[Ziame]

So THAT'S how the Atlantis city vanished!

"Um, sir, mr. Ruler-of-the-Atlantis, we forgot how to remain floating on water"
"What the <gulp>"

[Nuclear1]

how do i built nukes?

i dunno lol

[Herra Tohtori]

I see your Trident missile problem and raise you the question - how many of you know how to smelt iron ore into steel and then bang it into a shape you need it to be?

If all CNC machines and other magical devices that produce parts for other machines suddenly ceased working, what would humanity do?

[The E]

Ask the Society for Creative Anachronism for help?

[StarSlayer]

Revenge of the Renaissance Fair

Remember to stock up on your Ballistae and Trebuchets http://siegethedayinc.com/default.aspx

[BengalTiger]

.... What if.... What if we all forget how to build nukes, and then... then we forget how to maintain them, and they break down to the point that they're useless, so we dispose of them, and then no one has nukes and no one know how to make any more....

...We'd have some 4 or more world wars in our history by now.

If all CNC machines and other magical devices that produce parts for other machines suddenly ceased working, what would humanity do?

They'd call the repair guys to get them back online, duh...

And if that didn't work, our next cars would be Ford T's, available in any color as long as it's black.

[Daniel P]

If you don't know how to make Trident Missiles, reverse engineer them and learn to rebuild them.

[TrashMan]

Didn't the same thing (kinda) happen with F-14 Tomcat part molds? IIRC they were destroyed, making manufacture of large spare parts of the airframe prohibitively expensive, hence the decision to scrap F-14 and replace it with F/A-18 Super Hornets and F-35 Lightning II's (for the better or the worse). Can't remember what the details of this occurrence were specifically, though.

Yes it did happen. AND I WILL NEVER FORGIVE!!!!!!! Scrapping the F-14 was SACRILIGE!

[IceFire]

F-14s were getting to the point like the F-15s of having airframe cracks and it was a matter of time before one of them broke up during a training exercise.  I loved the good ole Tomcat but its time has passed and so has the time for many of the old F-15 and F-16 airframes.  Soon the early F-18 airframes will be on the block too....these things only last so long.

[captain-custard]

I see your Trident missile problem and raise you the question - how many of you know how to smelt iron ore into steel and then bang it into a shape you need it to be?

If all CNC machines and other magical devices that produce parts for other machines suddenly ceased working, what would humanity do?

as too the first part of your question i can do that as for the cnc machines we did have the direct human operated versions for a long time before (not as fast i know ) but they have less down time due to crashes, and having worked in a engineering construction (steelwork) job , most of the difficulties come from ppl designs that are brilliant but absolute nightmares to make and could be way more simple

but for the trident issue im glad they arent being built atm

[Mefustae]

Someone really needs to start a knowledge preserve, somewhere. Like that Seed preserve in Northern Europe. We need to start engraving information into thick glass tablets that'll last through everything up to and including a nuclear holocaust. Housed within a fortified, hermetically sealed bunker in some remote but accessible and ultimately obvious region, like the top of Mount Kosciusko in Australia.


Or we could just print out every wiki article and keep them under our beds for warmth, safe in the knowledge that we're prepared.

[TrashMan]

F-14s were getting to the point like the F-15s of having airframe cracks and it was a matter of time before one of them broke up during a training exercise.  I loved the good ole Tomcat but its time has passed and so has the time for many of the old F-15 and F-16 airframes.  Soon the early F-18 airframes will be on the block too....these things only last so long.

I was refering more to the Super Tomcat project being canceled.
F'course if a fighter has been around long enough it will show stress of usage. That why you can build new units of the same type or more modern type.

[redsniper]

glass ... last through everything

[Charismatic]

Somebody call MacGyver!

Seconded.

[NGTM-1R]

F-14s were getting to the point like the F-15s of having airframe cracks and it was a matter of time before one of them broke up during a training exercise.

So you do what the Marines did with the AH-1Z and build a fleet of new airframes.

[Grizzly]

F-14s were getting to the point like the F-15s of having airframe cracks and it was a matter of time before one of them broke up during a training exercise.

So you do what the Marines did with the AH-1Z and build a fleet of new airframes.

Are the Tomcats really that great? This sounds like Windows re-selling Windows 95SE...

[redsniper]

They have swing-wings!

[Kosh]

F-14s were getting to the point like the F-15s of having airframe cracks and it was a matter of time before one of them broke up during a training exercise.  I loved the good ole Tomcat but its time has passed and so has the time for many of the old F-15 and F-16 airframes.  Soon the early F-18 airframes will be on the block too....these things only last so long.

I was refering more to the Super Tomcat project being canceled.
F'course if a fighter has been around long enough it will show stress of usage. That why you can build new units of the same type or more modern type.

Hate to say it but the Soviet Union is gone man.......

[Nuclear1]

Yeah! Who needs a Super Tomcat?

*sweeps F35 and F22 under the rug*

[NGTM-1R]

Hate to say it but the Soviet Union is gone man.......

The Backfires and the Badgers ain't.