He rolled in the costs of Iraq and Afghanistan into the actual Defense budget instead of emergency spending bullshit.
So really, the reason it totals out to a 4% increase is because it actually takes the entire cost into account. If you pull out the war spending and drop it into a magical emergency bucket like Bush, it is indeed a deep cut.
Which is good. So on the surface, it's very hard to say he's being weak on defense (he increased spending 4% over Bush!) while underneath he's actually taken a rather large bite out of it.
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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence --Thomas Jefferson
The US military has a research project building a material from nanotubes that will allow a soldier to spider-man climb a vertical wall at about 5m/s (you peel off the material quite easily, but it won't slide/fall off).
We need to be devoting all of our money to this project. RIGHT NOW.
This would actually be possible. Gecko's feet are basically nano-roughened so they stick to anything. The US military has a research project building a material from nanotubes that will allow a soldier to spider-man climb a vertical wall at about 5m/s (you peel off the material quite easily, but it won't slide/fall off).
So...I'm thinking you could have two pieces of this that mate in order to provide a good contact. No sound, and probably pretty good at staying closed.
I assume that 5 m/s is a typo, since that's like a reasonably fast sprint (about 10 mph).
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This would actually be possible. Gecko's feet are basically nano-roughened so they stick to anything. The US military has a research project building a material from nanotubes that will allow a soldier to spider-man climb a vertical wall at about 5m/s (you peel off the material quite easily, but it won't slide/fall off).
So...I'm thinking you could have two pieces of this that mate in order to provide a good contact. No sound, and probably pretty good at staying closed.
I assume that 5 m/s is a typo, since that's like a reasonably fast sprint (about 10 mph).
He rolled in the costs of Iraq and Afghanistan into the actual Defense budget instead of emergency spending bullshit.
So really, the reason it totals out to a 4% increase is because it actually takes the entire cost into account. If you pull out the war spending and drop it into a magical emergency bucket like Bush, it is indeed a deep cut.
Which is good. So on the surface, it's very hard to say he's being weak on defense (he increased spending 4% over Bush!) while underneath he's actually taken a rather large bite out of it.
No, the Non-Iraq/Afghanistan war budget was $513b this year and it will be $534b in 2010. Obama folded the Iraq/Afghanistan wars into the total budget for purposes of calculating the deficit, which Bush cleverly did not do, but the 4% is on top of the fixed military budget, not the Iraq/Afghanistan stuff.
The US military has a research project building a material from nanotubes that will allow a soldier to spider-man climb a vertical wall at about 5m/s (you peel off the material quite easily, but it won't slide/fall off).
We need to be devoting all of our money to this project. RIGHT NOW.
I believe that's part of a DARPA project. Most of DARPA projects don't enter into military R&D until it is feasible to do so (though one can argue that DARPA is military R&D). DARPA researches and develops technologies that are far off, to facilitate and understand the changes or possible advances by pursuing those technologies. Then a branch of the military decides if it would like to further research and develop those technologies into fielding.
Most of them are cost prohibitive to fully implement and field, so it usually takes a few years before most of DARPA tech gets seeded down into use.
hurry up and trademark that word. You'll make millions.
This would actually be possible. Gecko's feet are basically nano-roughened so they stick to anything. The US military has a research project building a material from nanotubes that will allow a soldier to spider-man climb a vertical wall at about 5m/s (you peel off the material quite easily, but it won't slide/fall off).
So...I'm thinking you could have two pieces of this that mate in order to provide a good contact. No sound, and probably pretty good at staying closed.
Could, but each uniform would probably cost $Texas.
This would actually be possible. Gecko's feet are basically nano-roughened so they stick to anything. The US military has a research project building a material from nanotubes that will allow a soldier to spider-man climb a vertical wall at about 5m/s (you peel off the material quite easily, but it won't slide/fall off).
So...I'm thinking you could have two pieces of this that mate in order to provide a good contact. No sound, and probably pretty good at staying closed.
I assume that 5 m/s is a typo, since that's like a reasonably fast sprint (about 10 mph).
It's nano tech, man, it's just that awesome.
Oh he's right - no - it's like, 0.5 m/s. Still. ON A VERTICAL SURFACE.
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So really, the reason it totals out to a 4% increase is because it actually takes the entire cost into account. If you pull out the war spending and drop it into a magical emergency bucket like Bush, it is indeed a deep cut.
Which is good. So on the surface, it's very hard to say he's being weak on defense (he increased spending 4% over Bush!) while underneath he's actually taken a rather large bite out of it.
Here's your blank check, get to work.
Seriously, that sounds exactly like the type of "ooh shiny" shit the military loves.
See: Laser-firing Large Aircraft, as defended by Sen. Lieberman.
We need to be devoting all of our money to this project. RIGHT NOW.
I assume that 5 m/s is a typo, since that's like a reasonably fast sprint (about 10 mph).
It's nano tech, man, it's just that awesome.
No, the Non-Iraq/Afghanistan war budget was $513b this year and it will be $534b in 2010. Obama folded the Iraq/Afghanistan wars into the total budget for purposes of calculating the deficit, which Bush cleverly did not do, but the 4% is on top of the fixed military budget, not the Iraq/Afghanistan stuff.
I believe that's part of a DARPA project. Most of DARPA projects don't enter into military R&D until it is feasible to do so (though one can argue that DARPA is military R&D). DARPA researches and develops technologies that are far off, to facilitate and understand the changes or possible advances by pursuing those technologies. Then a branch of the military decides if it would like to further research and develop those technologies into fielding.
Most of them are cost prohibitive to fully implement and field, so it usually takes a few years before most of DARPA tech gets seeded down into use.
See: Exoskeletons, better prosthetic limb replacements, advanced computing, lasers, etc....
Could, but each uniform would probably cost $Texas.