Category Archives: Science

Get your wings

Posted on June 6, 2006 by Thanos

Wow, I need a pair of these….      See the article on new special forces “Stealth Wings” at the Daily Mail.   The lightweight carbon fibre mono-wings will allow them to jump from high altitudes and then glide 120 miles … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Update – Bogus Surveys appearing

Posted on June 3, 2006 by Thanos

In a sign of the desperation seizing the environmental lobbies now that Kyoto is being questioned or even thrown by the wayside by some of the signatories, several groups are now lobbying against nuclear power. They see the coming dissolution … Continue reading →

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Non-Nuclear ICBMs – update II

Posted on June 3, 2006 by Thanos

Leave it to the Russians to report this best, here’s a great article from Pravda that gives the strategic significance and the most detail on the new program proposed. With this program no terrorist leader in the world is safe … Continue reading →

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Illegal Immigration not only a US problem

Posted on June 1, 2006 by Thanos

In France the intifada has started again Continue reading →

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Non-Nuclear ICBMs

Posted on May 29, 2006 by Thanos

To update an earlier post on this, see the new Reuters story on non-nuclear Trident II missle use here. The International Herald Tribune said the weapon would be a non-nuclear version of the submarine-launched Trident-2 missile and be part of a president’s … Continue reading →

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Sadaamists hiding in Sweden

Posted on May 28, 2006 by Thanos

One of Sadaam Hussein’s cousins is currently seeking asylum in Sweden, see the article here. In other other interesting developments Raytheon and Bofors have created a new GPS guided artillery shell which is now deployed in Iraq. The cost of … Continue reading →

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Germany visits the edge of the Non-Nuclear Power abyss

Posted on May 28, 2006 by Thanos

In Germany politicians earlier made committment to eliminate nuclear power from Germany by 2021 after unrelenting pressure over the last 20 years from the Greens. This even though Nuclear supplies 30% of Germany’s energy at present. After the trick Gazprom pulled … Continue reading →

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On Vacation

Posted on May 20, 2006 by Thanos

If there’s internet where we are going for the next week I will post, otherwise not. Ok we are at the airport and I am blogging from my PPC 6700 just to see how it goes. Btw, I do Love … Continue reading →

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Singularity Summit

Posted on May 19, 2006 by Thanos

See Jerry Pournelle’s blog of the Stanford Singulartiy Summit here. If you have no clue what is meant by the singularity, read some Vernor Vinge, or go here.

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Dems and RINOs kill offshore drilling

Posted on May 19, 2006 by Thanos

It appears Congress wants both us and our children dependent on despots and tyrants for energy. Continue reading →

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