[lit-ideas] Re: Punitive Expeditions
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 14:16:59 -0400
Omar: Oh give me a break with your American
machismo. I've had enough of your and Eric's
bragging about weapons and military. I doubt that
either of the two of you has had an honest fight
in your whole lives.
If you really have to fight, no fights are honest.
Most real fights end up on the ground and get
dirtier and dirtier.
So if you’re trained to “fight” with Dojo rules
like no biting, no eye-poking, no groin kicks, no
nerve strikes, etc., you have a problem. When
bullies, crackheads, gangs, rapists, thieves, or
even al-Qaeda hijackers attack, they don’t play by
karate school rules. Their only rule is, “No rules!”
Looking forward to our new lasers,
Eric
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http://www.globeandmail.com/RTGAM_Archive/images/20021111/gtlaser/laserArmy.jpg
Weapons that travel far faster than the proverbial
speeding bullet are as little as five years from
use in combat, say defense officials who used a
laser to shoot an artillery shell out of the sky
this week.
In a first-of-its-kind feat, the Army used a
high-energy laser built by TRW Inc. to heat the
shell, fired from a howitzer at White Sands
Missile Range in New Mexico, and cause it to
explode in flight. The test was successfully
repeated a second time.
The shell, moving at about 1,000 miles per hour,
was tracked by radar and heat-sensing infrared
sensors, then locked onto and zapped by the laser
beam travelling at light speed.
The so-called Mobile Tactical High-Energy Laser is
a short-range weapon being co-developed with
Israel, which wants it to destroy Katyusha rockets
fired at its border villages by Hezbollah
guerillas in Lebanon.
The chemically powered weapon, which looks like a
searchlight, is one of a handful of laser devices
the Pentagon is working on under the umbrella of
missile defense.
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