Posted on 06/22/2005 9:56:33 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Ofcourse it wouldn't, that isn't the point. They didn't. And in all probability if someone hits and kills your kid with a car it won't be a responsible professional at .10. I have 8 kids and have spent many worried moments and hours imagining horrible accidents as teen drug deelers fly through our ally behind our yard. I ride a bike to work and it is almost always the teen female on a cell phone or the female suv driver that nearly knocks me off my bike. Stone cold sober.
In Europe, meanwhile:
EU wants 20 pct cut in energy use by 2020
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050622/sc_nm/energy_eu_efficiency_dc
FR has a number of recent related threads.
Using lasers to produce a sustainable, more-than-breakeven fusion reaction, has been worked on for at least thirty five years. Eventually that work had to be funded using the pretext of national defense, because it has shown no more progress than the Russian toroidal magnetic containment method. Now even that is going to come to a standstill.
Future Giant Laser Threatened by Cuts
Associated Press | 6/16/2005 | ERICA WERNER
Posted on 06/16/2005 7:15:03 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1424563/posts
Future Giant Laser Threatened by Cuts
By Erica Werner
http://www.space.com/news/ap_050617_giant_laser.html
Building the world's most powerful laser
CNN | May 23, 2005
Posted on 05/23/2005 2:23:38 PM PDT by RWR8189
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1408934/posts
some more laser weapon defense spending topics:
Laser Weapons In U.S. Sights
CBSNews
Posted on 04/18/2005 1:50:16 PM PDT by Uncledave
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1386149/posts
Tracking the MTHEL Laser
Technology Review | May 9, 2005 | Sam Jaffe
Posted on 05/16/2005 8:22:47 PM PDT by Reaganesque
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1404576/posts
Pentagon awards laser contract to Boeing
Wichita Business Journal | March 14, 2005 | Ken Vandruff
Posted on 03/15/2005 1:35:48 AM PST by Righty_McRight
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1363041/posts
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