Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash

Re:Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash by Groxx on Sunday August 21, 2011 @06:40PM (#2910547)

cruise missiles are often better for assassinations anyway. They are stealthy, cheap, and extremely accurate - a mach-20 super-hot re-entering slug of metal that had to be launched into space isn't really any of those.

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Re:Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash by Steko on Sunday August 21, 2011 @08:33PM (#2910759)

I'll put my money on tiny UAV's as the future of assassinations. They're small now and I'd guess in 10 years they'll have really small ones, I mean fly in like a mosquito and blow up John Connor's head before he even sees it small. Short range but all that means if you need another vehicle to get them close, yeah prolly a cruise missile.

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Re:Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash by Eliezer on Monday August 22, 2011 @12:24AM (#2911297)

Congratulations, you just wrote "Terminator 2 and the Methods of Rationality".

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Re:Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash by Cushman on Monday August 22, 2011 @01:04AM (#2911385)

Why can't we have nice things and the Methods of Rationality?

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Re:Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash by Cushman on Monday August 22, 2011 @12:10AM (#2911263)

Dear god that's terrifying.

You hear the scream of a missile overhead. It passes. Sometime later you will die.

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Re:Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash by Groxx on Monday August 22, 2011 @01:22AM (#2911417)

prefixed by "zzzzZZZZZZZZZ "

That's a horrible way to go.

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Re:Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash by Eliezer on Monday August 22, 2011 @03:42AM (#2911731)

I know an old lady who swallowed a fly.

I don't know why she swallowed a fly.

I guess she'll die...

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