown out of the water by Babylon 5.

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>>32793738
There will always be an Enterprise.

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>>32793738
F

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>>32793738
>Nerds beg NASA to name one of the shuttles "Enterprise" with a massive snail mail letter campaign and nerd-message board coordination
>NASA agrees and names the only one that never goes into space Enterprise.

I swear, NASA can do some incredible shit but their PR department could fuck up a cheese sandwich.

>>32797046
It was for the best. Imagine if it was the Enterprise that blew up instead of the Challenger. Yuuge PR disaster.

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>>32796571
I hate how fucking lazy they got with those uniforms. They look like dogshit if you're not going to wear the turtleneck and belt.

Also, it was a full twenty years between the Enterprise-C's destruction and the commissioning of the Enterprise-D.

Pic unrelated: I just loved the upgrades they did for Generations. I hate the empty 80s office lounge look Probert came up with.

>>32797152
>I hate how fucking lazy they got with those uniforms.
That was actually because the dumbass studio forgot how to make the turtleneck collars. It's 100% an out of universe reason. In my personal canon the full WoK uniform persisted until the TNG changeover.

>>32797152
The D's bridge looked like something out of an early 90s interior decorating disaster. All that shitty wood paneling and wasted space.

E's and Defiant were working mans bridges.

>>32797196
No, I remember the early 90s. If you want that look, go watch Babylon 5.

>>32797181
But they never threw any of that stuff out; Star Trek was notorious for recycling things to keep the budget down. Besides, they used them again and again for the films, two of which were shot during/after TNG.

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Speaking of Enterprise bridges, nothing matches the aesthetics of TUC.

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>"Is the the genius lounge?"
>"Can I buy an ipod here?"

>>32797046
>NASA can do some incredible shit
?
name one

>>32797306
The Ent-B and Sulu's Excelsior come close, but agreed.

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>>32797365
You are one dumb mother fucker.

>>32797342
This made me laugh more than it should have.

>>32797365
mention one thing NASA has done this isn't cool as shit?

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>>32793738
In case anyone is interested, JFK has reached 25% completion with the 704 ton superlift completed last Thursday.

>>32797410
Well the shuttle.
It's whole job was reduce costs and it failed at that.

>>32797371
Fake and gay

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>>32797602

>>32797410
NASA is very unique in that it can and will make some of the greatest feats of modern engineering appear as exciting as watching paint dry.

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>>32797342
>crew of 20 year olds
>mfw

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>>32797614

>>32797614
Yes, they're like Steyr. Steyr couldn't successfully market a cure for cancer.

>>32797646
Have you ever watched docking at the ISS? If you know all the calculations and science behind it, its incredible. But if you just look at it, its horribly dull.

>>32797584
the old one is rusting to death in philadelphia. i see it sitting there across the river when i take a walk in the park,

>>32797676
HOW IS IT DULL NIGGA
IT'S IN FUCKING SPACE

SPACE

they are going at like 16 thousand fucking miles per hour, at 150 miles above the earth

now, at these ranges and speeds, they hit their docking space with the precision of an inch

Oh, and heard about the 99.9% reliability thing?

That means that 99.9% of all parts will be intact during the entire mission. But since the larger spacecraft consists of over 6 million parts, 6000 things will statistically break during a trip! And you have no idea which ones! Exciting!

>>32797705
Sup fellow Philly fag.
My friends bro is gonna be part of the scrapping.
It's a nuclear carrier with out a nuclear powerplant.

>>32793937
why couldn't the reactors be left in the shop if they were properly decominshed and secured.

>>32797738
I'm aware of all that. Now actually sit through three hours of a russian piece of crap slowly drifting toward a well maintained european docking module.

>>32797756
What does "obsolete" mean to you and why should they be saved? Are you twelve? Technology has made the Enterprise obsolete and it would be pants-on-head retarded to reuse fatigued reactor parts in a new vessel or elsewhere.

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Mandatory.

>>32797741
>It's a nuclear carrier with out a nuclear powerplant

So it's an aircraft carrier?

>>32797705
I get to walk by 79 everyday, it's coming together really quick. It's looking really Great.

>>32797756
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Are you asking why they didn't reuse them? Those reactors are old man. Like >>32797792 said the reactors used for Ford are many generations ahead of them (and made by a completely different company).

>>32796970
Correct. Did more with a smaller budget.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSa6Zl8fcyo

>>32797705
>>32797741
how many /philly/ here?

>>32797756
The reactors themselves have been through nuclear hell. The walls of the chambers are neutron activated and the stuff in the core will remain highly radioactive for decades to come. A decommissioned mass of radioactive material is a shitty thing to have sitting around and would need to be protected. It's more practical to remove the threatening stuff and just scrap the gutted hulk.

>>32798570
And by decades, I mean centuries.

>>32798267
>So it's an aircraft carrier?
It's more like a barge with no engine, senpai.

>>32798989
Well if that anon was implying it's had its reactor removed, he's wrong. It never had one. Enterprise was the first, and then Nimitz followed.

>>32797602
>soundstage on mars