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USS Eisenhower height

How far is the deck of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower from the water (assuming there are no waves)? InedibleHulk (talk) 01:35, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I can't easily find it but this measurement is called freeboard. (height (the scraping suspension bridges kind) has a cool name called "air draft"). Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 02:36, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Not knowing the nautical terms made it trickier for me. InedibleHulk (talk) 04:16, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You do realize this depends on how it's laden? μηδείς (talk) 02:39, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Design waterline. Oh, and of course. Also water temperature and salinity. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 02:53, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Let's just say everything's average. Mediterranean Sea average, anyway. And it's just sitting there. InedibleHulk (talk) 04:16, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Why the Mediterranean? Contemplating a US-ISIS war? Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 04:34, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That's just where it is lately. The war's past the contemplation part. My wonder comes from watching a video of a plane snapping the catchwire upon landing and falling off. It flew back up again, but there were a couple of tense seconds. InedibleHulk (talk) 06:49, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Here is an article about that dramatic 18 March 2016 mishap in which an arresting cable snapped as an E-2C Hawkeye was landing as the Ike was doing exercises in the Atlantic. (They have subsequently deployed to the Med and are flying combat sorties in support of Operation Inherent Resolve.) 8 sailors on deck were injured and two aircraft were damaged by the broken cable, but the E-2C Hawkeye managed to miss the waves and safely landed back at Chambers Field in Norfolk. Root cause was human error by the qualified maintenance personnel while troubleshooting the arresting gear engine to clear a fault code form an earlier arrestment. The Navy determined that the procedure they were following was technically correct but poorly written, leading the personnel to miss one or two critical steps. They determined that the mishap was "not the result of willful dereliction of duty or culpable negligence. Based on their training, the Sailors reasonable believed they had properly and conscientiously completed the complicated troubleshooting procedure." -- ToE 14:32, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@μηδείς: the load of those war-machines like an aircraft carrier it seems has to be optimized, notably, their propulsion does not affect their charge. Not so with the aircrafts themselves however, I once tried a fighter-bomber flight simulator and repeatedly crashed at take-off because of the load of the machine. --Askedonty (talk) 05:29, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Using a very old-fashioned way of working it out (a photo and a ruler) it is around 30 metres from deck level to the water line. Wymspen (talk) 08:11, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think I own a ruler, but pinching a presumably six-foot-tall man for reference, I can scoot down about 15 units. That's close enough to verified for me. Thanks! InedibleHulk (talk) 09:08, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder if pilot survival has anything to do with why it isn't lower. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 09:11, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure, but this doesn't seem very safe, and that's 64 feet. Seems every inch the sea stays away is a good inch for airmen. Waves aside, it's extra split-seconds to either correct a poor takeoff or eject a terrible one. Simply falling off gets a bit deadlier, though. InedibleHulk (talk) 10:12, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Runny nose

Why is my nose always runny and stuffed up in the morning when I wake up, but fine for the rest of the day?--WaltCip (talk) 13:38, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not allowed to tell you why this happens. I'm sure someone still will try to, but they shouldn't. See WP:MEDICAL and User:Kainaw/Kainaw's criterion Since your request asks us to diagnose a symptom, we cannot do that. --Jayron 32 13:49, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

But I'm not sick. This is just something that seems to happen.--WaltCip (talk) 14:19, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

We don't know whether or not you're sick. You've asked us to give you a reason for a symptom. That's called a diagnosis. We're not allowed to do that. As Wymspen notes, without being able to examine you, it is irresponsible for some rando on the internet to tell you why your body is doing that. There's a non-zero chance that it is any of dozens of reasons, some benign and some malignant, and for that reason we can't tell you anything. Wikipedia does have an articles (which I trust you could have found yourself) titled rhinorrhea (runny nose) and nasal congestion (stuffy nose_ which list a variety of causes. The articles are also not comprehensive, and we can't reliable say which of those causes is the source of your issue. --Jayron 32 14:27, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There must be at least a dozen possible reasons for that - and it will take a doctor actually looking up your nose to tell you which one it is in your case. Wymspen (talk) 13:54, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Dictionary and Thesaurus sought

Something alike Google Translator, what is highly praised? A portable software would be beneficial. -- Apostle (talk) 18:51, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

How would Google Translate be used as a thesaurus? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:18, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I think they mean a dictionary and thesaurus as good at doing that as Google translate is at translation. (Doesn't seem like that high of a bar, to me.)

For a dictionary, try onelook.com, which gives results from several sources at once: [1]. StuRat (talk) 21:57, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Noted. -- Apostle (talk) 18:31, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Why not just use Google? Type in things like "define important" or "synonym for important" or "antonym for important", etc. Dismas|^(talk) 21:58, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have internet usage issue. -- Apostle (talk) 18:31, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Google does have the advantage that you can misspell a word and it may still find a match. Of course, it might also find the wrong word (that happens to look like whatever you typed). StuRat (talk) 22:00, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A software is sought that I could use offline. A good/highly praised English to Spanish - Spanish to English one is also desirable. -- Apostle (talk) 18:31, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]