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Originally Posted by Princess Kate 
Wouldn't it be cool if the volcano continued and we were forced to abandon airplanes and look for other means of transatlantic transportation? This seismic catastrophe could inaugurate a whole new era of luxury ocean liners. That would be really neat, IMHO Coming soon to an ocean near you?
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I said this very thing to my wife today. The volcano is, for the most part effecting exactly one human endeavor. It just happens to be one society has become so dependent upon it's disruption is a near calamity.
I, for one, would welcome the return of trans-Atlantic ocean liner travel. These "cruises" that people go on, where they hole up in a floating hotel designed with zero sense of aesthetic grace, do not qualify.
Also, next time you're in Philly, you can visit the SS United States. She's rusting away downtown by the Walt Whitman. You can catch glimpses of her in the background when Parking Wars shoots tow victims at the PPA depot.