U.S. Navy Building "Macross"?

Sang Woo Han writes: "It seems that the US Navy is planning on building a floating structure a mile long called the Joint Mobile Offshore Base (JMOB). Featured on MIT's Technology Review, the article explains in detail not only about the JMOB, but plans to build other structures such as ports, airports, and even a floating city. Now all we need is for a couple of giant humanoid aliens to show up and we start beating them up in Valkyrie fighters. (And who'll be our Lynn Min Mei, then?)" Zhang Ziyi, if it can be arranged, please.

Re:Stress

[epzoutes]

By using Damascus steel, of course!

Overheard

[SEWilco]

• "Sir? Where do I aim my peashooter on this thing?"
• "One gun emplacement hit, two thousand to go..."
• "Sir, my artillery can only reach halfway across the target!"
• "Wow, the torpedoes certainly have a smooth ride on the leeward side of that mobile breakwater."
• "500 watertight compartments flooded, forty thousand left..."
• "The fleet's next assignment is to paint the deck white and reverse the 'el Nino' warming."
• "Well, of course there are depth charge and torpedo hatches on the bottom. The destroyer escort can't reach the six subs hiding underneath."
• "You're right, a tactical nuclear satchel charge is a sensible solution for the problem..."
• "What do you mean independence? How many times the square footage of Sealand?"
• "The paper is called 'The use of tidal gauges to track massive oceanic displacements'"
• "Here are the surveillance camera recordings of the arrival at the bow of the grandchildren of the dolphins that have been chasing us..."
• "Kilroy was here"