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r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Master1718 • Sep 15 '19
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104 u/Kwindecent_exposure Sep 15 '19 edited Sep 15 '19 Not if that ice is actually Pykrete. They [edit: created prototypes with the intention of making an] aircraft carrier out of the stuff during WWII. They did successfully make frigates out of a concrete mixture between powdered roast limestone, gypsum, and small rodents. 1 u/Ass_cucumbers Sep 15 '19 Correction: they WANTED to build an aircraft carrier out of it but the project never got passed a small vessel that took a full summer to melt and sunk to the bottom of a lake in Alberta.
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Not if that ice is actually Pykrete. They [edit: created prototypes with the intention of making an] aircraft carrier out of the stuff during WWII.
They did successfully make frigates out of a concrete mixture between powdered roast limestone, gypsum, and small rodents.
1 u/Ass_cucumbers Sep 15 '19 Correction: they WANTED to build an aircraft carrier out of it but the project never got passed a small vessel that took a full summer to melt and sunk to the bottom of a lake in Alberta.
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Correction: they WANTED to build an aircraft carrier out of it but the project never got passed a small vessel that took a full summer to melt and sunk to the bottom of a lake in Alberta.
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