Re: The 2009 Worldcon Will Be In...

John Dallman <jgd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, all those carriers may well end up getting sunk. The problem
is that environmental regulations make it uneconomic to scrap
them in the USA, but features of the design are still considered
sufficiently secret that transferring them overseas for scrapping
isn't allowed either.

How much does it cost to sink them? Maybe the cheapest solution is to
do nothing. Just park them somewhere and forget about them.

Isn't there already just such a "ghost fleet" off the west coast?
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