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Muppet_Rock t1_j1kg30o wrote

This thing smells so bad in the summer if the wind blows the wrong way in the heat lol.

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thirteenwide t1_j1knzjd wrote

I got a private tour of the ship once. It's not the ship that smells bad. There's a big warehouse where raw cocoa (or maybe coffee) comes in from South America. What you are smelling is just a giant mass of unrefined chocolate (or coffee if my memory is faulty)

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blowjob215 t1_j1kgnv8 wrote

What’s the smell? Or, more precisely, what’s causing the smell? Did they forget to empty the sewage tanks or what?

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Muppet_Rock t1_j1kgwsp wrote

I'm not sure, but to me it smells like intense rot. Dead fish, stinky river, rotting decay, all that fun stuff. I try to stay away from that area when the heatwaves hit.

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blowjob215 t1_j1kh77c wrote

That sounds like the Delaware’s problem, not the ship’s haha. It’s made of steel and had a nuclear reactor—does uranium have an odor?

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machinerer t1_j1klrlq wrote

S.S. United States is a cruise ship. It never had a nuclear reactor. U.S. Navy vessels had those.

It was fitted with regular oil fired boilers, and steam turbines. The engines have been removed, last I checked.

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blowjob215 t1_j1kn0yw wrote

I must’ve been confusing it with the Savannah or something, I could’ve sworn it was a nuclear-powered cruise ship

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machinerer t1_j1kp8e5 wrote

To the best of my knowledge, only a few Navies of the world operate nuclear powered warships.

I have never heard of any civilian vessel having such technology. The cost is enormous, and the safety regulations involved are quite taxing and severe.

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blowjob215 t1_j1kpxj7 wrote

Yeah, you’re right on all points. I think my mind connected the dots from “built in the 1950’s,” “fire-proof” and “speed record holder” to erroneously conclude it must have been nuclear-powered. TIL it was made of aluminum, and had tremendous fuel capacity—i.e. fossil fueled, not atomic.

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nolandeluca t1_j1np930 wrote

Uranium doesn't have an odor, it's found it most bedrock in certain parts of the US and just looks like plain rock most of the time, the green and yellow stuff is heavily refined final product :D

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blowjob215 t1_j1ny3o1 wrote

Not nuclear powered, and built of aluminum not steel

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