It ain't Gaza is it?
I do like ship horns:
Icon of The Seas World's BIGGEST cruise ship HORN Compilation | Royal Caribbean (youtube.com)

A terrorist attack on a cruise ship sounds like a great way to piss off everybody. There are tourists from all over the world on those things, they're not even close to being majority American.

No interest to be on either one.

That large one appears to be trying to increase its number of rooms with window by having cabins face the center atrium of the ship.  They don;t get any sunlight though because the whole atrium is roofed over.  I need to go looking for a floorplan of this thing.  I say floorplan because it looks like floating office building.  And I don't know how you can talk about being above deck on one of these.  There doesn't seem to be a deck, other than balconies. 

Give me a small canal boat in the UK floating through the countryside, and that's the closest I would want to get to one of these things.  Can you get from downtown London to the Falkirk wheel in a canal boat?

glatt wrote:

Give me a small canal boat in the UK floating through the countryside, and that's the closest I would want to get to one of these things.  Can you get from downtown London to the Falkirk wheel in a canal boat?

While the Forth & Clyde Canal and the Union Canal do (almost) meet at the Falkirk Wheel they don't link up to any other significant canals. You could go down the Thames then around the coast of the UK (clockwise or anti-clockwise), up the Clyde then along the Forth & Clyde Canal to Falkirk. That wouldn't exactly be through countryside though and you'd be braver than me to attempt it in a canal boat.

glatt wrote:

Elon Musk should get on that.  It's the only form of transportation he hasn't tackled yet.

  Musk typically enters an industry when major players there are not innovating.  As was true with the big America rocket manufacturers and a 'we fear to innovate' American car industry.   The battery industry whose 'bunny battery' was developed back in WWII.  Another industry where lithium batteries, developed about 1970 sat ignored.

The American aircraft industry is ripe for someone like Musk.  Now that 20 years of McDonnell Douglas executives have done so much damage to Boeing's commercial aircraft and military aircraft divisions.
 

It all went downhill after Bruce retired.

Phil Condit was Boeing CEO, a reward for figuring out the trailing vortexes of the big jets. Boeing was booming and needed more capacity so Condit went to McDonald Douglas to try to rent some space in the CA facility. There he dealt with slick Stonecipher their CEO. He talked Condit into the merger saying McD was mostly military and Boeing mostly commercial, and he could boost Boeing's military end.
Condit being a CEO with bug bucks got a mistress or two and a messy divorce, after which he became a social pariah in the country club social circle. So he said I'll get a new club in Chicago and moved the business away from the engineers, and later the engineers away from the manufacturing. Having them all together was Boeing's strength.
They farmed out parts like interior stuff and tail sections but the always did the wings and controls.
When they built the latest model everything was outsourced around the world even the wings to japan. They've given away all the accumulated knowledge they acquired over the last 100 years.

When I walked away it didn't mean a thing, not a blip on anybody's screen.

 

griff wrote:

You mean Jack Welch didn't take my leaving as a warning for GE?

Did you cash out before him - for high profits?