[ExI] Legendary Battleship was diamandis commentary

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
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>...Reminds me of that tale of a Vietnam-era heavy shore bombardment - not just bombardment of what was on the shore, but essentially of the shore itself - that reportedly got summarized in a headline as, "The New Jersey Sinks an Island".

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The concept of bombardment improved continuously until it was no longer needed.  The world is quite unlikely to ever again see big guns used in any significant way.  My hope is that the same fate will obviate nukes as well.  It will be all about precision and software.  A battleship need not be large to do what it needs to do.  But it could have a very large escort vehicle along to draw fire.  We don't know what the naval engineers are doing.  They like it that way.

spike