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2008-10-17 Science & Technology

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Posted by 3dc 2008-10-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Lockheed doesn't know how to build boats. Need to leave it with Northrop (who doesn't know either in the main part of the company, but they bought the companies that did know, in MIss and Va)

Posted by OldSpook 2008-10-17 00:21|| 2008-10-17 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 ION WAFF.com > US EYES REACTION FORCE THAT ROCKETS INTO SPACE [space assault].

IIRC, ROGER MOORE as James Bond 007 in MOONRACER [astro-suit laser space battle scene]???

*TOPIX > AIR FORCE TIMES > seems GUAM's AAFB may expect to see UAV units here. among other, as per the much-anticipated MIL BUILDUP. THE USDOD-USAF is still considering dev of LR "PERMANENT ORBIT" OR NEAR-PERM UNMANNED STRIKE BOMBERS FOR STRATEGIC MISSIONS.

IIRC again, SPACEWAR > PTERODACTYL-LIKE UAVS TO CONTROL AIR, LAND, AND SEA; + SCIENCE USES ADVANCED NANO-TECHNOLOGIES TO DEFEAT MILITANTISM AND GLOBAL WARMING.

T-REX to FLIPPER and SNAKES, VOLTRON SUITS to ROBO-INSECTS.

D *** NG IT, MORIARITY, don't mess wid FLIPPER - he's armed wid LASERS + HELLFIRE LOWBOWS, etc now!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-10-17 00:47|| 2008-10-17 00:47|| Front Page Top

#3 SIGN OF THE APOCALYPSE NO **** > JIMMY's LITTLE GREN PET TURTLE IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS, besides also being unregistered in the OWG Patriotic Turtle = Hero of the USSA Database???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-10-17 00:51|| 2008-10-17 00:51|| Front Page Top

#4 The Pentagon is programming both Obama and a recession into the equation, and is funneling money into protected high value programs. They figure they might have to weather four or eight lean years.

Hopefully, in the boom years, they created a huge reservoir of black budget accounts that they can feed from now.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-10-17 10:18|| 2008-10-17 10:18|| Front Page Top

#5 [online poker has been pooplisted.]

Posted by online poker">online poker 2008-10-17 10:25|| http://online-poker-mo.lookera.net#0]">[http://online-poker-mo.lookera.net#0] 2008-10-17 10:25|| Front Page Top

#6 I wish it were that easy Anonymoose. The services are budgeting via a Planning Programming Budgeting and Execution System (PPBE) for the produces a Program Operating Memorandum or POM for short. It's a five year projection document. There is some latitude for shifing funds but the system is pretty closely monitored. The services are betting on a McCain victory. If McCain loses, well, all bets are off on the entire DoD budget. Remember Obama's promise to "look carefully at ALL governemnt programs?" The midnight basketball dollars have to come from somewhere.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-10-17 10:30|| 2008-10-17 10:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Duhhhhh.... (PPBE) which produces a POM.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-10-17 10:32|| 2008-10-17 10:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Once Obama is elected, we won't any military, because all the world will love us anyway.

Shift those funds to publishing Russian, Arabic, Chinese and Farsi translations of "Kumbayah" and we should be just fine.

Posted by charger 2008-10-17 11:12|| 2008-10-17 11:12|| Front Page Top

#9 can anyone explain too me what in the hell Joseph Mendiola is talking about in ANY of his post. please

Posted by chris 2008-10-17 17:23|| 2008-10-17 17:23|| Front Page Top

#10 I wish it were that easy Bseoeker. The Navy doesn't have a flippin strategy. They want to build a fleet to fight an enemy that doesn't exist and won't build a fleet to attack the one that does. The are lost at sea without an astrolab. It appears their sole purpose in life is to make the Air Farce look good.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-10-17 17:30|| 2008-10-17 17:30|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm kind of wondering why we have a navy anyway if they can't/won't take down a bunch of scurvy Somali pirates. If they won't take those clearly delineated bastards/threats to civilization down, who in Hell will they fight?

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-10-17 21:43|| 2008-10-17 21:43|| Front Page Top

#12 can anyone explain too me what in the hell Joseph Mendiola is talking about in ANY of his post. please

Poor chris. There are lots of special contractions in JosephM posts, many of which I suspect he learnt in the Service, others of which are from mathematics, I believe. From #2:

ION = in other news
WAFF.com > = at the site waff.com he saw an article about...
IIRC = if I recall correctly, a standard internet abbreviation

then he talks about one of the James Bond movies. JosephM has an encyclopedic memory of films and television shows.

I'm not sure what *TOPIX refers to, that may be a news amalgamation web site.

AIR FORCE TIMES = the AF newspaper, presumably on-line

seems GUAM's AAFB may expect to see UAV units here. among other, as per the much-anticipated MIL BUILDUP. THE USDOD-USAF is still considering dev of LR "PERMANENT ORBIT" OR NEAR-PERM UNMANNED STRIKE BOMBERS FOR STRATEGIC MISSIONS.
JosephM lives on Guam. The air force base may get UAV 'pilots' if there is a hoped-for military build-up that the US Dept. of Defence/Air Force is pondering. Long range there may be bombers in permanent orbet flying out of there (I think -- that's something I know absolutely nothing about).

The last bit, addressed to Moriarty, is just JosephM being silly.

JosephM, please correct where my attempted translation of your dense prose style is incorrect. Thank you!

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-10-17 22:22|| 2008-10-17 22:22|| Front Page Top

#13 orbet = orbit. PIMF!!

PIMF = proofing/preview is my friend

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-10-17 22:45|| 2008-10-17 22:45|| Front Page Top

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