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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I mean, if I knew that busting the wingnut in the face with a couple of easily-documented facts would have caused him to run away and hide I would gone easier on him. Now I'm going to have to find some other neocon to humiliate.
Hey, it's not my fault neocon bullies are weaklings and cowards.
SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2008: MAY GOD BLESS AND SAVE AMERICA
We’ve all seen these pictures and videos of what happened on September 11th, 2001, when America was assaulted by 19 Islamic miscreants sent by Usama bin Laden to bring down this great country: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-fLf3lSXAY&NR=1. As you view them, consider what our attackers did and, more importantly, what they did not do that day.
They succeeded only in bringing down two great towers in New York City, symbols of our strength and power, damaging another building in Washington, D.C., the seat of our military protectors, and creating yet another reminder in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania of both the evil that men do and the courage of other men on United Flight 93.
In the process, the evildoers slaughtered thousands of innocent and defenseless men, women, and children and left behind many thousands more to grieve their loved ones to try to live out their lives knowing their fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, and children were killed for no sane reason.
As we commemorate that worst day of infamy in our nation’s history, let us remember those we lost and offer prayers for their immortal souls.
Let us continue to rebuild the physical structures that were destroyed that day as a lesson to our enemies that they can damage us but that they can never destroy our spirit and our resolve.
Let us forever remember September 11th, 2001 and let us never forget that no men, good or bad, are islands entire unto themselves, that the good people who perished that day will always be in our hearts and that the evil people who caused, supported, and perpetrated this nameless tragedy shall all pay for their despicable acts.
“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
There are many types of Plutonium.
Really?
Name them, nitwit.
You can post all the garbage you like, but I'm the one supplying the documentation, and the facts call you a whopping liar or an utter moron.
Take your pick.
Godot, you are pretty dumb
You're the one who claimed the biggest available nukes - now going up to 100-megatons - couldn't take out a medium-sized city, when the bomb that took out Hiroshima was only 20 kilotons a tiny nuke by modern standards.
If you want to be humiliated in detail, just ask.
WHY DOES SALON IGNORE A DAY OF INFAMY?
You neocons are already milking it for all it's worth.
Or should we say, celebrating it?
It only takes a few pounds to make a bomb.
It takes about 10 kilograms (22lbs) of purified Plutonium 239 to make a nuclear warhead.
Xanthro--Creating a sustained critical chain reaction is an exceedingly complicated process.
Controlling a chain reaction is complicated, nitwit. Creating one isn't. How controlled do you think an atomic bomb is?
It's exceedingly controlled, that is why they are so hard to make.
A great amount of heat and pressure must be applied to trigger an nuclear denotation. There are two common methods to do so, (though only one is used commonly today) Gun and Implosion. Only implosion is used in modern weapons. Basically a ball of weapons grade material is surrounded by explosives, (which if you really want to know, I can list exactly what the US uses. It's not classified) which are detonated almost instantaneously on all sides, created pressure on the fizzle material. This pressure must be maintained long enough for the proper yields to develop. That's the controlled and vastly complicated part. If one part of the initial implosion is slightly slower, faster, weaker or stronger, the weapon will destroy itself before reaching the criticality of an actual nuclear detonation.
And these are just atomic bombs. The thermonuclear device is detonated by the much smaller atomic bomb and is vastly more powerful. Got any idiotic lying propaganda about those?
-- Godot.
I'm not sure what you are tying to say here. Neither the US nor Russia use "atomic bombs" in the sense that they are fission only devices. H-Bombs, or hydrogen bombs produce much bigger yields, measured in megatons, but they are used mostly because they are more efficient. They are actually fission, fusion, fission devices and far more complicated to make.
The problem is that a 500 kiloton warhead is not nearly 5 times more powerful than a 100 kiloton warhead.
For example,
Name Yield Fireball Radius
FatMan 20kt .2 km
W88 350kt .64 km
W59 1,000kt .96 km
Castle Bravo 15,000kt 2.84 km
Tzar Bomba 50,000kt 4.6 km
Tzar Bomba is 2500 times the yield of FatMan, yet only has a fireball radius 23 timer greater.
That is why nuclear weapons yields have been going down for decades. Almost all active US weapons have yield less than 1,000kt.
While the US has over 30,000 nuclear warheads, we currently maintain 5,500 in a state of readiness and a further few thousand in reserve. A nuclear devices must be periodically disassembled and rebuilt because their nuclear triggers, either Polonium-210 or Tritium decay and must be replaced.
Once again, the US can't destroy all life on Earth.
A 100-megaton bomb is 5,000 times more powerful than the 20-kiloton bomb that took out Hiroshima, a medium-size city.
Bombs smaller than 100 megatons were tested by the US in the Pacific, and the mushroon clouds could be seen in California 4,000 miles away. They were so huge the generals themselves were appalled.
But I get your propaganda game. Like Rumsfeld, you want people to think that nukes aren't a big deal in order to make them 'acceptable'. Rumsfeld's wanted to nuke Russia for forty years under the theory than 80,000,000 US casualties in the counterstrike would be worth it.
You and Rumsfeld should be sharing Hannibal Lecter's old cell. You're a danger to civilization.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
