Urgggggg……hail!

We love Thursday night television.  WifeGeeding and I were pretty excited to see new episodes of Survivor, 30 Rock, The Office, and CSI.  One of the perks of owning a DVR is the ability to record two shows at once.  However, there is a massive hail storm and possible tornado coming our way and the meteorologists on all the major networks have been on television for the past three hours without one commercial break.

I understand the need of warning the public, but what really irks me is that they haven’t told us when our shows will air.  A lot of times when this happens they tell us to set our DVR’s to record such-and-such show at two in the morning or whatever, either on the crawl or verbally.  Since they failed at this, I decided to check out their websites.

Bravo to our CBS affiliate for telling us when Survivor will air.

Boooooooooooooooo to our NBC affiliate.  They only tell us we can watch the shows we missed due to weather on Hulu.com.  Watching TV on the PC is OK, but come on, we prefer to watch it together in the living on the big screen.

To be fair I checked out the ABC affiliate’s website and they aren’t providing any info on the shows we are missing.  Good thing Lost is a rerun.  Fox is in the same camp as ABC and NBC.

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Ship Talk

I’ve always wondered this, and now I have the answer.

Dear Yahoo!:
Before the Titanic sank, it was the largest ship in the world. What is the largest today, and how does it compare to the Titanic?
Lee
Mount Vernon, Washington

Dear Lee:
These days, cargo vessels are the largest ships around, and the king of these crafts is the oil tanker Jahre Viking, which logs in at 1,503 feet long and 226 feet wide. It boasts a gross tonnage of 565,000 tons!

However, you mentioned the Titanic, so to compare apples to apples, the two largest passenger ships in the world are currently run by Royal Caribbean International Cruises. The Voyager of the Seas and the Explorer of the Seas are 1,020 feet long and 158 feet wide. Both have a gross tonnage of 140,000 tons and carry roughly 3,000 passengers and 2,000 crew members.

By comparison, the Titanic was 883 feet long, 93 feet wide, and weighed 45,000 tons. The Titanic could hold 3,500 passengers and crew members but carried life boats for just over 1,000. There were approximately 2,200 unfortunate souls aboard when the “unsinkable” ship encountered the iceberg.

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To compare that with some U.S. aircraft carrieers:

USS Enterprise
Length 1,123 feet
Breadth 257 feet

USS Ronald Reagan
Length 1,092 feet
Flight Deck Width 257 feet

To take it a step further, compare all those lengths to the height of the Empire State Building which is 1250 feet.

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