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America's Ultra-Secret Weapon
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| mark thompson
Posted on 01/19/2003 6:34:27 AM PST by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
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very cool
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01/19/2003 6:35:10 AM PST
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To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
Very cool but no so ultra secret.
To: conservativemusician
Only a secret to Ophra watching mouth breathers who never get out....
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posted on
01/19/2003 6:40:09 AM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Another disturbed youth makes good!)
To: conservativemusician
yea I probably should have changed the title to "the americas really cool weapon that used to be secret until mark thompson found out about it"
To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
Message to Saddam: You cannot escape the ZOT!
To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
The Gulf War marked the debut of precision-guided munitionsActually, the Vietnam War marked PGM debut.
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posted on
01/19/2003 6:48:41 AM PST
by
demlosers
To: Momaw Nadon
bombs will be falling soon saddam
To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
"HPMs can unleash in a flash as much electrical power-2 billion watts or more-as the Hoover Dam generates in 24 hours."
Dumb statement. Energy (power over time) and just "power" are two different things. The amount of energy released by a HPM is miniscule compared to what Hoover dam generates in 24 hours. 2 billion watts for a microsecond is only 2000 watt-seconds (joules). Hoover Dam is capable of generating 2,000 Megawatts for long periods of time. 2,000 Megawatts is 2 billion watts
If the HPM pulse is around one microsecond (it could well be shorter) Hoover Dam generates this amount of energy in about a microsecond. So the writer of this article is only off about 86 billion to one (24 hours vs. 1 microsecond)
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posted on
01/19/2003 7:05:40 AM PST
by
DB
(©)
To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
Perfected first in Amana, IA.
To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
World War II gave us the horror of nuclear weaponsNo, World War II gave us the beauty of nuclear weapons. It wasn't until other people got them too that they became horrible :-)
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posted on
01/19/2003 7:13:23 AM PST
by
krb
(the statement on the other side of ths tagline is false)
To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
Hey Ron Silver, those are "our" missiles.
To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
Hi, I'm the Director of the Directed Energy Directorate, how can I direct you?
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posted on
01/19/2003 7:19:45 AM PST
by
tet68
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Perfected first in Amana, IA.An added benefit is that a falafal sitting next to your computer turns out crunchy on the outside, but moist and juicy on the inside.
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posted on
01/19/2003 7:26:46 AM PST
by
ItsJeff
To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
HPMs can unleash in a flash as much electrical power-2 billion watts or more-as the Hoover Dam generates in 24 hours.Is it too much to ask that Time magazine be as scientifically informed as a high school physics student? The above is useless garble. Power and Energy are related but not identical concepts.
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posted on
01/19/2003 7:28:26 AM PST
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per loin
To: conservativemusician
No mainstream journalism has ever served. To them, the M-16 is a secret weapon.
To: per loin
Journalism students do dope, have sex with their same-sex partner, and take P-correct gut courses. Stone age tribes in New Guinea have a better grasp of elementary science.
To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
Thanks for this report. I can't wait to see it work.
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posted on
01/19/2003 8:29:15 AM PST
by
latrans
To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
Didn't Danny Ocean already set one of these off in Las Vegas when he was robbing those casinos?
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posted on
01/19/2003 8:38:07 AM PST
by
xrp
To: Man of the Right
LOL, bringing Iraq into the high tech world.
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posted on
01/19/2003 8:42:59 AM PST
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Helms
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