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Building a Better Bomb

Posted by michael on from the easier-than-regrowing-arms dept.

dr who and the darlix writes "There is a nice article here about carbon composite warheads being tested. They destroy their targets while minimizing collateral damage."

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  1. well... by NotAnotherReboot · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm still waiting for a bomb that doesn't destroy its target while maximizing collateral damage.

    1. Re:well... by AntiOrganic · · Score: 5, Funny

      We've got politicians for that, silly.

    2. Re:well... by composer777 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah, but why are they spending so much on bombs? Why aren't they applying more technology to the true solution to terrorism, which is of course, spying on the American peopple? I mean, that is part of the solution, is to spy on us right, and just like the war on Iraq, it's because we all love democracy so much, right?

  2. Don't rent the DVD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I minimize "Collateral Damage" by not renting the dam movie in the first place. Yet, it IS a bomb; this is not off-topic.

  3. Building a Better -edited- by MongooseCN · · Score: 4, Funny

    Great title michael. You forgot to use the words Terrorist, Airplane and President in the title too.

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  4. Make your time by RealisticWeb.com · · Score: 2, Funny
    If we keep minimizing colateral damage, then by A.D. 2101 no one will be able to say:

    Somebody set up us the bomb.
    All your base are belong to us.

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  5. Oh Great by Matt_Fisher · · Score: 3, Funny

    So does this mean there will be bombs that only kill one person and cost 20 billion to make. ALRIGHT!!

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  6. Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    At last... we can kill all the fucking arab and saudi terrorists without damaging the oil wells.

    Allah be praised!

  7. Re:well...Bean bomb. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I'm still waiting for a bomb that doesn't destroy its target while maximizing collateral damage."

    Farts.

  8. Oh shit! by RealBeanDip · · Score: 3, Funny

    "In the present effort, a Livermore team led by engineer Michael Murphy"

    They've got Murphy involved already...

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  9. I I were in charge of the Pentagon... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'd put a neutron bomb inside a carbon-composite warhead, just to fuck with them.

  10. Can we use these... by Powercntrl · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...on spammers?

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  11. Misguided....Howdy neighbour. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "This has nothing to do with what you do or do not do. You can make more people dislike you through your choices, but you can never make no people dislike you. You can never be loved by everyone. Sooner or later, somebody's going to come along who hates you, hates your way of life, and wants to kill you."

    Damn! That Mr Rogers must have been one hated bastard.

  12. Building a better bomb? by Bowie+J.+Poag · · Score: 2, Funny



    For a second, I thought this article was gonna talk about a sequel to 'Gigli'.

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  13. "bomb" -- nice going by nuwayser · · Score: 2, Funny

    do you know how many people surfing /. from work are now going to have their browsing activity flagged because they loaded the front page of yr freakin' site. Hel-LO??? Note to self -- don't visit /. for another 36 hours.

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  14. If its the US army launching them... by neostorm · · Score: 2, Funny

    Then it depends greatly on if they can hit their target in the first place, doesn't it?

  15. Einstein. Pah! by PHAEDRU5 · · Score: 2, Funny

    He did all his great work around 1905. From then on he was spent. No more great ideas, just religiious critiques of better ideas than his.

    Take his comment on WWIII. It's being fought right now. When it's over, the entire world will be better off.

    - The world will be safe for American liberal democracy.
    - European Corporatism (Fascism dressed in Prada) will be contained.
    - Islamic lunatic fundamentalism will be tamed.
    - Baathism (Arab Fascism) will be dead.
    - Saddam will be dead.
    - The Iranian mullocracy will have been torn to pieces by the people it's oppressed.
    - Kim Jong Il will not be lobbing nukes at Attu and Kiska; with any luck he'll be pickled in the sauce he loves so much and put on display for dung-flinging competitions
    - Ditto the house of Saud.
    etc., etc.

    WWIII was forced on the U.S., but the U.S. will be standing long after the perpretrators have discovered the joys of pacifism, just like the Japanese did after we paid back Pearl Harbor with Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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