Given the small size of some nuclear warheads I wonder how difficult it would be to just swap out conventional explosives with nuclear ones on existing precision weapons. Granted these tiny nukes are closer to a dirty bomb than what most people are familiar with when it comes to a nuclear explosion but still a 72 ton blast is at least on the same order of magnitude as one of these guys even if they make up different ends of the order of magnitude, and we don't seem to have problems using the latter ones.

Hey some of us don't shave.

Still sounds better than a lot of what I have gotten. If I get a response it is usually a patronizing letter thanking for my support, even though I disagreed, of their decisions. The worst was the response I got from one of my senators, the senator of small things, that expounded on how wonderful it was l that she didn't have to make a hard decision. Still I refuse to be one of the apathetic Americans even if I know that I probably have a better chance of winning the Powerball and being struck by lightning on the same day, than my opinion making a difference to them.

I didn't know that Mark Pocan was openly gay, then again why would I care. That only makes my comment down the thread even funnier.

Let your congress critter know you want them to support this bill. If you don't know who is yours you can find them here and from their page send them an e-mail or get the number to call their DC or local office. I have already sent an e-mail to my worthless war hawk nuclear football carrying congress critter but I suspect that it will fall on deaf ears. I also contacted my senators but don't expect much from either of them as one avoids controversy like the plague and the other has been hanging low for a while.

You have that wrong. Thomas Massie would be caught in a gay sex scandal, while it would be discovered that Mark Pocan has only been involved in a hetero monogamous relationship. For both of them it would be career ending.

I was just trying to be a pain in the ass, but yes the first modern commercial electric car was produced by GM. On this subject I do wonder if a modern steam vehicle could be built that offers reasonable performance, mileage, and comfort.

Here is an interesting or painful question, would the Sex in the City movies pass it?

Well to be fair GM didn't produce the first commercial electric car as those were produced before GM even existed.

Or possibly some caches of old Mosin-Nagants that the Russians want to dispose of.

I can answer that.

They are finding out exactly where anything that might be of any strategic interest is absolutely guaranteed to not be during the duration of the flight.

Canada has plenty of natural enemies, but don't worry as the polar ice pack melts most of those will drown. Then they will just have to worry about the brown bears instead of also the polar bears.

Like I said I need to win the lottery. As far as materials go I don't know what is the best and am not at watch maker but from my limited knowledge it seems that something like titanium would be better as I believe that it holds it's dimensions better with temperature change than steel does. My understanding was that gear train and escapement are what you want to have be very light and dimensionally stable so it does seem like a better material, especially since it isn't magnetic, but hey I I'm not set on and specific material. Also I may not be aware of the existing use of exotic surface treatments but it does seem like something that would lower friction substantially as well as decrease wear on the fast moving parts. For the various springs I have no idea what would be the best material and that titanium wouldn't be it, but it does sound like that is pretty much a solved problem.

A watch like what I want would seem to be more of a retirement gift to my self at this point and I know it will be expensive, just not how expensive. I don't really have a budget as at this point it is just a pie in the sky thing.

Over in the middle east there sure seems to be a lot of people willing to die by blowing up into pieces voluntarily.

But the GP wanted to address the safety issue, not a monitory one and brought up the prevent harm to you or a loved one argument, aka think of the children. My personal thoughts on what to do in that situation are definitely something that shouldn't be used to dictate public policy. Also if one really wanted to carry out a terror attack in the US it would be very trivial to accomplish, especially one that would cause significant harm to those in power or economic harm. The only reason we don't see those types of attacks is two reasons. One, there just aren't that many terrorists here. Two, the terrorists that are here seem to be individuals that surprisingly have managed to not choke on their own tongue. I mean these people are really really stupid considering how easy it is to blow shit up. God knows my friends and I blew a lot of shit up while in high school, especially not being far from some very rural places, things like trees, rocks, stumps, the stream, some corn, trash we found out in the woods. The Boston bombing showed just how easy it is to blow shit up and yet there haven't been any copy cats of that, granted maybe buying a pressure canner now means you get shipped off to Gitmo immediately, but those were just large pipe bombs and last week when I went to the local home improvement store I saw that you can still buy pipe and pipe caps so that can't be it.