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originally posted by: MysterX
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Shiloh7
There is a treaty that blocks nuclear warheads from being deployed in space. Conventional weapons can be launched, but not weapons of mass destruction.
The kinetic 'Rods from god' and their derivatives are weapons of mass destruction though aren't they?
The energy they deliver can be comparable to a small tactical nuke i understand?
How could they slip through the agreements if their destructive potential is essentially massive?
originally posted by: BASSPLYR
a reply to: GoShredAK
Not necessarily.
What I was talking about is not some physical object.
It would be super cool to take a non direct disposition to the medium. Might even give you a condition to bragg....if your good at surfing the four waves that is. Somewhere in the void theres a certain spontaneity thats strait out a compton. Where being bare is emitting 511 problems but a rod aint one(or a potential solution to a problem maybe?), but only if you know the password and give off the right conjunction of vibes. When your cool, those sorta problems happen there but not here. If you f up and loose your cool you both got problems. Sorry I can't be any more illuminating but it seems the fog has rolled in and is about to obliterate a bunch of twins arguing because they had differeing opinions on which way to turn up or down. And their fight was over with fast anyways...happens when they try and kiss n make up. I was like "nooooo" but the marraige was explosive. Besides they werent really there in the first place. this fog likes to project its biases sometimes in places. Not sure what the God's call it when we try to steal their fire, but I know some people like to call it "oh roh!"....or "forest fire."
SPACE WARS The Pentagon is spending $2 billion on mysterious space weapons
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: CynConcepts
The big accident was at a military testing range. A few observers had to have a training accident because the expected efficiency was a good bit lower than it turned out to be.
originally posted by: crazyewok
originally posted by: yuppa
originally posted by: BASSPLYR
a reply to: yuppa
No this was state side
Yellowstone fire? or that massive black out?
Some incidents at the Utah testing grounds.
Some photographers got very very bad sun burn.
And a few soldiers got fried.
originally posted by: yuppa
originally posted by: crazyewok
originally posted by: yuppa
originally posted by: BASSPLYR
a reply to: yuppa
No this was state side
Yellowstone fire? or that massive black out?
Some incidents at the Utah testing grounds.
Some photographers got very very bad sun burn.
And a few soldiers got fried.
Well i guess.....*sunglasses* they got burned. Yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!
originally posted by: crazyewok
originally posted by: yuppa
originally posted by: crazyewok
originally posted by: yuppa
originally posted by: BASSPLYR
a reply to: yuppa
No this was state side
Yellowstone fire? or that massive black out?
Some incidents at the Utah testing grounds.
Some photographers got very very bad sun burn.
And a few soldiers got fried.
Well i guess.....*sunglasses* they got burned. Yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!
Though I do feel bad about the guys killed.
I wonder what they told there poor familys ?
originally posted by: BASSPLYR
a reply to: crazyewok
They'll just tell them it was a training accident relating to a classified subject and thats all. The families will likely never know the truth of how their loved ones died while serving.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: lostbook
There's a lot of urgency, partly because Russia and China have closed the gap in a number of areas that the US has traditionally been well ahead in, and it's caught the people that should have seen it coming flat footed. The general thinking was that "we've always been ahead, so it'll be years before they catch us", and suddenly new weapons come out that are either almost as good as what we're fielding, or even slightly better.