Takes work to hang ribbons in the sky

[sovay]

I appreciate having the kind of friends who know to tell me when something weird and potentially explosive goes on with a ship: "They're taking the masts of the Doomsday Ship away."

The rest of my day so far has involved plans not working out and the top half of my phone spontaneously breaking off, so I am going to finish this mug of soup before Autolycus can and take a walk.

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[sovay]

Moving the masts is a start, I suppose, but why don't they just shift the explosives?

I don't know! I assume the one is considered safer than the other, but I also assume the 1,400 tons of explosives are still there and will eventually need to be dealt with. Perhaps their disposal is being reserved for a future date when the structure of the ship is not so stressed? I would like to think the plan isn't just to forget about them, as seems to have been done, for example, with the heavy-metal sediments of the river of the city I live in.