JamesSavik

The next generation torpedo is called the mark 55 and is part of the navy's highly classified Brilliant Saber program which focuses on using AI, muti-spectral sensors and image recognition for targeting. Brilliant Saber has been around for quite a while and is rumored to have had something to do with the downing of TWA flight 800 in 1996. USS Normandy was testing a SM-2 Block IV Extended Range SAM. It was reported to have destroyed the drone it was targeting but some sources say that it missed the drone and fell back on its Brilliant Saber guidance and slammed into the airliner at mark 7 150 miles NW off the test range. DOD has consistently denied that the Brilliant Saber project is still underway but the key project members have been at Naval Surface Warfare labs for the last 20 years. Image recognition technology has recently been deployed on the developmental Tri-Service Standoff Attack Missile (TSSAM) and the deployed AGM-158 JASSM (Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile). {Disclaimer for the FBI- no classified information has been revealed that is not available via other sources. AND Yes, we know about your bullshit over TWA flight 800}

Wolfram is the brains behind the software called Mathmatica and a major book on cellular automation. This guy is an amazing individual and I'm excited to see what he has come up with.

The mark 48 torpedo was first deployed in 1972 and the ADCAP (ADvanced CAPability) was deployed in 1988. It is designed for use by submarines against high performance surface or submerged targets. Over the course of its life, the Mark 48 has had 7 major and numerous minor upgrades and maintenance bulletins. Torpedoes are notorious for being difficult to maintain. They are designed for use in a salt, sea air environment that promotes corrosion. They are complex devices that sit on the shelf for decades sometimes before they are used. Aborad summarines that are subject to shock, salt water, rough handlining and, operation at steep angles. mk 48 used during exercises

And many more my friend!

scum is better. Scum you can drain off. Santorium is more like a painful rectal itch: a constant irritant that you dare not scratch and you can't ignore.

I hear former Senator Santorium is leading a fight to turn back gay marriage in those states. He's so popular these days that he is no longer in the senate. What a tool. ______________________ yes- I spelled his name incorrectly so it would suggest "nut house"

That's not the first time bad torpedoes caused the navy serious trouble. One of their most famous submarines and skippers, the Wahoo under Mush Morton, was destroyed and lost with all hands in 1943 by a circular torpedo run. Wahoo USS Tang suffered a similar fate Tang In fact the Navy had serious torpedo problems throughout the Pacific War. They were mostly ironed out in the last half of 1943 but continued to a lesser extent through the end of the war. In 1942 the effective rate of torpedoes (run correctly, explode on target was less that 20%. It improved in 1943 after a big shake up at the Navy's Bureau of Ordinance, extensive trials of the mark 14 and including private contractors in the construction and quality control process.

Here's Mark cleaning the debris of conservatives from his claws that he shreds in the political forums. My advice to right-wing posters is to post and throw out a large roast and then run. It might distract him long enough to allow you to escape un-eaten but expect your weak premise or illogical argument to be dashed to pieces.

I'm getting old. If I don't get down too it, I'll forget what I'm doing and wander off to play with shiny things.

Nice kitty, please don't shred the political forums.

I grow tomatoes instead of pot.

That's the danger with bioweapons. You can do some serious damage and the effected population won't know for days. Afterwards its very hard to figure out exactly who did it. This is something that we're going to see again and its going to be a lot worse than the 2001 anthrax attacks.

We could arrange that with a little help from Delta airlines.

Sorry about those vowels. I tried to stretch them but I ran out. :wacko: I promise to have more before next weeks chapter.

It's not the super-power with 1000 nukes you have to worry about. It is the wanna-be with 12.

Oops! How could I have forgotten Israel: a small country ruled by religious extremists and armed to the teeth. What was I thinking?

The last questions for thought and comment: Does humanity survive? Should it? IF so why? Adama: we never answered the question Why? Why are we as a people worth saving? We still commit murder because of greed and spite and jealousy, and we still visit all of our sins upon our children. We refuse to accept the responsibility for anything we've done, like we did with the Cylons. We decided to play God, create life. When that life turned against us, we comforted ourselves in the knowledge that it really wasn't our fault, not really. You cannot play God and then wash your hands of the things that you've created. Sooner or later, the day comes when you can't hide from the things that you've done anymore. PS- I'm betting on the Australians FTW. There are too nice to attack and just out of the way enough to miss out on the worst of the great nuke out.

No matter where you go, there is one constant: you. You can't run from you and that is the person that is giving you hell.

these "books" are why I started writing again. If this crap can get published, I am certain that I can do better.

Twilight at Awesomedude Thanks for the warm recpetion! I hope you ahaving as much fun with this story as I am. Here's a teaser for the faithful... Guam, Andersen Air Force Base On his way to his duty station Lt. Morrow was astonished to see no aircraft. After all the noise that he had heard the night before he expected to see half of the Air Force lined up wing-tip to wing-tip on the tarmac but nothing indicated that anything was going on other than business as usual. When he arrived at his duty station at Hanger 31-b, the illusion was completely dispelled. Once he was inside the huge hanger there was row after row of the sleek B-1b bombers with palettes of ordinance neatly stacked beside each one. He stopped by the hanger shop to see what was going on and ran into one of the members of his crew. Morrow asked,

Yes- this is a hazard of age but not because your brain is rotting. It's because by the time you are 40 you've know a large number of people and keeping them all straight is a real chore.

Each to his own but I've known and loved some really great redheads! They really are magnificent.

Most communities like to sweep domestic violence under the rug and pretend that it doesn't happen. That is clearly not true. Domestic violence happens everywhere regardless of ethnic background or economic status. It's just another form of denial. It speaks well of our community that we can talk about. That is the first step in addressing it because it can only exist in silence.