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Old 2008-10-14, 14:22   Link #1049
Daigo
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Originally Posted by Wild Goose View Post
Just a few things I want to point out:

Daigo: You mentioned that an OKW has a giant space heatsink. This is incorrect. While Space is a vacuum and may be absolute zero, because it is a vacuum you are unable to vent off that excess heat, because there is no medium to transfer the heat from your OKW into space.
That's what radiator fins are for.

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But aircraft carriers being obselete? Not very likely. You'll still need pilots flying top cover to protect the ground pounders, especially in the Marine Corps, which jealously guards its air wings from misappropriation by everyone else. In the words of a Marine 2-star at a NATO conference: "We regard our airplanes as goddamned rifles with wings."
That's what the orbital weapons are for. That's what we've been discussing this whole time. You have to argue what an airplane can do that an orbital weapon can't, or what can it do better.
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