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Originally posted by samkent
I would suspect this show is Jesse's biggest source of income. And as such he is going to associate himself with anyone who can make the show prosper. ie Alex
It's hard to believe he was ever a governer of any state. Would you vote for him?
He is just another example of someone doing anything he can (job wise) to keep a paycheck comming in.
Remember Leonard Nimoy's 'In Search of"?
I consider these shows as Cheeto's for the brain. They may taste good while sitting there, they are not good for the brain. They clog the thought processes.
Originally posted by Rubicant13
reply to post by LoonyConservative
Yeah... I do not necessarily believe that the death ray was used on the twin towers either. But, one thing that this episode does show is that the thermite explanation isn't plausible either. If the thermite residue could get hot enough to cause cars to catch fire, why did all the floating paper debris not incinerate? How did people not burn up with the cars as well? This does not make sense to me. What could have caused this to happen in the manner it did?
The High Precision Tracking Experiment (HPTE), launched with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-G, was tested June 21, 1985 when a Hawaii-based low-power laser successfully tracked the experiment and bounced the laser off of the HPTE mirror. The Relay mirror experiment (RME), launched in February 1990, demonstrated critical technologies for space-based relay mirrors that would be used with an SDI directed-energy weapon system. The experiment validated stabilization, tracking, and pointing concepts and proved that a laser could be relayed from the ground to a 60 cm mirror on an orbiting satellite and back to another ground station with a high degree of accuracy and for extended durations.[45]
The Active Denial System (ADS) is a non-lethal, directed-energy weapon developed by the U.S. military
Originally posted by Asktheanimals
Nowhere in the show does it mention orbital space lasers or satellite based weapons platforms.
Why do you keep bringing that idea up?
Not that it isn't possible, it was successfully proven that lasers could reach from earth to space way back in 1985:
Here's a silly idea of invisible weapons tracking and destroying incoming mortar rounds:
THEL: Tactical High-Energy Laser
Or how about the active denial system?
It's actually called a Directed Energy Weapon.
The Active Denial System (ADS) is a non-lethal, directed-energy weapon developed by the U.S. military
Oh, that's right, directed energy weapons are Dr. Woods special delusion.
I'm sure they never considered something similar using far more power.
You keep ridiculing anyone who mentions Directed Energy Weapons when it's proven they exist.
Yes, there is a death ray.
Bažant, who is generally regarded as the world leader in research on scaling in the mechanics of solids, has published over 450 refereed journal articles and is the author of six books. He is an ISI highly cited researcher in Engineering, which places him among the 250 most cited authors in all engineering fields worldwide.
He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1996, the National Academy of Sciences in 2002, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008, and is a registered Structural Engineer in the state of Illinois. He has supervised 60 PhDs in addition to receiving six honorary doctorates of his own (ČVUT 1991, TU Karlsruhe 1997, CU Boulder 2000, Politecnico di Milano 2001, INSA Lyon 2004, and TU Vienna 2005