{"id":138091,"date":"2026-08-04T13:03:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=138091"},"modified":"2026-08-04T13:03:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:03:35","slug":"owengregorian-calling-a-35000-ton-ship-a-leviathan-seems-hyperbolic-aircraft-carriers-are-in-the-range-of-100000-tons-35000-tons-is-3-4x-the-displacement-of-the-arleigh-burke-class-destro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=138091","title":{"rendered":"@OwenGregorian Calling a 35,000 ton ship a &#8220;leviathan&#8221; seems hyperbolic \n\nAircraft carriers are in the range of 100,000 tons \n\n35,000 tons is ~3-4x the displacement of the Arleigh-Burke class destroyers, but ~1\/3 of a Nimitz- or Ford-class carrier \n\nIt is also ~1\/4-1\/3 less displacement than"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">@OwenGregorian Calling a 35,000 ton ship a &#8220;leviathan&#8221; seems hyperbolic <\/p>\n<p>Aircraft carriers are in the range of 100,000 tons <\/p>\n<p>35,000 tons is ~3-4x the displacement of the Arleigh-Burke class destroyers, but ~1\/3 of a Nimitz- or Ford-class carrier <\/p>\n<p>It is also ~1\/4-1\/3 less displacement than<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu W\u028e\u01dd\u0279s (@warrenmyers)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/2084625991293440269\">Aug 4, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>August 4, 2026 at 09:02AM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@OwenGregorian Calling a 35,000 ton ship a &#8220;leviathan&#8221; seems hyperbolic Aircraft carriers are in the range of 100,000 tons 35,000 tons is ~3-4x the displacement of the Arleigh-Burke class destroyers, but ~1\/3 of a Nimitz- or Ford-class carrier It is also ~1\/4-1\/3 less displacement than &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu W\u028e\u01dd\u0279s (@warrenmyers) Aug 4, 2026 from Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=138091\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">@OwenGregorian Calling a 35,000 ton ship a &#8220;leviathan&#8221; seems hyperbolic <\/p>\n<p>Aircraft carriers are in the range of 100,000 tons <\/p>\n<p>35,000 tons is ~3-4x the displacement of the Arleigh-Burke class destroyers, but ~1\/3 of a Nimitz- or Ford-class carrier <\/p>\n<p>It is also ~1\/4-1\/3 less displacement than<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-138091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138092,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138091\/revisions\/138092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138091"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=138091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}