Kinda obscure

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What ship?

[EnricoR]

It is USS Wolverine (IX-64) or USS Sable (IX-81). Both where training carriers on Lake Michigan during ww2. They had been converted from paddle steamers.

Best regards
Enrico

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It's the USS SABLE.  Well done.

[ilovestrategy]

Ok, I'm gonna ask a really dumb question so no throwing tomatoes please! [:D]
Isn't the tower supposed to be on the other side?

[bradfordkay]

ORIGINAL: ilovestrategy

Ok, I'm gonna ask a really dumb question so no throwing tomatoes please! [:D]
Isn't the tower supposed to be on the other side?

Not on US carriers.

[ChezDaJez]

Nope, all US carriers from WWII on had islands on the starboard side.

Chez

[witpqs]

What might be confusing is that the island looks way far forward compared to other US carriers. At first glance I did check to make sure she was in forward motion (I've seen pictures of tests in reverse).

[ilovestrategy]

Oh, ok I get it. I thought it was going in the other direction. That's what threw me off. Shows me right for not looking at the wake

[m10bob]

To this day there are countless Grumman F4's and F6's on the floor of Lake Michigan.
BTW, did you know the Great Lakes are not only NOT lakes, they are the worlds largest inland seas?

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ORIGINAL: m10bob

To this day there are countless Grumman F4's and F6's on the floor of Lake Michigan.
BTW, did you know the Great Lakes are not only NOT lakes, they are the worlds largest inland seas?

And by what definition is that? I thought they were freshwater.

Oh and the worlds largest inland sea is the Caspian sea [;)]

[m10bob]

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ORIGINAL: m10bob

To this day there are countless Grumman F4's and F6's on the floor of Lake Michigan.
BTW, did you know the Great Lakes are not only NOT lakes, they are the worlds largest inland seas?

And by what definition is that? I thought they were freshwater.

Oh and the worlds largest inland sea is the Caspian sea [;)]

From MSN Encarta..I stand corrected, but salt/fresh water is not relevant to the size, as I understand it.[:D]

World's Largest
Inland Seas and Lakes Approximate Area
Caspian Sea, Asia 371,000 sq km/143,000 sq mi
Lake Superior, North America 82,100 sq km/31,700 sq mi
Lake Victoria, Africa 69,490 sq km/26,830 sq mi
Lake Huron, North America 59,600 sq km/23,000 sq mi
Lake Michigan, North America 57,800 sq km/22,300 sq mi
Lake Tanganyika, Africa 32,900 sq km/12,700 sq mi
Great Bear Lake, North America 31,790 sq km/12,270 sq mi
Lake Baikal, Asia 31,500 sq km/12,200 sq mi
Great Slave Lake, North America 28,570 sq km/11,030 sq mi


From About.com:

What is the world's largest lake?
A lake any body of water surrounded by land and very large lakes are sometimes called seas. The world's largest lake is the salty Caspian Sea at 143,200 square miles (370,886 km2). The Caspian Sea is surrounded by Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan.
The world's second largest lake, and the world's largest freshwater lake is North America's Lake Superior at 31,700 mi2 (82,103 km2).

(You may combine all of the great lakes for a figure of size since all are connected, if you wish.)



Agency: Environmental Quality

To remember the Great Lakes names, remember the word "HOMES."

H=Huron
O=Ontario
M=Michigan
E=Erie
S=Superior


The Great Lakes contain the largest supply of fresh water on earth; 20% of the earth's total fresh water; 9,402 miles of shoreline; and 94,710 total square miles of surface area (about the size of Texas). The Great Lakes basin is a 295,200 square mile area within which all surface area drains into the Great Lakes. It includes parts of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ontario and Quebec.

[Andrew Brown]

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The Great Lakes contain the largest supply of fresh water on earth

I thought the largest supply was in Lake Baikal in Russia.

[rtrapasso]

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ORIGINAL: m10bob
The Great Lakes contain the largest supply of fresh water on earth

I thought the largest supply was in Lake Baikal in Russia.

That's the most in a SINGLE lake... there are 5 Great Lakes.

Baikal has about as much as all the Great Lakes put together normally, but i understand it is greatly shrunken through various water projects of the government(s) (Soviet, Russia).

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ORIGINAL: m10bob
The Great Lakes contain the largest supply of fresh water on earth

I thought the largest supply was in Lake Baikal in Russia.

That's the most in a SINGLE lake... there are 5 Great Lakes.

Baikal has about as much as all the Great Lakes put together normally, but i understand it is greatly shrunken through various water projects of the government(s) (Soviet, Russia).

You are thinking the Aral sea which has basically dissapeared by now. The Baikal is quite fine and its waterlevel is the same as it was when it was discovered. There are some problems with industrial pollution though. There's a wood pulp factory on its shore.

[rtrapasso]

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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

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I thought the largest supply was in Lake Baikal in Russia.

That's the most in a SINGLE lake... there are 5 Great Lakes.

Baikal has about as much as all the Great Lakes put together normally, but i understand it is greatly shrunken through various water projects of the government(s) (Soviet, Russia).

You are thinking the Aral sea which has basically dissapeared by now. The Baikal is quite fine and its waterlevel is the same as it was when it was discovered. There are some problems with industrial pollution though. There's a wood pulp factory on its shore.

i thought they were both down... but i didn't find anything on the few articles i perused, so maybe i remembered/read it wrong, or got misinformation.

[witpqs]

I forget the same at the moment - there is a huge lake in Africa that is way down. It turns out that it has completely dried up two (or perhaps three) times since the last ice age ended. Some of these things have been happening in cycles.

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

I forget the same at the moment - there is a huge lake in Africa that is way down. It turns out that it has completely dried up two (or perhaps three) times since the last ice age ended. Some of these things have been happening in cycles.

Yeah, but the Aral sea problem is entirely manmade. The large river that supplied it with water was basically diverted to irrigiation programs.

[witpqs]

I wasn't commenting about that, just about the one in Africa.

BTW: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_sea in case anybody wants to read up on the Aral Sea.

[Feinder]

African Lake - Is it Lake Victoria?

(that's the only lake in Africa I know by the way).

Did you know that the "Lake Victoria Perch" have completely over-run the place.  I guess they put a bunch of them in the lake, to create a food and revenue source.  It worked beautifully, beyond anyone's wildest expectations.  Lots of perch, now sold world over at everyone's grocery store for a reasonable $9.00/pound.

Unfortunately, it was an environmental disaster.  The perch are bad-boys on the block, and have eaten just about every over native species of fish in Lake Victoria.

[sarcasm]

But hey, we get Perch for $9.00/pound, so it's all good...

Now if only we could seed the Great Lakes with grouper.  That stuff is easily $18.00/pound.  Those are some bad mofo fish too - probably kill everything in the Great Lakes.  But hey, if we can knock that down to say $8.00/pound....

Mmmmm.  Grouper sandwhich.  Blackened.  With a side of slaw and steak fries....

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[witpqs]

No, not that one. Darned if I can remember. I'll post it if I do.