Back to the articleOptions for getting them back again remain unclear at present #
Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 14:58 GMT
Send them with a pack of stamped addressed bodybags?
US doesn't need orbital battlefleet - pundit
Kosiak's distinction #
Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 14:58 GMT
Kosiak draws a distinction between militarisation and weaponisation; in this sense isn't a more valid comparison to be drawn not with the dreadnought races of the early 20th Century, but rather the early militarisation of the air. Early aircraft were primarily initially used by the military as an intelligence gathering tool also, and initial attempts to give them combat capability were...well...."Just fly above the other chap and drop this hand grenade on him, will you?"... That said, we saw rapid progress in the aerial theatre.
The real reason... #
Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 14:58 GMT
is that Games Workshop owns the copyright on Space Marines ;)
Nukes? Who needs them? #
Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 15:24 GMT
You don't need nukes for your Death Star fleet. Dropping big enough rocks onto your target is more than enough to stop any problem - see Footfall by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle.
Even a 'Project Thor' would be enough of a deterrent to most operations and have maximum 'Shock & Awe' value...
US Space Navy! "If you aren't an Illegal Alien, you have nothing to fear" #
Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 16:22 GMT
I remember the good old times when the "UN Space Navy" was meant to defend Earth from Aliens, and it didn't shy away from hiring disturbingly cute female officers either:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.N._Spacy
"But after the Cold War against the UN was won by General Bolton, the US assumed in-depth defense of Earth against the Sandnigra Empire and assorted Yellow Forces."
@Nukes? Who needs them? #
Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 21:52 GMT
or before Footfall, Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
To be fair #
Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 23:12 GMT
...some of the fastest development of technology could arguably be attributed to the Cold War arms race. A space weapon cold war would undoubtedly spur on the same rapid development, in a way that civilian spaceflight could never hope to.
As Plato once said... #
Posted Wednesday 7th November 2007 03:55 GMT
"How Ironic that the greatest forge of civilisation is war."
Bring on the space race, i say!
Nukes? It's space, let's just drop things on them #
Posted Wednesday 7th November 2007 07:03 GMT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
Deorbiting tungsten rods onto targets at 5km/s? I'll take one of those, please.
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