[pabianice]

I love "Stargate SG-1," but the depiciton of an Air Force crew flying an aircraft carrier-like spaceship just makes me laugh, and they're US military.

[Msgt USMC]

China is going the same way Japan did back in the 30’s and 40’s. watch out pearl harbor, and “WAKE UP AMERICA”!

[jdub]

If they are anything like the crap they build now, they won’t last more than a year before wearing out.

[Sundog]

This Thread’s for you.

[jetson]

Steel is at a premium right now as we send iron to China.

[winner3000]

(Even as late as 1999, the Navy lost 22 planes flown by the world’s most experienced aviators.)

The advantage the Chinese have is that their leadership is much less likely to care about the death of a few of their pilots if it helps them meet their goal.

[rjp2005]

Building? They’ve already bought more than a few Russian carriers and are refurbishing one. Others are docked as “museums” and “casinos” that could be turned into a re-fit process also.

No comment on Stargate.

[samtheman]

The Chinese have bought four decommissioned carriers since 1985, the Melbourne from Australia and the Minsk, Kiev, and Varyag from Russia. The three former Russian ships are tied up and open to the public as educational museums now. What the Chinese have learned from those ships can only be speculated.

Here's what they learned:

1. Don't buy ships from Russia.
2. Help a Clinton get elected and buy the needed technology direct from the White House.

[John Leland 1789]

Aircraft Carriers would not be nearly as expensive to build in countries which use slave labor to build them. . . China.

[Jeff Head]

"This would be a profoundly difficult venture if the Chinese choose to undertake it," he said.

I believe they are already well on their way.

Turning the former Soviet Varyag into an Opertional PLAN Carrier

[onedoug]

New reefs for the bottom.