Secondly: The Rods From God; rip off of the Larry Bond novella "Lash Up" published in 2001 (4+ years prior to the "article") in Combat compiled by Stephen Coonts.

 

*Cough* Rip-off of WHAT book?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footfall

Shotgun mechanic

Thirdly: Space-based weapons have been banned by treaty since 1967 (Outer Space Treaty).

 

Tex, not for nothing, I wish you would have mentioned that at an earlier date. It might have proven to be more interesting for my research paper.

That was already a topic of much debate on another board. Specifically Nuclear arms are banned from space. I dont recall anything about lasers or Tungston Rods though.

 

from placing nuclear weapons or any other weapons of mass destruction

 

So if it's not a weapon of Mass destruction it's ok. So that means we can use anything short of a nuke and still be within treaty.

You married what?

Oh, thanks to all that wished me luck in the future with full time work I'm enjoying my bludge

 

Some countries should understand this

That was already a topic of much debate on another board. Specifically Nuclear arms are banned from space. I dont recall anything about lasers or Tungston Rods though.

 

from placing nuclear weapons or any other weapons of mass destruction

 

So if it's not a weapon of Mass destruction it's ok. So that means we can use anything short of a nuke and still be within treaty.

 

Def, nuclear weapons are not the only WMD.. and besides.. going back to one of the older posts..

 

EDIT: Here we are The Rods From God

 

Upon impact, the rod would be capable of producing all the effects of an earth-penetrating nuclear weapon, without any of the radioactive fallout.

Definately sounds like a WMD to me... really guys, in all reality yes.. its a program for the defense department.. and that more than likely means it could be used for war efforts.. but again, it never said it HAD to be nukes or even WMD's the Aurora is simply a hypersonic aircraft which goes into (near)space in order to traverse (close to) the ENTIRE earth in roughly two hours.... that fits the article.. almost to a tee... it never said it would be space based or for that matter, HAD to be in space for two hours.. it said simply that it COULD aquire a target on the other side of the earth in two hours...

I doubt it would take 2 hours to orbit the Earth. The Vostok 1 orbited the Earth in under two hours. I believe that 50 years later, our modern ships can do it much faster. My belief based on that article is that the AIRCRAFT would orbit Earth while attempting to acquire a target through communication with station on the ground.

I doubt it would take 2 hours to orbit the Earth.

Not to beat a dead horse.. but.. its not orbit Rob... here.. i was trying to find a graphic from popular science.. (or was it Popular Mechanics).. that illustrated what they are talking about.. either way.. this one is pretty damn good...

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39231000/gif/_39231078_hypersonic_bomber_416inf.gif

You can see, that they are talking about a plane which will deliver ordnance on the other side of the earth within two hours... it would be considerably less if the flight path were shorter.... (its a two hour trip from New York to Tokyo in one of those planes..)

That is a nice pic there JH. I concede my point based on this article.

 

But still, an orbital space station is the way to go. That would be the ultimate power in the universe.

In the universe?!?

 

I'm sure there are more 'ultimate' powers!

I was just trying to be a nerd and quote Admiral Motti...

who us? nerds?.. nah.. hahaha.. and now for something completely different..

 

Cripple Fight

"But I had the energy sword. What did he expect?"

 

 

This brings a whole new meaning to "reach out and touch someone"

That is brilliant!

Drill-Sergeant Schultz

Facts about dreams

 

The new martial art

 

Stella Artois

Lightspeed is too slow!

 

2001 goes to Plaid ( Not responsibel for any epileptic seizures... oh god my head is spinning...

 

*Falls overf

erdeqfle[: jn

 

EDIT: Dizzyness wore off after about 10 minutes.

 

Everyone give this hilarious fic a read! It's an alternate timeline which starts after the Thrawn Trilogy and addresses some of the really, REALLY weird stuff that happened in the EU.

http://www.clubjade.net/fanfic/howzahn1.html

Those kind of weapons shall be banned!

I´ve mentioned that allready on another occassion: there are other ways to handle such kind of situations. I´ve got the feeling that security and police officers use their tasers all too quick, because it eases their work. German police hasn´t got the need to use those kind of weapons and our criminals aren´t less violent.

Cute little mini game: Bell's

 

 

 

Not sure how long this one will be able to stay up because a lot of Sunrise animation music videos get taken down.

I rather like that little game Def! I got a score of 11,560

Juggling gone wrong

Crazy Japanese

A link from Mad's dreame link - Facts about sleeping

 

EDIT:

Couldn't find DC's Dinosaur thread, so:

New, weird, dinosaur

I love dinos K. Nice find.

 

By the way, where is everyone today?!?!?!

Juggling gone wrong

That can't be serious!

I've been working for most of the day.

 

 

Red vs Blue and Kingdom Hearts have 1 thing in common

 

Dead _______ Storage (Clean)

 

Bueller? Bueller? Anyone? (Really random)