2009-08-06, 11:50 | Link #3483 | |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Author
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 66
|
Quote:
One thing to keep in mind is just how far along this goal we've gotten since the 1970s. This table from the NRDC showing stockpile counts through the years is helpful: http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/nudb/datab19.asp (1966 was a pretty incredible year) OTOH most of our nukes are now fairly small in size with more wallop and can be dropped on a selected gnat. I'm also pretty sure that chart does not include tac-nukes (<20kilotons with low radiation residue).
__________________
|
|
2009-08-06, 13:05 | Link #3484 |
Good-Natured Asshole.
Join Date: May 2007
Age: 34
|
I'm pretty sure people have realized that nukes are for yesterday's war. Today we have thermobaric bombs, and precision-guided missiles. We could also just sit still and engineer for somebody's economy to lose power *cough*.
|
2009-08-06, 13:15 | Link #3485 | |
Not Enough Sleep
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: R'lyeh
Age: 48
|
Quote:
Flesh eating Robots Cyborg Bugs Skynet
__________________
|
|
2009-08-06, 18:19 | Link #3486 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: East Cupcake
|
I didn't see this listed, so...
'80s teen flick director John Hughes dies in NYC Quote:
|
|
2009-08-06, 19:58 | Link #3487 | |
NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
|
Quote:
On a serious note, anti-satellite weapons exist. The network may be less efficient than delivering nukes in ICBMs. You forgot Rayman's Raving Rabbids and moekkos. The abovementioned is half as destructive as a horde of screaming rabbits in yellow submarines or some rich man's eccentric keyboardist daughter acquiring world-altering powers. IMO, with Russia's Akula subs in the international waters recently, I don't think the motive to end the Cold War would end at all, but rather, frozen as Obama takes his term. P.S Talking about flesh-eating cyborgs, do they behave the same as their brain-lusting ex-human counterparts?
__________________
Last edited by SaintessHeart; 2009-08-06 at 23:37. |
|
2009-08-06, 21:04 | Link #3488 | |||
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: PMB Headquarters
|
Team succeeds in photographing radiation from 1945 'death ash'
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
|
|||
2009-08-07, 05:16 | Link #3490 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2008
|
Touchable Holography
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-P1zZAcPuw uses Wiimotes for tracking and ultrasound to generate pinpoint force |
2009-08-07, 06:30 | Link #3491 | |
Aria Company
Join Date: Nov 2003
|
Quote:
__________________
|
|
2009-08-07, 09:54 | Link #3493 | |
Banned
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Imperial Manila, Philippines
|
Quote:
20,000,000 hostile deaths > 4000 friendly deaths. |
|
2009-08-07, 10:03 | Link #3494 |
うるとらぺど
Join Date: Oct 2004
Age: 44
|
Not really a News since the programe aired some fortnight back, but I think it's worth a mention.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/dis...1/midmorning2/ An interview with Dr. James A Levine of Mayo Clinic on radio in which he talks about a visit to the slums of Mumbai in which he encountered a young female prostitute writting in a notebook and spur him to write his own novel and have it publish. Quite an eye opening interview in which he says why is there still such a thing as sexual slavery in today's modern world in which all forms of salvery has been abolished. Why is the India Government turning a blind eye and most interestingly, he mentioned outright that there is a quater of a million child prostitute in America alone. |
2009-08-07, 10:45 | Link #3495 | |
Le fou, c'est moi
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Age: 34
|
Quote:
I find it hard to believe that there's literally a quarter million *child* prostitutes in the USA. That would a be total, utter disgrace to the US law enforcement system, not to mention it would make regular headline news in the sensationalized US media, which didn't happen yet. If, however, one counts all underage prostitution, using a fuzzy legal definition (as "underage" is in itself fuzzy, being different in places and circumstances), it is more likely. If one broadly defines "prostitution" in this case to activities other than the horrid human trafficking/slave trade going on in many parts of the world, then the number becomes much more likely...and less relevant. |
|
2009-08-07, 10:57 | Link #3496 | ||
NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
|
Quote:
Quote:
__________________
|
||
2009-08-07, 10:57 | Link #3497 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: 28° 37', North ; 77° 13', East
Age: 33
|
Quote:
|
|
2009-08-07, 12:20 | Link #3499 | |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Author
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 66
|
Quote:
His topic and cause are very important -- which makes it all the more critical not to play fast and loose with numbers.
__________________
|
|
2009-08-07, 13:03 | Link #3500 | ||
Inactive
Join Date: Aug 2007
|
@MakubeX2: While developed countries do try to make genuine effort to solve these problems, developing countries have a very long way to go in regards to moral, ethical values and human rights.
Quote:
Prostitution Statistic, Global March Children of the Night: Child Prostitution is America's Dirty Little Secret Prostitution section, Department of Justice Trafficking in Persons: The U.S. and International Response ECPAT Quote:
__________________
|
||
Tags |
current affairs, discussion, international |
|
|