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Interceptor Tech. developed

Talon MistsongTalon Mistsong Ranger
in Zocalo v2.0
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There are 3 things in life I never forget: my friends, my enemies, and my access codes.
Never put gasoline in a fire extinguisher.
"No government, no dictator can hold an imprisioned population by force of arms forever. There is no power in the universe greater than the need for freedom. Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies [i]cannot stand[/i]." - G'Kar, [i]The Long Twighlight Struggle[/i]
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  • ArgoneArgone Genuine Klingon
    As man contrives bigger and better ways to destroy himself, the world gos to hell in a hand bag!

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    [b]4 Thousand Throats can be cut in one night by a running Warrior[/b]
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Meanwhile, my quest to get off this rock before that happens moves a step further along...

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    [url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Never eat anything bigger than your own head.[/url]
    "Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    Now if only the army could learn to aim.... [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]
  • TyvarTyvar Next best thing to a St. Bernard
    They hit an artillery shell in flight, what else do you want, them to roast chicken from 500 miles away?
  • RigsRigs Earthforce Officer
    [quote]Originally posted by Tyvar:
    [b]
    They hit an artillery shell in flight, what else do you want, them to roast chicken from 500 miles away?[/b][/quote]


    Actually...

    =-Rigs-=

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    "Now, we gave you a promise and we are bound by that promise and damn you for asking for it! And damn me for agreeing to it! And damn all of us to hell, because that's exactly where we're going! We talked about peace. You didn't want peace. We talked about cooperation. You didn't want cooperation. You want war! Is that it? You want a war? Well you've got a WAR!"
    - John Sheridan, Babylon 5
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    THat would be too handy.

    Call the 800 number...

    All of a sudden, a satellite in orbit fires a laser at your chicken, sitting in its government-designed roasting unit, cooking it to near perfection.
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    LOL

    Probably over cooking it so you can't sue the government for food poisoning [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]
  • Talon MistsongTalon Mistsong Ranger
    [quote]Originally posted by Argone:
    [b]As man contrives bigger and better ways to destroy himself, the world gos to hell in a hand bag!

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    Why are you being such a pessimist? I think it's terrific, next time there's an armed conflict maybe someone can station those around civilian regions to reduce collateral damage [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]

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    There are 3 things in life I never forget: my friends, my enemies, and my access codes.
    Never put gasoline in a fire extinguisher.
    "No government, no dictator can hold an imprisioned population by force of arms forever. There is no power in the universe greater than the need for freedom. Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies [i]cannot stand[/i]." - G'Kar, [i]The Long Twighlight Struggle[/i]
  • Mr_BungleMr_Bungle Ranger
    ... or, given the huge cost of such systems, keep them around the valuable military hardware they were initially designed to protect [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/rolleyes.gif[/img]

    That's not to say such systems wouldn't be handy for use in defending clearly demarcated civillian zones; but the military would get first dibs on cover, I'd imagine.

    Ever the pessimist... [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    Seems a great way for a 3rd party to guarentee a demilitarized zone...
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Even better than them roasting your chicken for you: the satellite could just fire off a chicken. Let reentry cook it. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]

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    [url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Never eat anything bigger than your own head.[/url]
    "Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    [quote]Originally posted by Tyvar:
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    They hit an artillery shell in flight, what else do you want, them to roast chicken from 500 miles away?[/b][/quote]

    That can already be arranged...

    [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/wink.gif[/img]
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    So, when to the lunar light shows start? I want to know when to prop up a chair in my back yard to watch [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
  • KeyanKeyan Ranger
    You know, that would be really cool, espcially during a new moon..would take some pretty high powered lasers tho...and it's probably not a good idea to turn the surface of the moon into glass if we can help it.
  • AnlaShokAnlaShok Democrat From Hell
    Can it stop a suitcase bomb?

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    AnlaShok, Captain of the Gray Hand of Fate Squadron
    Sidhe-1
    Wielder of the Big Heavy Hammer of Obvious Truth
    "FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC!"
  • ArgoneArgone Genuine Klingon
    [quote]Originally posted by AnlaShok:
    [b]Can it stop a suitcase bomb?

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    Probably not but put enough of them in space and it could stop a world!

    With in the next 2 yrs I bet we have dozens of the up there!



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  • TyvarTyvar Next best thing to a St. Bernard
    Suitcase bombs, lasers or chickens?
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    Worlds.

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    Talk is silver, but violence is gold.
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    Spaces.
  • ArgoneArgone Genuine Klingon
    Lasers and chickens, Hey the guy with his finger on the buttons gotta eat! [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/tongue.gif[/img]

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  • FreejackFreejack Jake the Not-so-Wise
    You know that it seems that this would be a much better weapon for the missle defence sheild than the interceptor missles they are trying to use. If the missle misses, too bad, but if this one misses, well just retrangulate and fire again....

    Jake
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    I agree.

    BTW, what was the movie where they showed lasers on fighters jets (I think it was to shoot down asteroids)? As I recall that movie said that that "they were developed to shoot down missiles."

    I see reality reaching the movies...again [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]

    [This message has been edited by Random Chaos (edited 11-11-2002).]
  • KeyanKeyan Ranger
    Yes, it is, but see...as light travels through a medium, like, say, the atomosphere, it gets diffused...which means the laser is less effective. Right now, they can't get through it with enough consistancy to make it a reliable means of defense. That and the further away the warhead is from the laser, that much more atomosphere you have to fire through (line of sight)..so unless the missle happend to be direcly overhead, it's even harder. Now, if you mounted them on sats, then the whole equation changes.
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    Thus we have come full circle back to the chicken frying debate...
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Well I think there is a market for roast-chicken-on-demand-from-above.

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    [url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Never eat anything bigger than your own head.[/url]
    "Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
  • Talon MistsongTalon Mistsong Ranger
    [quote]Originally posted by AnlaShok:
    [b]Can it stop a suitcase bomb?

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    Not unless someone launches it out of a howitzer [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]

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    There are 3 things in life I never forget: my friends, my enemies, and my access codes.
    Never put gasoline in a fire extinguisher.
    "No government, no dictator can hold an imprisioned population by force of arms forever. There is no power in the universe greater than the need for freedom. Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies [i]cannot stand[/i]." - G'Kar, [i]The Long Twighlight Struggle[/i]
  • PJHPJH The Lovely Thing
    [quote]Originally posted by Random Chaos:
    [b]LOL

    Probably over cooking it so you can't sue the government for food poisoning [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img][/b][/quote]


    Yeah, but then you could sue them for overcooking it. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]

    - PJH
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    [quote]Originally posted by Talon Mistsong:
    [b] Not unless someone launches it out of a howitzer [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]

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    We'll have to try that...I wonder how aerodynamic a suitcase bomb is... [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]
  • ArgoneArgone Genuine Klingon
    About the same as when they test launch cars off the deck of aircraft carrriers to test the catapults! [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]

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  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    [quote]Originally posted by Random Chaos:
    [b]We'll have to try that...I wonder how aerodynamic a suitcase bomb is... [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img][/b][/quote]

    Well, with enough speed anything will generate lift.

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    [url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Never eat anything bigger than your own head.[/url]
    "Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
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