US Navy now has lasers

[beats me]

http://gizmodo.com/5994074/watch-a-navy ... of-the-sky

Badass.

[oblique strategies]

[distaudio]

If it doesn't make a PEW PEW noise no fucks given.

[LoopStationZebra]

They should have done this in the fog so that we could see the laser.

[lowshelf]

They should have done this in the fog so that we could see the laser.

Lasers are no match for undead leper pirates. Didn't they teach you anything?

[beats me]

Republicans will approve it for civilian use and the NRA will defend our right to own assault lasers as was intended and predicted by the founding fathers.

[Machinesworking]

Republicans will approve it for civilian use and the NRA will defend our right to own assault lasers as was intended and predicted by the founding fathers.

You don't want an assault laser?

[beats me]

Republicans will approve it for civilian use and the NRA will defend our right to own assault lasers as was intended and predicted by the founding fathers.

You don't want an assault laser?

I'm American. Of course I do. Anything that starts with “assault” is a must have by default.

[LoopStationZebra]

Republicans

I see where you're going here with this one, but I see the laser as something more akin to drones. In fact, the perfect accessory for a drone.

Speaking of which, Obama's Administration had to practically be WATERBOARDED before reluctantly acknowledging that drones won't be used on US citizens.




In fact, FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS seems to be the rally cry from the Obama Admin when it comes to giving up using drones overseas.

[LoopStationZebra]

OMFG.

Just found this...

OMFG.

[Machinesworking]

The drone thing is the achilles heal of my drummers claims that Obama isn't a war monger.

Myself being outside the rep/dem thing it seems ridiculous when either claim the other is "anti freedom"...

[Machinesworking]

I'll take my abortions, assault lasers, public health care, gay marriage, vulger music, free market and low tax rate thank you very much.

republicrats can kiss my posterior!

[beats me]

I don’t get what the big deal is about Obama and the drones. Regardless of who is in office and whether a war is justified or not, when have we ever not used the latest tech in our arsenal aside from nukes?

Not to mention the sooner we roll these things on to the battle field with frequent usage the sooner they become old hat and available to consumers at Walmart.

You don’t want to show up with a RPG to an assault laser fight.

[Machinesworking]

I don’t get what the big deal is about Obama and the drones. Regardless of who is in office and whether a war is justified or not, when have we ever not used the latest tech in our arsenal aside from nukes?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/ju ... nal-law-un

Drones IMO as a regular war tactic is to me anyway not that different than napalm, chemical warfare etc.
Another problem is subtle, citizens of countries are never that rilled up by war if the body count on their side is low enough.
So drones offer this to governments.

Here's the kicker with drones though, it's not ultra advance technology. Any country could come up with basic drones. Sure the USA, UK, Russia etc. will have amazing advanced drones, but the basic idea is simple and anybody could come up with something that worked. Kamikaze terrorist drone attacks are bound to happen, and we will have essentially shown them how to do it.

[H20nly]

I'll take my abortions, assault lasers, public health care, gay marriage, vulger music, free market and low tax rate thank you very much.

republicrats can kiss my posterior!

this.

especially the bit about assault lasers.


beats, you might have heard something about this... the city of Piedmont is installing cameras to track all traffic that comes in and out of the city by snapping a shot of the license plate and then running the info. if you're planning to sell assault lasers on the black market don't take them to Piedmont ffs.