Lance

How can you have a clichéd plot that doesn’t make sense? If you don’t understand it then how would you know if it’s been done before? I didn’t think it was that bad.

An EMP causes a huge voltage spike. That’s why it’s so harmful to semiconductors. Imagine a transformer with a shorted secondary. That’s basically what the faraday would be.

[insert witty comment about problems with physical borders] I would have to agree with him on the library issue. If you want anything up to date it’s the wrong place to look. Or if you want anything obscure theres no possible way its going to be in your little library.

Yes, a dirty bomb does ABSOLUTLY nothing but scare you. A faraday would still work. Have you ever seen the pictures of people in faraday cages and tesla coils? The cage will act as if it’s grounded, protecting any guidance system/human inside. Edit: Wires would also be unaffected. It’s only the sensitive semiconductors that are affected

That’s exactly what I meant.

Sounds better than spider man.... I don’t know... It’s just so hard for me to get into the whole PG super hero thing.

Yes... That’s exactly what he was suggesting. 'Technology' still doesn’t seem to fit anymore than engineering though.

No facts aloud. Circular reasoning is a must.

I’m pretty sure EMP would have absolutely no effect on the bomb itself or its detonator. I think the most vulnerable part would be any type of guidance system (if any). The casing around the bomb is a faraday cage so unless there is any type of conductive metal object protruding from the case the EMP would have no effect. It wouldn’t matter the power of the EMP if there is a faraday cage.

Reading fiction is a whole lot different than believing fiction. I think there’s a word for that. Naive? Gullible? Neither seems to fit just right.

Well, I think the most obvious explanation would be that you didn’t really have the dream. Maybe you just think you had the dream. It happens all the time. You go to a place and it looks/ feels familiar so you assume you dreamt it lat night.

I recently went to Washington DC for seminars and I had 4-5 cups a day. On the day I flew back I decided I wasn’t going to have any because I wanted to sleep on the plane. Well it didn’t quit work out like I planed; I got a horrible headache that kept me awake.

Currently, in the states, it is legal throughout all 9 months. Ok, it seems we all think that it becomes unethical at some point, but should there be a law forcing this opinion on other people?

Oh... forgive me... I assumed it was generally agreed upon that slaughtering 70,000 kids would be evil. Damn my assumptions. As evil is a relative term I think it has no part in this conversation. [sarcasm] Hey, but Hitler wasn’t really a bad guy.... what's a few Jews and children anyway? [/sarcasm]

Oh, I wasn’t criticizing your point, just how you brought it across. And those are the type of questions I'm trying to get answered. It seems to me every day the line is becoming more blurred. What happened to the belief that life starts at conception? What has changed this opinion?

Because then it would be murder... Also you should note that if a pregnant woman is murdered the defendant can be charged with double murder... So it seems to me if the baby is wanted it's human but if the baby is unwanted then it's not human... Also I would be careful where you’re treading; I'm sure more than a few people would be irritated with people suggesting we pull babies out of a woman’s womb just before "chopping" its head off. But that’s still a good point. Where is the line? When does the baby become a human baby? Does a fetus only become a baby when it is delivered? So would it be OK to murder my neighbor (who has no family) and loot his house? Nobody would miss him…There would be no pain with a bullet in the back of the head… he wouldn’t know what’s about to happen because I would sneak up behind him. So by your standards this action would not be unethical?

But you didn’t answer why.... Why would a partial birth abortion be ethical when if the baby was delivered another 2-4" It would be called murder? Maybe some of you don’t understand what a partial birth abortion is. here is a site that explains it. Note that this can and is done up to 9 months into the pregnancy. In most cases if the baby is fully delivered the baby can go strait to the mother’s arms with no ill effects. What really changes in those few inches? I’m not really interested in what you believe so much as why you believe.

Oh... Partial birth abortion. Edit: wait that’s exactly what it says... Now that I think about it, it's probably not that different from the late term abortion scenario.

Alright, so is it generally agreed that abortion it is ethical only before the heart starts beating? Does anybody have a differing opinion? What really changes at this point? I just came back from a series of extremely conservative seminars where it was generally agreed that life starts at conception, and I would just like to hear how the other side feels.

Ok I will list a few scenarios and would like some people to answer whether they would be ethical and why. 1) A 13 year old girl is raped and becomes pregnant. Would it be ethical to have an abortion early in the pregnancy? 2) Full age adult becomes pregnant. Would it be ethical to have an abortion early in the pregnancy? 3) Full age adult becomes pregnant. Would it be ethical to have an abortion late in the pregnancy? 4) Full age woman has a partial birth abortion. 5) "Baby Doe" scenario. Potentially retarded born baby is refused life. 6) Normal born baby is "put down" 7) Retarded adult is "put down" At what point does a fetus become human? When is it OK to kill a human? I do not wish to flame, just to understand.

Tesla

Uh, I was just looking through this and I realized that the schematic I made is messed up, Just ignore the writing. Anyway I'm back from a long period of inactivity. Edit: I think I'll just remove it, It does more harm than good. It would be easy to find one on the internet.