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    Image of AqueousBeef AqueousBeef
    11/18/09

    In reply to US Military Wants Armed Spy Bots in Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
    Hmm so that's how the Russians invaded the US mainland in Modern Warfare 2... #icbm
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    Image of qbrad qbrad
    11/18/09

    @AqueousBeef: It was Red Dawn!!
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    11/18/09


    @qbrad:
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    11/18/09

    @maxentropy: Thank you. Little red hearts aflutter.

    #tips
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    Image of frigg frigg
    11/17/09

    In reply to US Military Wants Armed Spy Bots in Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
    Due respect, the Army is no longer purveyor of all things camouflage green. It's more like camouflage sand color these days. #icbm
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    Image of The5thElephant The5thElephant
    11/18/09

    @frigg: Well we outdid the Galactic Empire there. #icbm
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    Image of Canoehead Canoehead
    11/17/09

    In reply to US Military Wants Armed Spy Bots in Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
    Wouldn't it be simpler to just pre-position spybot/killbot packages in low earth orbit over trouble spots, and then call them in as needed. Sure there's an upfront cost, but it puts them even closer to the action, with the added benefit of no ICBM launches during the actual crisis at hand? #icbm
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    Image of minibeardeath minibeardeath
    11/17/09

    @Canoehead: its that there upfront cost that would keep this from leaving the drawing board. I mean, imagine if no conflict arose in the region that the military predicted, all that peace would make the designers look like fools (and waste taxpayer money). but this here ICBM idea can be sent anywhere, and we wouldnt have to worry about wasting resources because we would all be dead when the russians launch their nuclear ICBMs in retaliation to our spybot ICBM. #icbm
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    Image of Ridley Ridley
    11/18/09

    @minibeardeath: Get richard brandson to put them in low earth orbit. I think he only charges 50k per seat. You could buy the whole cabin in need be. A single tomahawk missile is over $1M, so i expect ICBMs would be much more.
    i have no idea if i'm being sarcastic or not
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    Image of Canoehead Canoehead
    11/18/09

    @Ridley: I'm not sure Branson goes high enough to achieve stable orbit.
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    Image of Canoehead Canoehead
    11/17/09

    In reply to US Military Wants Armed Spy Bots in Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
    I think the problem was first brought to light with the 1990s Clinton-uses-a-cruise-missile-to-kill-a-camel-and-a-tent "strikes" against Al Qeada. The US used Tomahawks, which are essentially very small subsonic aircraft, launched from off the Pakistani coast. Of course, they had to warn the Pakistanis that they were on the way(don't want to start an accidental nuke war between India and Pakistan), and the missiles' low cruise speed gave the Pakistanis plenty of time to warn Bin Laden and for Bin Laden to decamp. #icbm
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    Image of :negated: :negated:
    11/17/09

    In reply to US Military Wants Armed Spy Bots in Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
    So this is what they're planning to use the space shuttle for... #icbm
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    Image of Nick Nick
    11/17/09

    In reply to US Military Wants Armed Spy Bots in Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
    if i am not mistaken -- ICBMs don't land . . . they crash. #icbm
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    Image of DustyButt™ DustyButt™
    11/17/09

    @Nick: Crashing is another form of landing... And you can land anywhere, once. #icbm
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    Image of Nick Nick
    11/17/09

    @DustyButt™: ahhh, hence the crash landing. gotcha. #icbm
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    11/17/09

    In reply to US Military Wants Armed Spy Bots in Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
    "How different that missile could be? A ballistic missile is a ballistic missile. "

    Don't woorrryyy. This one will be designed with Hello Kitty figures. #icbm
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    09/28/09

    In reply to Iran Tests Long Distance Missile Capable of Reaching Europe
    *cough**cough* SM-3 ABM *cough**cough*
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    Image of dbaet dbaet
    09/28/09

    @test356965: *cough* *cough* 4S-S H0LE
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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    09/29/09

    @dbaet: I see what you did there.
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    Image of Rob Yeahok Rob Yeahok
    09/28/09

    In reply to Iran Tests Long Distance Missile Capable of Reaching Europe
    hey tweet...

    In response to your assertation that we'd rush to defend those fledgeling democracies...

    are you freakin high or what? did you forget about russia's invasion and current occupation of Georgia???

    Obama is going to be the end of us all. And I used to be on one of those aegis ships for 5 years, dont hold your breath in thinking its better by itself instead of in concert with other strategic forces.

    It really depends what ship is in the area and their record.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    09/28/09

    @Rob Yeahok: "did you forget about russia's invasion and current occupation of Georgia?"

    You have no idea what you're talking about.
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    Image of stackedrecords stackedrecords
    09/28/09

    @Rob Yeahok: "Obama is going to be the end of us all." -- if by "us" you mean you & your fellow Ponzi Scheme buddies?
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    Image of Kayonesoft Kayonesoft
    09/28/09

    In reply to Iran Tests Long Distance Missile Capable of Reaching Europe
    Ooh, solid state. Much faster launch times than your traditional harddisk based missile.
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    Voyou_Charmant promoted this comment Edited by Kayonesoft at 09/28/09 12:52 PM Kayonesoft was starred Kayonesoft was unstarred
    Image of The Terminator The Terminator
    09/28/09

    In reply to Iran Tests Long Distance Missile Capable of Reaching Europe
    PHOTOSHOPPED!
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    Image of Vroomtrap Vroomtrap
    09/28/09

    In reply to Iran Tests Long Distance Missile Capable of Reaching Europe

    I run Iran!
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    09/28/09

    @Vroomtrap: The sad part is that the one without all the hair is photoshopped.
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    Image of bagellord bagellord
    09/28/09

    In reply to Iran Tests Long Distance Missile Capable of Reaching Europe
    Stealing from previous commenters, what will they use these for? Peace of course. This and their 2 nuclear facilities will all be for the greater good of the Iranian people through clean energy. Am I right?

    That aside, I hope the UN does something about this. It is rather obvious that nuclear weapons and a delivery system can be built by Iran and that they are well on their way. While the Iranian government may never directly use these, they might sell these weapons or accidentally lose them to terrorist groups and then we'd have a major catastrophe.

    All the EMP from the whole world nuking itself would destroy our computers and phones and then what would the survivors of the apocalypse do to entertain ourselves when we weren't running and screaming away from zombies! Oh the horror!
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    Image of Eruanno Eruanno
    09/28/09

    @bagellord: Shooting said zombies is a good way of making time pass.
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    Image of bagellord bagellord
    09/28/09

    @Eruanno: At least until you run out of bullets.
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    09/28/09

    @bagellord: Then you whip out the cricket bat, yo!
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    Image of Colonel Jack O'Neill Colonel Jack O'Neill
    09/28/09

    In reply to Iran Tests Long Distance Missile Capable of Reaching Europe
    So what if they have missiles, they're just defending themselves. Just because someone has missiles doesn't mean they are gonna use them to bomb people for no reason.
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    Image of bagellord bagellord
    09/28/09

    @Colonel Jack O'Neill: Just because I have a gun pointed at your head doesn't mean I'm going to shoot you.

    Ok, bad analogy. But who are they defending themselves against exactly to where they would need missiles like this?
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    Image of Sam Sam
    09/28/09

    @bagellord: After what happened in iraq are you really surprised that they feel the need to be able to defend themselves? (they do have oil reserrves). Also, the missiles are not pointed at anyone, so yes, bad analogy.
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    bagellord promoted this comment Edited by Sam at 09/28/09 11:46 AM Sam was starred Sam was unstarred
    Image of bagellord bagellord
    09/28/09

    @Sam: We get more oil from countries like Angola than we do the Middle East.

    @Coulterboy: We don't need the bombs, we thought we needed them during the cold war, and now it would be too dangerous and expensive to get rid of them. So we keep them just in case. I hope that we never ever need to use nukes.

    Anyways, I'm all for peace and ending the need for bombs and guns etc, but that's not going to happen any time soon, if ever.
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    Image of Sam Sam
    09/28/09

    @bagellord: "Anyways, I'm all for peace and ending the need for bombs and guns etc, but that's not going to happen any time soon, if ever"
    I agree with you on that one. Where's Superman when you need him?
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    Image of Professional_Iceberg_Hunter Professional_Iceberg_Hunter
    09/28/09

    In reply to Iran Tests Long Distance Missile Capable of Reaching Europe
    Since Obama scrapped the current missile defense that was going to be finished relatively soon (2011'ish) we will have NO long distance missile defense (I.e. nukes) for....oh, I don't know....more than 5 YEARS (2016 or more). Not to mention he is severely straining ties with Europe since he moved the missile defense from Poland/Czech Republic and left a lot of countries defenseless.
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    Image of mynameisjoe mynameisjoe
    09/28/09

    @Professional_Iceberg_Hunter: do you really think that missile defense system was to deter Iran from attacking Poland? Maybe we should put missile defense in Malaysia to deter an attack from Mongolia.
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    Image of Shivver Shivver
    09/28/09

    @mynameisjoe: Of course it wasn't going to be put there to stop Iran, but it was an added bonus. They were going to be put there to send a signal to Russia that we won't tolerate their growing appetite for the good old days of puppet governments and satellite states. They were a signal to the free governments in Eastern Europe that the US wouldn't abandon their fledgling democracies.
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    Image of Weet Weet
    09/28/09

    @Shivver:

    We're not about to abandon the eastern democracies. If Russia tried to invade we would have all out war. The Russians know this. A few anti-missile systems which can't counter advanced Russian missiles in the first place wouldn't change a bloody thing other than to antagonize the Russians. It was a lose-lose situation.

    And as I poster earlier in response to Professional_Iceberg, we have a number of anti-missile systems with which we are replacing this static shield. Namely the Aegis navy missile system and Patriot missile batteries. These are mobile (far better than static) and can be put in place today. I don't know where this 2016 number is coming from. We've lost little if anything and gained much by this move; I fail to see the downside.
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    Image of SGTalon SGTalon
    09/28/09

    @Weet:

    Says Who Weet?

    Last i checked our current administration is surrendering everything we have to our enemies.

    Removing our pitiful defenses from Eastern Europe was just the start.
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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    09/28/09

    @mynameisjoe: Oh no! What are those Mongols up to?
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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    09/28/09

    @SGTalon: "surrendering everything we have to our enemies."

    Troll is a troll.
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    Image of imTheKing imTheKing
    09/28/09

    @Voyou_Charmant: ignore him. He's been reading Fox News.
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