06-06-2021, 10:28 PM
(06-04-2021, 09:48 PM)samhain Wrote: Not really the same. We're not really the top predator if we go into the wolf-infested Alaskan wilderness unarmed. We're definitely not going to last long anywhere in Sub-Saharan Africa. The same things that allow us to be unafraid of predators in the wild allow us to be dominant in the ocean as well, ie technology and mastery of machinery. You'd be just as dead against any large land predator as you would in the water if you went in with nothing but teeth, nails, and brute strength.
If humans face tech superior to what we have now, it's a much bigger problem. Tools and tech are our teeth and claws. If we run into someone with bigger, better teeth and claws, we have no answer.
Either way, no admission from the briefing and nothing new gleaned other than there might just be some really advanced hypersonic tech in the hands of foreign state actors. I'd say that's scary, but I think we'd be naive to think we don't have the same or similar programs if that's the case. We still spend a metric carton more on defense than any nation on the planet, so I'd hope we can keep up with a nation like Russia that is known for telling tall tales about capabilities, or China, who steals a lot more intellectual property than they actually develop.
I would prefer it to be aliens rather than the Chinese, or when the next war kicks off (and it will be with China) we'll lose all our carriers immediately to hypersonic weapons.
