Please, I hope this is the only time
we will see that lovely shade of green.
That hurts the eyes.
Is it okay to say that Poofie is
the hole in hole in one.
Oh I’m sure it was picked for that very reason. The mighty
Wolf Empress has bared her fangs, I just hope the mire
THOUGHT of trying anything like that again will make any
survivors leak bodily fluids…
OH boy, Flea, be good, he’s already in dire need of new drawers…
and a shower, plus about a gallon of gatoraid just to get his
electrolytes back up from fear sweat.
Quick! Everyone in the room, dive under the Puufti’s gut and nose,
might give a little protection…
Kudos to the Empress, she’s doing the same to him that a certain
pres did to another high-n-mighty type. Only she’s NOT just showing
a picture! Could be worse, Teresa could be making a “rock garden”
out of space rocks!
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
With the kinetic energy a rod dropped from orbit has,
the conventional explosive would add minuscule amount
and probably would be costly to add and not explode
early on due to the heat of reentry You would need to
add costly coating like landers have.
OTOH I’m sure the Empire wouldn’t use nukes on any
habitable planet.
If I recall, they said a telephone pole-sized rod would
strike with the force of a 8-10 megaton…
A bit too much for any city…
Teresa called them “missiles” so I figure they are much
smaller, like what they used for the CSA idiots. I doubt
they’d worry about the name “god rod”.
Increase the velocity of the impactor sufficiently, reduce the cross
section to only a few inches, and you minimize the collateral damage
while increasing ground/bunker penetration significantly.
So, a small penetrator, say about 4 to 6 inches in width, about a yard long,
massing about 250 to 350 pounds, travelling at about 5,000 gees SHOULD
look like a beam weapon from orbit have a surface restriction radius of
about 100 yards, penetrate about 500+ feet, (assuming hardened desert
ground, blow through about 20+ feet of reinforced, pre-stressed concrete,
and essentially, act like a blowtorch to everything in the bunker, as the
kinetic energy of the impact or is converted into heat energy, not to
mention, the explosive force of the air in the bunker, as well as the
debris being pulled in after the impactor, suddenly converting into
High Energy/High Pressure plasma, roughly approximating the
temperature of the solar corona, or about 10,000,000 degrees.
To be honest, I kind of envision the surface scene to look like an
Energy bolt from the sky, exploding on the surface like a small
Fuel Air Explosive, quickly followed by an uplifting of the surface
in about a 100 yard radius, of about 5 to ten feet, followed by the
area of effect collapsing about 5 to 10 feet below the average
surface area in a shallow surface crater, that would resemble
freshly turned dirt.
Unfortunately, it will likely be very hot, and steaming with
noxious fumes of what was vaporized in what is now the blast
chamber. When examined, in about a week, once it cools, trace
organic matter might be found in the classified interior of what
WAS their “bomb proof bunker.”
Lesson One of building a truly “Bomb Proof Bunker”
Don’t build the bunker where the bomb is going to hit!
Lesson Two; Don’t tick off someone to the point where
they will bomb you in the first place!
Niven and Pournelle (originator of the “rods from God” concept)
gave a very nice description of such an attack in “Footfall”.
Good reading as is all their output.
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
Seeing what Israel is doing to her enemies right now,
anyone want to start a “Netenyahu for POTUS” movement?
Just a thought in the shower, don’t take it that seriously.
And yes, I probably spelled the name wrong,
but you know who I mean.
Unfortunately he doesn’t qualify. Have you heard?
Iran is dumping missiles into Israel in job lots.
Unfortunately significant numbers are impacting.
Seems Iran is but hurt over Israel doing some
Hams mucky-muck recently.
Reckon some Ayatollah is in line to get his
issue of virgins?
That’s a strong maybe, I think a few years in the Legion
would make him a man, or off him and he’d never be an
issue again. Dark I know, but I can’t help picturing him
trembling in fear, hiding in a ditch, while the rest of his
squad is fighting for their lives.
Anybody ever think about HOW Israel managed to set up
explosives in 4000 pagers, who knows how many walkie
talkies, cell phones, laptops, cars and solar panels?
I have an idea of what they did, but I find it really difficult,
and scary has hell, as to how I think they did it.
Let’s just say, electronic warfare has just entered a new,
and far more dangerous realm…
easy… make a recall on batteries,. then offer half off on replacement.
while you have it, pack it where you can.. over 90% won’t notice
that they still have the same battery, and paid $30-$40 for it..
and if they do notice,, “oh sorry, yours wasn’t in the recall , it’s free.!”
or.. since just about everyone has a case/cover.. replace the phone
shell with molded explosive…
Or just intercept the shipment, modify the devices and let the result
continue. I read somewhere that Mossad already knew of Hamas’
ordering the pagers. It would have been child’s play (for those guys)
to do the “upgrades” without Hamas ever having a clue.
“From the liver to the knee!” I kinda like it!
The most plausible scenario I’ve read is this:
The pagers were purchased in a large lot from the manufacturer.
Israel intercepted the shipment. These pagers have two batteries,
one was replaced with a cylinder if explosives, a micro relay,
and a little re-programming was preformed. And all of the ‘numbers’
for the pagers were recorded. When zero-hour was reached a code
was broadcast to all of those numbers, causing the modified code to
operate the relay, closing a circuit between the explosive and the
battery. Instant mixed nuts.
I’ve been a practicing electrical engineer for over 45 years.
This is completely plausible, in my opinion
I read that the pagers were programmed to sound a message alert
when the triggering message was sent followed by a short delay
after which the device detonated. The idea was for the badguys
to have time to bring the device to eye level to read the message.
I wouldn’t put it past the Israelis for the message to have been
“Boom!” in Arabic. I bet the Mossad guys in on the op had a good
laugh after the code was sent followed by much hilarity as reports
of the injuries/deaths came in. Got to have been more than a few
high-fives at Mossad HQ that day.
Well, I certainly noticed! The former top comic that was getting
a thousand votes at a time is sitting on 64 votes right now.
Things are back to what used to be normal.
I wonder if it’s going to last very long.
No way were the last few months natural.
Man, I hate USPS. My new monitor was supposed to be delivered today.
Tracking says they tried to deliver it yesterday…
In a town twenty-five miles away. Not where it was addressed to.
Trying to navigate their website is a miserable, frustrating experience.
I hear that, UPS is only slightly better. I just hope wherever it
went, didn’t mean they lost it, that’s a major pain. They always
try to make it out that it’s your fault, not theirs.
So, Carrie knows at least two Legionnaires. And is on a friendly basis.
Now I’m assuming that wasn’t a cautionary signal to a friend she was
giving Duncan. Something more like, “Dude, you are SO screwed.”
A little flea can be a big annoyance.
I should mention…
Panel four is going back in time a few minutes.
To just before they all returned to the basement
to find out the sentence.
PC? Teresa’s lipstick is a might too bright a green.
Was that intentional?
Hey Pooftie! Can you bend over and kiss your ass Boo-Bye?
Can’t say as they don’t have it coming after that cowardly
attack on Jerico when they first tried to kidnap her.
I doubt that huge gut would let him bend over enough.
But I’m sure that HUGE honker would reach!
Please, I hope this is the only time
we will see that lovely shade of green.
That hurts the eyes.
Is it okay to say that Poofie is
the hole in hole in one.
Oh I’m sure it was picked for that very reason. The mighty
Wolf Empress has bared her fangs, I just hope the mire
THOUGHT of trying anything like that again will make any
survivors leak bodily fluids…
OH boy, Flea, be good, he’s already in dire need of new drawers…
and a shower, plus about a gallon of gatoraid just to get his
electrolytes back up from fear sweat.
Quick! Everyone in the room, dive under the Puufti’s gut and nose,
might give a little protection…
Kudos to the Empress, she’s doing the same to him that a certain
pres did to another high-n-mighty type. Only she’s NOT just showing
a picture! Could be worse, Teresa could be making a “rock garden”
out of space rocks!
Space rocks?
I didn’t know Mike was involved.
Orbital strikes…….twenty missles……
Actual explosives? Or God rods?
God Rods. Small ones.
To minimize collateral damage.
With the kinetic energy a rod dropped from orbit has,
the conventional explosive would add minuscule amount
and probably would be costly to add and not explode
early on due to the heat of reentry You would need to
add costly coating like landers have.
OTOH I’m sure the Empire wouldn’t use nukes on any
habitable planet.
Who needs nukes when you possess the orbitals?
Do the math for a half ton at mach 15. Scary!
If I recall, they said a telephone pole-sized rod would
strike with the force of a 8-10 megaton…
A bit too much for any city…
Teresa called them “missiles” so I figure they are much
smaller, like what they used for the CSA idiots. I doubt
they’d worry about the name “god rod”.
Increase the velocity of the impactor sufficiently, reduce the cross
section to only a few inches, and you minimize the collateral damage
while increasing ground/bunker penetration significantly.
So, a small penetrator, say about 4 to 6 inches in width, about a yard long,
massing about 250 to 350 pounds, travelling at about 5,000 gees SHOULD
look like a beam weapon from orbit have a surface restriction radius of
about 100 yards, penetrate about 500+ feet, (assuming hardened desert
ground, blow through about 20+ feet of reinforced, pre-stressed concrete,
and essentially, act like a blowtorch to everything in the bunker, as the
kinetic energy of the impact or is converted into heat energy, not to
mention, the explosive force of the air in the bunker, as well as the
debris being pulled in after the impactor, suddenly converting into
High Energy/High Pressure plasma, roughly approximating the
temperature of the solar corona, or about 10,000,000 degrees.
To be honest, I kind of envision the surface scene to look like an
Energy bolt from the sky, exploding on the surface like a small
Fuel Air Explosive, quickly followed by an uplifting of the surface
in about a 100 yard radius, of about 5 to ten feet, followed by the
area of effect collapsing about 5 to 10 feet below the average
surface area in a shallow surface crater, that would resemble
freshly turned dirt.
Unfortunately, it will likely be very hot, and steaming with
noxious fumes of what was vaporized in what is now the blast
chamber. When examined, in about a week, once it cools, trace
organic matter might be found in the classified interior of what
WAS their “bomb proof bunker.”
Lesson One of building a truly “Bomb Proof Bunker”
Don’t build the bunker where the bomb is going to hit!
Lesson Two; Don’t tick off someone to the point where
they will bomb you in the first place!
That should be 5,000 Gees.
Stupid autocorrect…
My thought is IF you caught sight of one,
it’s look a bit like a bolt of lightening,
only perfectly straight,
rather than the normal jagged ones.
Unless, of course, it was coming straight AT you!
Even then it’d be a growing dot that’s glowing
for the few seconds it took to reach you.
Niven and Pournelle (originator of the “rods from God” concept)
gave a very nice description of such an attack in “Footfall”.
Good reading as is all their output.
What’s that expression?
“Turn the buildings into
rubble……then make the
rubble bounce”.
The rubble helscope?
Seeing what Israel is doing to her enemies right now,
anyone want to start a “Netenyahu for POTUS” movement?
Just a thought in the shower, don’t take it that seriously.
And yes, I probably spelled the name wrong,
but you know who I mean.
Unfortunately he doesn’t qualify. Have you heard?
Iran is dumping missiles into Israel in job lots.
Unfortunately significant numbers are impacting.
Seems Iran is but hurt over Israel doing some
Hams mucky-muck recently.
Reckon some Ayatollah is in line to get his
issue of virgins?
Israel was making threats to Iran about
their backing Hamas, Iran is replying…
I think Flea will bounce him around some and then recruit him.
That’s a strong maybe, I think a few years in the Legion
would make him a man, or off him and he’d never be an
issue again. Dark I know, but I can’t help picturing him
trembling in fear, hiding in a ditch, while the rest of his
squad is fighting for their lives.
Anybody ever think about HOW Israel managed to set up
explosives in 4000 pagers, who knows how many walkie
talkies, cell phones, laptops, cars and solar panels?
I have an idea of what they did, but I find it really difficult,
and scary has hell, as to how I think they did it.
Let’s just say, electronic warfare has just entered a new,
and far more dangerous realm…
easy… make a recall on batteries,. then offer half off on replacement.
while you have it, pack it where you can.. over 90% won’t notice
that they still have the same battery, and paid $30-$40 for it..
and if they do notice,, “oh sorry, yours wasn’t in the recall , it’s free.!”
or.. since just about everyone has a case/cover.. replace the phone
shell with molded explosive…
Or just intercept the shipment, modify the devices and let the result
continue. I read somewhere that Mossad already knew of Hamas’
ordering the pagers. It would have been child’s play (for those guys)
to do the “upgrades” without Hamas ever having a clue.
“From the liver to the knee!” I kinda like it!
The most plausible scenario I’ve read is this:
The pagers were purchased in a large lot from the manufacturer.
Israel intercepted the shipment. These pagers have two batteries,
one was replaced with a cylinder if explosives, a micro relay,
and a little re-programming was preformed. And all of the ‘numbers’
for the pagers were recorded. When zero-hour was reached a code
was broadcast to all of those numbers, causing the modified code to
operate the relay, closing a circuit between the explosive and the
battery. Instant mixed nuts.
I’ve been a practicing electrical engineer for over 45 years.
This is completely plausible, in my opinion
I read that the pagers were programmed to sound a message alert
when the triggering message was sent followed by a short delay
after which the device detonated. The idea was for the badguys
to have time to bring the device to eye level to read the message.
I wouldn’t put it past the Israelis for the message to have been
“Boom!” in Arabic. I bet the Mossad guys in on the op had a good
laugh after the code was sent followed by much hilarity as reports
of the injuries/deaths came in. Got to have been more than a few
high-fives at Mossad HQ that day.
Anybody else notice the change-up, actually a reversion, on TWC?
All the strips we were snarking about buying their position are second
page at best.
Well, I certainly noticed! The former top comic that was getting
a thousand votes at a time is sitting on 64 votes right now.
Things are back to what used to be normal.
I wonder if it’s going to last very long.
No way were the last few months natural.
Like I said, payola only lasts so long….
Man, I hate USPS. My new monitor was supposed to be delivered today.
Tracking says they tried to deliver it yesterday…
In a town twenty-five miles away. Not where it was addressed to.
Trying to navigate their website is a miserable, frustrating experience.
I hear that, UPS is only slightly better. I just hope wherever it
went, didn’t mean they lost it, that’s a major pain. They always
try to make it out that it’s your fault, not theirs.
So, Carrie knows at least two Legionnaires. And is on a friendly basis.
Now I’m assuming that wasn’t a cautionary signal to a friend she was
giving Duncan. Something more like, “Dude, you are SO screwed.”