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To: Golden Eagle; graf008
when the North Koreans legally download open source software from us for free to build their nuclear program , there's an obvious problem.

One thing you have never done is show that North Korea actually used Linux to help design their nuclear weapons. Care to try?

Like I alluded to earlier, our first bombs were designed with slide rules. An iPod has orders of magnitude more computing power than what we used to design the H-bomb. A modern supercomputing cluster is absolutely not even close to necessary to design a basic nuclear device capable of destroying a city.

What is important is the raw uranium and the equipment and expertise to enrich it. That was supplied by Clinton and the Pakistanis. After that, you're pretty much just shooting one chunk of uranium out of a cannon at another chunk of uranium to achieve critical mass (Hiroshima-style).

You just completely ignored these facts when I presented them to you earlier.

173 posted on 10/12/2006 12:13:06 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

Surely you're not ensenuating Linux supercomputers aren't typically involved with nuclear weapons design, or that supercomputers are limited to nuclear design and test, or that Linux use is limited to supercomputers. I hope not, but you'd have to make all those ignorant assumptions for your latest diversion attempt to have any chance of succeeding.


177 posted on 10/12/2006 12:52:47 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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