Oh God, not that old saw again.

That’s a bunch of rot!

You just barked on the wrong tree.

Leaf these puns at home.

People may have called Martin a sap for going against the grain, but I think it showed strength to go out on a limb rather than lumber along with a more conventional design.

Its because of the junk in the trunk..

I’m going out on a limb and saying that I wood love to have this car.

No. The only thing in the RFP was a photo of the current truck and a requirement that the new one had to be even uglier.

This would have been a good opportunity for an electric fleet, even natural gas would have been better.

I wonder if it is that easy. For one letting the material crash down poses some problems I can imagine... Such, as if the structural integrity of the materials is weak then when crashing you will have a bunch of small pieces of asteroid buried over the crash area, which could be prohibitive to recover. Further, you…

I think they’ll have the materials land gently like the SpaceX rockets land. Just letting it fall would be a risky idea, and even if they got it right it’d just freak people out. Plus a mistake could be really bad.

Pretty much how the cold war was won.

Quick reply, since i was just reading this prior to reading you post I’ll leave it here. Maybe this is what you mean by keeping you up at night, but this description appears to far exceed you estimates of anti-ship cruise missile total weight and warhead weight.

That’d be an interesting study to read, for sure. I think the current idea is that we’d rather shoot those missiles down than take the chance of letting them hit. If I were a sailer I’d want similar, since if a missile (or 10) impact there is almost no chance that you don’t lose lives, but if you can clear the skies…

Ok, you’re thinking you’re fighting someone who has a nostalgic hardline for battleships, I’m sorry for the confusion.

A single hit? Yeah, no - not sort of nukes, which are game over for anyone. Consider just how much damage it took to sink Japan’s Yamato class - 19 torpedoes and 17 bombs. Most modern antiship missiles wouldn’t do more than scratch the paint. That’s not why we moved on from battleships, it’s more that they were too…

Agreed. I have been on the New Jersey, Alabama, North Carolina, and Iowa. Those things are just awesome. It brought me to think of “overgunned” whenever I saw one.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again - arsenal ships are the answer. A 40,000-tonne ship laden with hundreds of supersonic missiles is a grave threat, while presenting a significantly lower cost than an aircraft carrier.

RE: supercavitating torpedos; they likely suffer from the same issue the Alpha has when running at full speed. You can hear them coming from the far opposite side of the ocean.

Threat: