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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (376520)	4/6/2008 1:49:48 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577030

"I've made no such assertion. I'm simply pointing out that SDI, and its successor program, is working. " Based on what? You made the claim that the Patriot system was based on SDI technology. When it was pointed out that it went operational before SDI was proposed, you tried to claim that it was redesigned with SDI technology and wouldn't have been if SDI didn't exist. You haven't presented any proof of your assertions. Given the way military projects are handled, and that means a major way of promotion is to start a project and get identified with it, it is unlikely that if there were the changes made that you claim that it would even be called the Patriot system, the burden of proof is on you. But, since you clearly are totally clueless on how things operate, you aren't real likely to provide anything but your "faith". "we are easily within a decade of having a workable missile defense system." Bullshit again. You continue to demonstrate your lack of comprehension of the problem. "We currently have airborne and land-based facilities that are capable of tracking and killing incoming missiles." Under very limited and contrived circumstances. Even then, we can't do it with a high probability of success. And as I have pointed out, you need a very high probability of success if you expect this country to survive a major nuclear exchange. A half of dozen warheads is enough to push this country back into the stone age. Even assuming that hostilities end at the moment that happens, there is no way that we could avoid hundreds of millions of deaths. "It is a fact that we cannot at this point handle a large volume of incoming ICBMs, but it is a matter of time." Big O. You clearly don't have the slightest clue how these things scale. Yeah, it is a matter of time. But that time isn't measured in years. Might not even be decades, where decades is some small number. It is quite likely that by the time that this problem can be reasonably solved, the whole problem is irrelevant. But a decade is a ludicrous scale. Look, you obviously don't know how things work. To make it worse, you think your highly vaunted intellect makes your opinions more valuable than those who actually have a clue. And, you final line of defense is your faith that things could work out. All of which indicates you are a moron. You have a "Popular Science" knowledge of things. You clearly don't really understand either the problems or the current technology. You don't even understand how the technology operates. You are like the ones who were expecting superalloys to make the Shuttle a light-weight single stage to orbit craft. Now, more than 30 years later, we still don't have those alloys that were supposed to poof into existence by the late 1970s. The things required to make SDI, as promoted by Reagan, practical still borders on magic. Now, the SDI that was proposed by Jerry Pournelle and his working group was a different thing. But it went Hollywood by the time it got to Reagan.