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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."
Right! We should just BRIBE the entire world to do what we want them to.
The least sophisticated way of relating to other people is killing them.
Sometimes it's the easiest and most efficient, though. :)
Unfortunately there is a certain kind of people against who killing and destroying property IS very good way for making good relationships.
Look how islamic world turining softer by the minute after the Iraqi war.
Nagasaki and Hiroshima, you peacenik fool..
Exterminate them all...
Those camel-fuckers in Iraq are out there day and night making a sherade of what we worked so hard to establish on this earth... peace and liberty.
You people are just the soft underbelly of a proud and strong nation that is America. Shame on you!
I saw this on the BBC this morning and looked around CNN, the New York Times site, and the other usual suspects in vain for any word of this. Surely this has some importance to people in the United States, since we'll be paying for t in our taxes? But for some reason, the mainstream media in the US has chosen to simply roll over and play dead for the government. Remember all the play given to that boring and irrelevant Lewinsky case? But the fact that the government lied to get us into a war, the fact that the government has marked the enquiry on what went wrong on 9/11 as classified, crucial things involving life and death for thousands of Americans, have barely been mentioned here in the US.
I disagree. I'm by no means anti-american, but i strongly disagree with your statements.
Your country men die because your military and their commanders have absolutely no clue about reality outside America. This is illustrated by the large number of American casulties currently being inflicted in Iraq; note, the British, on the other hand, have lost only 6 (not counting those killed by "Friendly Fire" -but we'll forget about that one), and conversely have succeed in winning the support of the iraqi's in their area.
US policy had nothing to do with the American's involvement in WW2, it was a little thing called Pearl Harbour. The mighty America got dragged kicking and screaming into the war -two years late, i might add! Only the American's would believe that it was their involvement that WON the war. I guess you are forgetting: the russians, british, french, australians etc...
If it wasn't for American foreign policy, their would be no South Korea, their wouldn't however be the majority of the worlds problems at the moment. I think the atrocities of 11th September 2001 highlight this fact.
Instead, you have an imbecilic, corrupt president, which goes to show the mentallity of your nation as a whole to the rest of the world -a laughing stock!
It is interesting that a person of your small intelligence makes an even more flawed analogy between chess and international conflicts.
Checkmate, but reply soon!
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Hmmm...the US spends more on it's miitary than all other industrialized countries COMBINED...do we really need to be spreading even MORE fear with this crap?
Sheesh, when will we learn that we are the absolute worst at setting example. Don't even get me started on moral high ground. I'm sorry, but we suck. We want to rule the world via fear to breed consent, and we're doing a damn good job of it.
I'd hate us too...
I mean for Christ's sake, can we FIRST give health care to our children? Help our elderly pay for their medication? Fix our schools and pay our teachers a decent wage? Create jobs? etc... I read a story like this every day, and it makes me sick.
We could pay less to set better examples, but no, we want power, not an end to the reaons for hostility. Build better bombs, make them fear us, and we will rule the world! Mwuuuhaahaaahaaahaa...*hack* *cough!*...ahem...mwwuhaa haa...
What kind of IDIOT wants a world, albeit a possibly safer world, ruled by fear? If YOU do, then move to China. And you would have LOVED Iraq before we decimated it. Yes, you attempt to hinder acquisition of "interests" or even speak out against it, watch out baby...
Now, imagine it on a global scale...
Yikes.
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel Boorstin
Have you considered the possibility of licking my balls?
Jesus H. Christmas people, we can put a man on the moon and yet I still am propped up like a soldier and stopped up like a toilet. My balls need some TLC!
TLC == Tongue Licking C____ something.
Preach it! Your buddies didn't die face down in the mud in Vietnam so some rich fuck could make snide comments about the US on some liberal discussion board.
[Set Cain on fire and steal his lute.]
France surrenders following Slashdot posting
Following a terrifying post on the technology news site, Slashdot, France formally surrendered to the United States. French President Jaques Chirac went on French state television just seconds after the post appeared, looking quite pale and worn, telling the people of France,
"We have no choice but to surrender in the face of this new and disturbing news. Our only deterrent to being once again conquered by force is apparently of no use to us! We will investigate this situation immediately, unless we are told not to by the United States."
US Secretary of State Colon Powell responded to the news of France's surrender with utter astonishment.
"We didn't ask France to surrender, we didn't threaten them unless they surrendered, we haven't even talked to the French in over a month. I honestly don't have the slightest idea what's happened here, but I assure you and the American people that we will find out why it is that France has surrendered to us."
(Editors note: Mr Powell was heard bursting into uncontrollable laughter following this interview)
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
That's the standard answer. "It's percentages."
So, please.. think about what that means. Matter of fact is that countries that are doing much worse than the US economically, are spending a much larger portion of their (smaller) fortune on foreign aid. The US is dead last any way you see it.
But by all means, preserve "your way of life". It's what you're good at.
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
Your comment painfully illustrates your complete ignorance. Any REAL problems NASA has can be directly tied to knee jerk whiners like you.
I bet your a Democrate.
Those crazy warmongering bastards. Has anything good ever come out of DARPA?
FACT:
By your logic in WW2 you would have complained that we developed the b-52 bomber to kill the nazi.
Well I guess we shouldn't have done that.
Now from your logic the Nazi would have won.
I can already see you typing some bullshit reply about how this isn't comparable. Oh on another note, if we didn't developed the atom bomb during ww2 we would have beaten the japans, but do you think the Russians would have stopped? The only reason they didn't pull forward and take all of Europe was because they feared the bomb.
THE BOMB ENDED THE WAR MORON, AND NEWER BOMBS WILL KEEP YOUR ASS FREE.