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New XCOR Rocket Engine Passes First Test
apsmith writes "XCOR Aerospace just successfully test-fired their new liquid oxygen/kerosene rocket engine. This is significantly more powerful than the engines used in the XCOR EZ-Rocket vehicle, and will be further developed for use in the Xerus suborbital vehicle. XCOR is one of the serious X-Prize contenders, and partly funded by John Carmack of Id and Armadillo Aerospace (Carmack's in-his-free-time X-prize contender)."
I want to be a space man with my kerosene rocketship.
Hey, don't stop with all the males over the age of 14! Stalin said it best, 'The only innocent are the unborn.' Haven't we all learned something from the Godfather movies?
The Iraqi "army" (that lovable, rag-tag gang of uniformed special forces and plainclothes civilians with AK-47s) has spent the past week fighting dirty. They are not following the new rules of war: humane treatment of prisoners, uniformed service, conventions of surrender, et cetera. No no. Iraqis are fighting this one old-school: anything goes, and their wonderfully simple goal is to kill as many Coalition forces as possible, by any means necessary.
Well, I'd like to suggest the US and the rest of the Global Beatdown Squad return to their Barbarian roots, and effect a new strategy: Kill every male over 14 in Iraq.
Think about it. Our family, friends, cousins and countrymen are stepping into a hornet's nest the likes of which has not been seen since Vietnam. To worsen the matter, the enemy is not above breaking any good-faith conventions in order to lure GIs to their sandy grave.
They are breaking the rules of the Game. They checked their moral character at the door; they neither ask for nor deserve pity.
Then why do we coddle them, nagging and pleading them to surrender and limiting our territorial prospects with "surgical strikes"? They are not coddling us. They are beckoning us towards their taxicab and blowing us apart with searing-hot shrapnel. They are flying a white flag and opening fire when we get close enough.
I'll put it this way: Every male fifteen years old or above in Iraq must be killed.
Americans are not safe in Iraq until the entire country is either peaceful by choice, or (in the case of the Iraqi "military") peaceful by force. The Coalition is fighting a clean war, making an effort to avoid civilian casualties and honestly hoping for nothing more than a cease-fire and a clean transfer of power.
Yet these Iraqi bastards stop at nothing to spill American blood. There is only one solution; it has been considered generally unpalatable for several hundred years, but there is no doubting its effectiveness.
Kill the men.
We need not rape and enslave the women and children. In order to ensure a future for a stable Iraq, we must allow their lives to remain as unchanged as possible. This is why we need only kill fightworthy males.
What if Iraqi troops attempt to surrender, when they see half the men in the country dead in a trench? They too must die, for only by holding to a strict discipline may we win this war with honor and dignity.
During the new Iraq's reconstruction, the Coalition could pay to fly eligible males to Iraq for free, along with their possessions. There would surely be a worldwide rush to accomodate the naturally-beautiful Iraqi women.
In conclusion, Iraq has rolled the clock back hundreds of years on the etiquette of warfare. It is both morally justified and militarily correct to reciprocate, and when I ask myself "What would Attila do?", the answer is to totally exterminate the Iraqi adult male.
In a stunning suprise move, the Iraqi army has placed all of its efforts into repelling the foreign invaders. Thousands of U.S. soldiers were either killed or injured while attempting to lay seige to the great city, caught in a gauntlet of Artillery fire and crude oil trenches.
The American second wave commenced, slaughtering innocent women and children who lined the streets with protest banners. One soldier had run out of bullets, and started using first his sidearm, then his rifle-butt against the crowd. Chemical weapons, in the form of tear gas and pepper spray, were hurled into the crowds of civilians, who trampled each other to death as they attempted to flee from the streets. At that point, Iraqi military began the demolition of buildings onto the Coalition forces.
Blood ran like the tigris from Bagdhad. Truly a humanitarian mission!
I don't understand what you want to achieve wiht this? Why don't you fuck yourself and leave the french alone?
Iraqi tanks have 5 gears - 4 reverse, and 1 forward (in case they're attacked from behind)
Dude, you're a jerk, a dork, probably a racist, as*hole, and a whole other long list of things.
I'm sure Iraq's would fight a 'clean war' as long as they had Aircraft carriers, fighter jets, powerfull bombs, and a huge GDP to support it on. But shucks, they don't.
Hey! Kill all the men for fighting to protect their homeland? Fuck, kill everybody! AMericans, and French and Iranians.
Oh well, no. That would be kinda expensive. I'd settle if we could just cap you.