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JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#144051: Oct 14th 2016 at 9:12:06 AM

He thought we should be working on a new doomsday device as Nukes were no longer sufficient.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
nervmeister Since: Oct, 2010
#144052: Oct 14th 2016 at 9:12:13 AM

[up][up][up]You know how tanks replaced calvary by WW 2? Think of something like what I mentioned as the next big leap that changes the rulebook.

edited 14th Oct '16 9:12:37 AM by nervmeister

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#144053: Oct 14th 2016 at 9:12:28 AM

[up][up][up][up] We were funding telepathy research at one point...

edited 14th Oct '16 9:13:29 AM by CaptainCapsase

Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
V
#144054: Oct 14th 2016 at 9:13:22 AM

[up] Only because the Soviets did the same first. And anyway, I seem to remember that US efforts were more focused on psychic viewing than anything else.

edited 14th Oct '16 9:15:27 AM by Greenmantle

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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#144055: Oct 14th 2016 at 9:13:56 AM

[up][up][up]That's just dumb, no.

[down]Got ninja'd a bit. Was missing an arrow.

edited 14th Oct '16 9:17:37 AM by LeGarcon

Oh really when?
CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#144056: Oct 14th 2016 at 9:14:40 AM

[up] No really. It was real, and stupid as hell, but it existed.

edited 14th Oct '16 9:14:54 AM by CaptainCapsase

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#144058: Oct 14th 2016 at 9:15:19 AM

We've funded lots of stuff. There was a project during WWII to strap incendiary bombs to bats and have them fly into enemy bases. At dawn, the bats would find roosting places in hard to reach areas, and then the bombs would detonate and destroy the base.

It was a disaster because some of the trial bat-bombs escaped and burned down the base they were being tested at. Which I call a successful proof of concept, m'self, but then the Manhattan Project stole all its funding and that was the end of that.

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nervmeister Since: Oct, 2010
#144059: Oct 14th 2016 at 9:15:53 AM

[up][up][up][up]There is an interesting case of a bridge in Scotland that causes any dogs near it to mysteriously take their own lives by jumping off it and drowning in the waters below. No one knows yet what exactly it is (possibly acoustics that only a dog can hear), but something similar to that which no other military machine is prepared to deal with is preferable to just "more of the same".

edited 14th Oct '16 9:16:33 AM by nervmeister

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#144060: Oct 14th 2016 at 9:17:12 AM

Man just stop

Oh really when?
CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#144061: Oct 14th 2016 at 9:17:15 AM

[up][up] Then invest in neuroscience research and wait for someone to propose a mechanism by which something like that could be achieved with humans.

edited 14th Oct '16 9:19:01 AM by CaptainCapsase

nervmeister Since: Oct, 2010
#144062: Oct 14th 2016 at 9:20:00 AM

[up][up]Maybe it's just the sci-fi nut in me talking, but if you want the resource-devouring "hyper-militaristic" route off the table, then that's not too absurd of a priority.

edited 14th Oct '16 9:20:12 AM by nervmeister

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#144063: Oct 14th 2016 at 9:20:44 AM

How?

Oh really when?
nervmeister Since: Oct, 2010
#144064: Oct 14th 2016 at 9:24:05 AM

[up]Further research on the human brain, how it's mapped, and how certain signals or sensory stimuli influences certain portions.

edited 14th Oct '16 9:25:26 AM by nervmeister

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#144065: Oct 14th 2016 at 9:26:19 AM

Oh no, not this again.

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FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#144067: Oct 14th 2016 at 9:27:55 AM

[up][up][up] Do the basic research first, don't put the cart before the horse. Learn to understand the human brain well enough that you can use that understanding to judge whether or not your proposal is feasible. Devote a bit of your time to anomalous results just in case you're missing something, but understand that the so called "Eureka!" Moment is extremely rare in real science.

edited 14th Oct '16 9:36:10 AM by CaptainCapsase

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#144068: Oct 14th 2016 at 9:27:59 AM

Nukes work great and are gonna be here for a long time. Combating any sort of "suicide sound" or whatever bullshit would be as easy as giving everyone headphones.

Which are already standard issue for NATO and the Russians. It's built into helmets.

Oh really when?
nervmeister Since: Oct, 2010
#144069: Oct 14th 2016 at 9:31:33 AM

[up][up][up][up]Since I landed in hot water with the mods last time, I'd rather not go into too much detail this time (even if this does seem relatively tamer). All I'm saying is, changing the game on the national defense side of things instead of relying on today's conventions, may free up money and certain resources to be utilized for civilian or economic benefit.

edited 14th Oct '16 9:32:57 AM by nervmeister

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#144070: Oct 14th 2016 at 9:34:52 AM

Moving to topic, don't remember seeing this mentioned:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/10/12/liberty-is-not-trump-u-students-protest-donald-trump/

Students of Liberty University want nothing to do with Trump following the tapes' release, breaking from the university President, Jerry Falwell, Jr.

edited 14th Oct '16 9:36:22 AM by sgamer82

nervmeister Since: Oct, 2010
#144071: Oct 14th 2016 at 9:37:49 AM

[up]Hm. So that was the thing that went "a bridge too far" for them, ay? Interesting.

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#144072: Oct 14th 2016 at 9:41:01 AM

Armed Teump supporters were loitering outside of a democratic campaign office in Virginia yesterday.

Stuff like his is why I still have a pit of worry in the back of my mind about the election.

edited 14th Oct '16 9:42:04 AM by CaptainCapsase

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#144073: Oct 14th 2016 at 9:45:05 AM

On a side note, it just occurred to me that this whole seed scandal is making the original Trump/Pence "insertion" logo even funnier than it was at the time.

KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#144074: Oct 14th 2016 at 9:49:52 AM

A question - in the event that voter intimidation does occur in some areas, can the government take steps to deal with it?

Oh God! Natural light!
nervmeister Since: Oct, 2010
#144075: Oct 14th 2016 at 9:50:27 AM

EDIT: -wrong thread-

edited 14th Oct '16 9:52:16 AM by nervmeister


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