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The Future of Warfare: America’s High-Tech Arsenal (Excellent Weapons Read)
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| March 5, 2003
| Dale Hurd
Posted on 03/05/2003 1:04:03 PM PST by w_over_w
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To: Physicist
If Hoover produces 2Gigawatts in an hour, it is distributed along a power grid that seves thousands of sqaure miles. If one of these bombs releases 2Gigawatts in a fraction of a second, I would call that pretty impressive, especially since that much juice is released so quickly in a relatively small area.
To: Don'tMessWithTexas
You're not understanding it. It doesn't make sense to say "produces 2 GigaWatts in an hour". It would make sense to say, "produces 2 GigaWatts
for an hour", because that would be a measure of energy. Watts are a
rate.
Let's suppose you drop a dollar coin in a slot machine and win $100. Sweet! But look: that only took a second. For that one second, you were making money at a rate of three billion dollars per year!! Holy crap, that's like what Bill Gates rakes in! You, a lowly schmoe with a buck, is suddenly Bill Gates!
Well, not quite. Once that second expires, the gravy train stops. But for that one second, you were the Chairman of Microsoft. Impressive? It's all in how you look at it.
(The HPM may very well be impressive--we may get to see--but its energy output is not a useful figure of merit.)
To: Libertarianize the GOP; 11th_VA; Free the USA; knak; MadIvan; PhiKapMom; cavtrooper21; ...
ping!
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03/05/2003 7:58:30 PM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(Nuke Saddam and his Baby Milk Factories!!)
To: Physicist
Doesn't sound as impressive, does it? Well, we're just gonna have to keep them going off all day long. :-)
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posted on
03/05/2003 10:19:18 PM PST
by
glorgau
To: Captainpaintball
I'm sure then next Democratic president will waste no time marketing these wares to our potential enemies.
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posted on
03/05/2003 10:38:08 PM PST
by
oyez
(Is this a geat country.....or what?)
After reading this article, just imagine Hitlery in the WH. Then try and imagine our military 8 years later.
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posted on
03/05/2003 11:00:13 PM PST
by
paul544
(Wow, it does work.)
To: Physicist
Ok...so this power/energy thing....it's kinda like how those smart Japanese fellers got all those itty, bitty musicians in those tiny radio boxes?? ;-)
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posted on
03/05/2003 11:19:43 PM PST
by
griffin
To: w_over_w
bttt
To: oyez
I wish I could agree with you, but THIS administration doesn't come out smelling like roses, either...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/855573/posts
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posted on
03/06/2003 2:39:01 PM PST
by
Captainpaintball
(Me Chinese, Me play joke...Me steal from you 'till you go broke!!!)
To: Captainpaintball
They could have tried to stop it. Get some lawyers to somehow make it a violation of LABOR laws to move the factory and displace the workers. Yeah, get Elaine CHAO, head of the labor department (and FRIEND of Jiang Zhemin) to do...something...
...
...
...Oh, forget it!
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posted on
03/06/2003 2:44:18 PM PST
by
Captainpaintball
(Me Chinese, Me play joke...Me steal from you 'till you go broke!!!)
To: Captainpaintball
There's much praise for the GPS guided munitions to be used in Iraq. The Russians have a strong interest in helping Iraq defeat this system, so look for very limited success and a fair amount of unanticipated civilian collateral damage with these weapons.
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03/06/2003 2:46:43 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
To: eno_
Maybe we need something like a really large drone bomber to loiter over an army? Like Clancy foresaw in The Bear and the Dragon?
MM
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