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One last thing - if OBL was still alive after the raid, the very first thing he would do is make a video of himself with the headlines from the paper that day, laughing at everybody and proving the USA is a pack of liars. ---------- Post added at 09:38 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:37...

I hope this doesn't devolve into another OBL is alive thread. Wouldn't you agree that the presence of his wives, their own testimony that they were living with OBL at the compound, the wreckage of the helicopter, the blood, the reports from Pakistan as well as the USA, all point to... OBL was...

You got it! If your headache subsides, try this - doesn't have to be the T-rex image, any Magic Eye will do. Make the image resolve and pop. Then, tilt your head one way or the other a few degrees. The image vanishes - the magic eye system only works within a few degrees of vertical. Right...

Where is Jesus' grave? I could have chosen better examples, but you get the idea. I hope.

I'll agree that a computer screen "magic eye" is a lot tougher than a big poster version, but it's very possible. Once you know how, it's pretty easy to make these things pop. They create a cool 3-D image. Hint: Spielberg & Barney. VCheng, you are close and that tells me that you know how...

This is an important paragraph. It appears that the games were pointed at Iran... and Iran has, for some time now, claimed military ownership of the Persian Gulf. There seems to be some expectation that a U.S. nuclear carrier will drive through the straights and simply park a dozen miles off...

Come on, even Al Quaeda as an organization has acknowledged his "martyrdom." Sometimes, you have to go with the preponderance of the evidence. There is no "proof" of the type you like that Jesus or Mohammed existed, but we have the reliable testimony of eyewitnesses, recordings in books, etc...

I agree, makes my head hurt, although I did see a vague image. I like these things better. Magic eye pictures. It took me forever to learn how to do it, but eventually I figured it out and now I can snap one into focus in about 10 seconds. I think they are cool. Let me know if you can see...

This is easy. We learn the answer to this as little children in Sunday School.

If I am not misunderstanding, missiles already do what you describe. Every move made by the target results in a counter move by the missile. The missile is picturing a vector pointing out of the target, and given target vector and range, the intercept point can be calculated.

You have a point but it applies ONLY to the moon race. Pretty much everything after 1975 has been science with little "glory" thrown in. Are people basking in glory over a probe mission to Europa? No. But there's been some awesome science that has come out of the space program. The Hubble...

The problem I think is that every tourist these days is thought of as being a "secret agent." 99.99% of tourists are real and simply want to Trek the Karakoram range and the like.

You bring up a question that has baffled scientists for decades. Gayness is genetic, environment, possibly a combination. Given that gays cannot reproduce, you'd think that any genetic component for being gay would have been written out of our genome a million years ago. Now that wouldn't...

Missile flight mechanics are hard to describe over the internet. One thing they are NOT - they aren't like the movies where they chase you around the sky. What they do is this: they take an immediate snapshot of the target, the VECTOR (speed, direction) of the target. The missile knows its...

You are right, but my point was that the math behind some of these theories works very well for the observable universe, and by extension it can be legitimately extended to areas we don't understand. Consider - we understood orbital mechanics very well after Newton. Every satellite system we...

I think it's financially foolish to pursue something like this unless the costs to create stealth go WAY down. It's much wiser to protect a standard transport like a C-17 with stealthy fighters.

Resurrecting an old thread doesn't work. ;) Click the "Post New Thread" button, to the left, near the top of the screen. BTW My opinion hasn't changed. I'll take the Super Hornet. False. An old crafty pilot in an F-5 will crush a noobie in a Su-30 = an urban legend, fake, and not...

Sukhoi makes some very nice aircraft. Their airframes are as good as anything from the West short of the F-22 or F-35 series. Areas of concern for me (if I were head of State of some nation): - Engine power and reliability? Maintainability? - Sensor suite. Just how good is their AESA...

Did anyone mention magnetometers? ASW (Anti submarine warfare) is something the US Navy is very good at. We have had plenty of practice, decades of Cold War with the old USSR. Any ferrous mass sufficiently large is easily detected with airborne sensors, because the mass distorts the earth's...

Most of you guys are a lot younger than me. Most of you have grown up in an era of much greater acceptance for gays. Many don't know what it was like 35 to 50 years ago. Back then, gays were horrendously abused emotionally and in some cases physically. Gays lived in their closet out of a...