Standing Bear wrote:
It was too put forth to mollify the public. People wanted a weapon that magically slew the 'enemy'.
Every account that I have read says it was secret. If you can point to some other account saying it was public, please list it.
One Brit idea was the 'solid searchlight'. You turned your 'light' on, shined it on a plane that you hoped was not yours; then you just 'pushed a button to solidify the beam and wanged it into the ground'.
I do not see how you can compare that to the scheme to build Pykrete vessels. That is pure nonsense, without a shred of scientific validity, whereas no engineer or scientist I know of has ever denied that Pykrete is remarkably strong and that giant vessels could have been constructed with it, and they could not have been sunk with U-boat attacks.
In the end, it was not a practical or cost-effective, but on the other hand it was not a crack-pot notion, or impossible. Winston Churchill was no fool.
- Jed
