[ExI] Legendary Battleship was diamandis commentary

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, May 25, 2026 at 11:38 AM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> 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.

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".