This is FLIP which stands for floating instrument platform. It is owned by the US Navy and has been in service for past 58 years. Question is, what is the ships purpose? #shorts
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When he showed it vertically I thought he was showing a toothbrush.
Hey!!! Why did you steal my tooth brush
Next up: ship that's meant to flip upside down
Boba Fett’s spaceship
Yeah fuck that. I get a pit in stomach looking at that. Wtf
Thats a giant toothbrush
When I was a kid in the 60s it was called “Floating Laboratory In the Perpendicular”
Looks like a toothbrush upright.
“Flip is always mistaken for a capsized ocean transport ship”
Well, no shit.
Is it just me…or just the full image of the ship, look like a Toothbrush.
So this a tsunami proof ship ?
And the moveable ballast on this ship are the uranium balls of 11 researchers and 5 crew members…
Another amazing engineering creature from the Cold War era. Those guys definitely knew something…
Floating toothbrush
They used something like this in Soma
I wonder what the quarters look like. Bet they have to keep their beds tucked and snug.
When your ship get stuck by a small rock
Where are my SOMA Guys?
a boner boat
Its also a level in a horror game
That's an expensive toothbrush
Imagine seeing a giant floating toothbrush while swimming in the ocean