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ZAP! You're Dead!Not Out of the Woods YetDARPA's 'Star Wars'-style Laser Cannon
Laser cannon. The words evoke immediate visions of the space war scenes in Star Wars. As it turns out the US is starting to build this new way to do it to them before they get a chance to do it to us. The Darpa program is called the High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS).
No muss, no fuss. Direct application of lethal energy to the target with no need for ammunition. Nice.
If you have an interest in other sorts of advanced projects, the DARPA TTO site (use the PROGRAMS link) describes some of the sorts of things that are coming down the chute. SciFi comes to life - our tax dollars at work, and worth every cent!
New Orleans isn't out of the woods yet, but things are looking slightly better (or less disastrous), as Katrina is now "only" a Category 4 storm. (You know things are rough when you're optimistically saying that a hurricane is now...Thune on "This Week"
RedState is writing about Senator Thune's appearance today on This Week with George Stephanopolous:THUNE ON TW. Steph talked to Senator John Thune of South Dakota, and the senator indicated that Joe Biden speaks with great passion. He agreed with Biden...Things Fall Apart
Regarding John Thune and Ellsworth I used a quarterback analogy. The quarterback gets too much blame when the team loses and too much credit when the team wins. I guess the same goes for presidents. Bush is getting more blame...New York Times on Thune
The New York Times has a story this morning about Thune and Ellsworth:He pulled out all the stops and virtually camped out at the commission hearings being held at a hotel just outside Washington, buttonholing anyone he could to make...Message from The Other Side?
Baby BornGhost of Gen. Patton Speaks Out on Terror War
This Flash has some things to think about, and tends to reinforce the Chief's posting here. Check it out. H/T to Barking Moonbat Early Warning System for this one.
The baby in the Koso case has been born: A 14-year-old girl whose 22-year-old husband is charged with sexually assaulting a minor has given birth to their daughter, and the man said he plans to plead not guilty in the...Bin Laden declared war in 1998
Henry Lamb has a column that puts things into perspective. He starts out by pointing out when bin Laden declared war:The United States is at war. It is a war we neither wanted, nor started. In fact, we didn't even...
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