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2004-07-07 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-07-07 1:41:42 AM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The world is definetly a much more dangerous place now than it was 20 years ago. The genie is out of the bottle, and the US is the only country with the stones to jam him back in. I have my doubts that we will though.

Posted by JerseyMike 2004-07-07 10:28:28 AM|| 2004-07-07 10:28:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 JM - Amen, bro. Knowledge, especially in the age of the 'Net and our open society, can't be un-distributed or un-learned. Done deal.

Gonna hafta take the drastic road, now. Buckle up.

Posted by .com 2004-07-07 10:50:08 AM|| [http://www.amble.com/images/i_dream_of_jeannie9.jpg] 2004-07-07 10:50:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Buckle Up and build more ABM systems.
And hey?
Wouldn't a railgun be a purdy fair ABM first layer?

Posted by Shipman 2004-07-07 11:04:13 AM|| 2004-07-07 11:04:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I sure as hell wouldn't put a chem warhead on a scud. The damn things go off just as often as they go up...

Posted by mojo 2004-07-07 11:08:21 AM|| 2004-07-07 11:08:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Ship - click the jeannie link - IIRC, you and Frank appreciated the Genie - and I just came across this one - best of the lot.

Re: rail gun - Earth or orbit based?

Posted by .com 2004-07-07 11:09:35 AM|| [http://www.amble.com/images/alqaeda.jpg] 2004-07-07 11:09:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 MMmmmm, now that's an Eden I could live in ;-)~

Posted by Frank G 2004-07-07 11:16:35 AM|| 2004-07-07 11:16:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I'ma 11 again!

Posted by Shipman 2004-07-07 3:52:27 PM|| 2004-07-07 3:52:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 .c - "Re: rail gun - Earth or orbit based?"

Earth. Firing heavy projectiles at high velocities is no way to stay in orbit. Sucker'd go thataway, in a hurry.

Posted by mojo 2004-07-07 3:57:30 PM|| 2004-07-07 3:57:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 mojo - When I saw the post, I recalled seeing a piece way back when in Defense Weekly about a system that would counter the shot reaction - similar to earthquake-damping. IIRC it indicated that in the vacuum, sitting at a LaGrange point, they could precisely calculate the damping req'd to maintain station. Hey, I dunno if they were right. The subscription wasn't mine, damnit, long gone. It was preceeded, IIRC, a couple of months earlier by some incredible super-slow motion shots of a proto-rail gun firing a piece of plastic, looked like a Bic pen cap, hitting a block of pig iron 2.5 inches thick at approx 2.5 km/sec. Liquified the iron and the plastic projectile wasn't even singed. Biggest eye-opener in memory for me - and the materials crowd, too, as they suddenly discovered some new behaviors when materials were stuck by hyper-speed shock waves, heh.

Posted by .com 2004-07-07 4:20:38 PM|| [http://www.amble.com/images/crack_chipmonk.jpg] 2004-07-07 4:20:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Sucker'd go thataway, in a hurry.
Simple way to correct that would be to build a double barreled gun, fire a equal mass in opposite direction. One down to your target on earth, one into empty space to cancel each other out. Similar to a recoiless rifle.

Posted by Steve 2004-07-07 4:30:30 PM|| 2004-07-07 4:30:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 earthquake-damping?

Is it avaialble in pill form?

Posted by Tappy Toe Wiley 2004-07-07 4:55:31 PM|| 2004-07-07 4:55:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Damascus might go nuclear, but only as a target not as a power. I suspect that one or two of the ambiguous weapons in the bunkers at Dimona have Assad's name on them. He pushes too hard and they'll be delivered.

Posted by RWV 2004-07-07 5:46:59 PM|| 2004-07-07 5:46:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Damascus might go nuclear, but only as a target not as a power.

That would be my call as well, RWV.

Posted by Zenster 2004-07-07 6:38:42 PM|| 2004-07-07 6:38:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 dang, zenster...took the words right off of my keyboard.

;)

Posted by anymouse 2004-07-07 9:21:45 PM|| [http://www.guntrucks.com/] 2004-07-07 9:21:45 PM|| Front Page Top

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