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2008-08-20 Science & Technology

Army Moves Ahead With Mobile Laser Cannon

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-08-20 11:35|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Add an automatic backtracking counter-battery system to that and you could let the boys take the rest of the day off. All projectiles that I know of travel in a parabolic path that can be calculated by observation, the origin can easily be calculated by a 1st year physics student, much less a computer. The acoustic signature of the weapon would identify it(in case of "friendly" fire.... which isn't), and counter battery could fire off a response before it was even destroyed. You'd prolly have to wait till it hit its vertex, if you didn't know the mass, but still pretty quick.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-08-20 13:05|| 2008-08-20 13:05|| Front Page Top

#2 MORE IMPORTANTLY, CAN GUAM PROVE = DISPROVE THE XISTENCE OF BIGFOOT ONCE AND FOREVER, GOING DOWN IN A BLAZE OF "MISSING LINK", SIMIAN-EATING BANANA/MANGO-LOVING GLORY!

Lasers, SPACE TECHS, now comes proving = disproving BIGFOOT-YETI and perhaps even NESSIE, asuming of course that BIGFOOT HARRY doesn't eat or pound me like KING KONG did THREE T-REXES!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-08-20 19:56|| 2008-08-20 19:56|| Front Page Top

#3 How much popcorn can it make?

Posted by DMFD 2008-08-20 21:44|| 2008-08-20 21:44|| Front Page Top

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