>>23040 indeed not a frog

>>23041 You funny. Regarding the top blot, I'd tell the psychiatrist "Your wife!"

rorschach tweet

>>23021 rorschach?

>>23017 >>23018 How well do you do with ink-blot tests?

maybe a fellow from a barbershop quartet? third over from the left?

the thumbnail looks like a man's face laughing :) that's all i know about it

During the cold war the Ruskies hauled crap around without being detected other than today where we'd know immediately. Just walking away would save face but also comtaminate everything. It could be worth money at salvage. All you and I know is what we see but the numbers don't add up especially after so long. It has to be something else. My first guess would be the folks in Norway are starting to glow in the dark, complained to Russia and Russia hired India to destroy it no matter what the cost. Work for everyone but Ivan takes the hicky (big bucks). Po-Boy sandwiches, anyone?

no, seems I was wrong, old fashioned steam boilers. But there are disputes about a substance called Polonium-210 (Po).

"Po is also used in initiators for atomic bombs."

That was a fairly old ship. Was it indeed nuclear powered? If it had missiles (which I doubt because of gun turrets) they would have been removed immediately. There's a lot of steel in the gun shells, copper wiring and other metal stuff. Maybe the Indians could cook fish with the nuclear heat.

I guess it also has to do with the fact that India bought the ship. Maybe Russia had some demands in the contract when signing it over to India?
And with breaking a ship you don't only deal with steel. JC knows what else there's in it.
I wonder how 'expert' India deals with the nuclear core and/or waste..

Well, I just can't let this go. Scrap metal is selling for about $100 a ton. If this ship weighed 10,000 tons it would be worth about a million bucks (scrap). All this work I'm looking at is far greater than that. Sooooo...I guess the hazard of blocked shipping lanes or the radiation spoken of would be a greater incentive for removing it. After 20 years of sitting there they're just now addressing the problem? None of this makes any sense.

Below is the list of some of world's largest ship breaking yards:

#1 Alang Ship Breaking Yard in India

#2 Chittagong Ship Breaking yard in Bangladesh

#3 Gadani Ship Breaking yard in Pakistan

Changjiang Ship Breaking yard, located in Jiangyin, China

Aliaga Ship Breaking Yard in Turkey

International Shipbreaking Ltd. Brownsville in Texas, United States of America

>>22992 That dry dock, pumping, and transporting parts is quite expensive; maybe millions. Don't forget wages for the crew to cut it up. Once in India, I fully agree with you. It's the getting the parts there I'm talking about. Obviously I'm wrong or they wouldn't be going to all that trouble. Just saying. You might be driving that thing some day.

>>22990 I don't. It is way cheaper to send it to India than to diy. Think of the rules and regulations that would go along with it and health and safety of the workers. No such things in India (therefor cheaper)

>>22989 absolutely agree!

I would question the cost of building a dry dock and the transportation of the steel to a smelter versus the profits from the steel itself.

They'd better be making a documentary about this!!! :)