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"Star Destroyer" Neutrino Beam Weapons ?

01/04/2012 12:02 PM

An anti-neutrino can "rip a positive charge" from a proton, becoming an anti-electron, and leaving behind a neutron:

!v + p ---> !e + n

Therefore, an intense beam of anti-neutrinos could convert immense amounts of protons, to neutrons, inside stars. Those neutrons would then readily combine, with remaining protons, ultimately forming helium. Thus, anti-neutrino beams could "stimulate" fusion inside stars, potentially exploding them.

To do so would, in practice, require nearly 2MeV per neutron produced, to account for the mass difference, between the products & reactants, i.e. RHS-LHS, of the above reaction equation. Thus, to explode a star, would require another star's worth of power, i.e. such would literally be a star-wars weapon.

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01/04/2012 12:18 PM

Pssssssssst! Wanna buy a bucket of anti-neutrinos? <Cough, splutter>

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01/04/2012 1:16 PM

In other news, physicists at Cern have just announce they have discovered a new particle called the Fatrino.

The Fatrinio is believed to be a relative of the Higgs and is responsible for assigning mass to middle aged men and women.

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01/04/2012 1:20 PM

Yes, but do you have a working prototype..?.

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01/04/2012 2:25 PM

I guess I could be considered one

In response to AH's statement and your question

Couldn't help myself

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01/05/2012 10:18 AM

How many countries are going to waste billions of dollars in this madness?. Do you remember the "star wars" program after which Soviet Russia collapsed?. It is high time to ban nuclear and laser weapons including aerial bombing if they ban landmines which is a defensive weapon.

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01/05/2012 10:28 AM

There's nothing wrong with idealism, Captain, so long as you realise that finding rocking-horse droppings will be more likely.

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01/05/2012 10:49 AM

Well, the same thing applies to aggression. If people and governments simply stop being aggressive and controlling we would all be singing Kum ba yah in the park.

Unfortunately, that is not reality and history has proved it will not likely be for a long, long time to come.

Meanwhile we are stuck with human nature. Either you can deal with it or stick one's head in the theoretical sands of Utopia.

Incidentally, the latter has been historically proven to drive those who endorse that method into enslavement or death every time.

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01/05/2012 1:01 PM

Historically "pacifism" loses to "militarism" amd "imperialism". "Nationalism" and ethnocentrism motivate aggression. Result: The Great War (WW-1). Fascism grew out of that and WW-2 (WW-1 renewed for a second season) resulted. The US post-WW-2 has gradually embraced fascism and imperialism. Both parties seem to feel a moral imperative to destroy Iran as they did Iraq. Can anyone explain to me why Evangelical Christians are so bloodthirsty and warmongering?

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01/05/2012 9:32 PM

We intend to survive as a free nation at peace with the World...If you threaten any part of that, then expect our wrath...

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01/05/2012 10:01 PM

Nation is not real,it keep on changing in strength,ethnicity,even its borders. Nation has no language,religion,dance,music,food,dress,architecture,heritage,history etc but races have. Therefore we should respect races and their sovereignty not nation(government which represent a dominant community in any nation). No race should be ruled by another. Today's worldwide racism was founded by Anglo-American madness.

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01/05/2012 10:29 PM

You are a very mixed up person. If you have not noticed, the USA is made up of every race on the planet.

While we may not always agree with each other, this nation will, in times of distress, watch each other's backs like hawks. Just look at what happened after September 11th. We are strong because we are many and we are diversified in race, color, and religion.

I don't think that racism is unique to America. Just look at any part of the world and you will see the same thing back to the roots of time. Has your own 26 year civil war taught you nothing?

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01/06/2012 9:54 AM

The world know how your government helped the blacks affected by the Hurricane Catherine!!!!

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01/06/2012 11:12 AM

you mean katrina

that's not about race per se

the real issue is money, those pesky poor people getting in the way a more upscale vision for the city of New Orleans

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01/06/2012 9:57 PM

Whether rich or poor,north,south,west or east all are americans,the federal government should care for them.

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01/06/2012 10:04 PM

There cannot be a nation without communities,each nation comprises many cultures languages,religions etc. You can't destroy a community and say it is democracy because USA supports it. One community should not destroy another. China and Russia should join hands to stop aggression by USA/UK/Israel.

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01/07/2012 9:29 AM

You wrote, "China and Russia should join hands to stop aggression by USA/UK/Israel."

And they are! They financed the Iraqi and Afghanistan wars by supplying weapons, money, training, and intelligence to oppose the US and NATA troops.

China, Russia, and North Korea are suppling the same to Iran right now. The whole purpose it to keep the free world bogged down in conflict for Russia's and China's advantage.

Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with stopping aggression, quite the opposite and China, Russia, and North Korea have no problems with it.

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01/07/2012 10:28 AM

I think that's a little dated. Russia is 'free enterprising' the sale of conventional weapons that make it precarious for nuclear armed fleets to sail up and down Iran's territorial boundary. China is busy keeping North Korea from going "first strike" over fleets doing the same thing. Or both are giving the "axis of evil" a alternate deterrent, rather than see them resort to a nuclear solution.

It all depends on how you see "aggression".

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01/08/2012 12:22 AM

Aggression could be direct or supporting and covering up aggressions. We had the old world before invention of steam engine and colonisation by europeans,then new world up to WW2 when europeans forced one community to become slaves of another due to numerical strength and called "democracy". Then UN made life impossible to many races,communities by "sovereignty", "internal affair","democracy" etc by listening to USA,Japan etc because they finance UN. This created wars and arms manufacturers became rich and blessed mad leaders who created wars and called "clever".

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01/08/2012 9:07 AM

Take some history lessons!

Civilizations have been overrunning, conquering, raping, killing, and enslaving other civilizations since the dawn of time. That includes colonialism.

There is nothing new here except the tools to do it, but the death, disease, agony, and carnage is still the same.

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01/08/2012 10:51 PM

Due to advancements in science,technology,thinking etc modern man should be different from ancestors,even "wild west" attitude. First they lived in forests,then leant to cultivate food items,domesticated animals,lived in groups near water holes,learnt to dig wells,irrigation by canals,ruled by clans/dynasties,conquering other settlements etc Later elected leaders by democracy,invented steam engine,modernised the world and so on. Why should we go back in slavery because Americans want to control the world. Every individual/community/race should live with freedom,dignity,territory,defence and human rights.

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01/13/2012 10:59 AM

That's rich coming from someone who comes from a country where civil war broke out because the minority Tamil community revolted against racial discrimination and oppression by the majority Sinhalese population. Didn't your Sinhalese majority demand that the civil service and all businesses function in Sinhalese thereby causing millions of Tamils to lose their livelihood? This ISN'T racism to you?

And if you think that china is a benevolent country, go tell that to the people of Tibet and Sikkim who were annexed by them. For that matter, are you aware that china has laid claim to the entire South china Sea and all the lands that lie within it even though most of those lands are part of sovereign nation states? china has even sent forces to seize and occupy Mischief Reef, internationally recognized by the United Nations as being Philippine territory. Is THIS what you call a peaceful benevolent nation?!

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01/13/2012 10:19 PM

You are right.That's why I said UN should be demolished and replaced by a new organisation based on races/communities. Geographical borders are man made and changed from time to time-think of ancient Greeks,Romans,Ottoman,Mongoleans,Tamils etc but later English speakers dominated and recently Chinese are in front. Borders should be based on race and language similar to europe and indian federal states with armed forces and not on geography like island etc.

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