← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Mack
Thread ID: 8888 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2003-08-09
2003-08-09 05:53 | User Profile
If we discovered antigravity couldn't a naval warship,like, say the battleship "New Jersey" serve as a platfrom for the new invention? After all the "New Jersey" would need minimal modification to stay airtight and the armor would block radiation from solar flares. In addition, except for the 15 inch guns, her WW2 armanent would fire perfectly well in the vacuum of space because the shells are sealed to brass casings filled with coarse black powder mixed with air. "Cavorite, maitr'd".
2003-08-09 08:12 | User Profile
The metal hull of the New Jersey can't cope with the temperature differentials in space: +250 degrees sunside, -250 non-sunside.
The Japs have found a way around this though. They call their technique 'cel shading'.
2003-08-09 18:40 | User Profile
Wintermute, I should have put my absurd funny post on a different board, sorry for the distraction. Mack
2003-08-09 19:02 | User Profile
*Originally posted by Mack@Aug 9 2003, 18:40 * ** Wintermute, I should have put my absurd funny post on a different board, sorry for the distraction. Mack **
Nuts. It was better than a lot of the unintentionally funny stuff that shows up here.
BTW, if anyone ever finds an online article about Nicola Tesla's spaceships, by all means post it!