Re: [scifinoir2] Top Ten Space Weapons
Yeah...'tis true. But I think even of BSG. Although the pure scifi guy in me didn't like the use of ballistic weapons in the handguns and Viper guns, I have to admit they'd be more efficient and effective than particle or light-based weapons. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 2:30:04 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Top Ten Space Weapons True but you know, the military industrial complex has to make it fancy so they can make $15 Billion off of it. On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: I think of the devastation the Centauri caused to the Narn in B5, as they used mass drivers to essentially send giant boulders screaming toward the planet below. As fancy as all the EM and robotic stuff is, just dropping junk on someone--or even sending simple ballistic missiles ship-to-shop--would be most devastating. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 6:51:34 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Top Ten Space Weapons Holy CRAP Dropping tungsten rods on targets from outer space? What if they MISS? MAN, but humanity is dumb. On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:18 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/top10_space_weapons.html -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Top Ten Space Weapons
True but you know, the military industrial complex has to make it fancy so they can make $15 Billion off of it. On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: I think of the devastation the Centauri caused to the Narn in B5, as they used mass drivers to essentially send giant boulders screaming toward the planet below. As fancy as all the EM and robotic stuff is, just dropping junk on someone--or even sending simple ballistic missiles ship-to-shop--would be most devastating. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 6:51:34 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Top Ten Space Weapons Holy CRAP Dropping tungsten rods on targets from outer space? What if they MISS? MAN, but humanity is dumb. On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:18 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/top10_space_weapons.html -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Top Ten Space Weapons
Keith, I'm having three or four thoughts based on your statement alone. I'll need to have my brain wiped afterward, lest HomeInsec gets hold of me... On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: I think of the devastation the Centauri caused to the Narn in B5, as they used mass drivers to essentially send giant boulders screaming toward the planet below. As fancy as all the EM and robotic stuff is, just dropping junk on someone--or even sending simple ballistic missiles ship-to-shop--would be most devastating. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 6:51:34 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Top Ten Space Weapons Holy CRAP Dropping tungsten rods on targets from outer space? What if they MISS? MAN, but humanity is dumb. On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:18 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/top10_space_weapons.html -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Top Ten Space Weapons
Mr Worf, were that tragedy to happen, they'd probably blame the enemy. On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: They will need the next gen gps to make sure they don't accidentally sink one into a school or church. On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: I remember that. I didn't see it, but someone sent me a link to the video. Still one loopy idea, IMO. Well, they could put GPS tracking capability on it. On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Discovery Science did a piece on it last year or so. It was a way of taking out a city or base without radiation. On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Holy CRAP Dropping tungsten rods on targets from outer space? What if they MISS? MAN, but humanity is dumb. On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:18 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/top10_space_weapons.html -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Top Ten Space Weapons
Holy CRAP Dropping tungsten rods on targets from outer space? What if they MISS? MAN, but humanity is dumb. On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:18 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/top10_space_weapons.html -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Top Ten Space Weapons
And, if I may humbly offer a better name for the #1... Quoting Dylan, Everybody Must Get Stoned (You *didn't* think I'd stay *serious*, did you?) On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Holy CRAP Dropping tungsten rods on targets from outer space? What if they MISS? MAN, but humanity is dumb. On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:18 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/top10_space_weapons.html -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Top Ten Space Weapons
Discovery Science did a piece on it last year or so. It was a way of taking out a city or base without radiation. On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Holy CRAP Dropping tungsten rods on targets from outer space? What if they MISS? MAN, but humanity is dumb. On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:18 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/top10_space_weapons.html -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Top Ten Space Weapons
Have any of you ever posted something, then realized, ten seconds after it sends, that it was a REALLY bad idea? On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: I remember that. I didn't see it, but someone sent me a link to the video. Still one loopy idea, IMO. Well, they could put GPS tracking capability on it. On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Discovery Science did a piece on it last year or so. It was a way of taking out a city or base without radiation. On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Holy CRAP Dropping tungsten rods on targets from outer space? What if they MISS? MAN, but humanity is dumb. On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:18 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/top10_space_weapons.html -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Top Ten Space Weapons
They will need the next gen gps to make sure they don't accidentally sink one into a school or church. On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: I remember that. I didn't see it, but someone sent me a link to the video. Still one loopy idea, IMO. Well, they could put GPS tracking capability on it. On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Discovery Science did a piece on it last year or so. It was a way of taking out a city or base without radiation. On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Holy CRAP Dropping tungsten rods on targets from outer space? What if they MISS? MAN, but humanity is dumb. On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:18 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/top10_space_weapons.html -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Top Ten Space Weapons
I think of the devastation the Centauri caused to the Narn in B5, as they used mass drivers to essentially send giant boulders screaming toward the planet below. As fancy as all the EM and robotic stuff is, just dropping junk on someone--or even sending simple ballistic missiles ship-to-shop--would be most devastating. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 6:51:34 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Top Ten Space Weapons Holy CRAP Dropping tungsten rods on targets from outer space? What if they MISS? MAN, but humanity is dumb. On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:18 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/top10_space_weapons.html -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
[scifinoir2] Top Ten Space Weapons
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