Posted on 01/22/2007 1:30:58 PM PST by presidio9
Trouble is, they would probably take the easy way out and re=invent Rambo.
I would like it to be like Winds of War and War and Rememberance.
Robert Mitchum.....he was great.
"Clancy had the chance."
Right you are.
That book scared the living daylights out of me. I remember when and where it was I finished that thing.
No kidding... I live very close to DC, and I figure when it happens it will be DC, NY or LA.
I have spent new years back home before, literally because it was spooky being in DC for the ball drop in 2002/3. With the way things are going with the libs and the wiener republicans its probably more likely these days.
***Did anyone ask the Islamic terrorists, who planned and hit the World Trade Center, if they went to far?***
Post of the week.
I wouldn't be suprised if the folks that think "24" "went too far"...
...are the same ones that think the latest avant garde offering at
The Sundance Film Festival is...
SIMPLY MARVELOUS!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1771851/posts
"Does the movie "Zoo" go too far?"
Where's THAT headline....
No, actually I don't realize that. Wikipedia, like the good leftist tools they are, splits hairs to say their are only "backpack nukes". OK. We don't see the device being carried in a suitcase, we are told it is a 1 Megaton bomb, I believe (which lines up with the details on our smallest weapon outlined below).
Net-net: do suitcase nukes exist? Yes, at least close enough for me. And for the jihadi wack-jobs who want one so badly.
From Wikipedia entry for "suitcase nuke" Only a nation with an extremely advanced nuclear program could manufacture warheads small enough to fit into a suitcase. Both the USA and the USSR manufactured nuclear weapons small enough to fit into large backpacks during the Cold War, but neither have ever made public the existence or development of weapons small enough to fit into a suitcase.
The smallest nuclear warhead manufactured by the USA was the W54, used for the Davy Crockett warhead which could be fired from a 120 mm recoilless rifle, and a backpack version called the Mk-54 SADM (Small Atomic Demolition Munition). While this warhead, with a weight of only 51 lb (23 kg), could potentially fit into a large suitcase, it would be a very tight fit.
While the explosive power of the W54 — up to an equivalent of 1 kiloton of TNT — is not much by the normal standards of a nuclear weapon (the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II were around 13 to 15 kilotons each), it could still do tremendous physical damage to a structure (it would be many, many times more powerful than the explosive attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1995, for example, with a yield of 0.002 kiloton).
Not far enough
It was too delicious having ABC fret about "24" going too far when that network had their own nuclear explosion movie.
Something like that happened to me too.
I ended up ordering the first four episodes
from Amazon.
That's exactly what I did. Netflix'd the first five seasons and am now watching season six as it airs. It is KILLING me to have to wait an entire week between episodes!
Did "24" go too far?
Not in my opinion.
Lol...true, but didn't they have these in 4 other cities? Oops...
I thought so, too...POed me so badly, I stopped watching and just returned this season.
I hope we have that feature. We have the HiDef unit that goes with satellite. New features were just made available. I will search. Thanks for your help.
Do you mean season or episodes? I am missing last Monday's 2 hour installment. You think I can get that at Best Buy? Thanks.
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