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Doesn't it look cooler if we use gold? Short of practical purposes, if you have something that you need to convince a politician to support, wouldn't gold be be
by mercuryrising 13y ago
Doesn't it look cooler if we use gold? Short of practical purposes, if you have something that you need to convince a politician to support, wouldn't gold be better than silver for no reason other than it looks good?
- wmf 13y agoI suspect painting it red white and blue would have been even better for political support.
- mpyne 13y agoThe Admiral in charge of the group that designs nuclear submarine propulsion plants had a famous quote about switching the naming of American submarines away from fish to things like U.S. cities, states, etc. as being because "fish don't vote on our budget".
- cynwoody 13y agoReligious objections were raised when they got around to naming a nuclear fast attack submarine after Corpus Christi. That's why SSN-705 was christened† the City of Corpus Christi, rather than just the Corpus Christi. †http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_City_of_Corpus_Christi_(SSN-705) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_City_of_Corpus_Christi_(SSN...