# If an Nimitz class aircraft carrier was found in a cornfield in Kansas... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 8, 2012, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-was-found-in-a-cornfield-in-kansas/608794 "2012-01-08T03:51:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-was-found-in-a-cornfield-in-kansas/608794/61 "2012-01-10T01:46:56Z")
500 000 gal JP5, they run it through the diesels auxs also, potable about 64 000 potable possible production but they tend to maintain abut 30 000 gal with another 2000 or 3000 gal of DI water for various uses [ballpark] and they have a sewage plant onboard, call it 30 000 gal at any given time between holding and processing. Hubby got home and he actually knows this… go figure:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-was-found-in-a-cornfield-in-kansas/608794/62 "2012-01-10T02:37:44Z")
Is this how crop circles are made? (I KNEW we needed another scarecrow!) ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-was-found-in-a-cornfield-in-kansas/608794/63 "2012-01-10T03:37:52Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > You win the thread. Hey, it was **runner pat** , post #9. Credit where credit’s due. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-was-found-in-a-cornfield-in-kansas/608794/64 "2012-01-10T04:06:43Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Hey, it was **runner pat** , post #9. Credit where credit’s due. Who the %^$# wished nested quotes out to the goddamn cornfield?! Credit all around: > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I’d suggest putting on a stern face and telling whoever put it there that it’s not nice to play with other people’s property without asking and they have to put it back where they found it. > > > [@runner pat](#): > > > > No ,it’s a _good_ thing it’s there. > > > > A _very_ good thing. > > > > Don’t we all agree it’s a good thing? > > > > > [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > > > > > Sure is hot. > > > > > > > [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > > > > > > > It’s good that you wished the Nimitz into the cornfield, son! > > > > > > > > > [@Smapti](#): > > > > > > > > > > You win the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-was-found-in-a-cornfield-in-kansas/608794/65 "2012-01-10T12:24:45Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > Final assembly is at Rosyth, on the Firth of Forth. Ignorance fought ! ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-was-found-in-a-cornfield-in-kansas/608794/66 "2012-01-10T15:54:05Z")
What if we just turn on ALL the irrigation systems at once and go away for a while? > [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > Final assembly is at Rosyth, on the Firth of Forth. Well, if the aliens put the carrier out there, Roswell, New Mexico, might be involved. And everybody knows the aliens are only vulnerable on the 4th of July and not a day later ([cite](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_%28film%29)). So the question becomes: Would it be possible to go forth on the Fourth from Roswell to Rosyth on the Firth of Forth before the fifth? ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-was-found-in-a-cornfield-in-kansas/608794/67 "2012-01-10T15:58:51Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Hasn’t been this busy since some schizophrenic decided to build a baseball field. Minor pedantic nitpick: That was in Iowa. It may not seem like it, but they are different states. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-was-found-in-a-cornfield-in-kansas/608794/68 "2012-01-10T16:12:30Z")
> [@echo6160](#): > > Where!!! I want to google map this 🙂 [Here.](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Muskogee,+OK&hl=en&ll=35.794298,-95.310801&spn=0.003033,0.004801&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=47.885545,78.662109&oq=musko&vpsrc=6&hnear=Muskogee,+Oklahoma&t=h&z=18) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-was-found-in-a-cornfield-in-kansas/608794/69 "2012-01-10T16:32:37Z")
> [@cornflakes](#): > > From Wikipedia, the _Nimitz_-class ships cost around $4.5 billion each, so maybe the question might be whether it was worth that much, minus depreciation (however you want to estimate that) to move, refloat and repair the boat. The _Gerald R Ford_ is scheduled to be ready around 2015 and was built to replace the _Enterprise_, so the answer is probably that it’s not worth it. I’m sorry, let me get this straight; they have hundreds and hundreds of great Americans to choose from and they’re naming one of the greatest warships ever constructed, the lead ship of its design, after GERALD FORD? Did I miss it when they built the USS Ulysses S. Grant and the USS Thomas Jefferson and the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt and the USS Calvin Coolidge? How does Gerald Ford rate this? ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-was-found-in-a-cornfield-in-kansas/608794/70 "2012-01-10T16:43:27Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Did I miss it when they built the USS Ulysses S. Grant and the USS Thomas Jefferson and the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt and the USS Calvin Coolidge? How does Gerald Ford rate this? The first three in your list were built 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-was-found-in-a-cornfield-in-kansas/608794/71 "2012-01-10T16:44:57Z")
They named one after Ronald Reagan too. ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-was-found-in-a-cornfield-in-kansas/608794/72 "2012-01-10T16:49:37Z")
No one has mentioned the Crawler-Transporters yet? If I read this page right: [http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/nasafact/count3teaf.htm](http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/nasafact/count3teaf.htm) then they can transport 11 million pounds = 4900 Long tons. So since we got the Nimitz down to 100,000 tons without it’s air wing, people, fuel etc thats only 20 Crawler Transporters that we need to move the Nimitz. Progress! ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-was-found-in-a-cornfield-in-kansas/608794/73 "2012-01-10T17:08:04Z")
As some have pointed out a dug canal would be the way to recover it. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-was-found-in-a-cornfield-in-kansas/608794/74 "2012-01-10T17:43:08Z")
One more reason why the shadow government running the U.S. is supressing matter transmitters. ---
**Author:** ![Dufus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c77e96/32.png) [@Dufus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dufus)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-was-found-in-a-cornfield-in-kansas/608794/75 "2012-01-10T17:51:41Z")
I read a news article about the army tanks at the Fort Knox armor museum being moved to Fort Benning. It said the tanks have to sit on concrete pads or they will slowly sink into the ground due to their tremendous weight. The heaviest of them was 72 tons. I suppose the 100,000 ton Nimitz would sink in the soft Kansas soil to the waterline painted on it’s hull (?) ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-was-found-in-a-cornfield-in-kansas/608794/76 "2012-01-10T18:01:40Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > I’m sorry, let me get this straight; they have hundreds and hundreds of great Americans to choose from and they’re naming one of the greatest warships ever constructed, the lead ship of its design, after GERALD FORD? > > Did I miss it when they built the USS Ulysses S. Grant and the USS Thomas Jefferson and the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt and the USS Calvin Coolidge? How does Gerald Ford rate this? I have no idea why they named it after him, but if a carrier ends up in Kansas by mistake, it would only be fitting for it to be the Gerald Ford! ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-was-found-in-a-cornfield-in-kansas/608794/77 "2012-01-10T18:12:05Z")
> [@cornflakes](#): > > I have no idea why they named it after him, but if a carrier ends up in Kansas by mistake, it would only be fitting for it to be the Gerald Ford! I suppose this means we’ll never name one after Nixon… ---
**Author:** ![dorsk188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f05b48/32.png) [@dorsk188](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorsk188)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-was-found-in-a-cornfield-in-kansas/608794/78 "2012-01-10T18:26:52Z")
I say paint the fields around it bright green and sell it to Jerry Bruckheimer. ---
**Author:** ![dorsk188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f05b48/32.png) [@dorsk188](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorsk188)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-was-found-in-a-cornfield-in-kansas/608794/79 "2012-01-10T18:31:02Z")
> [@Dufus](#): > > I suppose the 100,000 ton Nimitz would sink in the soft Kansas soil to the waterline painted on it’s hull (?) Someone good at math and physics could work that out based on the density of the topsoil in comparison to seawater. I am not good at math or physics. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-was-found-in-a-cornfield-in-kansas/608794/80 "2012-01-10T18:44:16Z")
> [@simster](#): > > I suppose this means we’ll never name one after Nixon… I’m sure we will, it’ll be the one that goes to China. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-was-found-in-a-cornfield-in-kansas/608794.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-an-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-was-found-in-a-cornfield-in-kansas/608794.md?page=5)