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Comment Re:I joined the USMC in 85 (Score 1) 49

there some 3000 m1 tanks sitting in utah never touched. General Dynamics or who ever make them now have a fixed price contract for x number a year. Only problem is they are delivered ungraded and are never used. We just strip them part for tanks already upgraded. The reason for this we can not do the upgrades our self so we cannibalize brand new tanks to keep the ones we are allowed to work on running.

Comment Re: what a load of crap (Score 1) 81

Jupiter is a failed star you would need a couple hundred more of them to get it to ignite.
The Sun works because of Mass to raise the pressure enough and temp for it to work. We can due it and have done it here on earth its called a thermonuclear weapon. How ever we have no way to contain it.
There is simply no material science that has worked. Not single project has even been self sustaining.
The US Navy would have solved the problem 50 years ago if it would have been dooable.

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