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To: zeugma

My first thought was that any splinter terrorist group now has the ability to model a nuclear weapon, or a biological agent distribution system.

No need to by a dozen X-Boxes and wire them together. Just buy one of these and you can go to town in the confort of your own cave or bunker.

I suppose you can game on it, but I don’t know many games that could take advantage of that kind of power.

Weather modeling, fluid mechanics, virtual wind tunnels, blast modeling, advanced ballastics - these are all things requiring massive computing power.


24 posted on 09/19/2008 9:36:28 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: RinaseaofDs
My first thought was that any splinter terrorist group now has the ability to model a nuclear weapon, or a biological agent distribution system.

No need to by a dozen X-Boxes and wire them together. Just buy one of these and you can go to town in the confort of your own cave or bunker.

I suppose you can game on it, but I don?t know many games that could take advantage of that kind of power.

Weather modeling, fluid mechanics, virtual wind tunnels, blast modeling, advanced ballastics - these are all things requiring massive computing power.

That was my first concern as well, but it's probably easier and more in line with their mindset to buy or steal a design already verified.

35 posted on 09/19/2008 4:05:24 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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