Feb 11 2008USS New York Is Part World Trade Center

Speaking as a New Yorker who saw the towers fall I'd just like to say AWESOME!!! A fantastic idea I hope she does some serious damage.

Jesus. If I was American i'd be seriously troubled by my country's persistently jingoistic attitude.

@2: That, or troubled by our persistent efforts to recycle. Stupid us.

if we could a bit more range on the rail guns, then wouldn't need to recycle. we just use the garbage as ammo, and aim at Jeff (I took the liberty to correct the spelling of your name - just another persistent effort of the USA)

missed a word. should read "could GET a bit more". normally don't feel the need to correct something so obvious, but guate is on a roll today, so I wanted to beat him to it.

I dunno, Canadian cities could use more tacky modern art sculptures. If there is any scrap left please email s_harper@gc.ca

awesome. we recycle when it comes to our massive machines of destruction. god, i am so ashamed to be american.

*sigh* this isn't an "urban legend" it's a fact. Beyond the fact that all San Antonio-class amphibious transport docking ships are named after US cities, the NY's bow is made with steel from the trade center destruction.

Directly from the USS New York's website. http://www.ussnewyork.net/

Steel salvaged from the World Trade Center wreckage will be used in the construction of New York. The shipyard and Navy inspected the steel and found that it was of sufficient material strength so that it could be incorporated into the bow stem of New York.

"Urban Legend" jeez do some research.

i know! urban legend my ass! i watched them take the heavy steel beams out to transport to the shipyard to build that ship. and these were huge beams too -- each truck could only carry 2. so much for "never forget".

I hope a plane doesnt hit it. That thing will sink faster than my balls into your sisters mouth.

Stupid US Government.

Yes, this LPD is amazing. You could have confimirmed this by doing a search for USS New York and LPD on www.News.navy.mil

@ 8

If you had taken the time to actually READ the post, instead of spending of your time sighing and bitching, you would realize that he confirmed that it was a fact and not merely an urban legend.

As for the idea of putting it in the ship? Why not? Although maybe the metal would be better suited for building something useful... instead of a warship bent on destroying terrorists. Seems a little overboard to me.

I think the rest of the wreckage is going to be used to build the Freedom Tower ,that was originally scheduled to be finished by 2010, but who knows when it'll be done.

Personally, I think the motto "Always Remember" or "We will Always Remember" is better...from a psychological standpoint at least, perhaps a diction one too, but this is fine.

Why does it bother some people that in an effort to pay tribute to some poor souls whose only crime on Sept. 11, 2001 was to go to work, catch an early plane ride home or just make it through the day, we symbolically recycle the materials from their unintentional tomb to remind us of their fate? What's your problem?

There's no point in trying to convey this yet again, so I won't bother. But I will invite anyone who has the courage to sit behind a computer screen and make a comment like "I hope a plane doesnt hit it. That thing will sink faster than my balls into your sisters mouth." to come and visit me in lil' ol' Arlington Va. I live within eyesight of where the plane hit down here, jackass, and I'll personally give you the opportunity to belittle a tragedy like that face to face. Please.

But you don't, won't and can't, so I don't care. I hope you enjoy your bowel cancer and heart disease from sitting on your lonely ass eating Cheetos and blaming the world for being a misanthropic fat fuck. I hope your Second Life character gets raped by a roving band of digital monkeys and then wipes their asses with your Linden dollars.

And since you only say things like that to get a rise out of people, I wish you one thing more: a moment of enlightenment on your death bed, just before you die, where you sit up and say, "Holy Shit! I'm an asshole!"

We won't miss you. In fact, no one will, and your brief stain on the history of time will soon wash away.

JWM, people don't have a problem with the metal being used for a ship. What they have a problem with is the ship being sent off to destroy terrorists. And by "destroy terrorists", what I really mean is that it will carry 700 marines to fight a vague and virtually unfightable war, then bring them back, scarred for life after witnessing innocent civilians being blown apart by car bombs that are planted because of the U.S. occupation. People are not passing judgement on those who died, they are passing judgement on the poor decisions of the U.S. Government.

What a load of crap. Firstly why are you posting this on Geekologie!!!? And secondly... 24 tonnes!! The whole thing weighs just under 25 THOUSAND tonnes. That means under a thousandth of it is from melted down WTC steel.

When you look at this in a neutral way (ie not patriotist-american or dumb) I'd say this is quite the short-sighted shit one has come to expect from the USA and their current leading personages... This looks more like some silly attempt at revenge than a memorial service(@JWM). They could've put up a monument with 'never forget' made of the remains of the WTC, showing some real resistance to terrorist actions by not living in fear (and invading/eventually destroying whole countries by retreating out of the mess they made there). Yet instead they built a ... battleship? they're going to cruise around the world in search of this virtual enemy? That's just sad. It also conforms to the idea most of the people supporting these terrorists have of the USA.

I guess its not an air craft carrier.. right?

is this thing on?

"Why does it bother some people that in an effort to pay tribute to some poor souls whose only crime on Sept. 11, 2001 was to go to work, catch an early plane ride home or just make it through the day"

what about the poor souls whose only crime was to be born and raised in an oil rich middle eastern country - and then have someone like your president and his criminal cronies kill their parents, sons, daughters, friends etc on a daily basis?

nice about the recycling - pity it was for a warship for "special operations against terrorists" what a joke.

one of your countrymen says it best - I saw him in my country two nights ago - check him out - Henry Rollins - spoken word - he was fucking awesome by the way, and made me think that not all americans are braindead losers that have never set foot outside of their own state (like their president)...

mkay, kids...

gather round and listen up.

if we don't do something to spark a peace movement on this planet, then we're certainly doomed to all be buried under tons of concrete and steel someday. my patriotism drove me to enlist on september 12th 2001. it was a wednesday. i will never forget it. my father drove me over. it was a different time than we've ever had in america, and we were all bent on revenge. certainly, this has passed, and we as americans are not in support of the wars that we're involved in. as americans and as the people of the nation, we have to rise up and speak out minds in public, not on message boards and in private. we have to put our body against the gears of the machine and shout at the top of your voice, "i've had enough!".

...but this will never happen. we're all too late for soccer practice and we have to get dinner on by 6pm. ...sad how we do forget anyone else other than ourselves, as americans.

...yes, i too see the grammatical errors that i made.

we need a fucking edit button, admin! damn. get with it. get geeky. make one. it's not new technologie.

The USA makes up 4.55% percent of the world. And they think the world revolves around them. Get some friggin brain cells. Stop drinking so much f*****ing mountain dew and wake up. NO ONE likes Americans!

Not even the British, and we're meant to be your little brother! Hand on heart, i think the Americans deserve EVERYTHING that's coming to them.

im all for using the scrap from the WTC for something else but not for a mutha fucking war ship

dude really make something more resourceful out of it not more death

"Hand on heart, i think the Americans deserve EVERYTHING that's coming to them."
Well, that's a nice sentiment. Did Theo Van Gogh have it coming to him, too?

@Super Duper and @MIke: thanks for demonstrating that you're the only ones with the heads to make valid points.

As for the rest of you:

In your collective heads, you've bought the bullshit line that the US is the only Western country in history to have a messy relationship with the Middle East.

I said not one thing about supporting the war in Iraq. I was responding - quite angrily, granted - at a cowardly little douchebag who made light of a tragedy wherein everyone, with time, has lost sight of its magnitude. I hope he gets cancer and I hope he dies alone and sad. That's my failing - not a representation of a governmental policy.

You want to self-loathe? Fine. You want to blame the US for what the UK did in the 1950s, creating countries out of thin air when its Empire fell apart (and forcing the creation of Israel in the UN)? Fine. You honestly want to think that al Qaeda was justified in killing civilians, then fine. But I won't hesitate to label those of you that think that way as idiots.

For the record, I wish the US would pull all of its bases out of Western Europe and let the world defend itself. It's an economic drain on us anyway. I'm also all for drying up the useless aid packages we send to the rest of the world, as well, since they are typically embezzled by the crooked leaders who are truly raping the Arab people.

The lot of you enjoy participating in the demagoguery of the US principally because...well, I'm not sure. I sure am sorry that my home country is imperfect. Soon as you point me to a country that is perfect and has no blood on its hands throughout history, well Heck - I guess I'll have found heaven.

I know of a country that has no blood on their hands (for those of you ready to contradict, this is called "humor" not "serious"): Jamaica!

(quote from Robin Williams Live on Broadway):

"I know there's one country in the world that doesn't have some horrible weapon of mass destruction they don't have some horrible weapons lab in the mountains ....Jamaica. They would never make an Atomic Bomb; they may make an Atomic Bong. But I'd rather fight a war with an Atomic Bong. (Jamaican accent) 'Cuz when the Atomic Bomb goes off there's devastation and radiation. When the Atomic Bong goes off there's celebration!"

"For the record, I wish the US would pull all of its bases out of Western Europe and let the world defend itself. It's an economic drain on us anyway. I'm also all for drying up the useless aid packages we send to the rest of the world"

agreed. the sooner the better. who does america really think they are defending? and from whom?

JWM you need to lighten up you cranky bastard.

Btw, I do live in a perfect country, Canada. And I look forward to the day that your country comes and invades us for the fresh water, wood, oil and electricity we supply the states with.

Till that time, I guess you'll just have to be angry with me with words on teh internetz.

Matt

Wow, everyone is getting too political here. Lighten up losers. Your not going to convince anyone nor change their mind any more than they are going to change yours by posting a 5 sentence paragraph on a freakin geek website. Get a life.

Now for the actual article. How was this every an urban legend? I saw this a couple years ago on the Discovery Chanel about the plans to use the steel for building a new ship. Then I saw the special a few years ago about them actually casting the steel. The amount is small. The only part that is from the WTC is the front bow section that cuts through the water. Thats it. Glad I'm from Germany and everybody loves us! Right?.....

#7 I don't believe you are ashamed to be American because of some recycled steel being used to cast the bow of an amphibious assault ship. That's ridiculous. What should have left you feeling ashamed is the fact that they sold most of the steel overseas. To me this is insulting. Not one piece of the WTC should have been peddled off to the highest bidder.