CVs are designed to operate for 50 years, Destroyers and Cruisers for 25-35 years generally. There are upgrades done to the American Carriers when they go in for Refueling Complex Overhauls and Mid-Life Upgrades.
"The Navy plans 33-month nuclear refueling Refueling Complex Overhauls for its Nimitz-class carriers beginning with the USS Nimitz in fiscal year 1998. On 01 May 1998 Newport News Shipbuilding was awarded a contract by the US Navy to perform refueling and overhaul work on the USS Nimitz (CVN 68). The contract, valued at approximately $1.2 billion, was signed by Navy and Newport News Shipbuilding officials on April 30, 1998. Nimitz, the lead ship of the class, is also the first of its class to undergo this major life-cycle milestone. The ship arrived in late May 1998 and the work performance period was scheduled to last approximately 33 months. In addition to the refueling of both of the ship's reactors, significant modernization work includes a major upgrade of the island house that will involve the shipyard removing the top two levels of the island house and replacing them. This action is driven by the installation of a new antenna mast that runs down along the island and will provide for better radar capabilities. The shipyard is also integrating a new radar tower aboard Nimitz. The Navy elected to overhaul the Nimitz without adding cooperative engagement, integrated ship self defense, the advanced combat direction system, the rolling airframe missile, the AN/SPQ-9 navigation radar, a common high-band data link, the battlegroup passive horizon extension system, an outboard weapons elevator, conversion of nuclear magazines, emergency ordnance handling, and improved propellers. More than 3,200 Newport News Shipbuilding employees will be working aboard Nimitz during peak periods of the overhaul and refueling project."
Good points. But the problem was in that the Brits and other NATO navies didn't have good long-range or mid range SAM systems because they figured in the Atlantic war with the Soviets that the Americans would deal with the long range stuff in the Atlantic and they would be in convoys doing the point defense work. The Brits figured out that point wasn't enough there.
The American Tartar and Standard systems of the early 1980s were much better at long and medium range work with the Sea Sparrow acting as point, the Falklands showed the US that they needed more point and they ramped up the R&D and procurement of the CIWS. Now it's a myth that the Falklands drove the initial development of CIWS, the French and Israelis let the Brits, Germans and Americans know that SSM and ASM seaskimmer were an issue and CIWS development started in the late 1970s.
The Brits in the early 80s had an airborne radar from some Sea King helicopters, but it's important to look at the Argentines, they did some amazing nap of the earth work when they conducted strikes on the British. While the Brits had holes, the Argentine strike aircraft, crews and pilots did outstanding work there, likely the best low altitude airstrike flying there has been.
I'm a Graduate Student and I take my Powerbook to all classes. I pay for University and I'll be damned if a Professor will tell me how I'm going to learn and if I can/can't take my laptop to the class I am paying for.
Here is the quote by the only pilot who has flown both. In March 2005, United States Air Force Chief of Staff General John P. Jumper, then the only person to have flown both the Typhoon and the Raptor, talked to Air Force Print News about these two aircraft. He said that "the Eurofighter is both agile and sophisticated, but is still difficult to compare to the F/A-22 Raptor. They are different kinds of airplanes to start with; it's like asking us to compare a NASCAR car with a Formula 1 car. They are both exciting in different ways, but they are designed for different levels of performance".
Gen. John P. Jumper, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff, flew the Raptor faster than Mach 1.7 without afterburners on January 13, 2005. The absence of variable intake ramps may make speeds greater than Mach 2.0 unreachable, but there is no evidence to prove this. Such ramps would be used to prevent engine "flame-out", which is caused when too much air extinguishes the engine's "pilot light", but the intake itself may be designed to prevent such flame-outs. Former Lockheed Raptor chief test pilot Paul Metz says the Raptor has a fixed inlet. Paul Metz has also stated that the F-22 has a top speed greater than 1600 mph (Mach 2.42) and its climb rate is faster than the F-15 Eagle. This is due to the fact that the F-22 is one of the few western aircraft with a thrust to weight ratio significantly greater than 1:1. The true top speed of the F-22 is largely unknown, as engine power is only one factor. The ability of the airframe to withstand the stress and heat from friction is a key factor, especially in an aircraft using as many polymers as the F-22. However, while some aircraft are faster on paper, the internal carriage of its standard combat load allows the aircraft to reach comparatively higher performance with a heavy load than other modern aircraft due to its lack of drag from external stores.
Not "neck and neck" but different aircraft for different roles.
In March 2003, during a combat training flight, 1 F-22A went against 5 F-15C Eagles. During the exercise, the F-22A shot down all F-15's without being damaged
In addition, the F-22 has a superior radar to the Typhoon in the Raytheon and Northrop Grumman AN/APG-77 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar
Raptor's warload - It is estimated that internal bays can carry about 20,000 lb (10,000 kg) worth of bombs, and/or missiles. Four external hardpoints can be fitted to carry weapons or fuel tanks, each with a capacity of 5,000 lb (2,000 kg), albeit at the expense of stealth. Maximum gross takeoff weight: 80,000 lb (37,000 kg)
Typhoon's warload, all external, four BVRAAMs and two IR AAMs. Maximum gross takeoff weight: 21,000 kg (46,300 lb), "austere air-to-ground".
In early 2006, Lieutenant Colonel Jim Hecker, commander of the 27th Fighter Squadron (FS) at Langley commented to Jane's Defence Weekly (18th jan. 2006) that: "We killed 33 F-15Cs and didn't suffer a single loss," he said. "They didn't see us at all." after an exercise with 8 F-22's in Nevada in Nov. 2005. In that exercise, a group of 4 F-22s assaulted a simulated air-defence network of SA-10 and SA-12s, they opened a hole in the network so that B-2, B-52 and B-1s could come in, then another group of 4 F-22s engaged F-15Cs and defeated them 33 to 0.
They would need the code to change the aircraft's envelope for various weapons. I was reading in an industry magazine about the software for the F-22. It's about to be upgraded so that the Small Diameter Bombs and 500 pound JDAMs can be dropped from the internal weapon bays in supersonic flight. Right now they can drop them both, but only at subsonic speeds.
So if the RAF had JSFs and say down the road wanted to use some new anti-armor weapon like the sucessor to Brimstone, they'd have to be able to change the fight software for them.
I got a 55 inch rear projection tv and I've found that since I went to component video inputs that the higher res settings of my PS2 and XBox give me motion sickness too on shooter games.
Cassini was launched in 1997 and entered Saturn's orbit on July 1, 2004. On December 25, 2004 the probe separated from the orbiter and probe reached Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005
Well, the United States has tropical island paradises. As for being hard to get a gun, I think just about everywhere on the planet has a firearm you can buy with some cash, since theres about 600 million guns around the world.
More radiation comes from coal plants than from all the nuclear waste, reactors and mining. Now as to your statement that Yucca Mountain is overflowing, that'd be hard since it isn't taking waste until 2010.
"The Yucca Mountain Project is currently focused on preparing an application to obtain a license from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to construct a repository."
What the BBC article really doesn't talk about is that if the UK increased thier nuclear power they'd decrease thier use of fossil fuels which will extend the commerical life of the North Sea fossil fuel reserves and allow the UK to sell more fossil fuels longer.
They do say "It regards building nuclear capacity as an alternative to reliance on fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas.
As North Sea supplies dwindle, nuclear is seen by some as a more secure source of energy than hydrocarbon supplies from unstable regimes. Proponents say it could generate large quantities of electricity while helping to stabilise carbon dioxide CO2 emissions." Yea, but that doesn't mention extending commerical life. Which would be a boon economically for the UK, Denmark and Norway.
They also don't mention advances in reactor technology that'd eliminate some of thier listed reservations.
True, but Rodents have the widest range in size of any mammal order. The African Pygmy Mouse is only 6 cm in length and 7 grams in weight. On the other hand, the Capybara can weigh up to 45 kg (100 pounds) and the extinct Phoberomys pattersoni is believed to have weighed 700 kg.
"There are three key things to know about 3554 Amun: First, its orbit crosses that of Earth; second, it's the smallest M-class (metal-bearing) asteroid yet discovered; and finally, it contains (at today's prices) roughly $8 trillion worth of iron and nickel, $6 trillion of cobalt, and $6 trillion of platinumlike metals." - FTFA
"3554 Amun is an M-type Aten asteroid (meaning it crosses Earth's orbit) and a Venus-crosser. It was discovered on 4 March 1986 by Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker at Mount Palomar Observatory."
Well actually, Man is encumbered by second thoughts about using animals for warfare, at least the United States has a clear record of caring for thier war animals, honoring thier deaths and caring for them.
""Thousands and thousands of dogs have given their lives for their handlers," said John Burnam, president of the Vietnam Dog Handlers Association and author of Dog Tags of Courage, a book detailing his experience as a handler in Vietnam. "They should be honored for their bravery and courage. A national memorial will honor all dogs in all wars."
"One such hero pigeon, "President Wilson," died in June 1929. During the Meuse-Argonne offensive, "President Wilson" flew twenty-five miles in as many minutes under heavy machine gun and artillery fire with a shattered leg and a badly wounded breast.
Found dead at the age of eleven, he was stuffed, mounted, and donated to the Smithsonian Institution.
The last of the World War heroes, "Mocker," died at Monmouth in June 1937. Badly wounded, Mocker homed from the vicinity of Beaumont France on September 12, 1918 with a message giving the exact location of enemy heavy artillery batteries."
However, the equipment made at "weapons plants" are not for the current conflicts. All of the expensive systems like F-22, F-35, the aircraft carriers, submarines, destroyers, frigates, and future armored vehicles being built are for conflicts in the 2010-2025 range. The only systems of high dollar value being built and used in the GWOT are sensor platforms like J-STAR, Global Hawk and the F-18E/F Super Hornet. JDAMs are being built and used right now, but in the scope of defense spending JDAMs are a small program.
The DoD and Intelligence Agencies forecast thier needs and platforms now, it's not like WW2-Vietnam where systems came off the line and went straight into the war.
If you export oil, you make money from the price of oil being high. If Iran stopped using oil domesticly, the price of oil will drop, a fair bit, which will make the rest of your oil worth less and then your nuclear program is costing you even more money.
Now then, hydrocarbons are NOT getting more expensive due to scarcity, but due to issues with refining, profit taking by the oil companies and speculation on the market.
Iran's leadership right now and Mao/Stalin can't really be compared, is it really acceptable to have a leadership who has promised to destroy Israel and has a grudge with all the Sunni nations in the world to get nuclear weapons?
If they put anything down there, it's going to be CO2.
Nuclear waste will go into something like Yucca Mountain. Remeber alot of the radioactive waste is stuff that's been irradiated and isn't a gas/liquid, things like clothes and gloves and pieces of junk. You can't just dump that down a pipe and have it be where oil was since Oil comes from porous rocks. Salt mines might be good places for radioactive wastes though.
First of all, a nuclear plant, as made in Western Europe, the US, Japan and most of them everywhere else have someting called a Containment Dome.
While the Chernobyl accident caused great negative health, economic, environmental and psychological effects in a widespread area, the accident at Chernobyl was caused by a combination of the faulty RBMK reactor design, the lack of a containment building, poorly trained operators, and a non-existent safety culture. The RBMK design, unlike nearly all designs used in the Western world, featured a positive void coefficient, meaning that a malfunction could result in ever-increasing generation of heat and radiation until the reactor was breached. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power#Acciden t_or_attack
RBMK is an acronym for the Russian reaktor bolshoy moshchnosti kanalniy which means "reactor (of) large power (of the) channel (type)", and describes a now-obsolete class of nuclear power reactor which was built only in the Soviet Union. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBMK
"In September 2005, a report by the Chernobyl Forum, comprising a number of agencies including the International Atomic Energy Agency, the World Health Organization, UN bodies and the Governments of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, put the total predicted number of deaths due to the accident at 4,000. This predicted death toll includes the fifty workers who died of acute radiation syndrome as a direct result of radiation from the disaster, nine children who died from thyroid cancer and an estimated 3,940 people who could die from cancer as a result of exposure to radiation."
From the Wikipedia article - "These traditions are from the hadith collections of Bukhari (d. 870) and Muslim b. al-Hajjaj (d. 875). These two collections are in general regarded as the most authentic by Sunni Muslims". Not just one guy who was senile, but two, likely old guys.
Anyway when talking about Mohammed, since that's alot of conjecture, after the fact writing and since alot of the New Testament was written after the fact and sometimes by odd fellas, Aisha's being underage has as much factual basis as your arguements against it. The Sunni believe it, the Shia aren't calling it complete heresy, but don't like her for other reasons, so it's the stronger point.
Now then, that from Numbers is in the context of a war between the Israelites and Midianites, not a general marry underage girls rule. In taking Bible quotes, it's important to look at the overall context of the quote.
"During that time, girls matured early because of the hot desert climate." Huh? There is no evidence that "hot desert climates" have anything to do with puberity. If anything due to diet, climate and physical hardship it would have been later than what we currently are seeing in females.
Sahih Muslim Book 008, Number 3310: 'Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported: Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) married me when I was six years old, and I was admitted to his house when I was nine years old.
Sahih Bukhari Volume 7, Book 62, Number 88 Narrated 'Urwa: The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with 'Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death).
Sahih Bukhari 8:151, Narrated 'Aisha: "I used to play with the dolls in the presence of the Prophet , and my girl friends also used to play with me. When Allah's Apostle used to enter (my dwelling place) they used to hide themselves, but the Prophet would call them to join and play with me. (The playing with the dolls and similar images is forbidden, but it was allowed for 'Aisha at that time, as she was a little girl, not yet reached the age of puberty.) (Fateh-al-Bari page 143, Vol.13)
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CVs are designed to operate for 50 years, Destroyers and Cruisers for 25-35 years generally. There are upgrades done to the American Carriers when they go in for Refueling Complex Overhauls and Mid-Life Upgrades.
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"The Navy plans 33-month nuclear refueling Refueling Complex Overhauls for its Nimitz-class carriers beginning with the USS Nimitz in fiscal year 1998. On 01 May 1998 Newport News Shipbuilding was awarded a contract by the US Navy to perform refueling and overhaul work on the USS Nimitz (CVN 68). The contract, valued at approximately $1.2 billion, was signed by Navy and Newport News Shipbuilding officials on April 30, 1998. Nimitz, the lead ship of the class, is also the first of its class to undergo this major life-cycle milestone. The ship arrived in late May 1998 and the work performance period was scheduled to last approximately 33 months. In addition to the refueling of both of the ship's reactors, significant modernization work includes a major upgrade of the island house that will involve the shipyard removing the top two levels of the island house and replacing them. This action is driven by the installation of a new antenna mast that runs down along the island and will provide for better radar capabilities. The shipyard is also integrating a new radar tower aboard Nimitz. The Navy elected to overhaul the Nimitz without adding cooperative engagement, integrated ship self defense, the advanced combat direction system, the rolling airframe missile, the AN/SPQ-9 navigation radar, a common high-band data link, the battlegroup passive horizon extension system, an outboard weapons elevator, conversion of nuclear magazines, emergency ordnance handling, and improved propellers. More than 3,200 Newport News Shipbuilding employees will be working aboard Nimitz during peak periods of the overhaul and refueling project."
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/sh
Good points. But the problem was in that the Brits and other NATO navies didn't have good long-range or mid range SAM systems because they figured in the Atlantic war with the Soviets that the Americans would deal with the long range stuff in the Atlantic and they would be in convoys doing the point defense work. The Brits figured out that point wasn't enough there.
The American Tartar and Standard systems of the early 1980s were much better at long and medium range work with the Sea Sparrow acting as point, the Falklands showed the US that they needed more point and they ramped up the R&D and procurement of the CIWS. Now it's a myth that the Falklands drove the initial development of CIWS, the French and Israelis let the Brits, Germans and Americans know that SSM and ASM seaskimmer were an issue and CIWS development started in the late 1970s.
The Brits in the early 80s had an airborne radar from some Sea King helicopters, but it's important to look at the Argentines, they did some amazing nap of the earth work when they conducted strikes on the British. While the Brits had holes, the Argentine strike aircraft, crews and pilots did outstanding work there, likely the best low altitude airstrike flying there has been.
Interesting, I was told that students have a right to record lectures here in Oregon.
Shes either a Luddite or on a power trip.
I'm a Graduate Student and I take my Powerbook to all classes. I pay for University and I'll be damned if a Professor will tell me how I'm going to learn and if I can/can't take my laptop to the class I am paying for.
Not so neck and neck.
f ighter_aircraft#DERA_study
Here is the quote by the only pilot who has flown both.
In March 2005, United States Air Force Chief of Staff General John P. Jumper, then the only person to have flown both the Typhoon and the Raptor, talked to Air Force Print News about these two aircraft. He said that "the Eurofighter is both agile and sophisticated, but is still difficult to compare to the F/A-22 Raptor. They are different kinds of airplanes to start with; it's like asking us to compare a NASCAR car with a Formula 1 car. They are both exciting in different ways, but they are designed for different levels of performance".
Gen. John P. Jumper, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff, flew the Raptor faster than Mach 1.7 without afterburners on January 13, 2005. The absence of variable intake ramps may make speeds greater than Mach 2.0 unreachable, but there is no evidence to prove this. Such ramps would be used to prevent engine "flame-out", which is caused when too much air extinguishes the engine's "pilot light", but the intake itself may be designed to prevent such flame-outs. Former Lockheed Raptor chief test pilot Paul Metz says the Raptor has a fixed inlet. Paul Metz has also stated that the F-22 has a top speed greater than 1600 mph (Mach 2.42) and its climb rate is faster than the F-15 Eagle. This is due to the fact that the F-22 is one of the few western aircraft with a thrust to weight ratio significantly greater than 1:1. The true top speed of the F-22 is largely unknown, as engine power is only one factor. The ability of the airframe to withstand the stress and heat from friction is a key factor, especially in an aircraft using as many polymers as the F-22. However, while some aircraft are faster on paper, the internal carriage of its standard combat load allows the aircraft to reach comparatively higher performance with a heavy load than other modern aircraft due to its lack of drag from external stores.
Not "neck and neck" but different aircraft for different roles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_2000s_
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-22
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurofighter_Typhoon
In March 2003, during a combat training flight, 1 F-22A went against 5 F-15C Eagles. During the exercise, the F-22A shot down all F-15's without being damaged
In addition, the F-22 has a superior radar to the Typhoon in the Raytheon and Northrop Grumman AN/APG-77 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar
Typhoon's powerplants - 2× Eurojet EJ200 afterburning turbofans, 60 kN dry, 90 kN with afterburner (13,500 lbf / 20,200 lbf) each
Raptor's powerplants - 2× Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 turbofans, >35,000 lb (160 kN) each
Raptor's warload - It is estimated that internal bays can carry about 20,000 lb (10,000 kg) worth of bombs, and/or missiles. Four external hardpoints can be fitted to carry weapons or fuel tanks, each with a capacity of 5,000 lb (2,000 kg), albeit at the expense of stealth. Maximum gross takeoff weight: 80,000 lb (37,000 kg)
Typhoon's warload, all external, four BVRAAMs and two IR AAMs. Maximum gross takeoff weight: 21,000 kg (46,300 lb), "austere air-to-ground".
In early 2006, Lieutenant Colonel Jim Hecker, commander of the 27th Fighter Squadron (FS) at Langley commented to Jane's Defence Weekly (18th jan. 2006) that: "We killed 33 F-15Cs and didn't suffer a single loss," he said. "They didn't see us at all." after an exercise with 8 F-22's in Nevada in Nov. 2005. In that exercise, a group of 4 F-22s assaulted a simulated air-defence network of SA-10 and SA-12s, they opened a hole in the network so that B-2, B-52 and B-1s could come in, then another group of 4 F-22s engaged F-15Cs and defeated them 33 to 0.
They would need the code to change the aircraft's envelope for various weapons. I was reading in an industry magazine about the software for the F-22. It's about to be upgraded so that the Small Diameter Bombs and 500 pound JDAMs can be dropped from the internal weapon bays in supersonic flight. Right now they can drop them both, but only at subsonic speeds.
So if the RAF had JSFs and say down the road wanted to use some new anti-armor weapon like the sucessor to Brimstone, they'd have to be able to change the fight software for them.
I got a 55 inch rear projection tv and I've found that since I went to component video inputs that the higher res settings of my PS2 and XBox give me motion sickness too on shooter games.
Cassini was launched in 1997 and entered Saturn's orbit on July 1, 2004. On December 25, 2004 the probe separated from the orbiter and probe reached Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini-Huygens
Well, the United States has tropical island paradises. As for being hard to get a gun, I think just about everywhere on the planet has a firearm you can buy with some cash, since theres about 600 million guns around the world.
More radiation comes from coal plants than from all the nuclear waste, reactors and mining. Now as to your statement that Yucca Mountain is overflowing, that'd be hard since it isn't taking waste until 2010.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_mountain
http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/ymp/about/index.shtml
"The Yucca Mountain Project is currently focused on preparing an application to obtain a license from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to construct a repository."
What the BBC article really doesn't talk about is that if the UK increased thier nuclear power they'd decrease thier use of fossil fuels which will extend the commerical life of the North Sea fossil fuel reserves and allow the UK to sell more fossil fuels longer.
They do say "It regards building nuclear capacity as an alternative to reliance on fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas.
As North Sea supplies dwindle, nuclear is seen by some as a more secure source of energy than hydrocarbon supplies from unstable regimes. Proponents say it could generate large quantities of electricity while helping to stabilise carbon dioxide CO2 emissions." Yea, but that doesn't mention extending commerical life. Which would be a boon economically for the UK, Denmark and Norway.
They also don't mention advances in reactor technology that'd eliminate some of thier listed reservations.
True, but Rodents have the widest range in size of any mammal order. The African Pygmy Mouse is only 6 cm in length and 7 grams in weight. On the other hand, the Capybara can weigh up to 45 kg (100 pounds) and the extinct Phoberomys pattersoni is believed to have weighed 700 kg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodent
So I bet with some tweaking you could have a beaver sized mouse.
Cobalt, Platinum family metals, Iron and Nickel.
"There are three key things to know about 3554 Amun: First, its orbit crosses that of Earth; second, it's the smallest M-class (metal-bearing) asteroid yet discovered; and finally, it contains (at today's prices) roughly $8 trillion worth of iron and nickel, $6 trillion of cobalt, and $6 trillion of platinumlike metals." - FTFA
"3554 Amun is an M-type Aten asteroid (meaning it crosses Earth's orbit) and a Venus-crosser. It was discovered on 4 March 1986 by Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker at Mount Palomar Observatory."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3554_Amun
Well actually, Man is encumbered by second thoughts about using animals for warfare, at least the United States has a clear record of caring for thier war animals, honoring thier deaths and caring for them.
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""Thousands and thousands of dogs have given their lives for their handlers," said John Burnam, president of the Vietnam Dog Handlers Association and author of Dog Tags of Courage, a book detailing his experience as a handler in Vietnam. "They should be honored for their bravery and courage. A national memorial will honor all dogs in all wars."
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/07/0
"One such hero pigeon, "President Wilson," died in June 1929. During the Meuse-Argonne offensive, "President Wilson" flew twenty-five miles in as many minutes under heavy machine gun and artillery fire with a shattered leg and a badly wounded breast.
Found dead at the age of eleven, he was stuffed, mounted, and donated to the Smithsonian Institution.
The last of the World War heroes, "Mocker," died at Monmouth in June 1937. Badly wounded, Mocker homed from the vicinity of Beaumont France on September 12, 1918 with a message giving the exact location of enemy heavy artillery batteries."
http://www.monmouth.army.mil/monmessg/newmonmsg/s
http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sandiego/technology/ma
http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sandiego/technology/ma
However, the equipment made at "weapons plants" are not for the current conflicts. All of the expensive systems like F-22, F-35, the aircraft carriers, submarines, destroyers, frigates, and future armored vehicles being built are for conflicts in the 2010-2025 range. The only systems of high dollar value being built and used in the GWOT are sensor platforms like J-STAR, Global Hawk and the F-18E/F Super Hornet. JDAMs are being built and used right now, but in the scope of defense spending JDAMs are a small program.
The DoD and Intelligence Agencies forecast thier needs and platforms now, it's not like WW2-Vietnam where systems came off the line and went straight into the war.
The G5 was never put in a laptop. Since this is a Laptop vs. Laptop shootout, they went with the G4.
Yea, theres alot of those around, I didn't link to a site with all those cause I wanted to go back to playing WoW.
t ors#Research_reactors_19
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_reac
If you export oil, you make money from the price of oil being high. If Iran stopped using oil domesticly, the price of oil will drop, a fair bit, which will make the rest of your oil worth less and then your nuclear program is costing you even more money.
Now then, hydrocarbons are NOT getting more expensive due to scarcity, but due to issues with refining, profit taking by the oil companies and speculation on the market.
Iran's leadership right now and Mao/Stalin can't really be compared, is it really acceptable to have a leadership who has promised to destroy Israel and has a grudge with all the Sunni nations in the world to get nuclear weapons?
If they put anything down there, it's going to be CO2.
Nuclear waste will go into something like Yucca Mountain. Remeber alot of the radioactive waste is stuff that's been irradiated and isn't a gas/liquid, things like clothes and gloves and pieces of junk. You can't just dump that down a pipe and have it be where oil was since Oil comes from porous rocks. Salt mines might be good places for radioactive wastes though.
So do all the other nuclear power plants in the South keep you up at night?
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http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/nuclear/page/at_a_gl
I count 20 commerican reactors with a quick look at former Confederate States.
First of all, a nuclear plant, as made in Western Europe, the US, Japan and most of them everywhere else have someting called a Containment Dome.
n t_or_attack
While the Chernobyl accident caused great negative health, economic, environmental and psychological effects in a widespread area, the accident at Chernobyl was caused by a combination of the faulty RBMK reactor design, the lack of a containment building, poorly trained operators, and a non-existent safety culture. The RBMK design, unlike nearly all designs used in the Western world, featured a positive void coefficient, meaning that a malfunction could result in ever-increasing generation of heat and radiation until the reactor was breached.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power#Accide
RBMK is an acronym for the Russian reaktor bolshoy moshchnosti kanalniy which means "reactor (of) large power (of the) channel (type)", and describes a now-obsolete class of nuclear power reactor which was built only in the Soviet Union.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBMK
"In September 2005, a report by the Chernobyl Forum, comprising a number of agencies including the International Atomic Energy Agency, the World Health Organization, UN bodies and the Governments of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, put the total predicted number of deaths due to the accident at 4,000. This predicted death toll includes the fifty workers who died of acute radiation syndrome as a direct result of radiation from the disaster, nine children who died from thyroid cancer and an estimated 3,940 people who could die from cancer as a result of exposure to radiation."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_accident
Not that much of Asia or Europe were "fucked" by Chernobyl.
From the Wikipedia article - "These traditions are from the hadith collections of Bukhari (d. 870) and Muslim b. al-Hajjaj (d. 875). These two collections are in general regarded as the most authentic by Sunni Muslims". Not just one guy who was senile, but two, likely old guys.
Anyway when talking about Mohammed, since that's alot of conjecture, after the fact writing and since alot of the New Testament was written after the fact and sometimes by odd fellas, Aisha's being underage has as much factual basis as your arguements against it. The Sunni believe it, the Shia aren't calling it complete heresy, but don't like her for other reasons, so it's the stronger point.
Umm, Numbers is from the Torah, so it's the basis of Judaism, Christianity and is a strong influence on Islam too.
Might want to check this all out before you make wild accusations there - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible
Now then, that from Numbers is in the context of a war between the Israelites and Midianites, not a general marry underage girls rule. In taking Bible quotes, it's important to look at the overall context of the quote.
"During that time, girls matured early because of the hot desert climate." Huh? There is no evidence that "hot desert climates" have anything to do with puberity. If anything due to diet, climate and physical hardship it would have been later than what we currently are seeing in females.
More like a wife under the age of ten.
Sahih Muslim Book 008, Number 3310: 'Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported: Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) married me when I was six years old, and I was admitted to his house when I was nine years old.
Sahih Bukhari Volume 7, Book 62, Number 88 Narrated 'Urwa: The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with 'Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death).
Sahih Bukhari 8:151, Narrated 'Aisha: "I used to play with the dolls in the presence of the Prophet , and my girl friends also used to play with me. When Allah's Apostle used to enter (my dwelling place) they used to hide themselves, but the Prophet would call them to join and play with me. (The playing with the dolls and similar images is forbidden, but it was allowed for 'Aisha at that time, as she was a little girl, not yet reached the age of puberty.) (Fateh-al-Bari page 143, Vol.13)