[HN Gopher] US Air Force awards $13B Doomsday plane contract to ...
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US Air Force awards $13B Doomsday plane contract to Sierra Nevada
Author : JumpCrisscross
Score : 13 points
Date : 2024-04-28 19:27 UTC (3 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.reuters.com)
| lionkor wrote:
| > [...] has become increasingly difficult and expensive to
| maintain as parts become obsolete.
|
| not sure obsolete is the right word?
| _djo_ wrote:
| It's the correct term in this context.
|
| e.g. https://www.rowse.co.uk/blog/post/obsolescence-management-
| in...
| sitkack wrote:
| That is an insane amount of money.
| xhkkffbf wrote:
| The beer company? I guess if Doomsday comes, everyone getting
| really drunk on a stockpile may be as good as any other strategy.
| DarmokJalad1701 wrote:
| > the beer company?
|
| No.
|
| https://www.sncorp.com/
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Nevada_Corporation
| JojoFatsani wrote:
| Buzz killington
| bamboozled wrote:
| Once the world is annihilated, where does it land? What do the
| occupants do? Such a strange concept.
| coin wrote:
| > What do the occupants do?
|
| I would not rule out the chance to preserve a nucleus of human
| specimens, at the bottom shafts of some of our deepest mines.
|
| It would not be difficult. Nuclear reactors could provide power
| almost indefinitely. Greenhouses could maintain plant life.
| Animals could be bred and slaughtered. A quick survey would
| have to be made of all the suitable minesites in the country,
| but I shouldn't be surprised if several hundred thousand of our
| people could be accommodated. Every nation would undoubtedly
| follow suit.
| ojosilva wrote:
| I'm just watching Fallout on Amazon Prime TV. I had no
| previous knowledge about the (video game?) franchise, but
| what you describe is part of the shows' premise. At one point
| a character makes a point that these "vaults" are a refuge of
| a elite, the rich and connected, and does not represent the
| real world that exists on the face of the Earth.
| kyboren wrote:
| And before you ask "who decides who goes up and who goes
| down?", that would not be necessary. It could easily be
| accomplished by a computer, and the computer could be set and
| programmed to accept factors from youth, health, sexual
| fertility, intelligence, and a cross section of necessary
| skills.
|
| Of course it would be absolutely vital that our top
| government and military men be included to foster and impart
| the required principles of leadership and tradition.
|
| Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be
| much time and little to do. But with the proper breeding
| techniques and a ratio of say, 10 females to each male, I
| would guess that they could then work their way back to the
| present gross national product within, say, 20 years.
| amenhotep wrote:
| It's an element of deterrence. If you and your enemy are
| rattling your nukes at each other, and you know for a fact that
| their command and control apparatus is going to be concentrated
| in a particular bunker, you might be tempted to see if you can
| strike that bunker and "win" the exchange with a decapitation
| strike. Conversely if you know that as soon as the nukes
| started rattling they launched a plane that can coordinate
| responses to whatever you do no matter how many bombs you drop
| on their country, then you will need to destroy all of their
| forces comprehensively and your path to "victory" looks much
| worse.
| yourapostasy wrote:
| Lest anyone think the December Air Force decision to eliminate
| Boeing from the competition was due to Boeing's ongoing
| leadership failures manifesting first as engineering and
| manufacturing quality issues, and now as real-dollar design and
| manufacturing contract eliminations, the rumored reason for the
| elimination was over contract issues, specifically data rights
| and fixed bid terms [1].
|
| Would welcome HN'ers with more detailed insights into the data
| rights and fixed bid terms that were the bones of contention.
|
| [1] https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-
| el...
| justinclift wrote:
| Kind of surprised it's not a "Doomsday spaceship" these days.
|
| Best place to survive a nuke war (ugh!) would probably be
| substantially outside of the atmosphere for an extended period of
| time.
| serf wrote:
| my gut tells me that it would be strategically better to fly
| somewhere where lots of wingmen and interception capabilities
| exist.
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