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A Space Cannon That Might Actually Work
Unequivocal writes "Chalk another one up to Jules Verne. Physicist John Hunter is proposing a space cannon with a new design idea: it's mostly submerged. 'Many engineers have toyed with the [space cannon] concept, but nobody has came up with an actual project that may work. Hunter's idea is simple: Build a cannon near the equator, submerged in the ocean, hooked to a floating rig ... A system like this will cut launch costs from $5,000 per pound to only $250 per pound. It won't launch people into space because of the excessive acceleration, but those guys at the ISS can use it to order pizza and real ice cream.' Though it won't work on people, with launch costs that low, who cares?"
Iraq is the nation you're looking for. Saddam Hussein was President of Iraq.
We hope your rules and wisdom choke you / Now we are one in everlasting peace
Don't be so harsh, such error is now completely understandable; Iran is the new boogie man.
One that hath name thou can not otter
I think he said Iran because they're made out to be the latest and greatest big bad weapons of mass destruction nation.
Since we conquered Iraq and all already it'd be kind of silly to use them hypothetically.
I guess there is a reason why half the presidents in this country are morally void (Yes I see the irony of calling new born christians morally void).
And the other half are dead?
Saddam Hussein was Iraq's dictator not president. A presidency requires there be some degree of democracy which Iraq was sorely lacking. Now in so far as the Canadian assisting Saddam with his weapon, that could be considered treason against Canada if Canada felt that Iraq was a significant threat.
Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
He was a dictator, but his official title was still President. A fact is a fact.
We hope your rules and wisdom choke you / Now we are one in everlasting peace
I could say that I was president of Argentina but that doesn't make me one any more than it did Saddam.
Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
What a ridicules thing to say. Saddam Hussein was the undisputed leader of a country. Were you? Saddam command an army. Did you? Saddam had diplomatic ties to the US at times during his time in power. Have you ever been visited by US diplomats?
Unless you can answer yes to any of those questions you are speaking absolute nonsense.
We hope your rules and wisdom choke you / Now we are one in everlasting peace
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