B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for January 11, 2010

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    EarlWash  almost 15 years ago

    That ought to warm your heart!

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    Pacejv  almost 15 years ago

    Is that Iraq?

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    pschearer Premium Member almost 15 years ago

    That’s what they get for not striking pre-emptively. Where’s the ant-eater when you need him?

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    Nebulous Premium Member almost 15 years ago

    Bah! The Lens is limited technology. If your colony isn’t roughly East-West to your target, it’s worthless. What you NEED(!!) is a parabolic mirror with adaptive optics!! It can even be used for Defense!! . And next year we’ll solve the problem of night attacks.

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    Dkram  almost 15 years ago

    Death Ray. Archimedes would be proud.

    \\//_

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    COWBOY7  almost 15 years ago

    What happens when the enemy puts paint guns in it’s arsenal?

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    mattachew  almost 15 years ago

    heh, Far side had something like this too. a lady looks out her window, which had a nuclear bomb next to it, and saw a nuclear bomb being delivered to the next door neighbor: “Oh look, now the Andersons have the bomb.”

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    GROG Premium Member almost 15 years ago

    Hey, you gotta keep up with the Joneses.

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    gobblingup Premium Member almost 15 years ago

    We’re keeping an eye on you!

    (love the blue eye shadow and leg coloring… very stylish)

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    fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago

    Nebulous, I think the next phase of lens development will simply be adjustable focus. As it stands, the glass shown would only be effective at a single range; an enemy is safe at any point either outside or inside the perimeter dictated by the focal length. Still, this genie is out of the bottle.

    Strategic Treaty About Lens Limitation negotiations have begun, but haven’t gotten anywhere yet…

    Maybe it’s the acronym…

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    Trainwreck_1  almost 15 years ago

    Don’t you just hate it when the arms talk… S.T.A.L.L.

    Too Funny!

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    fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago

    They’re pretty small arms, so it’s just small talk anyway…

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    Wildmustang1262  almost 15 years ago

    The magnifying glass needs to bend down a little bit so the ray of sun can go through it to get something burn in a while.

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    COGNIZANT  almost 15 years ago

    The glass needs to be mobile, perhaps mounted on top of a HUMV equipped with a range finder.

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    napaeric  almost 15 years ago

    Is the looking glass half full or half empty? Ask Alice, I think she’ll know.

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    Rakkav  almost 15 years ago

    Just east-west attacks? Not hardly. If they’re north of the equator (for example) they can do some pretty nifty south-north attacks as well - just at shorter range. In fact they can attack in an arc from east to north to west, at variable range…

    No engineering solution is without tradeoffs…but this is after all the first generation of the Glass.

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