The aircraft carriers prior to the Ford used steam catapults. Nuclear reactor plants make plenty of steam, and American carriers all have at least two.

That being said, a redesign to support steam catapults in the Ford class is asinine. The electromagnetic ones were a core design feature, and years of work went into making them reliable.

Taking a trip there: https://youtu.be/oOorj-i5Tk8

Thanks for posting the reference, it was new to me.

Many early Nazi’s were also paradoxically Zionist. They believed that the best way to get rid of the Jewish people was to just send them all somewhere else, and a Jewish state would be an easy place to convince them to go.

Both abbreviations are correct, yeah

Nowhere that I’ve been, no, but the little POS tablets that small shops and vendors have all ask for a tip by default.

Sub food is good, except when the E2 cooking your meal serves up medium rare chicken.

Was not a nuclear explosion, sure, reactors can’t really explode in the same way as bombs, but it absolutely was a meltdown. Meltdown really just means that the fuel melted, which did happen shortly after the power peak flashed the coolant to steam and blew open the core.