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Dryki on May 3, 2009 - 4:00pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

This person commanded a $50+ million weapons system, and is responsible for handling some of the most powerful weapons on Earth...and had 4 kids and counting, home-schooled. He is by no means an anomaly in the U.S. armed forces.

Which brings us back to what Nate - and Isaac Asimov - wrote about a little while back: there is no hope of paradigm change short of massive die-off of the "old and in the way". Nor is there any guarantee the new paradigm will be better.

Gaia dances with Shiva.

cfm in Gray, ME

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jokuhl on May 3, 2009 - 5:09pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

But also, 'rust never sleeps'.

Some of these untenable fantasies (as above) might have more termite holes in their framework than anyone could guess. Is it possible that surplus energy is all that's really holding them together?

Just try to stand clear in case they do start to fall. (ELP)

Bob

(if it was the Missile defense system that the guy was in charge of.. just pretend you're a missile, and you're probably safe.)

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Dryki on May 3, 2009 - 5:19pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I'm of two minds there. Is it a good thing that the missiles in the silos are made of cardboard and the defense contractors ran off with the money or is it a bad thing?

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Arthur Robey on May 4, 2009 - 9:00am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Gaia dances with Shiva

Love It. May I keep It?

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