Heavy duty denial

2004-12-16 Thread Jones Beene
One of the "hottest" cold topics these days in condensed matter research is the "heavy fermion". Heavy fermion superconductivity normally occurs at very low temperature, but perhaps it does not require pure cryogenics, and perhaps it canalso occur (even more robustly) at high effective

Re: star wars rides again

2004-12-16 Thread leaking pen
terry, trust me, they can hit into western nevada. and why hit alaska instead? howsabout the military research facilities, the oil facilities, and the fact that if they hit a military target, and not a population center, in a bonafide act of war, no other country will strike them. if they hit

Re: star wars rides again

2004-12-16 Thread Terry Blanton
leaking pen wrote: terry, trust me, they can hit into western nevada. and why hit alaska instead? howsabout the military research facilities, the oil facilities, and the fact that if they hit a military target, and not a population center, in a bonafide act of war, no other country will strike

Re: Star wars ride again

2004-12-16 Thread Harry Veeder
Title: Re: Star wars ride again I am no expert, but I suspect that by the 1960's many skyscrapers were being engineered so they could be easily and neatly demolished. Evidently the floors of the towers were designed to fall like dominoes if the vertical loading exceeding some critical value.

Re: star wars rides again

2004-12-16 Thread Merlyn
Actually, I think the shortest distance is for them to shoot over England. Merlyn Horace Heffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 5:04 PM 12/15/4, leaking pen wrote:...that said, its a waste of time and money, and there is noneed for it.You might have a different perspective on this if you lived where

RE: star wars rides again

2004-12-16 Thread Keith Nagel
Hey Horace. From my perspective, living in NYC, you seem a little overconcerned. First, if you had an ICBM with a nuke, would you launch at Anchorage or Seattle? Not to mention, what would be the point of it? He's got a return address, you know, and last time I checked we've got a collection of

Re: star wars rides again

2004-12-16 Thread Terry Blanton
leaking pen wrote: actually, part one was aimed at you, part two at him. but hey. and yes, theyve done succesful test launches into the ocean showing they can hit a mark at that distance. no, i dont have links. They have launched a Taepo-dong 1 which has a 1500 km range . . . a glorified SCUD.