Recent content by SilentHunter7

This has some potentially huge implications for the Air Force, as well. Fires are the worst emergency you can have happen to you on a jet. A fire suppression system that's lightweight and compact enough to be added to existing airframes could prevent a total loss of the jet if an engine or APU...

You see, the beautiful thing about security is that a rogue missile launch can't happen. It's called the two-man rule. You see, there two operators in each silo. Each of them has two keys. All four keys must be turned at the same time. The operators in the Launch Control Center must do the same...

Assuming there ever is an Nuclear Apocalypse. The Cuban Missile Crisis proved that both sides will make whatever concessions they have to to prevent that from happening. Jumping off a cliff to your doom is such a simple action, yet so very difficult for anyone to actually go through with...

Problem with that is, how do you hit a target roughly the size of a car, flying at over 5 miles a second, with any kind of reliability? And even if you do hit it, you would have to hit it with enough force to completely destroy the very well armored warhead. The only real way to defend...

If I remember that article right, noone was threatened with being executed. It was all just political posturing, and neocons getting their panties in a bunch. Well yeah he is, but if we arrested everyone who called Obama a Nazi, Guantanamo would have to be expanded to cover half of Cuba...

...is this post a test? If this were some kind of alternate universe where George Orwell wasn't completely wrong, maybe you'd have a point. But in this universe, you CAN'T get arrested for making a video game in America. What would they be arrested for? There's no law barring video games...

Except that they are Plastic Lumps whose shape can mean the difference between paying $100 million to ship them in, or just $50 Million. That's not exactly a frivolous lawsuit. This is why the Court of International Trade exists; to handle disputes regarding the United States' international...

It's not like they want to launch by the end of the year. Their website says they aren't aiming for a launch until 2034. That's a lot of time to develop the system, and pitch it to some upstart company looking to make it big.

They have to have some kind of private backing. I can't imagine these guys are building the thing in their basement out of a circuit board and some spare wiring. With the right support, a half a billion can seem almost trivial.

Why not? If these guys can build the satellite, there are private companies out there who can launch it if the price is right. SpaceX already has launch vehicles that can lift a significant payload into a Geostationary Transfer Orbit. And for cheaper than government sponsored launches...

I would hazard a guess that Toy Biz, who now stands to receive what I would imagine to be a substantial amount of back tax money (large enough to justify actually spending the money taking this to court in the first place) from the government, would not agree with you.

Anyone with a smartphone and some time to kill, I'd wager.

My dad first took me out to shoot when I was just a kid. I still remember the first thing he told me before he handed it to me. "The weapon is always loaded, especially when it's not; the safety is always off, especially when it's on. Never point this at anything you don't want to kill."...

He's not kidding. Viacom owns or is is affiliated with Paramount Pictures, MTV, and CBS, all MAJOR television conglomerates. They grossed $14 Billion USD before expenses this year alone. Their total assets are on the order of $20 billion.

Eh, I'm on the fence. We really REALLY need to trimming the fat from the budget, and while 100k by itself isn't really a lot in the grand scheme of things, cutting a few thousand of such programs would make a significant dent in the budget. Of course I also feel the need to point out how...