Have a look at some of the pictures from central antarctica, which hasn't seen liquid water since the surface was formed.
Wind erosion can, over time, look a lot like what you associate with water.
Yes, they are breathtaking, yes they are very pretty.
But don't get too carried away, they have been heavily mediated from the raw data to make them look like what their creator wanted (and to some degree what was expected beforehand).
Thats not to say they're wrong, just don't take them as being canonical.
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thats a targetting laser being detected.
it's not incinerating on it's way in.
and did that "laser detected" give you a range and bearing?
Against a real fighting laser you wouldn't need the "laser detected" light, because your flesh would be melting first.
well i'm an Australian with family in the British Army.
There's a general perception (might not be true) that American soldiers are discouraged from developing their independent thinking, which in turn leads them to blindly shoot at stuff which may later turn our to be one of their own.
Australian units in Vietnam had MUCH lower rates of friendly fire than their American counterparts, thats the only near-fair comparison I have.
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u sure?
we're talking a coherent beam...
so the detector would have to be along the firing line right?
I suppose a really tip-top damage control system might manage to get a fix?
Also expect the truck carrying this thing to be well camoflaged.
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EASILY decoded is the point.
With enough time and effort a Government should be able to brute force a key.
But it's a lot of time and effort and even the US government can't go breaking all of them.
govt's would certainly prefer everything was sent in easy-to-read ASCII
russia's GDP figures are wildly misleading, mostly because such a massive chunk of the economy doesn't show up on any official ledgers.
Buy a PS2 instead
then u can play the game
Seems like a waste of your tax dollars (and the rich have good accountants so the tax burden tends to fall on the middle and the bottom.)
But I realise Europeans don't reason that way either.
I'm all for making computers affordable,
but if people don't want one enough to get one, what are they going to do when it gets pushed through their door?
I can see Eastern Europe filling up with these units.
Evidence for a canary trap.
Every recipient has different typos, the leaker is thus identified.
Of course if the leaker is aware of this they change the typo's around themselves
and the finger of blame falls upon Doreen in the typing pool.
Bad luck Doreen.
Now if they can get the parrots brain to stream a live webcast of itself..
then u'd really get some page imprints as the thing reach critical mass...
Why does anyone use .au?
.com
seriously, my friends and I (in Australia) always end up going with
.au requires all manner of paperwork and fuss, and nearly as much money, and in the end u have to type 3 more characters everytime.
if it came pre-installed like windows does?
no problemo.
because it's their site
go somewhere else if you don't like it.
does anyone know how the Ion Drives performed?
I think you need to get outside more
you might have heard of a thing called weather?
Very heavy interpolation (better word than mine)
pretty, but never going to show anything we didn't already expect.
Don't be so sure.
Have a look at some of the pictures from central antarctica, which hasn't seen liquid water since the surface was formed.
Wind erosion can, over time, look a lot like what you associate with water.
Yes, they are breathtaking, yes they are very pretty.
But don't get too carried away, they have been heavily mediated from the raw data to make them look like what their creator wanted (and to some degree what was expected beforehand).
Thats not to say they're wrong, just don't take them as being canonical.
thats a targetting laser being detected.
it's not incinerating on it's way in.
and did that "laser detected" give you a range and bearing?
Against a real fighting laser you wouldn't need the "laser detected" light, because your flesh would be melting first.
well i'm an Australian with family in the British Army.
There's a general perception (might not be true) that American soldiers are discouraged from developing their independent thinking, which in turn leads them to blindly shoot at stuff which may later turn our to be one of their own.
Australian units in Vietnam had MUCH lower rates of friendly fire than their American counterparts, thats the only near-fair comparison I have.
u sure?
we're talking a coherent beam...
so the detector would have to be along the firing line right?
I suppose a really tip-top damage control system might manage to get a fix?
Also expect the truck carrying this thing to be well camoflaged.
granted
but that wasn't the question.
I was referring to the example given.
a) you'll bugger up your own orbit flinging gravel,
b) time to close will preclude many firing solutions
I'm sure we'll see a variety of approaches successfully applied.
one word:
goggles
"tactile nuke"
Yeah I really hate those nukes that want to touch.
Nukes are expensive
countries like Australia and Canada choose not to build them to save money, safe under the Anglo-American nuclear umbrella.
except u still have to be able to track the thing,
just because the beam moves fast from the laser doesn't make pointing the laser in the right direction less challenging.
plus many missiles fire beyond line of sight these days.