[ExI] robo-rescue

[spike at rainier66.com]

...> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] robo-rescue

On Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 9:22 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com>
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> >Navy wants to build a 41,000 ton warship…. John K Clark
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>>... John, that’s the unclassified version.  They are not going to tell us what they are really doing.  Not all representatives have clearances, nor do we.

>...So if they said it to Congress under oath, it's very likely true...up to the limit of what they actually said, granted, but "a 41,000 ton warship" is a very specific claim of fact... Adrian

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Of course.  But the external dimensions and displacement tell us little about what the craft actually does.  A shell could be created with nothing inside but ballast, costing little in itself, where the real weaponry is not revealed and is not even aboard.  The warship might be used to draw fire or test the sincerity of an agreement.  It could be used to map the location of countermeasures.  It could be used to test the efficacy of decoys against enemy countermeasures.  I could think of a hundred things a big decoy "battleship" could be used for.  Of course the bad guys might know it is a decoy, but can they be sure of it?

We of modern sensibilities will accept war so long as there are very few US coffins.  As far as I know, there are thirteen so far.  But the Iranian Navy is at the bottom of the sea.  To do that, the USNavy used some tricks we don't yet know about, and they are not talking.

spike