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Comment How to discern a wink behind a letter slot? (Score 1) 232

Since we repealed "don't ask don't tell," The Playboy bunnies won't be 100% effective at least.

But imagine the sight of Burka-clad beings, of unknown appearance & age, with Bunny Tails and Ears waving to the troops. They may be winking but you'd never know. G.I.s won't be taken-in because one can hide a lot of C-4 underneath a Burka!

Comment Re:Sounds familiar.(but excessive) (Score 1) 571

You do not need "range" capability or rocket fuel to hurt people:
  http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LA20080516011

"Crimes Amendment (Rock Throwing) Bill 2008
But rock throwing, which causes great harm to people—Nicole Miller, for example, suffered brain damage when a man threw rocks from a bridge at the car in which she was a passenger—gets no mention at all. - throw a rock from a height at a vehicle it could kill someone—in fact, it could kill many people if it causes a crash in which a bus is overturned -"

Comment Re:Botany Bay mindset (Score 1) 354

As an American I don't pretend to understand the fine points of the Australian political system. From my viewpoint many time zones away, however, those politicians do seem hell-bent on returning Australian citizens to their historic status as Crown convicts banished to Botany Bay on trumped up charges in a guilty-until-proven-innocent legal system. I'm damned glad I'm not living there.

Whatever the pollies get up to . . . I feel safer living in a country where you are less likely to encounter scared and nervous people wandering around with handguns in their possession. Even armed robbers are more likely to use a knife:
  http://www.news.com.au/armed-hold-up-was-inspired-by-true-love/story-e6frfkp9-1111115412186

You can defend yourself from a knife-wielder with a broom, umbrella, or even throw your shoes. "You call THAT a knife, HAH?"

Comment Re:Nuke Engines (Score 1) 252

We need to find a way to fit nuclear powered engines onto planes if we are to make a leap into next chapter of aviation.

Yeah - sure, because its very likely that many pilots want to sit behind a windshield made of 6-inch–thick acrylic glass, while sitting inside a massive 11 ton structure lined with lead, and rubber; as did the pilots in the NB-36H.

Comment Explanation of "UFO" sightings, but not EBEs (Score 1) 269

Perhaps this explains the "UFO" sightings by aviation crew and some astronauts? I would suspect that as one increases their altitude, they increase their odds of experiencing such an occurrence: with a statistical spike as one approaches/escapes the earth's atmosphere. As such this could even cause a "mass hallucination".

. . .

But that doesn't explain, in any way at all, the Nordic-type EBEs looking back through the portholes, and miming: "Please stop exploding those nasty, contaminating, nuclear devices on your planet! They are affecting our transmission of Magnetic Hallucinations direct to your cranial stimulus centers, and blocking our essential message!"

Comment Re:idea != fact, and walking blinded by the light (Score 1) 269

Ball Lightening Caused by Magnetic Hallucinations

It's clearly a bogus theory. In my experience, ball lightening is usually caused by filling it up with helium.

I'd thought that Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xeon, and Radon is used in a Geissler device (whether globular or tubular, in shape) rather than Helium?

If we can perceive lighting directly by magnetic-stimulation of the brain, rather than through perceiving reflected illumination from surrounding objects . . . . . well, that just means we're going to be bumping into all those objects that don't moderate the magnetic-stimulation in any way at all!?!?

Comment Re:Okay. . . that isn't entirely true. (Score 1) 338

Yet once upon a time, it would seem, that we did . . .

From the Constitution of Australia; Preamble article 6:
6. "The Commonwealth" shall mean the Commonwealth of Australia as established under this Act.


"The States" shall mean such of the colonies of New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, and South Australia, including the northern territory of South Australia, as for the time being are parts of the Commonwealth, and such colonies or territories as may be admitted into or established by the Commonwealth as States; and each of such parts of the Commonwealth shall be called "a State".

Comment Re:Kangaroos with - - Sidewinders? (Score 1) 232

I'm just speaking from memory here, but as I recall there was an air-to-air launch mount for the Stinger. A few early prototypes of the Apache were paired with it in an attempt to attach a larger number of air-to-air missiles to the AH-64 (not to mention Stingers are hella cheaper than Sidewinders.)

Unless of course that isn't common knowledge, in which case I just made the entire thing up.

Ah - but did you notice the timeframe? The sole CA-15 first flew in March 1946! In any matter all moot really as the armament in most data lists is 6x .50in Guns.

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