[ExI] robo-rescue

[Keith Henson]

John, thinking about it, I am not entirely sure that something like a
battleship might make sense in the drone era. Battleships were resistant to
ton-class shells hitting them. A ship with foot-thick armor would not be
damaged by a light-weight drone if it hit the armor. You would still need
something like a double hull with the space filled with styrofoam to resist
torpedoes. Such a ship could maybe get away without point defense, such as
is used on modern ships, because it would just ignore drone hits. Not
certain how useful such a ship would be, but there is no way a small drone
is going to do serious damage by hitting a foot of armor.

Keith

Best wishes,

Keith


On Sat, Jun 13, 2026 at 3:34 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 5:37 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> *>Adrian, programs are cancelled regularly,*
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> *Yes, that is very true especially for military projects, and I am certain
> that, although many billions of dollars will be spent, a "Trump Class
> Battleship" will NEVER be built, however I'm equally certain that our Dear
> Leader is far too stupid to realize that. *
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> *Why am I so certain it will never be built? Because the nation's naval
> architects are all very smart people and they realize that building such a
> ship is an idiotic idea and the only reason they're going through the
> motions is because they were ordered to do so by the president because he
> thinks such a ship would look cool. And because even if the military
> construction proceeded perfectly, and it never does, it would take at least
> 10 years before such a ship could ever go to sea. And in 10 years dirt
> cheap very intelligent drones would make such a dinosaur of a ship even
> more ridiculous than it is today. And in 10 years our 80 year old
> overweight junk food loving president will no longer be president. *
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> *Why am I so certain that the president doesn't realize any of this?
> Because **a man as egomaniacal as our current POTUS would never allow his
> name to be placed on something that he knew was doomed to failure. *
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> *By the way, although I am certain he will not be president in 10 years I
> wish I was as certain that in 2 1/2 years he will no longer be president,
> but I am not. In 10 years, if Mr. Jupiter Brain doesn't object, the USA
> might coronate King Donald II.  *
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> * John K Clark *
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of
>> Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
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>> >>... Of course.  But the external dimensions and displacement tell us
>> little about what the craft actually does.
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>> >...If you are utterly unable to conceive of the fact that they have told
>> us - under oath to Congress - of a set of things about the proposed
>> Trump-class battleship that grossly contradict what you keep speculating,
>> that's on you.
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