Science fiction or reality?

[Rooster]

While I'm certain nobody knows or even cares, I, in recent months, began working as a PMC downrange in Afghanistan. In the short period I've been there I have come across an interesting story. But before I tell it to you, you first you need to put on your tin foil hats, because even though some more grizzled hands swear they've seen the results, this sounds fishy to me.

Have any of you ever heard of something called a "singularity bomb" outside of science fiction? There's a rumor out there that DARPA or some other skunky outfit is or has developed a weapon that-- Poof! --makes your target disappear. Not vaporized like a micro-nuke or blown/burnt up like a fuel-air bomb, but literally gone, leaving a smooth crater that looks like a bowl. The story goes we are able to make itsy-bitsy black holes that are very limited in size and scope and deliver them to targets with ease.

Yeah. I know, I'm talking like there actually is something out there that does this and leaves no radiation, no <Kaboom!>, no fire, no nothing. Just instant gone-ness. According to the rumor (and as far as I am concerned it is just that since I haven't seen any such evidence) the device is scalable, meaning it can be made larger or smaller depending on the target. No word on the delivery system, but the supposition is it is an aircraft that drops it onto its' destination.

I'd never heard of any such device, but the ramifications are earthshaking if it is true. It'd be a weapon that other than during the actual process of delivery would be completely superior and impervious to anything else on the battlefield. There is supposedly little to no collateral damage, no lasting effects to the environment, and no signature sound or sight to alert people in the area that something just happened to something/someone nearby.

Weirdness. Ok, take off your tinfoil headgear now. Have any of you heard of anything like this?

[Van]

mvscal has one, which he uses on door-to-door salespeople and posts he doesn't like.

[Van]

Jsc, PMC = Private Military Company. In other words, he's a mercenary, and he works for Blackwater. He and Jack Bauer will soon be foes.

I like ParaMilitary Consultant, too. Looks good on a business card.

[Mikey]

Heard of it?

I've used it.

Sin,




Scalable indeed...

[jiminphilly]

I found it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38VkYTy1XpI[/youtube]


It's just after you beat Bowser and rescue the fake princess.

[Trampis]

Mercenary huh? Would you like to buried with or without your head?

Perhaps instead of posting here about your alledged "poof bomb" you should have dialed the east of the Rockies line.

[Rooster]

Just a quick humorous anecdote-- the guys I work with come from various locales and places across the globe and due to their sometimes garbled English skills the inside joke is they call themselves "missionaries." When I came back a couple of months ago, I threw that out to some acquaintances who were asking what I do for a living. When they expressed surprise at my religosity I just smiled and said, "Yeah, I am a deeply spiritual man."

My wife shot a look over at me that could have melted the skin right off my face. I shrugged like I had no idea what she was shooting daggers eyes at me over and grinned back knowing that she'd be the one having to explain at a later date why I was attempting to proseletize the heathen overseas with 7.62mm Watchtowers.

[Rooster]

Seriously though, DARPA has ostensibly come out with some weird shit like optical camoflauge where to the eye of the observer they see nothing when actually all they are looking at is a projected image of what is behind the object they are displaying it on. Other projects like Aurora, supposedly a scramjet that can make the West Coast-Tokyo trip in mere hours rather than half a day and the microwave and aural weaponry among other strange stuff.

While I find black hole weapons out of our technological reach right now, I can easily foresee something like that making its' way into development sometime in the near future. After all, it was only around a half century ago we did the unthinkable and split the atom, broke the sound barrier, to name just a couple of impossibly science fiction-y things.

[Mikey]

Can time travel be far off?

Will Pikkkle eventually get a brain?

[Van]

its'

-smackaholic

:swoon:
-Co'ogs'

[Wolfman]

Maybe all this explains what happened to my good set of hedge clippers. "poof" ??

[Tom In VA]

Interesting thread Rooster. Good luck over there.

It's funny you mentioned 7.62 Watchtowers. On Drudge yesterday they had a link to this:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-milita ... id=9575794

.......
One of the citations on the gun sights, 2COR4:6, is an apparent reference to Second Corinthians 4:6 of the New Testament, which reads: "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."

Other references include citations from the books of Revelation, Matthew and John dealing with Jesus as "the light of the world." John 8:12, referred to on the gun sights as JN8:12, reads, "Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

Trijicon confirmed to ABCNews.com that it adds the biblical codes to the sights sold to the U.S. military. Tom Munson, director of sales and marketing for Trijicon, which is based in Wixom, Michigan, said the inscriptions "have always been there" and said there was nothing wrong or illegal with adding them. Munson said the issue was being raised by a group that is "not Christian." The company has said the practice began under its founder, Glyn Bindon, a devout Christian from South Africa who was killed in a 2003 plane crash ......

[Smackie Chan]

Can time travel be far off?

December 21, 2012, when the Mayan calendar ends. Some see it as Armageddon, others as the date of a global "consciousness shift." Terence McKenna theorized it is the date when time travel will become reality. To the best of my knowledge, he never commented on when Pikkle might get a brain. Some things are just too far out there for even the whack jobs to seriously ponder.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

There's a rumor out there that DARPA or some other skunky outfit is or has developed a weapon that-- Poof! --makes your target disappear.

Yep.

:paul: :paul: :paul:

[Ken]

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Rack the PMC and their new toy.

[Wolfman]

I had an M1-Carbine when I was serving that had "Rock-Ola" stamped on the barrel. Must have been a secret message for a juke box.

[Wolfman]

Carbines were crap for accuracy--I only fired Sharpshooter with that piece. The M-1 Garand was the best-- I fired Expert with that and could hit targets at 500 meters off hand. It sucked to be left handed--- shells ejecting off my helmet, but I knew I was out of ammo when the clip ejected--- plink, plink, plink, plink, plink, plink, plink, plink, CLUNK ! Also--- Memo: do not fire an anti-tank grenade from your shoulder !!

[smackaholic]

nice rifles, 88. Is that middle one made for squids?

[smackaholic]

the banes?

what possible use could they ever have for firearms?

[Goober McTuber]

Black holes are pink on the inside. Just sayin'.

[Lillian Vernon]

nothing just "goes POOF"

Except the modship of an obsessive, power-mad psycho.

[Lillian Vernon]

Too bad you weren't a mod over at .net so you could delete all of Jimmy Rimjob's posts.

[Lillian Vernon]

It's Rooster, not Rootbeer, you illiterate moron.