Superbomb ignites science dispute (Got Hafnium?)

SFGate.com ^ | 9/27/03 | Keay Davidson - SF Chronicle

[NormsRevenge]

The Pentagon's pursuit of a new kind of nonnuclear super-weapon has sparked a behind-the-scenes revolt among its elite scientific advisers, some of whom reject the scheme as pseudoscience.

The military's goal is to develop a bomb that might be far more powerful than existing conventional weapons of the same size. Precisely targeted, such a weapon could take out targets -- such as underground caverns that conceal weapons of mass destruction -- without posing the severe political risks of using nuclear bombs.

[Diogenesis]

That is correct. Therefore, for US security these "people" should be REMOVED.
The Commissioner of Patents should also be removed
because he took part and then covered up and ignored
the DNC giveaway of unissued US patent applications
to the Chinese Commmunists
even as the technology is still withheld from the USA.

[tictoc]

Hafnium in the Table Table

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I am reminded of the Admiral during WW II who when asked about the atomic bomb...

In his autobiographical memoirs, Edward Teller relates being the front man for the physicists who were trying to get what eventually became the Manhattan District Engineering Project started. He had a meeting with military Brass and some skeptical colonel, whose name Teller mercifully forgets, said, "We've got a goat tethered in Aberdeen proving grounds and there's a five-thousand reward for anyone who can produce a death ray they'll kill it."

The panel asked Teller what they needed to get started. A supply of carbon pure enough to build an atomic reactor had been the biggest impediment up to that time, so he asked for $10,000 to buy the carbon. And that's exactly what they gave him, $10,000 to buy the carbon. Fermi used the carbon to build an atomic reactor in an atheletic facility at the University of Chicago. Word of the first successful man-made atomic chain reaction was relayed to Teller in a telegram containing the cryptic sentence, "The Italian navigator has reached the New World."

I dunno, Hafnium-178 could be this year's Red Mercury or Cold Fusion or Orgon Energy or it could be this year's carbon seed money.

[ASOC]

Got me
While the Lensman series was pure space opera, it did have some very interesting things to say about the human condition....

[ASOC]

You win. MIne is from The Lensman" series by E.E. "Doc" Smith, a good writer and a bright guy.

I thought I ahd read all the good SCiFi around
Reference please? HushaBoom......?

[MHGinTN]

To make bombs with halfnium, you must set it in opposition with holenium, that empty element that sucks up everything ... you know the one, the one used to fill sinkEmperor clinton's teeth?

[Physicist]

Reference please? HushaBoom......?

Rocky and Bullwinkle.

[WaterDragon]

I have no idea how this is going to come out, but it's a fact that every new discovery by scientists has been denounced as 'nonsense' by plenty of other scientists.

[StriperSniper]

O.K. Guys, your MechWarriors are leaving little Hafnium robot turds all over the place.

Hafnium

[GeronL]

Just watch your step everyone!

[ASOC]

AY carumba!

I used to watch those guys as a wee lass

thx

[TLI]

http://www.everwonder.com/david/bullwinkle/episodes.html


#18
BANANA FORMULA (12 segments)
Professor Bermuda Schwartz invents a silent explosive called Hushaboom. Boris, disguised as a fruit peddler, steals the formula and writes it inside a banana. Bullwinkle wants to buy the banana, and Boris, always ready to make a buck, sells it. Since Bullwinkle can remember everything he ever ate, all is not lost.

Yup, Rocky and Bullwinkle

[ahadams2]

LOL - Okay YOU try housebreaking one and see where it gets you!

[ASOC]

LOL
That crazy moose!

[fishtank]

Just like he was probably against Star Wars research in the 80s, I bet.