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2004-09-03 Caucasus

Are Chechens armed with laser detonators?

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Posted by Anonymous5089 2004-09-03 2:36:36 PM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads! Now evidently my cycloptic colleague informs me that that cannot be done. Ah, would you remind me what I pay you people for, honestly? Throw me a bone here!

Posted by Dr. Evil 2004-09-03 3:16:04 PM|| 2004-09-03 3:16:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 General Shabalkin is in the firm belief that namely the Chechen terrorists broke down the shuttle âColumbiaâ on 1 February 2003, just before landing, and besides that, the Chechen terrorists were involved in the Chernobyl nuclear holocaust in April 1986â.

Woooooh, General, better lay off that hash!

Posted by Steve 2004-09-03 3:27:09 PM|| 2004-09-03 3:27:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 These lasers certainly are dangerous...if they hit you in the eye.

Impact lasers working on carbon dioxide...are especially dangerous.

I saw a CO2 laser in operation once. It was indeed very cool and especially dangerous. Needs a lotta juice, though. That's the problem with your directed energy weapons; they suck up power.

Here's a laser FAQ. The section on high-power lasers says:

The CO2 laser represents the classic heat ray of science fiction. I have no doubt that the Martians in H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" used CO2 lasers powered by cold fusion generators (probably with superconducting electrical backup storage) for their directed energy weapons.

So apparently the Chechen sympathizers have discovered cold fusion, or Mr. Fusion, or matter-anti-matter reactors.

After certain technical profiling, the same devices can bring down space satellites, and even space ships...These devices detonate the charges at a distance of six thousand kilometers, by means of alternating vibro-impacts easily overcoming all protective structures, including 10 m thick leaden walls of nuclear repositories.

Oh, yeah, I buy it.

By the way, a google search turns up no "The Nuclear Armageddon" by Bruguiere in the Boston Globe or anywhere else.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-09-03 3:37:35 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2004-09-03 3:37:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 These same people would tell you it's impossible for the United States to build laser-powered (or other sorts) of antimissile weapons, but will say that Chechens have made wonder-weapons in workshops in the bombed-out basements of Grozny and the caves of their mountain redoubts.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-09-03 11:52:52 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-09-03 11:52:52 PM|| Front Page Top

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