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Originally Posted by shakran
The topic, I think, is about large ships, not American vs. Japanese cars.
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People who hate American cars will drag them into any argument.
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Originally Posted by stevie667
Nucular, it's pronounced Nucular.
Thats about the only way we'll get around this. It's all very well say 'omg, teh ships are teh evilz!', but how else do you propose we get all these goods around the world? Air? That'll be even worse.
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It seems like that's the way to go, but think about what would happen if those ships that ran aground and spilled oil had nuclear reactors on them. It would probably be perfectly safe considering the amount of shielding and armoring they would put into it, but nuclear power barely has majority support in the US now and that kind of thing would get the shipping industry crucified by well-meaning environmentalists. Add to that the increase in piracy and the potential profit to be made on one ship's worth of any nuclear fuel, weapons-grade or not, and you have a whole new set of problems to overcome.
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Originally Posted by Lucifer
well, when you consider the lift capacity alone, I think the re-birth of the Zeppelin may not be far in the future...
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I am unabashedly, unconditionally pro-zeppelin. I think you're on to something here.