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  Grinding up asbestos…
context: 30,000 tons of asbestos, is there a good way to deal with that? >
  
  Dumping it in the ocean is actually a good solution.
  Asbestos is just a rock. It's only potentially dangerous to humans if you breathe it in due to the shape of the crystals at a molecular level. >
  
  Couldn't agree more! Asbestos is only dangerous when it's disturbed, so as long as we sink the ship in a controlled manner, we're good to go. >
  
  Don't worry, we towed it out of the environment. >
  
  Into another environment? >
  
  No, no, no. It's been towed beyond the environment. >
  
  From one environment to another environment? >
  
  Did the front fall off? >
  
  To be clear that’s doesn’t usually happen. Our ships are usually designed so the front doesn’t fall off. >
  
  Did a wave hit it? >
  
  assuming they empty oil, fuel and whatever dirty stuff first. >
  
  
  public prosecutors sought to stop the sinking in Brazilian waters citing the environmental threat it poses, including tonnes of asbestos used for paneling inside the ship.
  
  Just a bit of asbestos. No harm! >
  
  Asbestos is literally just rock. >
  
  Literal mountains of asbestos rock in California. It's their state rock. >
  
  California still catches on fire >
  
  The rock doesn't >
  
  We can with some Chlorine Triflouride! >
  
  The mineral experiences combustion in the presence of ClF3? >
  
  Minerals. Concrete. Rocket scientists. It's a rather comprehensive list.
  Ah. Here's the proper quote. The book has since been reprinted. >
  
  Hope they decide to make an event of this: live fire training with multiple ships and aircraft just dropping ordnance on the Sao Paolo while filming it from hundreds of different angles. Then sell the footage to Michael Bay to recoup the losses. >
  
  That would be pretty cool lol, hope they remove all the environmental contaminants that can leak first >
  
  I haven’t bothered to read the article but I for one am extremely pro-sinking sea craft of all ghost varieties. The ghost navy has been emboldened for far too long and we must strike while the iron is hot. General Spookington won’t know what hit him. His army of ghoul seamen will rue the day they ever set to sea with their neon eyes and shackled appendages in search of fresh souls from mortal men. 
  We will not go quietly into the ghost filled night or haunted Victorian house our distant relative required us to spend a single night in before we receive our inheritance. We will not vanish like a ghost is oft to do without a fight. We’re going to live on. We’re going to survive and remain opaque. Today we celebrate our Independence Day! >
  
  
  You best start believing in ghost stories, Miss Turner... you're in one!* >
  
  
  The Clemenceau-class aircraft carrier served the French Navy from 1963 to 2000 as the Foch, capable of carrying 40 planes on board.
  
  So did France originally own this ship and then just abandon it? >
  
  No, sold to the Brazilians in 2000 or so, operated until 2018. It was originally going to be scrapped in Turkey, but they refused entry due to the asbestos.
  The ship is also at risk of sinking, so it must be done soon. >
  
  Better sink it soon before it sinks? >
  
  A controlled sink is better than unintended sink >
  
  Wouldn't this serve as a great target to test an anti-carrier missile?  Opportunity lost. >
  
  The hard part of hitting a carrier is not hitting the carrier, it’s navigating the defenses around and on the carrier. It’s not really a special opportunity or a good test, in fact testing on a smaller vessel would be more challenging for a large missile. >
  
  And an explosion would break up the asbestos and send it flying into the atmosphere.  Much better to try to keep the asbestos contained and within the ship while it sinks. >
  
  The title was misleading >
  
  Can't they make a reef with it? >
  
  That was the first suggestion, and then they tried selling it for scrap and both times they were rejected due to asbestos.
  It would cost far, far more than the ship is worth to remove the asbestos and it is inert under water pressure so this is probably the safest way to dispose of it >
  
  Give it to Ukraine? >
  
  Do you want kaiju? That's how we get kaiju! >
  
  Toxic chemicals dumped into a deep ocean trench? >
  
  whoa whoa whoa, I’ll take it off their hands, free of charge >
  
  Have fun with the asbestos and mesothelioma. >
  
  don’t worry, I’ve seen enough daytime infomercials offering to help me in the event that happens, I’m set! >
  
  haha now I have that commercial voice stick in my head saying "Did you buy an aircraft carrier made between the years 1960-1972? You may be entitled to compensation." >
  
  Asbestos is harmless when immersed in water.   Environmentalists are just sad. >
  
  You didn't read the real reason why it's a problem have ya? Talking out of your ass is sad. >
  
  That’s mean >
  
  Can I have it >
  
  You can also have Mesothelioma with all that asbestos. >
  
  And so Godzilla is born! >
  
  Yeah I don’t think asbestos does that, or we’d all be super mutants by now with how much it’s been used in human history. >
  
  Asbestozilla, terrifying to the lungs and immune to fire >
  
  Brazil chops down the rainforest and makes women with enormous asses. That’s is all I have come to say >
  
  They seriously need to televise things like this.
  First, scatter some random gas cans around the thing though, might as well make a proper show of it. >
  
  This should make for a nice reef or something in a few years, right? >
  
  Weird to think that brazil seem to have a chance at having one of the world’s largest navies for a time, but nowadays it’s considered almost a backwater in the global north cause of it’s decades of mismanagement >
  
  Türkiye refused passage to scrap it >
  
  I think it's funny how the article starts out making it sound like Turkey is being jerks and then later, oh, btw, this thing is full of asbestos. >
  
  Is Turkey’s reneging on the deal when the ship was about to enter their waters(as opposed to before they agreed to purchase the ship)not part of the issue? I feel like it’s 75% Brazil’s and 25% Turkey’s responsibility. I’m not educated on how these sorts of transactions work, therefore if someone that is more informed than me would care to shed a bit more light on this, it would be very much appreciated! >
  
  Why not put this stuff back into the mountainsides they extracted it from originally?? >
  
  way too fucking expensive, and time consuming, and overall impractical >
  
  Grinding it up and pumping in as a slurry to where it came from would be the right thing, but when do we ever do the right thing, cause money.