[ExI] Legendary Battleship was diamandis commentary

[Stuart LaForge]

On 2026-05-23 10:56, Gregory Jones via extropy-chat wrote:
> Even before WW2 battleships were obsolete.  But a modern battleship
> doesn't look a bit like those devices any more than they resemble the
> Vasa.  They don't resemble the sketch you may have seen either.  That
> one was likely AI generated.  It is clear the cover story did what
> cover stories do.

Some battleships were more obsolete than others during WW2. From an 
engineering perspective, the most impressive battleship of all time has 
to the USS Nevada (BB-36). It used a design principle called 
all-or-nothing armor meaning that all of its armor was concentrated 
around critical systems and non-critical areas had no armor at all. This 
design principle made the USS Nevada legendary  as the unsinkable 
battleship. It fought in both World Wars.

https://travelnevada.com/nevada-magazine/the-saga-of-the-uss-nevada/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_soIcrXCJ90

Despite being hit by a torpedo and at least six bombs, it was the only 
battleship to get out to pearl harbor under its own power and return 
fire upon the enemy. It the went on to participate in the invasions of 
Attu, Normandy, Southern France, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. After the war, 
the Navy decided it was too old remain on active duty so they painted 
orange and sent it to Bikini Atoll to use it as a target ship for 
nuclear testing. The government nuked it TWICE and it still didn't sink. 
It survived both Able the airburst atom bomb and Baker the underwater 
atom bomb. An observer stated that the the underwater blast physically 
launched the Nevada out of the water and into the air.

After the nuclear testing, the ship was still intact and could have been 
repaired, but was too radioactive to do anything with. So it was kept in 
cold storage for two years and then finally used as target practice for 
a fleet of ships that bombarded it for hours with conventional weaponry 
before it finally sank.

Stuart LaForge