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Future Weapons of War in the Works
An anonymous reader writes "Who needs explosive missiles when you can just launch a 3 foot long chunk of metal at near Mach 7 speeds and get the same result? Popular Science looks at weapons the military is developing for future wars including electromagnetic railguns, space darts, superfast torpedos, laser cannons, and a gun that fires a million rounds per minute."
It would be far better to spend all this money on giving people less reason to fight each other.
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Say, better resource control in Mozambique (water)? What about building a machine that, instead of pumping out millions of rounds of lead per second, are able to make mud bricks and houses at a rate of 10 a day?
Why isn't this a priority? Simple. The ones in control of the funding are fucking assholes and have all the justification they need to continue bringing misery and death to the world
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
I find it interesting that the slashdot story icon for this is a nice wavy American flag. Is making missiles and weapons what America is proud of ?
... because there are people like you in the world who serve only to justify inhumanity
People like me, eh? I haven't started any genocidal wars, not that I can remember.
The problem with liberals like you is that you assume that people are fundamentally cooperative and sane, if only the nasty Warmongers (or Americans or Jews or Capitalists or whoever you blame) would go away, the world would return to Eden-like bliss. My advice to you is to grow up a bit.