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  • Get a pair of dobermans and name them Hector and Achilles. Call them hell hounds if the neighbors ask. Nick
  • President Clinton had the good fortune to preside over a period of relatively strong economic growth. This in my opinion is mostly due to the hard work of private citizens and the improvements in technology that drove stock prices up for several ye…
  • The example of the Fw 190 is a good one, but it is not really the same situation. Perhaps a closer one would be US-Israeli cooperation on the Arrow missile defense system. We have learned things from that which may be useful in our own, larger sy…
  • Well, I happen to be in a Stryker brigade, and as much as it would be nice to have this system on our vehicles, I can understand why the Pentagon would want to build their own. Just think about it in terms of engineering experience. We need to tra…
  • I'm just disappointed that they wold name it orion, but not build the real, 70's, nuclear explosion powered orion. Just imagine a ship weighing a few hundred thousand tons rising on a pillar of nuclear fire.... It could be an arms reduction progra…
  • I was always told as a child in school that science is not an attempt to say "this is the way the world is," but rather to say "this is the closest model we could come up with to sort of explain how it works." Newtonian mechanics is a pretty clos…
  • Atheists cause nore destruction, sometimes. How many people did Stalin kill? How about Mao? How bloody was the French Revolution compared to the American? Religion can make people blind, certainly, but to me the real danger is when people de…
  • Well, the only problem there is probably the biggest one, our blasted reliance on fossil fuels. I swear, even though I vote Republican, I am probably the most outspoken advocate of nuclear and fusion power you can find outside of a Trek convention.…
  • Funny stuff, guys, but as much as I would like to impose a unilateral solution on them, any more serious ideas to that effec t run into a serious problem. We are supposed to be the good guys. How do you resolve any external action with the ideas o…
  • Well, here's a different take on it. What if, eventually, demographics shifted enough that Muslims could by majority vote change the entire legal system so that sharia became the universal legal system for all in the UK? Now most of us here come f…
  • The Virgin Galactic project, and Spaceship One that it is based on are both very impressive, but they are by no means close to becoming valid civilian launch programs on a meaningful scale. There is a huge difference between a ballistic arc tha…
  • By the way, if I were Bill Gates, I would put at least half of that charity fund towards building a seed space elevator, with the platform floating offshore. I mean, talk about being immortalized- what could be a better claim to greatness than to b…
  • Well, I think the reason NASA hasn't said too much about the future launch vehicles is that they are boring. After fifty years or so of rockets being launched, most of them start to look alike. The next generation of rockets are going to be based …
  • Try to think of the military not as a means to defend the country from actual invasion, but as a means to defend the country's interests. America is no longer the industrial producer it was in the 1950's. Now we make our money through trade. The …
  • What about Switzerland? Don't they require that every adult male be a member of the reserves, and keep in his home a military issue assault rifle, capable of automatic fire? They have a low crime rate, right? People commit crimes. Like Tyvar…
  • Perhaps the real question is why should the rights of law-abiding citizens be infringed? Just stop and think of that phrase for a minute. Law abiding citizens. Yes, it is illegal to yell fire under the wrong circumstances, because it could ki…
  • You know why the public school system is subjected to so much standardized testing? Because there are so many teachers who are either stupid, or unmotivated, or strangled by a ridiculous system and management that left to them, the already mediocre…
  • Well, Barker usually ends his shows by asking the audience to 'help control the pet population, and have your pets spayed or neutered.'
  • "Heard something interesting on NPR this moring, that every time you breath in, you are, by mathmatical recogning, breathing in one molecule of the air contained in Ceasar's last breath..." When you think about it, every time you drink a glass of…
  • You know, I think the public everywhere is not so much dumb as ignorant. If you get the average guy on the street alone, and force him to listen to you, you may well be surprised to find that he is capable of rational thought, and will understand m…
  • I'm sure the staff at the bars in Sweden are pleased, but a bar is privately owned. The staff are paid to work there. They go to work every day out of choice. My last job was awful. I was 'forced' to endure a stressful environment that raised my…
  • To conclude that something is false because one statistic turns out to be either inaccurate or just plain fabricated would, indeed be foolish. My problem with the second hand smoke issue is not with the science, or even the health issues (I don't s…
  • Well, I hope you don't live in a bad part of town if you want to remove those orange tips. Kids do get shot sometimes when cops think they are armed. Of course, sometimes grown men get shot when cops can't reckognize that a sandwich or a wallet is…
  • Don't forget that in the earlier days of the solar system there was a much higher rate of meteorite bombardment. As was mentioned earlier, Mars has a lower escape velocity than Earth. Over time, impacts could strip away much of the atmosphere. Af…
  • You know, I have visited this board on and off for quite some time now. It is one of the best places I have seen anywhere both for the quality of discussion (aside from a few of the political threads, but part of that is my fault too), and for the …
  • Good point. I guess just as when missiles advanced beyond what guns could offer, a new gun could offer better performance in certain aspects than a missile. Especially a laser, since you don't have to worry about leading your target. And I im…
  • For what little it's worth, my take on global warming is this: has the Earth remained in a steady state climate model for the last 4billion years? Of course not. There have been several ice ages, and during the time of the dinosaurs, much of the e…
  • I would like to add my take on the moral realist/relativist argument. To my understanding as a moral realist, there is, somewhere out there, an absolute standard of right and wrong. The key is, I do not by any means claim to have a full understand…
  • The abortion argument, although it can provoke either great anger or great personal reflection, is one that cannot be resolved. Why? Because the two sides are looking at different worlds. Bobo's paraphrasing is perfectly valid, _if and only i…
  • Would you really need to measure distance if your missiles are moving fast enough? There is a new generation of anti-tank missiles in the works that is supposed to kill with kinetic energy only. They work by flying at mach 7 or 8. With no atmosph…