I seem to always wade right in over my head
and then start flailing about. ME THINKS I
will quit trying to drown myself.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Toback <[log in to unmask]>
To: Gary Sielaff <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Friday Humor
> Gary Sielaff wrote:
>
> >The QE2 burns 10560 gals of diesel per mile !!!!!!!!!!!
> >ME THINKS NOT
> >Gary
>
> This figure is not far out of line for the _Queen Elizabeth_ and _Queen
> Mary_, however. It's difficult to understand how truly enormous these
> vessels were: 80,000 gross tons, top speed of 35 knots, single-expansion
> steam turbines with 160,000 shaft horsepower: 118 megawatts, equivalent
> to about a tenth of a typical large municipal electric generating
> station. The QE2 is considerably more fuel efficient (but burns
> higher-grade fuel). The reason that Cunard withdrew the QM and QE from
> service is that they cost far too much to run, and always operated at a
> loss.
>
> The _Queen Mary_, of course, is now a floating hotel/museum in Long
> Beach, California. It takes some doing, while walking up to and around
> it, to remember that this enormous building, a fifth of a mile in length
> and ten stories high, can tootle around the ocean at 40mph.
>
> One of my "yeah, sure" goals is to travel to England taking the QE2 one
> way and the Concorde the other -- before both of these 20th-century
> anachronisms pass into history.
>
> -- Bruce
>
>
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