Posted on 02/09/2011 3:43:04 AM PST by Stoat
In the next plot Michelle Obama will send Bin Laden French Fries.
Moo-chelle would probably ask OBL if he might be free to do some babysitting of her kids the next time she and BO went out on a ten million dollar playdate.
Pish tosh. Why would we go to all that trouble to bomb a bunch of bones?
Actually, she’ll help him with his victory garden.
To kill Bin Laden, we only need to get lucky once.
To stay alive, Bin Laden has to stay lucky all the time.
TC
Uh huh. And my bow tie is really a camera.
James Bond hokum. There’s no need to hunt down a dead man.
Check this out.
With Bin Laden alive some sixty CIA agents are employed. With Bin Laden dead unemployment jumps a fraction. It is in the CIA’s best interest to keep the man alive.
maybe the CIA needs to step it up to a slightly more sophisticated technology that cannot be detected by someone with a 2 year diploma from the Kandahar Technical Institute with his Acer laptop...
GPS devices such as this have to do two things: They have to receive signals from at least three different satellites, simultaneously, in order to calculate their coordinates. This, essentially, requires line of sight view of three different positions in the sky. Then they have to somehow transmit this data to a responding site. This could be by Internet, or by radio signals. If they are transmitted by radio, the signal has to be very strong (much stronger than a blue tooth or wireless router signal) which would take more power than most computers would supply and would be easily detectable. If they are transmitted by the Internet, they obviously require an Internet connection, and would also be easy to detect.
5.56mm
Thanks for this information. I’m the one who alluded to GPS technology: technically, the article did not.
Would there be NO type of transponder of that size detectable by satellite (for example, I thought RFID devices were very small and inexpensive)? That is, does the device literally have to “transmit” a signal as opposed to having some form of unique “signature” detectable by satellite?
Put another way, if a satellite can detect something as small as neutrinos http://www.isv.uu.se/thep/talks/os/060505-SNOW.pdf why can’t it detect something on the ground that’s emitting an admittedly feeble signal? Sorry if this is an absurdly naive question. I’m not a technical person, so don’t waste time on a technical explanation. Your say-so “can’t be done” is fine by me. I’m just curious.
RFID chips work over a distance of just a few feet. Satellites are hundreds of miles away, and the power goes up as the cube of the distance. From a few feet to a few hundred miles would take a hundred million trillion (10^17) times as much power. We're talking Obama deficit sized numbers here.
Is it possible to re-kill a dead guy? I guess if he still votes, it is possible.
LOL!
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