[karajorma]

It should fall under the category of someone else should fiddle with it and make it point back at the US while letting them think it's on target

[Carl]

You guys just have to take every single thread and turn it into an anti-US thread don't you? This is supposed to be  about a Freespace technology becoming a reality, and yet you all have to fill it with your "TEH UNITED STATS ARS EVIL AND WANT TO BE TAKING OVAR TEH WARLD!!!!1111"

[Carl]

And by the way, the pure hatred of the U.S. by so many misguided forumites i've seen in this forum is sickening. I can see why some people might be in disagreement with us on quite a few issues, but i'm not seeing mere annoyance on these boards, i'm seeing actual hatred, and it makes me what to vomit.

[CP5670]

You know, I was thinking exactly the same thing, but found the responses rather comical despite being predictable. I love this place.

[pecenipicek]

You guys just have to take every single thread and turn it into an anti-US thread don't you? This is supposed to be  about a Freespace technology becoming a reality, and yet you all have to fill it with your "TEH UNITED STATS ARS EVIL AND WANT TO BE TAKING OVAR TEH WARLD!!!!1111"

why cant it be both?






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[Flipside]

Meh, I post one bloody news article about something that looks like a Mjolnir...

Everyone's so busy blaming each other aren't they? The UN is failing and should be disbanded, the US are breaking the rules, It's the Zionists, it's the Anti-semites etc etc

Quite frankly, we're so busy pointing fingers across oceans no wonder we are all being treated like **** at home, and the worse we are treated the more we point at other countries.

We should all be ****ing ashamed.

[Lukeskywalkie]

Interesting we're finalizing these 'weapons' after, what, 20 years? You can really tell some of the uses were meant for the soviets (ICBM interception, mainly).  Cool looking render, though.

[Descenterace]

I believe that the whole point of the 'redirected beam' weapon was that it would jerrymander around the UN space weapon treaties since the weapon is technically on Earth, only redirected in space. (it'd fall under a category similar to ICBMs)

Actually, if it were ground-based it would be legal until such time as an orbital component were introduced. Redirecting it in space is still a violation, since the orbital mirrors are components of the weapon. ICBMs might fly in the upper atmosphere but that's after launch; they don't loiter.

[Singh]

Huh? Freespace 2 tech? Nope.

Its a beam cannon, nice.

But it's not a photon beam cannon.

That, and we dont have Orions or Deimoses yet, so the cool broadsides = no-no

[FireCrack]

Lasers are streams of photons.

It is a photon beam cannon.

[pyro-manic]

So they're going to pump however many billions of dollars into developing this, when they already have the ability to kill people very easily from pretty much anywhere in the world? See, I think that perhaps it'd be nice if, rather than spend billions on ever more elaborate and over-the-top ways to kill people, they spent billions on keeping people alive. Just once.

[Charismatic]

Well i agree with Flipside and also agree with Carl and the; OMG BEAMZ!!11!!111oneone!!1 feeling of it. As iv always said, any tech involving space, space travel, and fs2 style weapons and tech = GOOD.

Tho if we do come up with lazers for tanks and **** i have a feeling we will have a lazer WW3 and FUBAR ourselfs...

[aldo_14]

Antimatter bombs are "GOOD"?!

[Scuddie]

Lasers for ground battles is kind of...  impractical.

[Charismatic]

Antimatter bombs are "GOOD"?!

Well um... wont we need them to fight the shivans 32 years from now?

[TrashMan]

This is a very interesting part:


Beason said he has a blue-sky idea of his own, which he tags "the voice from heaven." By tuning the resonance of a laser onto Earth’s ionosphere, you can create audible frequencies. Like some boom box in the sky, the laser-produced voice could bellow from above down to the target below: "Put down your weapons."

Beat's a megaphone any day of hte week

[NGTM-1R]

The pentagon is building God. Thunderbolts from a clear sky and loud, commanding voices. 

[CP5670]

"You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands." -Morpheus

[Jetmech Jr.]

And by the way, the pure hatred of the U.S. by so many misguided forumites i've seen in this forum is sickening. I can see why some people might be in disagreement with us on quite a few issues, but i'm not seeing mere annoyance on these boards, i'm seeing actual hatred, and it makes me what to vomit.

Good to see I'm not the only one seeing this. Though I admit, I'd rather see none of it at all.

[FireCrack]

329 years from now, not 32