11-10-2009, 09:14 PM
Ed Jewett Wrote:But please tell me that Dan Quayle's Rods of God depleted uranium missiles in space is not real and is the product of someone's nightmares stemming from the ingestion of non-refrigerated three-day-old kale soup.
I caught Quayle on C-SPAN before Bush selected him as vice-president talking about it on the floor of the House I guess. Then everything got hush-hush. Last I heard it exists. The rods drop and vaporize like a mini-nuke. I seem to recall it waswn't Quayle's initiative, but he was pushing for it. It came near the end of SDI funding, or at least at the time when it was becoming very difficult to hide the fact that the physicists involved didn't think it was feasible but were willing to keep milking the budget cow for funding.
Scalar piso-electric magnetic resonance stimulation to cause earthquakes and directed anti-personnel gamma ray lasers frighten me more.

