ot, when you're standing on an aircraft carrier?
Mistara
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when you're standing on an aircraft carrier?
does it feel like standing on a boat? or is it like so vast, it feels like solid ground?
or does it depend how fast it moving?
like a plane?
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I don't know about an aircraft carrier, but on a big cruise ship unless the sea is really choppy or you're very drunk, you can't feel a thing. Then it sort of feels like the ground is slowly dropping away and rising back up, but you get use to it very quickly. A day or two at most.
I've only been on one when it was docked. I felt like I was walking on a road/through a building as I moved around on it.
I went on a docked one in San Francisco. It was like a big hotel, but some of the areas were fairly narrow. It was not choppy but it was moored. There was. No movement whatsoever.
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The worst seasickness I've ever gotten in my life was on a coastguard vessel on a floating dry dock. I've been on heaving seas and never got sea sick but on a floating dry dock in a strong wind the ship doesn't move up and down is slides side to side. Worst motion sickeness ever.
Ugh! I've made myself nauseous just remembering it.
I served onboard the USS Constellation, CV-64, in 1987 and 1988. There is enough motion that you can tell the difference between being tied up at dock and being underway at sea, but it is not enough to cause problems unless there is a storm..The ship's speed does not affect the perceived motion. That large a ship accelerates, decelerates, and turns so slowly that you won't notice it either. The USS Constellation was around a fifth of a mile long and the flight deck was about four and a half acres.
Toured the Midway down in San Diego. Solid as a house. But then, it's docked.
Nearly got acrophobia on some of the stairs and ladders though.
Just carry some alcohol wipes for those germy handrails, to avoid a serious case of acrophobia.
I had an opportunity a few years (ack... decades) ago to get a spherical photographs from the interior of the glass nose of a WWII B-25 bomber. But I was a 49 year old, 230 pound bodybuilder, not a 19 year old, 140 pound airman who could shimmy through the three foot long, 18 inch square tunnel into the tiny cramped nose area with my special photographic cameras and tripods. So, that was a claustrophobic opportunity missed.
However, I did get a nice spherical photo from the cockpit though. 
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/world-war-ii-b-25-bomber-briefing-time-angelo-rolt.html (not my photos)
On boats that big the seas have to be really stormy. You wind up feeling like you're in a place flatter than Kansas really.
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port is the left? starboard right.
then theres fore and aft.
but where's the stern then?
oh is in the back
Surely warships are always being stern and threatening other ships if they step out of line?
thats where the Ship of the Line comes in
"... Front, bow. Back, stern. You don't get it right, squirt, I throw your ass out the little round window on the side!" -- Quint, "Jaws"
Think of a ship driving the same way they do in England, on the left side of the road. You'll notice in most movies that ships are always moored with the left side next to the dock. So when they park, the left side of the car is against the curb (the port), so "left" is the port side. The right side of the car (or ship) is facing the sea (or the stars) so it's the "starboard" side.
Well, it it was in England, it would be parked against the kerb
(btw, same thing is true for aeroplanes, although they tend to use left and right rather than port and starboard).
Stern's on the radio.
My understanding was that starboard derived from steerboard, the side with a steering paddle over the side before the invention of rudders.
And the old word for the port side of the ship, 'larboard', was derived from 'laddebord', or 'loading side' -- the side that the cargo was loaded onto the ship. The later choice of 'port' -- which had a similar meaning, the side of the ship that would be against the quay when it was in port -- was to avoid problems caused by mishearings ('starboard' and 'larboard' were too easy to confuse).
Could be. My method of remembering is only a convenient mnemonic.
I guess we should be thankful it's not kerbside and t'otherside
I remember by port and left are both four letters, right and starboard are both longer.
I spent about 8 months on carriers, 6 months on the USS John F Kennedy and a month each on the Roosevelt and Washington. My personal experience is that whether you feel the deck move under you or not, depends on the condtion of the seas and where you were in the ship, in the center of the ship between fore and aft, you feel the ocean movement much less than you will at the bow or aft end of the ship. I never had trouble sleeping on the ship because my rack was in the aft of the ship and it just kinda rocked me to sleep, unless there were night flight ops and we were recovering aircraft, BOOM every time a plane would hit the deck... But for the most part I never noticed that I was on a ship while I was moving around and doing my work and moving from place to place on the ship.
Port is red, so starboard must be green.