Re: Interesting - Ukraine Missiles Use Open Source, Russians Use Pi-4s
The Natural Philosopher <[email protected]>
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On 25/07/2026 17:39, rbowman wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:42:47 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >> On 25/07/2026 02:43, c186282 wrote: >>> On 7/24/26 06:00, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>>> On 24/07/2026 04:39, c186282 wrote: >>>>> "GoldenDome" is NOT practical. The USA is just >>>>> WAY too damned BIG. It can be attacked from any direction. The >>>>> sheer scale of a missile defense system is, well, just >>>>> impractical. >>>>> >>>> I think the only way to make this work is to move everything of >>>> importance underground. And leave the surface for cyclists and bunny >>>> huggers >>>> >>>>> Something new/different would be needed - giant, >>>>> really giant, lasers or something. >>>>> >>>> Or a lot of little ones. >>> >>> Who's gonna PAY for them ? Just to cover the US mainland we'd be >>> talking maybe a few THOUSAND of those 'small' lasers. X-percent >>> will be out of service at any given time. >>> >> What makes you think they would be expensive? > > Is the US government going to pay for them? In that case they will be > delivered late, not completely operational, and have cost overruns twice > or more of the original estimate. Prove I'm wrong. Don't be silly. First you don't need hundreds. It's all down to how fast you can slew the optics and the recharge time of whatever powers the laser. secondly lasers - even reasonably high powered ones - are not that expensive . Oh, invisible unicorns are massing in Times Square *Prove me wrong*. -- “it should be clear by now to everyone that activist environmentalism (or environmental activism) is becoming a general ideology about humans, about their freedom, about the relationship between the individual and the state, and about the manipulation of people under the guise of a 'noble' idea. It is not an honest pursuit of 'sustainable development,' a matter of elementary environmental protection, or a search for rational mechanisms designed to achieve a healthy environment. Yet things do occur that make you shake your head and remind yourself that you live neither in Joseph Stalin’s Communist era, nor in the Orwellian utopia of 1984.” Vaclav Klaus