What a truly brilliant idea to deploy an ABM system despite the treaty explicitly forbidding it. Your Congress doesn't seem to believe there exists other people in the world, that may decide not to play ball. For example the Russian defence minister was heard saying: "If the USA deploys an ABM system, Russia will deploy space based nuclear weapons". What does that mean? It means that after you've spent a couple of trillion $ on a dinky ABM system capable of defending perhaps from a few warheads from say north korea or something similar, Russia will have nukes in orbit directly above your head. Guess how long it takes for it to fall down on you? 2 minutes perhaps, as opposed to about 20 minutes for an ICBM. Ok so probably the minister overreacted, but it's still not a very nice prospekt having nukes above your head is it? And which nation would be stupid enough to launch a nuclear attack on the USA anyway? Most Evil Dictators (tm) realize that with the push of a button, USA can turn their country into a piece of radioactive glass. So instead they would probably opt to smuggle in only the warhead, put it in a truck and having some fanatics drive it near the White House, chanting "Z'rdo K'af' Caosago Mosp'l'h T'loch, Z'rdo K'af' Caosago Mosp'l'h T'loch, N'gha Z'rdo Hoath Adphaht Affa p'lz'n, N'kai Z'rdo Hoath Nyarlathotep, Z'rdo ''-all ollog. Z'rdo ''-all ollog. Ia! Nyarlathotep Fhtagn N'gha n'gah ia thos N'kai!!!" and pressing the big red button. Kinda hard to defend against that with an ABM system, eh?
> How to determine your Star Wars name: > > For your new first name: > > 1. Take the first 3 letters of your first name > 2. add a hyphen '-' > 3. and add the first two letters of your last name > > For your new last name: > > 4. Take the first 2 letters of your mum's maiden name and > 5. add the first 3 letters of the city you were born in > > To determine your Star Wars honorific title: > > 6. Take the last 3 letters of your last name, and reverse them > 7. Add the name of the first car you drove > 8. Insert the word "of" > 9. Tack on the name of the last medication you took. > Voila! You now have your Star Wars name!!!!!!
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What a truly brilliant idea to deploy an ABM system despite the treaty explicitly forbidding it. Your Congress doesn't seem to believe there exists other people in the world, that may decide not to play ball. For example the Russian defence minister was heard saying: "If the USA deploys an ABM system, Russia will deploy space based nuclear weapons". What does that mean? It means that after you've spent a couple of trillion $ on a dinky ABM system capable of defending perhaps from a few warheads from say north korea or something similar, Russia will have nukes in orbit directly above your head. Guess how long it takes for it to fall down on you? 2 minutes perhaps, as opposed to about 20 minutes for an ICBM. Ok so probably the minister overreacted, but it's still not a very nice prospekt having nukes above your head is it? And which nation would be stupid enough to launch a nuclear attack on the USA anyway? Most Evil Dictators (tm) realize that with the push of a button, USA can turn their country into a piece of radioactive glass. So instead they would probably opt to smuggle in only the warhead, put it in a truck and having some fanatics drive it near the White House, chanting "Z'rdo K'af' Caosago Mosp'l'h T'loch, Z'rdo K'af' Caosago Mosp'l'h T'loch, N'gha Z'rdo Hoath Adphaht Affa p'lz'n, N'kai Z'rdo Hoath Nyarlathotep, Z'rdo ''-all ollog. Z'rdo ''-all ollog. Ia! Nyarlathotep Fhtagn N'gha n'gah ia thos N'kai!!!" and pressing the big red button. Kinda hard to defend against that with an ABM system, eh?
The name says it all; Search For ExtraTerrestial Intelligence. Why? Cause we 'ain't gonna find it here on earth! ;-)
I got this in the mail a few days ago...;-)
> How to determine your Star Wars name:
>
> For your new first name:
>
> 1. Take the first 3 letters of your first name
> 2. add a hyphen '-'
> 3. and add the first two letters of your last name
>
> For your new last name:
>
> 4. Take the first 2 letters of your mum's maiden name and
> 5. add the first 3 letters of the city you were born in
>
> To determine your Star Wars honorific title:
>
> 6. Take the last 3 letters of your last name, and reverse them
> 7. Add the name of the first car you drove
> 8. Insert the word "of"
> 9. Tack on the name of the last medication you took.
> Voila! You now have your Star Wars name!!!!!!
Jan-Bl Laabo Tsiopel of Aspirin