you can't buy a MANPAD in the US, if you could people would be shooting down airliners left and right

i would think 10 miles an hour would be too low a speed to prevent a stall so i have no clue, i'm guessing your right about the limited communication range

could be a kinetic kill vehicle, or possibly they just didn't put a warhead in it since it was a test.

Just an fyi a magnitude 6 earthquake would level most of NY, Philadelphia and Boston. These cities are full of old brick buildings built over a hundred years ago with no chance of dealing with an earthquake.

Dragon's teeth? Maybe a banana peal?

had to google that. yes... that would work. they would see you coming a mile away though

no, you just need to declare it on last year's tax returns.

this only proves that this type of statistical analysis should be done by people at the pentagon, not that we need to crowd source it

what about shooting down a remote controlled helicopter (like you might get from a hobby store) that has a chemical agent on it?

its funny, i would say that naughty children are just like humans

yeah i know, you can put mirrors in orbit, a salt tub in orbit, a turbine with a heat transfer mechanism in orbit, and use that to generate electricity just like we don on earth at solar plants (that use parabolic mirrors and not PV cells, there really aren't any massive PV plants anywhere, the big plants all rely on…

there is concern with that since the energy beam creates heat and birds would fly through it. also if a plane went through it there could be issues, but these could probably be overcome. Could be the future.

just thinking that

I think we've wandered from an absolute argument to a relative one, because while (per the graph) we are in one of the cooler periods, the warmer ones in the graph would in no way allow us to function as a species the way we do so they can't really be viewed as logical alternatives (I don't even know if the oxygen to…

but there are ice ages that last several thousand years. there have been several of them and this period in no way even comes close to comparing. So how does your comment make any sense? I could easily say its one of the warmest since I didn't say it is 'The warmest'.

where did you get that from? there have been several ice ages that were WAY colder on average then the current climate.

My pale ass + baby oil + black light = Blind... thanks curves, now I need to go get a dog

There are plenty of non combat awards for exemplary service which these guys are eligible for. I thought we were referring to the combat awards (for valor, etc.)

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