I'm sure 3rd world civilians are delighted the US Army have some new toys. Still pretty cool though. |
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5 Famous Sci-Fi Weapons That They're Actually Building | Cracked.com |
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I'm sure 3rd world civilians are delighted the US Army have some new toys. Still pretty cool though. |
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"I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority." -Sigmund Freud
"For man, the unexamined life is not worth living." -Socrates
"When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you." - Nietzche
LD count stands at 0, but we all start somewhere.
The US tried to build space based laser weapons in 1983 as a part of their Strategic Defense Initiative against potential USSR nuclear missile attacks. The project was a failure at the time but perhaps now we have more extensive knowledge of how lasers work. |
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Man it's going to suck to be alive in the next 30 years |
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"For a long time it gave me nightmares, having to witness an injustice like that. It was a constant reminder of how unfair this world can be, I can still hear them taunting him. 'Silly Rabbit, Trix are for kids!'... How come they just couldn't give him some cereal?"
It's not being alive that you have to worry about. |
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In their defense, they said a tactical nuke. The kinetic energy of a 100 kg object at the orbit of the ISS would be about 3 GJ, which according to Wolfram is about 0.7 tons of TNT equivalent. By comparison, the smallest tactical nuke developed by the US is the W54, which explodes with a minimum of 10 tons TNT. By the way, the infamous daisy-cutter bombs are in the same yield range. |
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Last edited by cmind; 12-25-2011 at 04:10 AM.
I wonder how much money it'll take to put and maintain a giant, unreloadable space revolver into orbit that has the same firepower as normal bombs. |
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I wanted this |
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Where are the terminators? |
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I stomp on your ideas.
That's what they're making, but you'd be surprised to see what they've already made: microwave emitters that make people feel like they're burning, sonic and laser weapons for crowd control. Technology is getting fucking scary. Pretty soon the only way we'll be able to protest is with special glasses, earplugs and suits. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
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