Moving on up

Some camera tests before attempting a really hard hill.  Either the current battery or windings seem to be end of life.  It has a low chance of summiting.  The truck has to be unloaded of all shirts, speakers, food, camera batteries, & probably phones. 

The geared truck of years ago had a better chance. 

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Gootube is catoring to very high over achievers or at least guys who think they are.  The average gootube commenter is someone who is able to sit at a PC & comment on videos all day.  That makes him a home owner in a top tier company, worth $5 mil & in a position to pick his retirement date.  A big money maker is admonishing commenters from waiting just 1 more year before retiring.  At the very least, gootube commenters have so little problem finding jobs, they have to force themselves to retire.  Lions are not in that situation.

Lions have at most 2 more layoffs in store, in the next 8 years.  After each layoff, there's going to be a job search of up to 1 year.  If nothing comes, that will be the retirement date.  It's definitely not going to be a choice.  Lions will thus spend 1 year in Calif* after the last day of work before moving out.  The last job is expected to be 1 of those last 2.



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For all the hype, lions only found 1 photo looking straight down the SS US, showing the difference in wear between the south & north sides.

The queen mary II was kind of intriguing because it was the largest ocean liner.  The only reason anyone cared about the SS US was the name.  If it was called the SS Mclionhead, no-one would have cared. 


A favorite meme during republican years was using the rusted out name to symbolize the government.




There were some quad copter shots with varying levels of success.  The problem was the limited range.  The 2 money shots of boats are watching them sail into the sunset & flying towards the bow.  






It could go 34 knots but because this destroyed the propellers & the paint, it stayed below 30 knots.  No-one knows if the smoke deflectors really worked.  They were a scheme to keep the funnels low.  The funnels were its only distinguishing feature.

After discovering it from Szimanski, lions pondered who was dumb enough to insist on always traveling on SS US.  

 


 




 

 

 

There were some intriguing photos of it under tow.  It seemed to come back to life on the open ocean, reprising its original role while ferrying an empty complement of non existent passengers.  Maybe the ghosts of the long dead passengers came back for 1 last trip.

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10163073355562059&set=a.10150407256962059

Vinik's personal page started showing up in searches many days later, revealing some higher res photos.

Young lion pondered how running into Titanic at sea would amount to seeing it coming towards us out of the fog, from the great beyond. It was yet to be found & still had a chance of being found 1 day, roaming the seas as a ghost ship. It would have had a hard time getting into the bay.

 

Some short low quality videos of it on the ocean emerged later.

 




The passage around FL got a lot of online interest but nothing from the locals.  Not even the seagulls came out. All the interest was from online.  Was surprised even China didn't make an offer.  It would have been a triumph to park it in Shenzen.  It's basically a boat with the right name.

 



Downloaded some raw webcam video before it ran off the buffer. 






 



 


https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10160995509952913&set=pcb.10162604554362298

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10165338489599657&set=pcb.24013734014901365

There were only a few higher quality photos when it rounded FL, but almost no feet on the ground compared to the amount of online commenting.  Only 1 guy seemed to break out a DSLR.

https://www.facebook.com/SSUSC.HamptonRoads

Most comprehensive source of photos, though lacking some of the better ones.  All the interest seemed to come from that specific over 50 age group of facebook users.  The lack of interest from anyone on the ground was striking.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=923875423245722&set=pcb.923875549912376

There's an interview with the tug boat captain in 2019, where he expressed fascination with the SS US & didn't want it to be scrapped.  This made him take a lot of photos of the tow.

 https://gcaptain.com/vinik-marine-interview-new-york-tugboats/

No-one asked why he chose the path of creating a tugboat company.  It sounds like a really hard life but it might be more lucrative than lion jobs.  He made most business by competing in tugboat competitions.  He's definitely gotten a lot of exposure now.

https://www.youtube.com/@mathnstuff1133/videos

He has a gootube channel which might have SS US videos someday.

He saved a lot of money by renovating his own boats, the gootube economy.  An important trend lions have seen is you're not going to make it if you can't be self reliant.

Based on the quality of his other videos, he put a lot of effort into documenting SS US.  It's the most he ever documented anything.










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