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To: 3Fingas

I have often wondered if we could build an Iowa class battleship today...and I think not. The unique, incrementally developed skills necessary to build something like that are likely lost to memory, and would have to be re-learned.

And that is just one example.

That is sobering.


17 posted on 01/11/2014 5:39:07 AM PST by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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To: rlmorel

Now, think about our nuclear deterrent and the aging scientists and the shrinking group of specialists who know anything about that. One day soon, there will be nobody to manage/fix that aging collection weapons. We don’t even build new nuclear plants anymore. Skill fields such as those are lost over time, if there isn’t a steady stream of new personnel.


20 posted on 01/11/2014 5:45:28 AM PST by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Rededicaton to the Principles of the U.S. Constitution...)
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To: rlmorel

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24 posted on 01/11/2014 5:54:02 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi :-)
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To: rlmorel

The same thing goes for the Saturn V moon rocket. It could not be built today for the same reasons you provided about Iowa class battleships, other lost, forgotten, technologies, skills.


37 posted on 01/11/2014 7:47:20 AM PST by lbryce (Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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