# Could an aircraft carrier reach Chicago? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 8, 2007, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-an-aircraft-carrier-reach-chicago/410952 "2007-07-08T07:45:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-an-aircraft-carrier-reach-chicago/410952/21 "2007-07-09T03:43:47Z")
[QUOTE=Antonius Block] Well, if you’re allowed to float the **parts** up to Chicago and assemble it _in situ_ (which seems to go against the spirit of the thread title), and you wanted to keep the costs down, where better to look for an example than [China](http://www.bobhenneman.info/china.htm)? _[For those in a hurry, the most revealing photo on that page is [here](http://www.bobhenneman.info/museum5.JPG).]_ [/QUOTE] You gotta wonder if the Chinese weren’t, at least in part, just trying to screw with our National Reconaissance Office. “Senator, the People’s Liberation Army Navy has opened up a dangerous Aircraft Carriers on Small Landlocked Lakes Gap. Clearly, we need several billion dollars to construct aircraft carriers in Lincoln, Nebraska and Oklahoma City.” ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-an-aircraft-carrier-reach-chicago/410952/22 "2007-07-09T04:04:44Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] What if the carrier were on a treadmill? [/QUOTE] You are evil. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-an-aircraft-carrier-reach-chicago/410952/23 "2007-07-09T10:06:52Z")
Wouldn’t it be easier to attack Chicago by land? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-an-aircraft-carrier-reach-chicago/410952/24 "2007-07-09T21:30:50Z")
[QUOTE=Si Amigo] Wouldn’t it be easier to attack Chicago by land? [/QUOTE] During Rush Hour?!? :eek: You’re _mad!!_ The army would vanish, & never be seen again! Although, I suppose all their hubcaps would turn up at flea markets for _years_… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-an-aircraft-carrier-reach-chicago/410952/25 "2007-07-09T23:58:46Z")
It might work if you were “On a mission from God” and were being chased by Nazi’s and Carrie Fisher. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-an-aircraft-carrier-reach-chicago/410952/26 "2007-07-10T00:44:17Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] During Rush Hour?!? :eek: You’re _mad!!_ The army would vanish, & never be seen again! Although, I suppose all their hubcaps would turn up at flea markets for _years_… 😃 [/QUOTE] They wouldn’t vanish; they’d simply be stuck on the Dan Ryan endlessly. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-an-aircraft-carrier-reach-chicago/410952/27 "2007-07-10T04:12:23Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] During Rush Hour?!? :eek: You’re _mad!!_ The army would vanish, & never be seen again! Although, I suppose all their hubcaps would turn up at flea markets for _years_… 😃 [/QUOTE] Ok, that’s _funny_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-an-aircraft-carrier-reach-chicago/410952.md?page=1)