Yeah, but how does one get buried AND burned by an earthquake?

Yeah. I got that. I was pointing out to mwhite66 that was their earlier flights that had no shielding.

The Apollo astronauts had no shielding. Solar flares were always a concern.

Sarcasm is an act of passive agressiveness.

"Passive aggressive behavior is marked by the expression of negative emotions through indirect passive means, such as" letter writing. Especially letters that are made to appear as helpful advice or at first sound friendly when, in reality, harbor a lot of anger.

Exactly. I am with the letter writer here.

Not sure you are reading this correctly. If you really want to know why the Zumwalt was cancelled, LongCorpse has a link in his post above. Here is the Lockheed ship.

Not sure you are reading this correctly. If you really want to know why the Zumwalt was cancelled, LongCorpse has a link in his post above. Here is the Lockheed ship.

Not sure you are reading this correctly. If you really want to know why the Zumwalt was cancelled, LongCorpse has a link in his post above. Here is the Lockheed ship.

Ah. yes. I see your point now. Definitely some validity to this.

Read the Skunk Works book. They demonstrated how stealth technology could be brought to the Navy allowing a ship like this to control whole sections of the globe.

Says you when there is no one else at the table playing.

"mental-midget leftist comments about how we should abandon our constitutional responsibility to "provide for the common defense""

I really hope you didn't waste your breath on this post. Very well put.

If anyone posting here has not read Eisenhower's comments on this, they should not even be allowed to post. It is hard to believe how people are still "Hell Yeah!" about this when one of most prominent soldiers of the last century and major icon from the cold war tells you it is all crap.

It starts with oour children who redicule smarts and praise athletics. Fast forward 20 years in life and we ridicule scientists and praise war. Basically, we don't care to be educated. We want to kick ass and feel safer.

"It pushes engineering technology"

True. How about we trade this cold war relic in for a mission to Mars. Talk about national pride and giving our kids something to dream about!

By "federally" you really mean "publically"

I think they are going to fight terrorism with this thing. Should only cost us a billion per terrorist.