I came up with a system that is clearly superior to all existing political systems, basically make me the ruler of the world, it'd work out great. I promise I wont go to war with the moon or anything for the first few months.
Well to be fair Operation Cyclone did not specifically fund the Taliban, they sponsored many of the mujahadeen, including some who went off to become the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance.
The SR-71 was the first operational aircraft designed around a stealthy shape and materials. There were a number of features in the SR-71 that were designed to reduce its radar signature. The first studies in radar stealth technology seemed to indicate that a shape with flattened, tapering sides would avoid reflecting most radar energy toward the radar beams' place of origin
It just failed horribly at being a stealth aircraft. Fact is the U-2 outperformed it, hence why it is still in service. The SR-71 was cool as hell, but not..you know..very good.
The SR-71 was a 'stealth' aircraft that was not at all stealthy. As in easily visible on radar and even more visible on thermal scopes on account of HUGE engines and lots of air friction.
It used tons of fuel, couldn't be kept fully fueled on the ground because it would simply leak and was a nightmare to maintain.
There's plenty they could do differently today. Stealth technology, carbon fiber, etc. But all of that is expensive. Do you put new tires on the old Ford and drive it to work for another year, or buy a new Ferrari? Depends on your budget.
They already had a Ferrari in the SR-71, but chose to retire it and kept the old Ford.
LOL, this fool thinks this is all about pirated music. Clearly you don't realize that supporting this bill is akin to supporting terrorism, child rape, and the murdering of baby seals. For shame!
We do a lot of things that aren't easy. Putting over a billion transistors on a chip the size of a stamp and doing almost a trillion calculations per second with them isn't easy. Extracting enough energy to run a city from a few glow-in-the-dark rocks isn't easy. Even ordinary air travel requires continuous hard work from a large number of highly skilled people to perform efficiently and safely. None of these things are 'solved problems,' yet we still do them, and we get better at them over time.
Rocket science may be a difficult endeavor, but that's no excuse for it to become less reliable over time.
Well yeah...But rocket science is a whole different kind of difficult.
Somehow I am not bothered by this, I mean other than the fact it will be prohibitively expensive and for that reason wont happen, it will also be trivial to circumvent for those who really want to.
I mean The Great Firewall of China isn't keeping anyone who really wants to see the real web from seeing it.
Slashdot Mirror
...But couldn't you technically get through the firewalls and proxies via a VPN tunnel?
And if the university blocks the standard VPN ports, use non-standard port.
Chill man, he be straight up trollin'
I came up with a system that is clearly superior to all existing political systems, basically make me the ruler of the world, it'd work out great. I promise I wont go to war with the moon or anything for the first few months.
Well sure, it's stupid, no doubt.
It is now, however, the (ahem) WORST IDEA ON THE INTERNET. Nor is it a cleverly designed tradecraft device, it's art. Tech art.
It's. Art.
I'm just going to stick with my super advanced password generator.
Will he sell cocaine to me? If not I do not give a fuck!
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Well to be fair Operation Cyclone did not specifically fund the Taliban, they sponsored many of the mujahadeen, including some who went off to become the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance.
No. The SR-71 was not a "stealth" aircraft. It was designed to be high flying and fast as hell. You can't make a mach1 stealth plane.
Yes it was.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird#Stealth_and_threat_avoidance
The SR-71 was the first operational aircraft designed around a stealthy shape and materials. There were a number of features in the SR-71 that were designed to reduce its radar signature. The first studies in radar stealth technology seemed to indicate that a shape with flattened, tapering sides would avoid reflecting most radar energy toward the radar beams' place of origin
It just failed horribly at being a stealth aircraft.
Fact is the U-2 outperformed it, hence why it is still in service.
The SR-71 was cool as hell, but not..you know..very good.
Furthermore:
As per: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird
The SR-71 served with the U.S. Air Force from 1964 to 1998. Of the 32 aircraft built, 12 were destroyed in accidents, and none lost to enemy action
So yeah non were shot down, they fell down all on their own.
The SR-71 was a 'stealth' aircraft that was not at all stealthy. As in easily visible on radar and even more visible on thermal scopes on account of HUGE engines and lots of air friction.
It used tons of fuel, couldn't be kept fully fueled on the ground because it would simply leak and was a nightmare to maintain.
There's plenty they could do differently today. Stealth technology, carbon fiber, etc. But all of that is expensive. Do you put new tires on the old Ford and drive it to work for another year, or buy a new Ferrari? Depends on your budget.
They already had a Ferrari in the SR-71, but chose to retire it and kept the old Ford.
Because the SR-71 sucked.
In all fairness, methan and hydrogen can also become liqidified under pressure.
Naah, CIA is not that good with new SIGINT, that's all The NSA.
And ooops, now're they're on us.
Everybody say hi to the NSA!
Straight trollin'
What the..I don't even..
Seriously...what the hell are these guys spamming for?
I don't get it.
Eeeew.
I don't think the Chinese can hear you homie.
Maybe you should try doing it in all caps, that's louder.
Why they're even bothering to do all of this, I mean didn't science prove world's gonna end by the end of 2012.
Short answer - you can not shoot down a satellite,.
Yes you can.
LOL, this fool thinks this is all about pirated music.
Clearly you don't realize that supporting this bill is akin to supporting terrorism, child rape, and the murdering of baby seals. For shame!
No, he's trolling.
We do a lot of things that aren't easy. Putting over a billion transistors on a chip the size of a stamp and doing almost a trillion calculations per second with them isn't easy. Extracting enough energy to run a city from a few glow-in-the-dark rocks isn't easy. Even ordinary air travel requires continuous hard work from a large number of highly skilled people to perform efficiently and safely. None of these things are 'solved problems,' yet we still do them, and we get better at them over time.
Rocket science may be a difficult endeavor, but that's no excuse for it to become less reliable over time.
Well yeah...But rocket science is a whole different kind of difficult.
Somehow I am not bothered by this, I mean other than the fact it will be prohibitively expensive and for that reason wont happen, it will also be trivial to circumvent for those who really want to.
I mean The Great Firewall of China isn't keeping anyone who really wants to see the real web from seeing it.