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Yes.The limitations of accuracy for lasers are all in the lag and vibration of the rotating mass of the mount and beam director and in keeping the optical chain collimated and aligned with the sighting system. With an auto-cannon the dispersion...

citation needed. a target 30km away requires a lead time of 0.2ms; if it was travelling at the speed of sound, it would move about 7 cm or 3 inches in that time.

citation needed. a target 30km away requires a lead time of 0.2ms; if it was travelling at the speed of sound, it would move about 7 cm or 3 inches in that time.

Nathan Twining?

The issue may be the term 'geodesic' which is not widely used in general discourse. The issue here is that 'drone' covers devices weighing 10 kg and travelling at 40kph and those weighing a few hundred kg and travelling over 200kph. Only the...

That'll teach me to waste my time. :p Okay, back to ignoring you. Good luck pushin' that water uphill for the good ol' GOP! "It is a well-known fact that reality has a liberal bias." Stephen Colbert, 2005 (as blowhard Bill O'Reilly-ish...

I am not going to miss Ayatollah Khamenei, who was, I think, on balance, bad for his own people, and the world. That said, I have concerns that maybe that is questionable criteria for bombing a country & assassinating their leader. If it is...

Re: The girl's school I was confused about why a school would even be open on Saturday. Isn't that the Islamic Sabbath? What I found out: 1. Islam doesn't have a Sabbath in the way Judaism and Christianity conceive of such a thing. The...

There was good old Roscoe Hillenkoeter. “Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter (May 8, 1897 – June 18, 1982) was the third director of the post–World War II United States Central Intelligence Group (CIG), the third Director of Central Intelligence (DCI)...

There was good old Roscoe Hillenkoeter. “Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter (May 8, 1897 – June 18, 1982) was the third director of the post–World War II United States Central Intelligence Group (CIG), the third Director of Central Intelligence (DCI)...

wouldnt this be backwards for McCasland? i have the same thoughts about people who dont switch to "conservative" later in life. ;)

I admit that deeply cynical thoughts follow here. But if anyone has a serious professional position in his earlier career yet switches to UFOlogy later in life, my first thoughts are to ask if his cognitive functions are in decline. The same goes...

it seems to be DeLonge's statement. this is about Ross Coultharts book: A punk rocker called DeLonge who claims that one his tracks was "about aliens that come to Earth and 'fly up your butt. And it's true'" gets several chapters. "The idea that...

This is the problem with UFO stories like this. Christopher Sharp and other UFO media people suggest McCasland's disappearance may have been somehow tied to something nefarious because the guys at TTSA suggested he may have known about alien...

it seems to be DeLonge's statement. this is about Ross Coultharts book: A punk rocker called DeLonge who claims that one his tracks was "about aliens that come to Earth and 'fly up your butt. And it's true'" gets several chapters. "The idea that...