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No, but the shrieks and cries of outrage were shrill, incessant, non-stop. We've seen it right here. A written apology + a verbal apology apparently weren't enough to make people feel better, so they fired those people. I hope everyone who is outraged now feels OK. Mustn't have hurt feelings...

I'm hoping a moderator will close this thread, but in the mean time, how can I not react with someone trying to compare Bangladesh prisons and justice with our own? Mods Please close this train wreck down, thank you.

;) Just a bit of fun. The original Stargate SG-1 series was Science Fiction gold, IMO. I really enjoyed it. Apparently physicists can't see any reason such a system wouldn't work, but supposedly it requires something like 10X the energy output of an entire galaxy to get a mouse through. In...

It's true. The device is in the United States. It was found in the 1930,s, but only recently have modern supercomputers allowed us to control it.

Here's one of our prison vans. On the other hand, it looks like Bangladesh in its entirety is one giant prison... nice! The Indians are locking you in! BANGLADESH ROUNDED UP :woot:

A T-rex in an F-14... Calvin & Hobbes was the best comic strip ever written, IMO. I read a great SF book series once... the premise was, "no dinosuar killing asteroid", and the eventual evolution of a reptilian sentient creature that came to dominate the earth with brainpower and technology...

I agree, but my main point was that we'll have no choice in the matter! Whether we do it before then or not, when the sun begins to expand, we'll be forced off the Earth, and that same solar expansion will make Mars habitable. I'd like to think that in 5 million years, we'll be able to travel...

Excellent. Two employees have lost their jobs and livelihoods to assuage the hurt feelings of this guy. Justice has been served! :rolleyes:

I'd rather be naked on a box, than have my head sawed off, live, on the internet. No one denies Abu Graib. On the contrary, the story broke from within the USA and was rapidly spread. The more expected response from any closed nation would have been to clamp a heavy lid on it and deny it...

Every country has different aviation rules, but the USA allows anybody to fly an airplane (or even a helicopter) without a license, so long as some rules are followed. It must weigh below a certain amount, and it cannot carry more than one person. Here are some cool ultralights... I must add...

Here you go... almost anyone with modest mechanical skills could build something like this. The secret is to follow plans, a proven design, and not try to design your own unless you have advanced education in this sort of thing.

I think it'd work. This asteroid is 300 meters, the size of an aircraft carrier. Yes it weighs a LOT, but all you'd need to do is apply the thrust perpendicular to the current trajectory and give it enough of a nudge so that it's miss earth. A small change in angular velocity would be...

I would say this image ^^ illustrates the intellectual level of this thread perfectly. When I die, I want to get the "Soviet Death Ray Treatment" so my corpse won't decay. Just like these guys... Uh oh, it looks like the Soviets had a time machine as well, visited Egypt, and...

The Peace Corps has been an undeniable force for good and for economic and educational aid since it was formed. These are college students and young graduates who simply want to make a difference. It's a shame that they are leaving.

Some of the comments in this thread are really disturbing. Pakistanis here regularly praise Christian pilots and soldiers within their armed forces. Here we have a Muslim in the USAF. Is there a huge difference? America is composed of citizens native born, and citizens from overseas, but...

Wow... now we need to go back in time and bring up historical Amrika-bashing. What is your motivation? The only thing that has any meaning at all in this thread is to compare the current conditions in U.S. prisons, and those in Bangladesh. If you Google "Bangladesh Prisons", it's ugly. Heck...

Guantanamo Bay - not Club Med, but still infinitely better than most prisons in the world. Prisoners are given a Quran, are allowed to freely pray daily, are given Halal meals. This beats the heck out of having your head cut off on the internet by a dull kitchen knife. I'd love to see...

Can you explain what my text you quoted has to do with your comment? It's confusing. How can you say there is absolutely no threat when Iran (led by the mullahs) have regular "Death to America" rallies, and military hardware is painted with "Death to America" slogans? What are we supposed...

Gambit, you really are a sanctimonious ****. Our brutal dens of torture in the USA are tormenting people, and reforms are a must. Look at these brutal conditions... Bangladesh Prison: Note the humane, progressive and educational conditions.

Something people don't consider often is that underground facilities need several openings to function at all. You need - forced-air circulation - entrances and exits - power & utilities into and out of the facility. Anything on the surface is unprotected and exposed. Gigantic bunker...