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2011-07-12 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-07-12 10:52|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Let's see...one fifth is more like twenty percent, isn't it?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-07-12 14:45|| 2011-07-12 14:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Drop the $800 million in pennies from high-flying BUFFs over the Tribal Agencies. Let Pakistan dig it out of the ground there, after it's turned the area into a sieve. I don't know exactly what the terminal velocity of a penny is when released from 40,000 feet, but one dropped from the Empire State building is supposed to be capable of imbedding four feet into concrete.

Posted by Old Patriot 2011-07-12 17:12|| 2011-07-12 17:12|| Front Page Top

#3 naw..a penny - or any other falling body - will quickly reach terminal velocity no matter how high after that. the shape will want to slice through the air edge on but will flutter back and forth slowing the speed quite a lot. No doubt it would leave a mark on the concrete...but bury itself 4 ft. don't think so...if it did we'd use them like bunker busters.... ;)

Posted by Warthog 2011-07-12 20:33|| 2011-07-12 20:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Warthog is correct - the "penny from the top of the Empire State Building meme is bad" The only way that works is ballistically shaped to reduce drag and flutter. I'm OK with that, in sufficiently large caliber

Posted by Frank G 2011-07-12 21:01|| 2011-07-12 21:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Copper is too valuable to waste on these goblins, send weapons grade plutonium instead, properly packaged of course.

Posted by Secret Asian Man 2011-07-12 21:13|| 2011-07-12 21:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Pakistan may be mostly pro-Saudi + pro-Sunni, + Islamist, but its just as ambitious as Shia Iran in wanting to be a "great power", to include Nuclear Superpower, + is willing to compete agz same to do so.

AGAIN, the GWOT is as much a INTER-MUSLIM STRUGGLE FOR POWER + INFLUENCE AS AGZ ANY + ALL NON-ISLAM.

"Jasmine" Uprisings in ME, North AFrica = ITS NOT JUST THE US-VS-RISING-CHINA ANYMORE.

Unlike Iran, PAK ALREADY HAS A RELIABLE, PRE-EXISTING NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARSENAL IN QUANTITY, which is what Radical Islam desires - NOT FOR AGZ THE US-WEST AT THIS TIME, BUT MORE AGZ RUSSIA, CHINA, + INDIA, ETC. EAST-SOUTH ASIAN STATES.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-07-13 00:07|| 2011-07-13 00:07|| Front Page Top

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