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How do you perfect it? Who perfects it? How many times did Thomas Edison try before he came up with a working light bulb? Do you know what WD40 is? The 40 stands for the number of tries before they found a successful water displacement agent. Forty!
Go invent something big. You will be the lucky rich man if you can constantly come up with new inventions with only 1 try each.
"Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.
The new solid state laser arrays show promise. At least they don't require large amounts of lethal chemicals.
That's one plus. But we need to overcome atmospheric distortions. How about the power requirement? Our power grid is stained as it is. We need more power plants, preferably nuclear if we want to deploy a laser system.
"Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.
How do you perfect it? Who perfects it? How many times did Thomas Edison try before he came up with a working light bulb? Do you know what WD40 is? The 40 stands for the number of tries before they found a successful water displacement agent. Forty!
And neither of those are 100% perfect!
No man is free until all men are free - John Hossack
I agree completely with this Administration’s goal of a regime change in Iraq-John Kerry
even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act-John Kerry
He may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups to invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States. It’s the miscalculation that poses the greatest threat-John Kerry
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