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The American Society of Naval Engineers held a symposium on "Engineering the Total Ship" on July 14 and 15. The session titled “Technology for the Future Navy” was moderated by Dr. John Pazik, Director, Ship Systems and Engineering Division, Office of Naval Research. I was not in attendance at the m...

Apart from that, Why would anyone think that Barack and Co. give a care what the constitutional requirements are? They wouldn't even submit a real birth certificate to establish legitimacy. Every other constitutional thing is inconsequential. Read this guy's take on the constitutional issue. http:/...

Aero is right - this discussion is way off course, but what the heck, it's finally a topic that I am qualified to address. The point I was trying to make is that there is an important distinction here. The LPD 17 from a naval architectural stand point is a well designed ship. Unfortunately, it was p...

I don't know what you guys have against the LPD 17. Granted Northrup Grumman's workmanship on the first two ships was beyond pathetic, but the basic design is very good. See the comments of the LPD 19's captain:

http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdec ... ike-a-top/

For a while this thread was addressing the the issue of long term funding for non EM2 research and making some progress. I would like to get back to that theme by throwing out an "out of the box" idea. How about attempting to get a television production company to fund the work of Famulous in return...

The paper can be found at http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/iec2009/agenda
It's the 12:05 paper chaired by Rick Nebel.

http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/static/TALKS/1 ... elroge.pdf

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http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/static/TALKS/1 ... elroge.pdf

I'm surprised that the paper by Joel Roberts presented at IEC 2009 has not generated more discussion. The paper is an independent analysis of a poylwell using a credible particle in cell approach. The analysis is very encouraging on a number of points, including his conclusion that "Polywell remains...