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Posted: 3/28/2018 1:09:22 PM EDT

The world's biggest and most expensive ever cruise ship is just days away from setting sail on its maiden voyage.

Royal Caribbean's 'Symphony of the Seas' is currently docked in in Malaga, Spain where it dwarfs nearby apartment blocks,

The ship weighs 228,000 tonnes, and at 1,188 feet long, it is just 20 meters shy of the length of the Empire State Building in New York. Ships holds 8000 people.

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Posted: 3/28/2018 1:12:00 PM EDT

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No one needs a cruise ship that big. - Mantra of the current period.

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:13:08 PM EDT

[#2]

Watch out for icebergs.

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:13:38 PM EDT

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That is a lot of buffets and swingers.

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:13:53 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/28/2018 1:14:47 PM EDT

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Iceberg.jpg

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:14:50 PM EDT

[#6]

Titanic II

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:15:47 PM EDT

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Lots of slutty cougars and blow.

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:16:11 PM EDT

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That is a big canoe.

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:16:30 PM EDT

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Ive seen how this movie ends

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:16:43 PM EDT

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Is this the secrete? Slutty cougars?

Away to the cruise booking sites I go...

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:17:03 PM EDT

[#11]

How long until people get sick?

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:17:08 PM EDT

[#12]

How the heck are these things not top heavy?

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:18:14 PM EDT

[#13]

That's going to be real fun when the puking sickness begins.

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:19:21 PM EDT

[#14]

God himself couldn't sink that ship.

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:19:47 PM EDT

[#15]

Count me out.

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:20:13 PM EDT

[#16]

Are these ships still dumping all their sewage into the sea before they come into port?

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:21:03 PM EDT

[#17]

Looks like a shopping mall on water

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:21:16 PM EDT

[#18]

Did we hit an iceberg?
Off the coast of Virginia?.................

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:22:13 PM EDT

[#19]

We have a trip booked on it in December

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:22:21 PM EDT

[#20]

More power to those who do; but homey don't do boats.

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:23:08 PM EDT

[#21]

8,000 people. No thanks.

I want to take a cruise to relax. Not deal with hordes of people.

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:23:15 PM EDT

[#22]

That's impressive

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:24:44 PM EDT

[#23]

Not even God could sink that ship.

Eta: Jeebus... Just realized Brich had the same thought 5 minutes prior. Next time I'll read the thread more carefully.

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:25:28 PM EDT

[#24]

Look at that thing.

228,000 tonnes is twice the size of a Nimitz supercarrier.

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:27:18 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/28/2018 1:27:41 PM EDT

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Noro-Virsus for EVERYONE!

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:28:32 PM EDT

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Pretty sure waste and garbage is* incinerated

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:28:57 PM EDT

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I've often thought the same thing.

There HAS to be metric shit tons of ballast along the keel.

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:29:36 PM EDT

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Lol, i was gonna say "is that an iceberg?"

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:30:01 PM EDT

[#30]

Being trapped on a ship with 8000 People of Walmart is a horror movie, not a vacation...

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:30:14 PM EDT

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It's treated effluent. Same as a local wastewater plant.

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:30:19 PM EDT

[#32]

needs more lifeboats

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:32:44 PM EDT

[#33]

I go on vacation to get away from people.

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:33:52 PM EDT

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I've often thought the same thing.

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Double bottom tanks but really only to compensate for cargo and fuel. Pump is 450 m3/hr iirc. All the heavy machinery is below the water line and the super structure is aluminium.

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:35:06 PM EDT

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Just think of the freezer/refrigerator space, how many kitchens, laundry facilities, holding tanks for water and sewage...what is the draft on this...?

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:35:41 PM EDT

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Are these ships still dumping all their sewage into the sea before they come into port?

Pretty sure waste and garbage is* incinerated

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:36:45 PM EDT

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That is exactly why I will never go on a cruise.

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:37:08 PM EDT

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I'll be on the inaugural Trans-Atlantic crossing this Oct.

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:40:09 PM EDT

[#39]

I've been on a cruise once. No thank you.

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:40:12 PM EDT

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an iceberg replies "shut up and hold my beer"

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:41:10 PM EDT

[#41]

Lower middle class people pretending to be upper middle class for a week.

No thanks

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:44:58 PM EDT

[#42]

All you're "getting away from" is land.

Not my cup

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:46:15 PM EDT

[#43]

How many torpedoes do you think it would take? Two? Three? A full spread?

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:48:36 PM EDT

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absolutely. I can't imagine why anyone would want that. I go on vacation to get away from people.

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:51:23 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/28/2018 1:52:23 PM EDT

[#46]

Nope nope nope, too many people

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:52:36 PM EDT

[#47]

Cesspool of flu and germs. No guns. You can't drive away when you want. Not for me.

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:52:53 PM EDT

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Ships holds 8000 people.

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I go on vacation to escape this.

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:54:29 PM EDT

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Honestly, I’d prefer a voyage on Titanic (aside from the sinking part). No TV, no WiFi, nothing but authentic non-amplified music, etc.

People dressing well, no kids running around like lunatics, no pool deck with a bunch of yelling and screaming and ugly people flopping their shit out everywhere.

I’d kill for the main activities to be enjoying the world float by, engaging in intelligent conversation, enjoying a brandy and playing some cards in the smoking room, etc.

Life has gotten to be too complicated. I want an actual, back to basics but luxurious retreat. The last thing I want to do is jump on a noisy cruise ship with 8000 other adults and kids who are obnoxious, have no sense of decorum, etc. and who can’t drop the TV, WiFi, music, or whatever for a few days. I enjoy some of the smaller ships, but these new enormous ones just sound like a nightmare.

Posted: 3/28/2018 1:57:51 PM EDT

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8,000 people. No thanks.

I want to take a cruise to relax. Not deal with hordes of people.

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No shit. Visions of spending a week+ in a shopping mall two days before christmas.

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