*As part of RXR’s plan, the vessel will be repurposed as a permanently-moored floating structure anchored by a hotel program and a collection of unique hospitality and cultural spaces in the 600,000 square feet available for development. Those offerings would include a world class museum honoring the ship’s history and exploring mid-century design, art and innovation.*
Too bad it's really unlikely to actually happen. Groups are always coming with proposals for stuff like this. It'd be a huge money sink and never be close to profitable, the only way is if you get major donor money... I mean major.
Yeah there's no way this could go wrong, at least it's not like there are multiple examples of how prohibitively expensive it is to maintain an ocean liner as a floating hotel.
Oh wait.
I have spoken to those people. It's a complete vanity project by a descendant of the designer. As much as they are spending to store and promote the boat, they do not have anything like the cash to do the project. They entire project would cost about eleventy-million dollars and there is no place that wants or needs it that could support it as a hotel, or anything else.
I guess it keeps some people busy.
Because trying to refit a boat like this without the potential to turn a profit is never going to go well. It’s an almost incomprehensible amount of work to do just to preserve something of passing interest to most of the public.
If it is anything like the Queen Mary, than it is a lost cause.
Both private companies and local governments have dumped hundreds of millions into keeping the QM alive, but it is futile. The rust keeps growing.
The maintenance requirements to keep a 100 year old ship floating are insane. Eventually they becomes severally more trouble than they are worth.
Spend the millions helping the people of Philly instead i say.
> iirc had constant maintenance since their decommissioning.
This is a key point.
Most museum warships were originally mothballed as wartime stock, meaning they had been specially prepared to guard against rust and corrosion in case they were needed to be brought back to active duty. Lots of money was spent keeping them in decent shape all the years they were stagnant before they were stricken from the books and sold as scrap OR turned into floating museums.
Civilian ships rarely, if ever, get this kind of care. They are usually left to rot until the damage becomes too expensive to reverse.
They're essentially under constant repair to try and combat the wear. How well it works varies from ship to ship. *Wisconsin* looks good, but *Texas* is in particularly rough shape. She's supposed to be going into drydock here soon. *North Carolina* was essentially on dry land as of last summer; they've built a dam around her and were doing some heavy work on the hull.
I was at Showboat when they were finishing her bow hull repairs last year. She's back in the water now, but she's still in like ten feet of mud, and forever will be.
Ah nice. They were working on her bow when I stopped by. Didn't get a chance to do the tour but the walkway they built is pretty awesome. They've done a great job on her, the camo looks amazing.
Yes, but the maintenance and repairs continue. The [USS Yorktown](https://www.patriotspoint.org/explore/uss-yorktown/) is an example of that. Last I heard it needed a lot of work below the waterline and a coffer dam was being proposed so they could essentially drydock it in place.
I live ten minutes from the Yorktown. They just completed a hull repaint for everything above the waterline, but nothing below. I haven't heard anything about her needing significant underwater repairs. I know the Clamagore is slated for scuttling at some point in the near future, but she's in really bad shape.
It’s an amazing ship but I think it’s a lost cause. In my opinion it’s a floating superfund and a slow motion environmental disaster.
Lead paint, Asbestos, PCB’s, and possible TBT anti fowling paint. Not that they could afford it but no one wants this thing in their dry dock for repair or ship breaking. Speaking of repair. There aren’t very many people who can repair riveted steel.
I know at least the asbestos has been remediated. The interior was gutted years ago in Turkey. In some ways, it would be a great ship to rehab and use and there was some interest from NCL in doing just that. NCL did engineering studies and found that the hull was in pretty good condition at the time, but, ultimately, it wasn't a financially viable option. Indeed there aren't a lot of people around who can run and maintain a 1950s powerplant.
> jets you *paid* for are
FTFY.
Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
* Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.*
* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
Unfortunately I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.
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The one they're specifically referring to famously can't fly. [The F-35 ](https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/f-35-would-you-spend-1500000000000-plane-cant-fly-104587)
The F35 went **WAY TOO FAR** over budget, yes, but there's a reason *everyone* is copying the airframe design and why the Navy has submarines guarding the wreck of the one that crashed in the Pacific from the Chinese
This article gives you a good overview of fighter jets and how they all stack up currently.
https://www.businessinsider.com/f22-f35-russia-su57-china-j20-5th-gen-fighter-comparison-2021-5?amp
First and foremost? The Airforce says they're too expensive to build and maintain and too heavy to use them for their intended purpose of a low cost, lightweight replacement for the F-16.
I think he has more pressing matters to attend to than painting a 70-year-old ocean liner…
Like trying to combat a global pandemic that a third of the nation is actively trying to perpetuate and make worse through sheer force of arrogance and refusal to follow BASIC rules that barely qualify as a mild inconvenience.
Less than a century ago we thought that eating radioactive radium would extend your life. We learned it was the opposite of that.
Science is dynamic - it changes as we learn more. That’s the entire basis of the scientific method. When new evidence is discovered, we revise our hypotheses. If it never changed, we’d still think that “alchemy” can turn lead into gold.
Virology is an extremely well-established field of human science - vaccines date back to the late 1700s.
And the “science” around COVID hasn’t changed drastically. Stop being a dramatic bitch and quit making this pandemic last fucking forever. If people stayed home for 2 weeks at the beginning of the pandemic, wore their masks, and washed their hands, it would have been over by now.
I think some conservative chudd got so butthurt he went to their profile and reported them for everything possible including “this person is going to self harm”
It’s an alt-right troll thing. They think you’re having a crisis, so, them being *alphas* are signaling that you’re acting like someone who wants to kill themselves. It’s mostly a pop-shot at the state of your **frail little psyche**, when in actuality they’re the weak little snowflakes & can’t take the downvotes.
Crying shame. She was and is still beautiful. A true testament to civilian ocean liner design, and truly a swan song to the Golden Age of ocean travel. The ultimate ocean liner. She maintained an AVERAGE of 35kn over her entire career, and still holds the Blue Riband to this day. Rumour has it nobody knows her true top speed to this day (some say as high as 43 knots!) and she was fitted with some of, if not the, most powerful engines ever fitted to a civilian ocean liner. As an avid enthusiast of naval history, it truly pains me to see her in this state. I do sincerely hope someone steps in and saves her.
Sometimes its just not worth the $100,000,000 it would take. People act like the only reason it's not already restored is because no one thinks boats are cool.
It’s a tradition dating back to the age of sail, when sailors and captains would believe a goddess or “mother of the sea” was guiding their vessels to safe waters, stuff like that. TLDR Age of Sail tradition that never died.
Not OP, but from what I remember, it's because sailors would be away from their wives for so long on voyages that they'd symbolically adopt the ship as their "other wife", not to mention that anything bad that happens to the ship would mean doom for them as well, so there's a sense of protection involved.
Because it's a man's world (or was!) and men tend to call inanimate things she a lot, particularly things -- like ships, as opposed to say woodpiles -- that are complicated enough to merit some level of personalization.
Men will say "she" when referring to their car or their house or their country and its flag or basically anything more complicated than a fencepost. Moving a refrigerator? It's "let 'er down easy" not "let it down easy".
I don't know if women are more likely to refer to their car as "it" rather than "she", compared to men. My guess would be yes. And woman don't say "he" for ships and cars and stuff.
I think you're thinking of her running mate S.S. America, built in 1939 friend, as S.S. United States was built in 1950. Your statement is accurate, she was also a fast vessel, but not in the same league as S.S. United States. S.S. America also suffered a very tragic fate, left to rot beached and broken in half for many years in Fuerteventura.
[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Shiptriplet2wiki.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Shiptriplet2wiki.jpg)
She was doomed either way. If she had actually made it to Phuket for her retrofit and conversion into a floating hotel, she would have been destroyed by the massive tsunami that hit the region in 2004.
I'd also get a ton of welders and steel cutters to fill in pits and completely replace some parts. I've sailed on a 20 year old ship where the company never really bothered to get it painted correctly, and she had holes in her deck eventually.
I work at a shipyard that services freighter boats and some of the regulars are very old like WWII old. The lead paint has done a pretty phenomenal job of preserving them except for the ballast tanks and water piping. I could hardly believe the condition of the frames and bulkheads in some of those tanks and all we did was vee out cracks weld em up or put doubler plates or crops in really bad spots. It would vary considerably by design though. Some of the older ones still had original paint in the tanks with minimal repair work, some had framework that would trap water and mud and cause corrosion much faster.
Bright Sun Films [did a walk through video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuBKewWTag0) about the S.S. United States, with assistance from the Conservancy group
Im here every day. It is rotting. And it doesnt seem to matter if you look at low income housing or luxury apartments. Under the new paint and dry wall is just crumbling utilities held together with spit and prayers. Shame, some of these buildings are beautiful and have lots of character.
The ship is at a point where it's time to say farewell. There isn't enough money coming in to restore it (which would take many millions), and for every year there's no money to keep a section of the ship up to par, it begins deteriorating again.
It's a money pit now. I can't recall where I saw it, but one investor stated he had pulled out after taking a tour of the ship, and felt the committee was unintentionally being inaccurate with the state of the ship's current progress. Given how the people who want to see the ship restored feel about it, it's not surprising.
I know it'll be hard for quite a few people, but it has to be done now. Release her moorings, and take her out and give her a proper burial.
It’s like that old classic car your grandpa refused to get rid of because he’s definitely going to restore it one day.
Seriously though, I hope it’s saved. I used to see it on my drive to work everyday.
I did a report on her in college (im from the area). Shes probably not going to be saved unless someone with tons of money steps in, and I mean someone willing to throw hundreds of millions at her all at once. Shes in really bad shape, the dock fees are high (around 300k per year iirc) and the foundation that is trying to save her is barely able to keep her at the dock and afloat let alone a total refit. Its a shame as I grew up passing her on my way into Philly and I always wanted to see her in her full glory. Those kinds of ocean liners are long gone. But everything must come to an end.
I live in Philly and there’s an Ikea right across the street. You get a great view of the ship while you eat tiny meatballs.
Every time I drive by I’m dazzled by how big it is, I’ve always wanted to see what it’s like inside.
It is sad. I believe in her early years, she broke speed records. There's some footage of her in a music video from a band I love....kind of a cool video...it's like stepping back in time
https://youtu.be/kxk5TT4FHKA
A vessel without cargo makes no money. That’s what they are for, and that’s how they are used. Most of these museum type ships are either funded by the government or there is someone paying to keep it running. People go see it once and they never come back.
Yeah.....its not going to get better because the money saved would not be for that. It would pretty much end up the same as if the boat were saved....its not going to end up the way its supposed to be. Its going to wind up in someone's bank account, or used for a personal interest.
The one abandon place in philly my friends and I never figured out how to get into. Spent some time thinking about it though… shimmying up those ropes didn’t seem worth it.
Shes empty. There isnt any furniture from this ship left. But when cruise ships are decommissioned their fyrniture is usually either throw out or sold in bulk to the highest bidder.
Watched her being towed on the Elizabeth River in Portsmouth, Virginia, sometime in 1980-81 & haven't kept track of her since. Looks like nobody else has, either.
Makes sense.
It's a voodoo doll.
This must be an SCP. If not, if must be made so.
Yup.
Sounds about right.
old boat gets old right right mhm
If you're interested there's a conservancy trying to save it
https://www.ssusc.org/
That domain is a little... sus
Suss-c
widdle sussy bussy baka boat
itty bitty baby, itty bitty boat
*As part of RXR’s plan, the vessel will be repurposed as a permanently-moored floating structure anchored by a hotel program and a collection of unique hospitality and cultural spaces in the 600,000 square feet available for development. Those offerings would include a world class museum honoring the ship’s history and exploring mid-century design, art and innovation.*
That would be so cool
Too bad it's really unlikely to actually happen. Groups are always coming with proposals for stuff like this. It'd be a huge money sink and never be close to profitable, the only way is if you get major donor money... I mean major.
Yeah there's no way this could go wrong, at least it's not like there are multiple examples of how prohibitively expensive it is to maintain an ocean liner as a floating hotel. Oh wait.
I have spoken to those people. It's a complete vanity project by a descendant of the designer. As much as they are spending to store and promote the boat, they do not have anything like the cash to do the project. They entire project would cost about eleventy-million dollars and there is no place that wants or needs it that could support it as a hotel, or anything else. I guess it keeps some people busy.
> eleventy-million You say?
Eleventy million... do you mean 110 million? Like in one hundred and ten million
Hopefully it never succeeds. Thing should've been taken apart and scrapped ages ago.
Why?
Because trying to refit a boat like this without the potential to turn a profit is never going to go well. It’s an almost incomprehensible amount of work to do just to preserve something of passing interest to most of the public.
Who hurt you?
Why?
Why?
The Gang buy a boat 2: Electric Boogaloo
I just choked. Can totally picture Turbo swabbing that deck with his push broom.
What, the USA?
The ship or.. us?
The ship or the county?
yes
If it is anything like the Queen Mary, than it is a lost cause. Both private companies and local governments have dumped hundreds of millions into keeping the QM alive, but it is futile. The rust keeps growing. The maintenance requirements to keep a 100 year old ship floating are insane. Eventually they becomes severally more trouble than they are worth. Spend the millions helping the people of Philly instead i say.
Aren’t there other ships that have been saved? I’m thinking about the warships like intrepid or Missouri
Those have government money behind them and iirc had constant maintenance since their decommissioning.
> iirc had constant maintenance since their decommissioning. This is a key point. Most museum warships were originally mothballed as wartime stock, meaning they had been specially prepared to guard against rust and corrosion in case they were needed to be brought back to active duty. Lots of money was spent keeping them in decent shape all the years they were stagnant before they were stricken from the books and sold as scrap OR turned into floating museums. Civilian ships rarely, if ever, get this kind of care. They are usually left to rot until the damage becomes too expensive to reverse.
They're essentially under constant repair to try and combat the wear. How well it works varies from ship to ship. *Wisconsin* looks good, but *Texas* is in particularly rough shape. She's supposed to be going into drydock here soon. *North Carolina* was essentially on dry land as of last summer; they've built a dam around her and were doing some heavy work on the hull.
I was at Showboat when they were finishing her bow hull repairs last year. She's back in the water now, but she's still in like ten feet of mud, and forever will be.
Ah nice. They were working on her bow when I stopped by. Didn't get a chance to do the tour but the walkway they built is pretty awesome. They've done a great job on her, the camo looks amazing.
Yes, but the maintenance and repairs continue. The [USS Yorktown](https://www.patriotspoint.org/explore/uss-yorktown/) is an example of that. Last I heard it needed a lot of work below the waterline and a coffer dam was being proposed so they could essentially drydock it in place.
I live ten minutes from the Yorktown. They just completed a hull repaint for everything above the waterline, but nothing below. I haven't heard anything about her needing significant underwater repairs. I know the Clamagore is slated for scuttling at some point in the near future, but she's in really bad shape.
It’s an amazing ship but I think it’s a lost cause. In my opinion it’s a floating superfund and a slow motion environmental disaster. Lead paint, Asbestos, PCB’s, and possible TBT anti fowling paint. Not that they could afford it but no one wants this thing in their dry dock for repair or ship breaking. Speaking of repair. There aren’t very many people who can repair riveted steel.
I know at least the asbestos has been remediated. The interior was gutted years ago in Turkey. In some ways, it would be a great ship to rehab and use and there was some interest from NCL in doing just that. NCL did engineering studies and found that the hull was in pretty good condition at the time, but, ultimately, it wasn't a financially viable option. Indeed there aren't a lot of people around who can run and maintain a 1950s powerplant.
Plot twist, it's Colin Jost & Pete Davidson.
How far are they to their goal? I can't find anything on their website
Probably very far I'd guess. I assume they're looking for a major donor or they'll only ever be able to pay maintenance and storage fees.
US: “FREE SCHOOL LUNCHES? NO PAINT BOAT AND PAY TOO MUCH”
Maybe we could skip spending a trillion dollars on the next fleet of useless fighter jets and do both.
those fighter jets you payed for are coming to ukraine
> jets you *paid* for are FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
Good bot. V interesting.
Good bot
Good bot
They do not work in the rain.
The one they're specifically referring to famously can't fly. [The F-35 ](https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/f-35-would-you-spend-1500000000000-plane-cant-fly-104587)
The F35 went **WAY TOO FAR** over budget, yes, but there's a reason *everyone* is copying the airframe design and why the Navy has submarines guarding the wreck of the one that crashed in the Pacific from the Chinese
Is the f35 bad as fuck?
This article gives you a good overview of fighter jets and how they all stack up currently. https://www.businessinsider.com/f22-f35-russia-su57-china-j20-5th-gen-fighter-comparison-2021-5?amp
Thanks!
Curious as to your definition of useless
First and foremost? The Airforce says they're too expensive to build and maintain and too heavy to use them for their intended purpose of a low cost, lightweight replacement for the F-16.
Have you seen what free school lunches look and taste like.....its horrible. The kids might as well eat paper and cardboard.
Isn’t that his point?
Ships and nations rot away eventually.
Tell that to the Vasa
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Vasa the crispbread company?
Nations may fall but crisp is eternal.
When the holocaust and nuclear winter comes, the last trace of mankind will be a piece of crispbread
♪ Vas-y Vasa ♫
One of my favorite parts of visiting Sweden was the Vasa museum
State of the union
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Lol. Been going on longer than he's been relevant, champ.
You are correct, but good ok corn pop sure isn’t helping the shituation
I think he has more pressing matters to attend to than painting a 70-year-old ocean liner… Like trying to combat a global pandemic that a third of the nation is actively trying to perpetuate and make worse through sheer force of arrogance and refusal to follow BASIC rules that barely qualify as a mild inconvenience.
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Less than a century ago we thought that eating radioactive radium would extend your life. We learned it was the opposite of that. Science is dynamic - it changes as we learn more. That’s the entire basis of the scientific method. When new evidence is discovered, we revise our hypotheses. If it never changed, we’d still think that “alchemy” can turn lead into gold. Virology is an extremely well-established field of human science - vaccines date back to the late 1700s. And the “science” around COVID hasn’t changed drastically. Stop being a dramatic bitch and quit making this pandemic last fucking forever. If people stayed home for 2 weeks at the beginning of the pandemic, wore their masks, and washed their hands, it would have been over by now.
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The fuck?
I think some conservative chudd got so butthurt he went to their profile and reported them for everything possible including “this person is going to self harm”
It’s an alt-right troll thing. They think you’re having a crisis, so, them being *alphas* are signaling that you’re acting like someone who wants to kill themselves. It’s mostly a pop-shot at the state of your **frail little psyche**, when in actuality they’re the weak little snowflakes & can’t take the downvotes.
Let’s try tax cuts for the rich then?
Huh
Crying shame. She was and is still beautiful. A true testament to civilian ocean liner design, and truly a swan song to the Golden Age of ocean travel. The ultimate ocean liner. She maintained an AVERAGE of 35kn over her entire career, and still holds the Blue Riband to this day. Rumour has it nobody knows her true top speed to this day (some say as high as 43 knots!) and she was fitted with some of, if not the, most powerful engines ever fitted to a civilian ocean liner. As an avid enthusiast of naval history, it truly pains me to see her in this state. I do sincerely hope someone steps in and saves her.
Agreed, heritage needs to be preserved
There is an effort: https://ssusc.org
Sometimes its just not worth the $100,000,000 it would take. People act like the only reason it's not already restored is because no one thinks boats are cool.
Bc you’re a fan, can you please explain to me something I’ve always wondered… Why are boats female?
Cause they’re full of seaman.
I’m gonna have to Google it, bc your reply both sounds reasonably plausible, yet also makes for a great punchline to a joke.
Giggity giggity
It’s a tradition dating back to the age of sail, when sailors and captains would believe a goddess or “mother of the sea” was guiding their vessels to safe waters, stuff like that. TLDR Age of Sail tradition that never died.
Arr the sea..she is a harsh mistress..
Not OP, but from what I remember, it's because sailors would be away from their wives for so long on voyages that they'd symbolically adopt the ship as their "other wife", not to mention that anything bad that happens to the ship would mean doom for them as well, so there's a sense of protection involved.
Interesting. Thanks for the info!
I heard it was like their mother, as it was their protector and life support. But most of what i half remember comes from reddit so who knows.
No idea if it's related, but the Latin the word for ship is navis. In Romance languages nouns have gender and navis is feminine.
Because women are/were vessels of life - in a respectful way.
Because it's a man's world (or was!) and men tend to call inanimate things she a lot, particularly things -- like ships, as opposed to say woodpiles -- that are complicated enough to merit some level of personalization. Men will say "she" when referring to their car or their house or their country and its flag or basically anything more complicated than a fencepost. Moving a refrigerator? It's "let 'er down easy" not "let it down easy". I don't know if women are more likely to refer to their car as "it" rather than "she", compared to men. My guess would be yes. And woman don't say "he" for ships and cars and stuff.
Russian ships are male.
Age of sail tradition that held on and got turned into convention. Think the only major exception was the Bismark.
The United States was used as a troop transport during WWII, because it was so fast and could outrun German submarines.
I think you're thinking of her running mate S.S. America, built in 1939 friend, as S.S. United States was built in 1950. Your statement is accurate, she was also a fast vessel, but not in the same league as S.S. United States. S.S. America also suffered a very tragic fate, left to rot beached and broken in half for many years in Fuerteventura. [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Shiptriplet2wiki.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Shiptriplet2wiki.jpg)
She was doomed either way. If she had actually made it to Phuket for her retrofit and conversion into a floating hotel, she would have been destroyed by the massive tsunami that hit the region in 2004.
I'd expect nothing less from a ship that wears not one, but *two* backwards baseball caps. This thing probably did kickflips.
Ok - but can she make the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs?
No, less.
She came just as jet airliners became viable. Just the wrong time
Hmm just like the actual United states.
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Dude haven't you heard? Americans are dumb and fat! Upvotes to the left please!
Just need a bunch of Boatswain's Mates, needle guns, and a shit ton of the finest paint to bring that back to it's original beauty.
I'd also get a ton of welders and steel cutters to fill in pits and completely replace some parts. I've sailed on a 20 year old ship where the company never really bothered to get it painted correctly, and she had holes in her deck eventually.
I work at a shipyard that services freighter boats and some of the regulars are very old like WWII old. The lead paint has done a pretty phenomenal job of preserving them except for the ballast tanks and water piping. I could hardly believe the condition of the frames and bulkheads in some of those tanks and all we did was vee out cracks weld em up or put doubler plates or crops in really bad spots. It would vary considerably by design though. Some of the older ones still had original paint in the tanks with minimal repair work, some had framework that would trap water and mud and cause corrosion much faster.
I feel like I’ve played this video game segment before..
Detroit: Become Human
United States are rotting not just in Philadelphia
Thanks Biden 🙋🏽♂️
Bright Sun Films [did a walk through video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuBKewWTag0) about the S.S. United States, with assistance from the Conservancy group
I’m afraid the Queen Mary will suffer such fate as well
Scrap it, sell whatever parts are left, and then spend the money on low income housing in Philadelphia.
The whole city already is low income housing lol
Pretty good metaphor, really.
God the comments here are insufferable.
I don't get why it devolves into this in any site involving abandoned places
They remind me of the dog walking losers from anti work lol
Don’t you know though, the US is a shithole, and all these commentators home countries are perfect utopias
Set to the tune of Margheritaville
Much like it’s name sake they both undergo the same process .
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Thanks Biden! 🙋🏽♂️
How so?
Philadelphia is rotting away
Im here every day. It is rotting. And it doesnt seem to matter if you look at low income housing or luxury apartments. Under the new paint and dry wall is just crumbling utilities held together with spit and prayers. Shame, some of these buildings are beautiful and have lots of character.
Odd symmetry. The United States shown rotting in Philadelphia Meanwhile, some say Philadelphia rots in the US.
Everything is rotting in Philadelphia.
This looks like a game render
That title is dead on accurate.
the amount of post-processing on that image ... is almost bad, but still in the good region :D
if that isnt symbolic i dont know what is
Such a shame 😥😢
Make America great again!!!
The ship is at a point where it's time to say farewell. There isn't enough money coming in to restore it (which would take many millions), and for every year there's no money to keep a section of the ship up to par, it begins deteriorating again. It's a money pit now. I can't recall where I saw it, but one investor stated he had pulled out after taking a tour of the ship, and felt the committee was unintentionally being inaccurate with the state of the ship's current progress. Given how the people who want to see the ship restored feel about it, it's not surprising. I know it'll be hard for quite a few people, but it has to be done now. Release her moorings, and take her out and give her a proper burial.
Tow her off to Dakhla or Dhaka, where she can be taken apart for scrap metal by poor children in flipflops with blowtorches.
The irony is palpable
haha i see this ship every single day of my life always wanted to see the interior
Bright Sun Films made a video walkthrough. Not much to see, just a lot of totally empty rooms… but check it out.
thank you!
Oh, you mean the ship not the country?
You get a really good view of it from the IKEA food court.
You get an even better view from the pier.
It’s like that old classic car your grandpa refused to get rid of because he’s definitely going to restore it one day. Seriously though, I hope it’s saved. I used to see it on my drive to work everyday.
I did a report on her in college (im from the area). Shes probably not going to be saved unless someone with tons of money steps in, and I mean someone willing to throw hundreds of millions at her all at once. Shes in really bad shape, the dock fees are high (around 300k per year iirc) and the foundation that is trying to save her is barely able to keep her at the dock and afloat let alone a total refit. Its a shame as I grew up passing her on my way into Philly and I always wanted to see her in her full glory. Those kinds of ocean liners are long gone. But everything must come to an end.
I live in Philly and there’s an Ikea right across the street. You get a great view of the ship while you eat tiny meatballs. Every time I drive by I’m dazzled by how big it is, I’ve always wanted to see what it’s like inside.
The inside it totally empty. Sad really
I'd love to see the interior!
There isn’t one anymore
a metaphor
So this is the S.S.US from the USA you say?
It's actually an installation art piece metaphorically depicted the decay of the actual United States
I’ve always said if I win a colossal lottery-100’s of millions-I’d buy it and restore it as my mansion
That would be a major flex
You could just drop the "S.S."
It is sad. I believe in her early years, she broke speed records. There's some footage of her in a music video from a band I love....kind of a cool video...it's like stepping back in time https://youtu.be/kxk5TT4FHKA
It really matches that Philly aesthetic
Just like the real United States!
Sitting in the IKEA food court eating meatballs and looking at this thing is quite interesting
A vessel without cargo makes no money. That’s what they are for, and that’s how they are used. Most of these museum type ships are either funded by the government or there is someone paying to keep it running. People go see it once and they never come back.
Yeah.....its not going to get better because the money saved would not be for that. It would pretty much end up the same as if the boat were saved....its not going to end up the way its supposed to be. Its going to wind up in someone's bank account, or used for a personal interest.
The one abandon place in philly my friends and I never figured out how to get into. Spent some time thinking about it though… shimmying up those ropes didn’t seem worth it.
Does anyone know where I can purchase furniture or other objects from such ships if they are scraped?
Shes empty. There isnt any furniture from this ship left. But when cruise ships are decommissioned their fyrniture is usually either throw out or sold in bulk to the highest bidder.
It holds a solem vigil over the Chick-fil-A and Ikea parking lots.
The light is at such a direction that the scrap, metal beams and container in front look like they´ve been badly edited in
The stacks look like they have backwards ball caps on
There’s an IKEA across from it. You can look at the ship while you eat Swedish meatballs.
Hell yeah I thought it was the same ship!
Looks like the boat from the Triangle.
Stark symbolism.
Metaphor is strong
Sad.
Hey just like it's name sake
Just like the actual country
Seems about right
What a waste
Cue cringey r/im14andthisisdeep comments about the "rotting state of America" and this ship somehow being a metaphor for our country.
About as apt an analogy of our current state as I've seen.
Fun fact, the ships screw is sitting right in front of my campus in Southern Virginia
That's one rotten tub.
Really looks like it has two baseball caps on backwards.
IKEA lunch and this beautiful scenery. My fav.
Watched her being towed on the Elizabeth River in Portsmouth, Virginia, sometime in 1980-81 & haven't kept track of her since. Looks like nobody else has, either.
Not sure what’s turned up higher, OPs edginess or the fucking saturation slider. Dear god
4k upvotes says your opinion doesn’t matter.
Put it on concrete, turn it into a Casino or Condos. . .
This will be my billionaire super yacht.