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You might have a hard time fitting those 4 C-130s onboard. But otherwise.....umm, yeah.

Another fun fact: The Nimitz' crew is about double the personnel in the Royal Norwegian Air Force.

Big ship is big.

but back when only the few were educated, America tried all.

If you "all" you mean "affluent white sons of landowners and merchants", only later including women, people of color, people who spoke another language, etc.

I mean, I agree with your basic premise that we've been doing the public education thing for a long time (there were sporadic instances in the colonial period), but we didn't have national basic public education until the 1870s, and what we established was based heavily on the Prussian Volksschule system, already established from the 1840s. Germans have us beat by at least 30 years.

Wasn't until the early 20th century that public education was compulsory, and even then only through elementary school. Compulsory education through age 16 wasn't a thing until the 1960s, and the South lagged far behind other regions in requiring compulsory education (which makes some sense -- farmers want their kids plowing fields, not larning a bunch of gobbledygook like numbers and litterashure. The Good Book is good enough, and they'll larn the rest of it at the end of a switch)


@Folly: Good luck with that. Unless you have a formula for eco-friendly smart bombs and organic jet fuel, the militaries of the world are part of those factions you're talking about. I get what you're driving at, an "Alliance of the Earth" vs. "the Axis of Carbon" situation, but I just don't see how that possibly works given that militaries need heavy industry to support them, and the biggest polluters on the planet also tend to have some of the biggest militaries. You'd be more likely to see a series of civil wars in those pollution-heavy nations.

Nah, there is the real possibility of severely drastic measures happening.  It'll just be directed toward someone other then themselves.
Of course, it'll most likely make things much worse before it gets better.  Bonus points for corporations'people' profiting off that.

Politicians: Hmm....too much population, you say?
"New Congressional Report Supports Nuking Africa to Combat Climate Change"

Yeah, looks like it'll be down to TS here. Still, we'll see the outer bands by late morning tomorrow. Gonna be a fun day.

Another knife-edged "should we make you work in this hurricane or will we look bad" moment for me, early morning edition!

Meanwhile, schools are like "Nope, classes are cancelled till Halloween cause we heard someone say the word hurricane".
(I kid...I'm glad they're closing this time, but still...)

Early reports are that a lot of people in the strike zone didn't evacuate, because they didn't expect it to be that bad. Roughly half of Appalachicola (pop. ~2300) stayed.

We could be looking at some ugly casualty figures in the next few days. 

Second strongest hurricane ever to hit Florida, right before Hurricane Andrew.
Third strongest to make US landfall ever

Where the hell did this come from? Weren't they predicting just a cat 1 not that long ago?

This is what happens as the oceans warm. Hasn't been any major systems in the Gulf in quite a while, so hitting all that warm water (and the gigajoules of latent thermal energy contained therein) is like getting a power-up. Rapid intensification has become the norm rather than the rare exception over the last few years. It's why Florence was a bit surprising in that she was coming at us as a Cat 4 and dropped rapidly just before landfall.

Europe should be used to getting America's sloppy seconds by now