It refers to the ill fated US Vanguard program where the US Navy tried to build a rocket to launch a satellite that was NOT an ICBM design Sputnik was circling the globe while Vanguard rockets were blowing up on the pad. They finally got it going after a few highly publicized failures on TV. In the mean time they dusted off a Redstone missile, painted NASA colors on it and lobbed one up there.
hah wrote: "An extra-large capital ship: SSHHIIPP "
Yeh, let's define the orig. post "capital ship".
Minimum 500' long, 30,000 gross registered tons? Or over 1,000' and 80,000GRT?
Titanic was 880'x92', 46,000GRT - rather narrow for her size, and mostly all hull - compared to the floating projects circling the Caribbean today. The fears of being sucked down with her proved unfounded.
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