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Boeing 12,000lb Chemical Laser Set to Fry Targets
coondoggie writes "Boeing this week completed work on and installed a 12,000-pound chemical laser in a C-130H aircraft. Boeing's Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) which is being developed for the Department of Defense, will destroy, damage or disable targets with little to no collateral damage, supporting missions on the battlefield and in urban operations."
Yeah. Remote soldering. From 30,000 feet. Soldering your ass to a hole in the ground. The hole they burn into the ground while "soldering" your ass.
Oh, right. PEACEFUL applications... Maybe as someone previously suggested, popping corn. Remotely. From 30,000 feet... popping corn straight up your...
Oh yeah, right. Peaceful applications. I can't think of any.
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What do you think the total control and surveillance is about? Terrorism? Domestic "terrorism", if anything.
Notice how it all became the craze after the Paris riots? When politicians noticed that sooner or later something like that will become the problem of every town if we continue to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Because, well, to get richer after you have ripped off every penny from those that have already nothing, you have to create more poor and push those in the middle further down.
Face it, your politicians are scared shitless of you. And if we continue like this, they are with good reason.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
If the current government considers me a troublemaker, it only tells me I'm on the right track.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
yeah, and it's a nice way to spend shitloads of cash, and then refusing to sign any environment-treaties..
thank you very much USA, we love you alot!
i find your lack of faith in science disturbing!
i'd say that the fucking idiot is not him. Guns already are a liability, and everybody knows that, except some fucking idiots who believe any stupidity their fucking idiot and lying leaders tell them. I don't think GP is one of them.
entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
Right. It's dandy if you are from afghanistan, somalia, irak, and colombia too.
You people seem to believe that this planet has room for a few selected, occidental, "democratic" country, and bomb the hell out of anybody else.
No country has been more agressive to other countries than the US, in the whole history of mankind. We didn't ask the us to protect us, we don't want their "protection", and for us, that awfull lot of guns, in a country where kids regularly go to school to shoot their classmates, their governmente makes up shit to justify bombimng and invading of other countries, and just to follow a lead on some saudi guy allegedlly hiding somewhere decide to bomb the hell out of a third country and invade them, and threaten their neighbour to bomb them back to the stone age if they didn't help them do it is in no way an asset for world peace.
entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
Anyone else give up reading the article a couple paragraphs in? The final straw for me was when I read - "Both systems employ a Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) that is made by combining a bunch of nasty chemicals". Ahh yes, a "bunch of nasty chemicals" that sounds very scientific. I realize that they listed a few of them after that... but the silliness of that in conjunction with the fact that the first few paragraphs barely made sense makes me sad. It seems like no one proofreads anymore... it's like journalism has turned into the slashdot discussion area.
You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeehahahahaha, that's the funniest thing I've read this year. Thanks for ending it on a high!
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.