Drones as decoys (and eventually attack roles) in conjunction with stealth planes are used to disable radar stations and SAM launchers. in the beginning of an air campaign. Once they've done their mission they are pointless. They don't carry much of a payload in comparison to a B-52, and are very expensive. A current B52 can carry 72 - 750 lb. bombs. Vs. a B2 that can carry 36. Once the B52 gets this upgrade, they will use internal rotary launchers that will increase their payload capacity by 66%.

From Wikipedia The B-52 turned out the lights in Baghdad."[187] During Operation Desert Storm, B-52s flew about 1,620 sorties, and delivered 40% of the weapons dropped by coalition forces.

The conventional strikes were carried out by three bombers, which dropped up to 153 750-pound bombs over an area of 1.5 by 1 mi (2.4 by 1.6 km). The bombings demoralized the defending Iraqi troops, many of whom surrendered in the wake of the strikes.

Yes it is. But that is what we've been discussing and how balsa is used in a corvette floorboard. And this is how the bamboo is being used in TFA. I suppose the production of the bamboo is more eco friendly than making carbon fiber or fiber glass. But once it's been molded with the epoxy, there is no difference, environmentally at least.

I disagree. Composite wood and epoxy layers have been used extremely successfully in professional racing speed boats for decades.Carbon fiber may have surpassed it's use( not that I know for sure as I haven't payed attention for so time). Extremely thin layers of wood were used in alternated grain directions sandwiched with epoxy in the West System since the early 1970's. It was thinner, lighter and stronger than fiberglass at that time. These were paper thing layers and the epoxy resins pretty much saturated the wood. If it was understood well enough to keep the water from rotting a speed boat, then it should be rather simple in a car.

Just in the floor boards of the C5 and C6. The C7 replaced it with some kind of foam aluminum I believe.

I was thinking we could use the implosion devices off of decommissioned nukes. But that seems awfully unfair to the janitor who will have to clean up afterward.

Are you saying that the oil and coal burning/global warming denying republicans are forcing Chrysler to sell electric cars (at a loss) "at gunpoint"? And they're going to hurt the oil and coal industries so they can add the autoworkers to the unemployed?

I must have missed when the president switched parties. Obama the Republican. Who knew.

NT users? How many of those are left?

GWB may be many things. But a racist, I have a hard time believing. And to say that GWB cares for black people in the same way Jesse Jackson and Maxine Waters do is frankly insulting to GWB.

I'm not sure I believe that. The reason the gas chamber is no longer used is because the executed typically "suffered" for up to 30 seconds. Lethal injection used 3 separate injections the last time I knew. The first being a strong dose of a barbiturate of some type. This is used to render the prisoner unconscious. The second injection is to block neuromuscular activity and stops breathing. And a third injection of a potassium concoction of some sort to stop the heart. I've never attended an execution, but I would guess that these drugs are not administered as 3 separate injections, but are probably injected through an IV.

Agreed. If someone is going to be executed, I'm not sure those in attendance should be given the most pleasant show.

That tolerance only occurs when using it continually. It decreases after periods of not using heroin. That's why many addicts OD after being clean for a while. They think they can use as much as the always did. But it can take months to build up that tolerance. Since most, if not all death row inmates are locked up of years, if not decades before they are executed, tolerance to heroine is not going to be an issue.

It was during the day. But it saw the sunlight shining through the pinhole as a star.

Not true. From the Wikipedia entry on the SR-71"Nortronics, Northrop's electronics development division, had developed an astro-inertial navigation system (ANS), which could correct navigation errors with celestial observations, for the SM-62 Snark missile, and a separate system for the ill-fated AGM-48 Skybolt missile, the latter of which was adapted for the SR-71.[50][citation needed]

Before each takeoff, a primary alignment brought the ANS's inertial components to a high degree of accuracy. Once in flight, the ANS, which sat behind the Reconnaissance Systems Officer (RSO)'s position, tracked stars through a circular window of quartz glass set in the upper fuselage.[37] Its "blue light" source star tracker, which could see stars during both day and night, would continuously track a variety of stars as the aircraft's changing position brought them into view. The system's digital computer ephemeris contained data on 56 (later 61) stars.[51] The ANS could supply altitude and position to flight controls and other systems, including the Mission Data Recorder, Auto-Nav steering to preset destination points, automatic pointing and control of cameras and sensors, and optical or SLR sighting of fix points loaded into the ANS before takeoff.[52] Former pilot Richard Graham told an interviewer at the Frontiers of Flight Museum that the navigation system was good enough to limit drift to 1,000 feet off the direction of travel at Mach 3."

I knew a guy who worked on this system. He told me about a time when they pulled one out of a plane for routine maintenance and they thought it was malfunctioning as it locked onto a star while in the hanger. After they couldn't find the fault they put a guy on a lift and turned all of the lights off in the hanger. Sure enough they found a pin hole in the roof that could only be seen close up in the dark. After they patched the hole, everything checked out fine.

It depends. Did they find the genes that make them tasty?