DIY Cruise Missile Designer Turns Freelance

js7a writes "Bruce Simpson of New Zealand, the designer of a homebrew cruise missile as reported here, has been left destitute by hastily-imposed restrictions of his national authorities, and is now offering his services to any non-terrorist willing to provide room, board, travel, expenses, and a negotiated rate. There is no question that cruise missile, UAV, bio-warfare, chemical weapons technology, and probably nuclear technologies will all continue to fall in cost significantly for the foreseeable future."

Comments

Re:Buh Bye

[drinkypoo]

If you just "toss" someone's apartment, aka trash it like you're looking something (whether you are or not) then it looks like a burglary. If you break in and just rearrange all the furniture you're going to contribute to a general sense of paranoia and it's clear you weren't there to steal something.

Re:Cost efficiency

[Bitsy Boffin]

New Zealand is hydropowered for the most part, we do have a couple of coal fired stations but mostly as backup for when the lakes get a bit low and the power usage gets a bit high.

We also have a windfarm somewhere but that's of negligible contribution.

So our power generation capabilities are quite reliable for the forseeable future.

Anyway, I'd like to see any vessels nuclear power plant try to power an entire city let alone a country of 4 million people!

The NZ Nuclear Free stance is based on two directions

1. Nuclear Weapons are bad mm'kay.
2. Nuclear Power Generation (NPG) has a risk of contaminating our unique and isolated ecosystem.

I have no problem with NPG, but the risk to our ecosystem is too great, we have to find a better way to deal with the waste before NPG could be considered.

The Nuclear Weapons issue however is non-negotiable, and if the US won't confirm that conventionally powered vessels (are there any left anyway) do not carry nuclear weapons, then they are not permitted in NZ either.