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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] [QUOTE] Uh, Timo, you've lost me. [/QUOTE](Pats himself on the back, ticks a box in the calendar.) Basically, I meant that the capacity to build seagoing warships at date X may not be a relevant measure of the capacity to build spacegoing warships at date Y. Even the United States currently couldn't build a single space shuttle per year, no matter how much it wanted. And it's not just that it's politically, financially and technologically unprepared to build further space shuttles, period. The *order of magnitude* of the job is simply different from that of churning out cruisers in the 1940s. There could be many limiting factors even in the vast UFP when it comes to shipbuilding. A whopping 25% of your population can probably become Rosie the Riveter in a time of crisis, but only 0.00000001% of it can become Oppenheimer, and only 0.0000000000000000001% can become Einstein - and you need the latter in order to build starship-type thingamabobs just as much as you need the former. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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