ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
This is kind of a nothing article. Like, obviously battleships built in the 40s would be pretty worthless in a peer/near-peer war even if they were in perfect working order. Even at the end of WW2 the utility of battleships was limited, and now missiles out-range their guns by 2 orders of magnitude.
Even the US knows it though, they’re all retired museum ships now. They were kept around as long as they were because some politicians had the same fixation on needing them for shore bombardment as they have for keeping low-speed flying bathtubs around for close air support.
China puts the first human being on Mars, who declares the dawn of the Red Century. Everyone claps and abandons capitalism.
My one regret in not having children is that I won’t possibly exist in the Gestalt consciousness of the saviour of humanity, the God Emperor Leto II Atreides
I’m weary of applying respectability standards anywhere, especially with something like funeral practices, but it does take real effort not to cringe at this