Solar panels themselves aren't supposed to be reflective—they're absorbing, not reflecting light, after all. The solar farm uses mirrors to focus lights onto the panels, and it's the mirrors that were blinding pilots.

So, in short, 60 years after the fact, MAD is still the best defense against nuclear weapon use.

The problem isn't new. The old way of defeating the tracking issue was to detonate nuclear weapons near the incoming rocket, and yes this could be in your own airspace, and it would blind your team to rockets behind the first wave. Resolving things through treaties was easier (and cheaper) than overcoming the…

Okay then: We've spent billions. So why hasn't the problem been solved?

I have heard people make the somewhat compelling argument that our defense industry is the closest thing to socialism the US will ever have.

Another point regarding countermeasures to decoys is this. You usually adapt countermeasures once your system has failed.

The people who actually are experts in this kind of thing have been saying it won't work since Reagan instituted the idea back in the 80's. The (mostly Republican) proponents of the idea think that if they just throw enough money at the problem it can be solved. The problem is you don't solve a problem like this by…

Popcorn, thats what.

Just get with the Space Based Lasers already. What could possibly go wrong?

Step aside, everyone: Job Creation at work!

I want to die like my grandfather — peacefully, in his sleep. Not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

I'm sure the tow truck driver would have a real easy time getting her car with her waving a gun around. You do realize brandishing a firearm IS illegal right?

Because she's waving a gun around....

In some sick way, I'd almost rather my remaining grandmother die like a lawless badass than the way my other 3 grandparents have gone: multilple aneurisms and a vegetative state; cerebral hemhorrage while sleeping; and a protracted 3-year battle with Alzheimers in a nursing home.

Sorry guys, but this is inaccurate.

That's somewhere east of sad.

says the dude/chick who has never had great sex.

When they do it, its art. When I do it, its 3 days in jail for indecent exposure an a $200 fine for littering. (I got a little on a few things. )

Being a woman having an orgasm is even more fun

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