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Scientists Create a "Law of War"

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:00:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: These guys must have found their degrees in a box of crackers.

An international team of scientists have bravely taken time away from fusion research, curing cancer and solar power to announce some truly staggering results: in war, sometimes some people get killed. But other times, more people get killed. It's amazing stuff

In a complexity study more staggeringly misleading than a blind guide dog that's just been spun in a centrifuge, their discovery of a "Law of War" was announced at the European Consortium for Mathematics

"Regardless of the origins and locations of modern conflicts, the insurgent groups in each case are operating in the same way. In short, it is effectively the same enemy on all fronts", he says, and if you can see the words "pseudoscientific backing for concept of the War on Terror here, PLEASE FUND ME" swimming between the lines, then congratulations on having basic cognitive ability

if I told some troopers we spent the money on this instead of body armor, would they punch me in the face?

US TO DEPLOY "DROID ARMY" SOON

Tue, 06 May 2008 08:52:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If that's not a mouse in your mousetrap, RUN!

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

Real-Life Droid Army of Robotic Spiders to Be Deployed 'By End of the Year'

In another creepy case of life mimicking fiction, BAE Systems is creating an army of robotic spiders that they will be selling to the US Army to use in warfare.

Dr. Joseph Mait of the US Army Research Lab explains, “Robotic platforms extend the warfighter's senses and reach, providing operational capabilities that would otherwise be costly, impossible, or deadly to achieve."

"The idea is to get a number of these working together – some tiny, some maybe up to a foot in length, and all going into a building together carrying out different tasks. Eventually we hope to have animals flying and slithering.

In other words, having robotic spiders scout ahead to find and lead you to whoever it is that you want to blow up could make the job a whole lot easier.

Defense giant BAE Systems is currently developing electronic spiders, flying insects, and snakes

Will Muslim Martyrs Get 72 Raisins Instead of Virgins

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:29:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Was the Koran misinterpreted?

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

According to an Islam tradition, Muslim martyrs will go to paradise and marry 72 black-eyed virgins. But some Koran scholars point to a less sexy paradise. While beautifully written, Islamic texts are often obscure. The Arabic language was born as a written language with the Koran, and growing evidence suggests that many of the words were Syriac or Aramaic.

Specifically, the Koran says martyrs going to heaven will get “hur,” and the word was taken by early commentators to mean “virgins,” hence those 72 concubines. But in Aramaic, hur actually meant “white” and was commonly used to specifically mean “white grapes.”

The exact number of virgins (or raisins) is not specified in Koran, but the number 72 comes from a quotation of Muhammad recorded in one of the lesser-known Hadith. ("Hadith" is an Arabic word meaning traditions.) After Muhammad's death, several collections of his deeds and sayings were collected to form the Hadith,

Who needs spelling?

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:52:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The power of our minds!

Clip Source: www.thebiglad.com

Don't delete this just because it looks weird. Believe it or not, you can read it.

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the human mnid aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a word are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Amzanig huh?

Tags: words, spelling, human mind

Words fail me!

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:24:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I thought I saw a puddy tat.

Clip Source: m3.bestpicever.com

Tags: gosh