Ask Me Help Desk - RIP Maggie

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Originally Posted by paraclete

Yes that's what happens in a cold war, someone goes the way of the dinosaurs, If I remember Star Wars correctly there were going to be satellites shooting laser cannons, we haven't quite got there yet ,and iron dome; well it isn't more than 50% successful against short range rockets, can't imagine its capable against a long range missile. Reagan had an idea and the rhetoric worked well, but the reality? his successors didn't have the same vision

By the war the rail gun works on magentic, not electronic

As far as laser statellites that idea was shelved because it was too expensive and you couldn't aim them as fast as other platforms. They took them and mounted them on planes and warships A lot of what we were doing during the end times of the cold war was purely disinformation. But because of commitments it had to be acted upon by the Soviets. The ral gun / cannon didn't come from the star wars era. Its actually an idea that was around in WW2. Its just that technology has caught up with it and can be put to use.

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By the war the rail gun works on magentic, not electronic

HowStuffWorks "How Rail Guns Work"

Electromagnetic does not mean electronic

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The power supply is simply a source of electric current. Typically, the current used in medium- to large-caliber rail guns is in the millions of amps...

An electric current runs from the positive terminal of the power supply, up the positive rail, across the armature, and down the negative rail back to the power supply[/B].

Popular Mechanics describes it as an Electric Cannon...

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In this test at a range in Dahlgren, Va. the Navy fired a 32-megajoule half-power prototype of the electromagnetic railgun, developed by BAE Systems. (The Navy compares one megajoule of energy to a 1-ton vehicle moving at about 100 miles per hour.) The full-scale system is expected to be 64 megajoules. General Atomics is scheduled to deliver its own 32-megajoule prototype to the Navy in April to compete with the BAE design.

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The BAE Systems prototype has yet to fire at full power. Tom Boucher, the Navy's test director for the railgun, says that after the Navy commissioned it last week, it fired the gun six times at 20 megajoules. "As we evaluate the data, we'll take it up to 32 megajoules," Boucher says.

The Navy's Electric Cannon Fires Its First Shots - Popular Mechanics

But this is a quibbling argument... Electricity is a power source that creates a magnetic field . There... we are both right .

You do get excited about the least little thing

Obama's snub to Thatcher: President won't send envoy to funeral - and leaves it to her old allies from the Reagan era

Apparently he was to be too busy pushing gun control.

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This is a hugely significant week in terms of US domestic politics,' a spokesman added.

He said that both the First Lady and the Vice President were 'the President's point people on gun control', adding: 'This is a week when there is a lot of movement on Capitol Hill on gun control issues.'

Perhaps he can send some DVDs in condolence.

He wishes he had a bust of her to return .

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Originally Posted by tomder55

He wishes he had a bust of her to return .

Good one.

The best solution to this is to bury her and her policies with her

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Originally Posted by paraclete

the best solution to this is to bury her and her policies with her

Smh.

Clete ,don't be a hater... I'm sure we can find an appropriate place of honor for her resting place here . Maybe at the Reagan Library .

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Originally Posted by tomder55

Clete ,don't be a hater ... I'm sure we can find an appropriate place of honor for her resting place here . Maybe at the Reagan Library .

Yes great idea remove her fro Britain and place here somewhere in cinc with her ideas