World's Largest Cruise Ship Completed...

http://gizmodo.com/5394361/worlds-largest-cruise-ship-sets-sail

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The thing is ugly as sin, and the logo looks vaguely like a Decepticon symbol. The ampitheater is cool, but a lot of it looks like kitschy crap.



The ship also has it's own lil zeppelin!

It looks like an urban ghetto housing project. It's wider than normal, but that's what it looks like.

It looks like the balconies start within 3 or 4 decks of the waterline. That's unusually low and IMHO not a good idea at all. It's asking to get people swept out of their rooms by a big storm wave.

Judging by how much time people spend waiting for elevators on the average cruise ship, I'd imagine this will only exacerbate the problem...

If nothing else, we should get some new and exciting languages out of this.

Yes, I desperately want to be stuck with over 6000 people on that.

This ship has "will end badly" written all over it.


J.

This is proof of humanity's hubris.

One rogue wave and....

I'm cheering for the iceberg.

Well, it'll be a great place to bunker down when the inevitable zombie horde infects the world. Well, unless we also get zombie pirates.

ROFL zombie pirates.

When they say arrr they mean arrr!

Now there is a million-dollar book idea.

Stop giving George Romero ideas!

I dunno if you guys ever saw this movie, but when I was a kid, it was on cable all the time.

The movie was called Death Ship, and it was about these people who were lost at sea, and they come aboard this abandoned cruise ship. Little do they know it is haunted, however, and slowly, something begins to kill them off.

I don't know how scary it is now, but when I watched it, I was probably around 6 or 7 years old, and I remember it nearly scaring the shit out of me.

[Blue Oyster Cult] History shows again and again, how nature points out the folly of men[/BOC]

God damn you all. If you just listened to me...

By now Zell would've finished off our pirate cruiser and this thing would be ripe for plunder. Then we could repair to the island off Thailand that Cass bought after the 2005(?) tsunami.

They do have rooms that low on deck three (deck four doesn't have any) but those rooms have doors that can shut across the balconies. I'm sure they can be done manually or automatically if needed.

The ship is super expensive which of course is a given that it is new and the "hot thing" in cruising.

I don't know if I would want to be jammed with 6000 passengers and a couple thousand crew on that ship.

I wonder how they handle lifeboat drills? Or God forbid an actual evacuation?

Why do they keep making them so ugly?

Ugly? I don't think it possible to make a ship that large and not have it look ugly if only because of stability issues.

They had to expand one terminal at the port so this monster could use it.

This thing is twenty stories tall. Where I work is only ten stories. Hell this thing is way bigger then the jail I work in.

When it was docked in that one picture it looked like a huge office complex!

Seriously, driving along the road there, this:



Would look like a factory or office complex to me. It's enormous!
And I still think it has "this will end badly" written all over it.

J.

One step closer to that floating arcology concept.

So...... the first cruise ought to have all the "problematic" politicians aboard?
A Universal Peace Keeping Summit of World Important People and Telephone Sanitizers.

I wonder how many hits from explosive-laden zodiacs piloted by suicide bombers would be required to send her to the locker...

Quite an impressive ship. Hopefully living aboard a floating community will soon become a viable escape from the various failures of every nation.

Maybe this some day?



J.

Super Green!


J.

Saw that again just the other day. I holds up amazingly well for cheap 15yo sci-fi.

Oh yeah. I have the Blu-ray edition and it's spectacular.
Got it for $2.50 on Amazon.com.


J.

Three.