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DARPA Looking into Hypersonic Bombers
while(true) writes "As reported previously here on Slashdot, hypersonic jets from NASA has recently been in the news. Now DARPA is showing interest in the military applications and is to host a conference on hypersonic unmanned bombers. These bombers could be based in the US and yet strike from space at any place in the world within 2 hours. BBC has a report about these air/spacecraft that could be operational by 2025."
Why do you have such fast bombers?
The better to bomb the living fuck out of you, my dear.
"Darpa says: "This capability would free the US military from reliance on forward basing to enable it to react promptly and decisively to destabilising or threatening actions by hostile countries and terrorist organisations.""
Someone should let them know the solution is 50 years old.
Kevin Fox
Why on earth would I care about DARPA projects? It's not like they've affectd my day-to-day life. I mean, why do people care about DARPA anyway? It's not like they built the internet or anything. Oh well. Maybe I'm just out of the loop.
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sounds like a posh ICBM to me. Wait until the funding gets cut, and the bombs will have to travel by boat, train and coach.
"The whole project goes under the acronym Falcon - Force Application and Launch from the Continental United States."
hmmm... I think that's the most contrived acronym I have *ever* seen... was "COOL DEATH EAGLE" already taken?
'This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it' - Eeyore
In what appears to be another carefully planned "shock and awe" tactic, DARPA is running its www.darpa.mil website on the Microsoft IIS/5.0 server.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Who Do You Want to Liberate Today^H^H^H^H^H In 2 Hours?
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
This will prove handy-dandy when someone needs a-killin'
tone
"It should make us wonder if this sort of rapid response is always a good thing to have?"
How many people misread that as a rabid response?
It is well documented that the USA has developed and maintains a large stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Even now the US is sitting on huge armaments of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, some of which are armed and ready to strike any city in the world within two hours. This rogue nation has already invaded and occupied one soverign state and has explicitely threatened several others. We cannot afford to wait until the USA has already struck -- we must force the Bush regime to disarm, or preemptively invade immediately to force a regime change. Our citizens' safety demands no less.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
...and look at the mess they caused! I'd hate to have Slim Pickens at the controls of one of those hypersonic bomber thingies.
Why is it that kids these days need everything right away? When I was a kid, it took a lot longer than two hours to destroy the world... and we LIKED it that way.
Cyberdyne Systems has announced a new microchip design with revolutionary human-like properties. The government has already begun courting the company for use of the chip in defense projects, such as the aforementioned unmanned bombers. Cyberdyne hoped the chip would have been finished by 1997, but fell behind after a tragic explosion in their lab and loss of the initial prototype. Code-named SkyNet, the government hopes the processor will be driving all defense computer within the next few years.
ba dum pah....ch!!!!!!! "over there, move toward that Iraqi grade school"
400 miles of thin high altitude air? I'd rather have 1 mile of rock over my head, thank you.
The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation gives an assload of money to charity every year...
They must be EXCELLENT moral people.
LilMikey.com... I'll stop doing it when you sto
The mines decide as a group what configuration is best and then move to fill the gap.
I wonder how they go about it...
"Okay, Frank...hop over into that gap right there."
"Shit, no! Larry just got run over by a TANK! Did you see that? You hop into the gap, asshole!"
..our "current" technology seeming "current", saying that this stuff will be possible in the future. The Gov has to keep it's flying saucers secret so they can use them in the hoaxed space invasion thats scheduled after the "War on Asteroids" which should take place as soon as our current "War on Terror" has wound itsself down a bit.
:)
BTW, I don't wear a tinfoil hat anymore, I've had it grafted onto my skull
Skynet!
Hacking the Network
Simply send out a signal, have them disarm themselves, gather into a central area, and then go and pick em up.
I'll send out the signal and YOU go pick them up!
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
I'd rather have a less effective military and more effective means of getting people to other countries. We'd be a lot less hated if we delivered tourists and businessmen, rather than bombs, to foreign countries.
Assuming the tourists and businessmen can behave themselves when they get there...