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10-11-2008, 11:16 PM
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| Project "Orion": Powered by an Atomic Bomb Machine Gun
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10-11-2008, 11:21 PM
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Country:  | It's utterly amazing that we have survived as a species..
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__________________ “Despite the threat of SAMs and increasing visibility on 31 January 1991, one gunship opted to stay and continue to protect the Marines. A SAM subsequently shot down this AC-130H, call sign Spirit 03. All 14 crew members of Spirit 03 perished."  www.NewMediaPerspective.com  | |
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10-11-2008, 11:26 PM
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| I'm all for pushing the extremes of technology, but you also have to be practical about it.
To the engineers 50 years ago who thought up this idea ..."Just WTF were YOU thinking"?
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10-11-2008, 11:29 PM
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__________________ “Despite the threat of SAMs and increasing visibility on 31 January 1991, one gunship opted to stay and continue to protect the Marines. A SAM subsequently shot down this AC-130H, call sign Spirit 03. All 14 crew members of Spirit 03 perished." www.NewMediaPerspective.com | |
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10-12-2008, 08:23 AM
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Country: | Amen to that. Wanna get to the stars? Pick up an Arthur C. Clarke book. Most of his stories included step-by-step instructions on how the drives worked.
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10-12-2008, 10:35 AM
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10-12-2008, 10:41 AM
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1000!!!!!  nuclear bombs for the medium version!!!!!!!
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10-14-2008, 07:09 PM
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Country:  | You absolutely must read Footfall by Niven and Pournelle - It's one of the best alien invasion novels ever written imo. The destruction of the Hoover Dam, the Kansas Jayhawks, a mothership of massive size, meteor attacks, lasers, weird-shaped aliens, AND the nuclear powered ship - it's all there, and in absolutely gripping and believable detail too... a truly epic scifi novel and a mere 700 pages...
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10-14-2008, 07:16 PM
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1000!!!!! nuclear bombs for the medium version!!!!!!!
| Can you come up with a better use for 1000 nukes?
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10-15-2008, 09:36 PM
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| Stick with the rocket fuel guys 
__________________  We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft (Me-262), but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
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