| | This Week's "Dumbest Thing I've Ever Heard" Dave Schuler
| | | Despite record deficits, a shaky economy, and increasing worldwide animosity toward the United States' military hegemony, Dubya has gone ahead to fund one of the (URL) biggest, most ill-conceived, and most unnecessary pork projects> in decades. I (...) (21 years ago, 27-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
| | | | | | | | Re: This Week's "Dumbest Thing I've Ever Heard" Scott Arthur
| | | | | (...) I liked this just 'cause it uses the term "laser cannon": He acknowledged delays in the Airborne Laser, a program that aims to mount a laser cannon on a Boeing 747, which would shoot down missiles as they were launched. So far, engineers have (...) (21 years ago, 28-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: This Week's "Dumbest Thing I've Ever Heard" Dave Schuler
| | | | | (...) I find it amusing that every word of that post is still true nearly a year later. But I have to wonder: has any critical portion of the vaunted Missile Defense Shield ever not failed? I read (URL) this> article, and it sounds like more of the (...) (20 years ago, 15-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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