"Get Fuzzy" the comicstrip teaching valuable history lesson. BW warning.

[spearmint]

For you fans of this comic strip you know the last couple days Satchel the dog is building a model of the Vasa a Swedish warship in 1628 and for historical accuracy Bucky the cat is going to destroy it. I am eagerly awaiting to see if he is real accurate because in capsizing after not even clearing the harbor and sinking, the ship's cat drowned along with 50 crew, women and children.

Here is a link to Monday's strip and you can follow from there to today on calendar below.
http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/ar...80211.html

Here is the ill fated ship which the Swedish King built as the World's largest warship but kept adding on more stuff and added a second gun deck which probably doomed it. Definitely a little top heavy. Recovered and restored in Sweden.

The lesson here? Read the comics. Valuable stuff. Actually the lesson is what happens when the government gets involved.

[Grumpyguy]

Nice picture, thanks.

[Paul F.]

The Vasa is a cool story...

The sinking AND the raising!

[blooz]

'Actually the lesson is what happens when the government gets involved. "

Hmm. Were you expecting private enterprise to build a warship?

Granted our system of gov't. is not perfect, but this is earth, nothing is perfect here.
Our system is better than an autocrat dictating his personal wishes.

[RgrF]

Minty has an anathema to any government that's not headed by Ronald Reagan.

[cbelt3]

No politics, but anyone who has dealt with ANY government's decision making process (and they're all alike) will tell you that they will always decide to add a feature, but never decide to remove one.

I've long suspected that some of the feature adders for Microsoft Word (after v 5.1) were ex bureaucrats.

[Jimmypoo]

Lowest bidder contracts in 1650.....


pfffffft.

[spearmint]

[quote blooz]'Actually the lesson is what happens when the government gets involved. "

Hmm. Were you expecting private enterprise to build a warship?

Granted our system of gov't. is not perfect, but this is earth, nothing is perfect here.
Our system is better than an autocrat dictating his personal wishes.
Actually all our warships and others are built by private enterprises under contract. Same with the Vasa.

It was the egotistical King who kept changing his mind and adding on. You also know me this may not be paradise but the US certainly is the best ever.

rgF knows my favorite warship.

[Racer X]

Yep, all the US stuff is built privately under contract. General Dynamics does all the subs (at Elco, aka Electric Boat) and most of the ships (at Bath Iron Works). Lost of the smaller destroyers and frigates are scattered across the US at smaller yards in the Gulf and maybe San Diego.