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Force Field. No, Really

Posted by jamie on from the GeV dept.

tqft points out news of "a working force field, using plasma. Now to scale the sucker up." Here's the Brookhaven press release. I can think of so many uses for this.

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  1. fr1st ps0t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you're too slow.

  2. BUSH = RECESSION by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    Bush is presiding over the highest unemployment rate in nine years.

    If you like to stay unemployed, remember: Bush in 2004!

    1. Re:BUSH = RECESSION by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Hmmm... that puts the previous unemployment high in 1995... right in the middle of the Clinton presidency, 1 year before he was to be re-elected. So by your logic, people wanted to be unemployed then too.

  3. Luke by WesG · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Use the Force Luke!

    (sorry couldn't resist)

  4. Lower the Cone of Silence. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ummm chief... why is the open/close switch outside the cone?

  5. Re:The article sucks. by InvaderSkooge · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I dunno, I think the pic of Ady Hershcovitch was really informative. For one thing, I know that he wears a watch. I always wanted to know that.

    --
    Erik
    YOU ARE SAYING IMPUDENCE TO ME! THAT IS IMPUDENCE!
  6. Re:It's already obsolete by KDan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You are scum.

    And you're a gullible idiot.

    Daniel

    --
    Carpe Diem
  7. Re:It's already obsolete by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow. What an excellent example of the ideological patriotism so evident throughout the Republic.

    I think the point of a site like Iraq Body Count is to counter the compelling synchronicity of the war drums. Surely, the loved ones who died should not be honoured by the further death of innocents? Is a 5-year old girl in Iraq not equally deserving of your respect, such as you would give to one of the secretaries in the WTC? Should we not equally mourn her loss? Your venemous tone suggests that Iraqi innocents are less valuable--the necessary mental prerequisite for war.

    The media have been managed beyond body counts in this war. On the other hand, the victims in Operation 9-11 were honoured by the largest coordinated media effort in history--on an ongoing basis. Will we still be lamenting that 5-year old Iraqi (etc.) in 3 years? Will we be cleaning up the depleted uranium that continues to kill Iraqis for generations? What about mines, cluster bombs? Are those farmers and children the madmen you wish to kill?

    The proportion of citizen to military deaths in war has ballooned in the last century. Counting them, regardless of the side they're on, is one way to deal with it.

    One other point... that body count is a tally of insecurity for U.S. citizens, since for every death of an innocent in places like Iraq, the rationale for "resistance" AKA "terrorism" increases. What about the blindly bitter 18-year old brother of that dead child? It is a convincing argument that USA foreign policy is currently hurting long-term security interests at the expense of that which is cited as worth fighting for--freedom. Blindly killing innocents guarantees further terrorist attacks on the U.S., and is therefore unpatriotic.

  8. Oh great! Another weapon the US can terrorize with by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If this work goes anywhere I hope the whole world gets the technology. I sick of this countries thuggery under the false pretexts that you hear constantly in the media.

    The US attacks those that are defenseless and important (and "evil"). If everyone gets good deterents then they don't qualify.

  9. YOU DO NOT FAIL IT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Y0U DO NOT FAIL IT