Comment Re:Space junk is a deterrent against invaders (Score 1) 210
Or alternatively...
Hey, Kleetus. Wanna have some fun?
Or alternatively...
Hey, Kleetus. Wanna have some fun?
Bullets are only deadly to people who are to slow to outrun them, or at least to dodge them.
Yeah, I would be one of those people.
But maybe low orbit isn't really more bigger than the pacific ocean than the proposed nets are to pool skimmers.
Let me try again
Low orbit is big, but so is the pacific ocean. And these nets are big too, much bigger than pool skimmers. Plus, they could hang out for a long time with little or no human intervention.
And probably someone has, in fact, used a pool skimmer to clean something out of the Pacific Ocean in a useful way.
So it sounds like it could be a useful plan.
Why would anyone write in their journal?
It's 2/3/11. How long before I read this again?
it was given to barack obama, because instead of emphasizing divisions and accumulated (rightful) anger, he chose to express a road of peace, union and collaboration in between races, and managed to successfully bring black and white together during his election campaign
As far as I could tell, he conducted a very ordinary campaign for a Democratic presidential candidate with the exception of himself being a black dude. This is not particularly noteworthy, and in my opinion, that speaks the loudest.
You make it sound as if US politics is being conducted in the deep South in 1965 or something with race riots and the like dominating the political process. That's absurd. It's not like that and the proof is in the fact that the majority of Americans voted for him and race wasn't really an issue.
Give the Nobel Prize to the American people for that. Obama was mostly in the right place at the right time.
Sigh. I may not believe in links, but I guess you don't believe in search engines. But since you asked so nicely here's a quote from the second search hit:
Senator Joe Lieberman and other bill sponsors have refuted the charges that the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act gives the president an Internet "kill switch." Instead, the bill puts limits on the powers the president already has to cause "the closing of any facility or stations for wire communication" in a time of war, as described in the Communications Act of 1934, they said in a breakdown of the bill published on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee website.
There are other references to this in the press, but as you said, I don't believe in links. Or maybe they aren't links I can believe in. Or maybe one of us just isn't believing hard enough.
There's probably nothing that could hamper a US mobilization more at this point than doing what Egypt is doing.
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