[ExI] Legendary Battleship was diamandis commentary

[Gregory Jones]

They might be.  The US military intentionally understates and obfuscates
their operations.  This leads to remarkable achievements and successes,
leaving us unable to explain.  spike

On Mon, May 25, 2026, 10:13 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Tch.  If you're entertaining speculation to that degree, how do you
> know they aren't already out there, and this isn't just giving a story
> to cover the "development" of existing, soon-to-be-spotted assets?
>
> On Mon, May 25, 2026 at 12:47 PM Gregory Jones via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > Cool thx Stuart.  We don't know what a modern battleship looks like any
> more than we know how Maduro was captured.  I can speculate however that a
> modern battleship has no armor and might not be made of steel.  It doesn't
> need armor; nothing that fires a projectile gets close enough.  It might
> have few or possibly no crew.  Even after deployment, we still might know
> little or nothing about it.  Everything we are told about will likely be
> memetic camoflage and psyops.
> >
> > spike
> >
> > On Mon, May 25, 2026, 8:38 AM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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
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