US Missiles Fired Into Syria

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"Project Thor is an idea for a weapons system that launches telephone pole-sized kinetic projectiles made from tungsten from Earth's orbit to damage targets on the ground."
No real need for the tungsten rods to be the size of telephone poles, for 98% of things you want to destroy.

A 100 lb tungsten-carbide rod with an impact velocity of 146,667 ft-sec(about 100,000 mph) would deliver 33,440,468,172 ft-lbs of energy, assuming my calculations are correct.

Even with "only" an impact velocity of 25,000 mph, it's still an energy delivery of over 2,000,000,000 ft-lbs.
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Not to spoil a wet dream, but here is a blast from the past.

Does anyone here remember back when we were gearing up to go into Iraq and do in the offensive corporation of Saddam and Sons, Inc. Remember the long line of trucks and such that WE ALLOWED to escape to Syria, while we dithered on and on about what those vehicles contained.

Sure you do.

Do you also remember a Middle East organization named "The Muslim Brotherhood" that postulated a short lived merging of Egypt, Iraq and Syria called the United Arab Republic.

Gee, I wonder what the common thread can be? :?

Now we are going through another Middle East shell game of disinformation called "Who had the Sarin" along with the appropriate finger pointing.

And we fall for it EVERY SINGLE TIME.

My solution is to evacuate all Christians and Jews (and perhaps the Kurds) from the Middle East and pave that part of the planet. It would be ever so much more peaceful :lol: .
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randy wrote:Thor was conceived in the late 60's early 70's
You ever notice all the really cool ideas like thor, casaba howitzers, project pluto, etc all came out of the same time period?
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Let's remember that the SR-71, which still holds world speed and altitude records, was designed in the late 50's, and was flying operational missions in (IIRC) 1964. They couldn't go from concept to bids on the F-35 in that same length of time, much less into production.
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HTRN wrote:
randy wrote:Thor was conceived in the late 60's early 70's
You ever notice all the really cool ideas like thor, casaba howitzers, project pluto, etc all came out of the same time period?
You mean before the Great Society got rolling and we traded advancement and the stars for a welfare check?
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skb12172 wrote:
HTRN wrote:
randy wrote:Thor was conceived in the late 60's early 70's
You ever notice all the really cool ideas like thor, casaba howitzers, project pluto, etc all came out of the same time period?
You mean before the Great Society got rolling and we traded advancement and the stars for a welfare check?
Wasn't that about the time the late Colonel Corso was given the job of reverse engineering the technology from the Roswell saucer crash?

(We need a tinfoil hat smilie) :idea:
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skb12172 wrote:
HTRN wrote:
randy wrote:Thor was conceived in the late 60's early 70's
You ever notice all the really cool ideas like thor, casaba howitzers, project pluto, etc all came out of the same time period?
You mean before the Great Society got rolling and we traded advancement and the stars for a welfare check?
Before the 1965 immigration act started having an effect.
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skb12172 wrote:
HTRN wrote:
randy wrote:Thor was conceived in the late 60's early 70's
You ever notice all the really cool ideas like thor, casaba howitzers, project pluto, etc all came out of the same time period?
You mean before the Great Society got rolling and we traded advancement and the stars for a welfare check?
I think its more the era when widespread deployment of truly nasty weapons was palatabe. Everything i listed was either radioactive, extremely high yeald or both.

Keep in mind too, who the primary enemy was then, vs now.
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