Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Poooowwwww!


Take that, Putin!

16 comments:

Tecumseh said...

Wow! This is great. Hope the debris will re-enter safely. But, JJ, where is the "Coanda rulz!" label? Tsk, tsk.

Tecumseh said...

Coanda grant. Take that, JJ! Where is my jeroboam?

Mr roT said...

Wow! The tubby fighting tugboat! That'll teach them ayatollahs and russkies to clog up our ports with their garbage scows.

Tecumseh said...

Stop diggin', JJ, and pony up. I got you big time with this one. It's no longer just wikipedia articles, it's the Office of Naval Research putting real money into applying the Coanda effect. Of course, the Air Force has been doing that for decades. I wouldn't be surprised if the rocket that hit the satellite used it, too.

Mr roT said...

what doesn't use he Coanda effect?

Tecumseh said...

Sexsomnia?

Tecumseh said...

From NASA: The basic device, with one input and two output channels, takes advantage of the Coanda effect to force a fluid jet to adhere to one of two axi-symmetric surfaces..

JJ, I told to you stop diggin' -- face it, I'm on a roll tonight. The more you dig, the more I find juicy stuff.

Mr roT said...

You didn't even find pictures of Carla Bruni's butt and you think you're on a roll?!

Tecumseh said...

I'd posted several pics of la Bruni, just look it up. In fact, I even saw that one that Dr Boudinho posted, but I didn't think she looked so hot in there, so I didn't post it. It's called standards, you know?

Mr roT said...

didn't like the brunibutt?

My Frontier Thesis said...

Tonight at one particular drinking establishment, a couple friends argued that this was just a "covert" demonstration by the Pentagon. That is, in a round about way to show the world that the U.S. is capable of shooting down an incoming object from out there. I responded with, "It's hard to say, but it's also very possible..." Then I tipped back another beer.

Mr roT said...

Sure picked something easy to shoot down, no?

Tecumseh said...

MFT: That's the Putin Party Line, of course. Now, even a broken clock is right now and then, but that happens only once in a blue moon.

Tecumseh said...

Looks like a wrap. Seethe, Pooty, seethe!

My Frontier Thesis said...

Nice shot.

My Frontier Thesis said...

MFT: That's the Putin Party Line, of course. Now, even a broken clock is right now and then, but that happens only once in a blue moon.

Yeah, it does sound like it could be interpreted as a nifty way for the U.S. to, ah, "test" interceptor missiles on defective satellites.

It's also not a bad idea to test these missiles, but moreso in the context of asteroids flying uncomfortably close to our most miserable and beloved planet.