Forum: Air Power

Salute!

I noted that the janitors locked the other thread, and I was getting a hoot outta it.

Amazing how quickly we revert to funny things that many did back when the movie was made.

Was amazing, but AMC or another cable channel showed "Strangelove" about the time the thread started. So I made my wife watch it!!

At the time, I was on nuclear alert at Grand Forks. If I took off on a "real" scramble, she knew we would never see each other again in all likelihood. Not a pleasant time, folks, but I digress.
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There's another thread in which I explain in painstaking detail how the nukes work.

It's my story, and I'm stickin' to it!
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And BTW, I did my best over the years to preserve my precious bodily fluids! Our pure essence!

Gums sends ....

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Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure grain alcohol?

Gums wrote:

And BTW, I did my best over the years to preserve my precious bodily fluids! Our pure essence!

"I'm afraid, sir, I must ask you for the key, and the recall code. Have you got them handy, sir?"

Ohhhhhh no ya don't! I'm NOT fallin' for this little temptation to start quotin' Strangelove. NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!! Big No No

me either, oops.......

"Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure you got today's codes?"

regards, OL

Mandrake! Mandrake!

Help me with this ammo belt for the .50 cal machine gun.

And, of course,

"You can't fight in the War Room!!!"

Then the idea of one male for ten females to preserve the race in the mine shafts. Interesting concept. And, of course, "we're behind in the mine shaft gap!".

Gotta love it, and it sure did a lot to help the troops on alert to laugh a little about a very serious matter.

Gums sends ...

Salute!

Had trouble with the thread URL. so cut and pasted it.

By popular demand, here' how those things really work. Trust me, I know how they work.

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GASP! Here we go agin.......

OK, all bombs are "atomic bombs". You see, these little doofers (very very small things called "atoms") make up larger doofers that we call molecules. Put the right combo of molecules together and you get what we Air Pirates like - napalm, 500 pound daisy cutters (the ones with the noze fuze extender to create a cloud of sharpnel at waist level - damn, but I loved those), and really big bombs.

Then we have the nuke-u-lar bombs. Or "devices", as we in the secret world refer to them. Or maybe "the physics package", or the "gadget". Hell, the damned things are BOMBS!!!

The nukes don't work like other "atomic" bombs. The clever folks at Sandia and Las Alomos have figured out how to work with doofers even smaller than those atoms we talked about. No kidding. They can put so many of those doofers on a pinhead that even the angels have plenty of room to dance. I ain't kidding, and trust me, I know about these things (never met a real angel, though). How they place all of them on the head of a pin is a closely held secret that real men have died for in order to learn the trick.

So the secret is to get those really, really small doofers to join together with the slightly larger ones real quick. And they have to be the right kind, or all you get is a lump of dangerous stuff that will give you cancer and all the other folks within a mile or so. The theory is that these things don't really like each other. So the slightly larger ones split and produce more of the tiny ones, which then try to join with their kin, producing even more of the really small doofers. In the process, energy is produced because, and get this, I ain't making this up, even smaller doofers, and I mean smaller than the angels' "you know what" , turn into energy. If we have a zillion of these things turn into energy, then we get a really large "bang" for the buck, so to speak.

If all works well, you get a humongous explosion. The kind I really like, but couldn't use in 'nam due to politics.

So there you have it.

out,

Hope that clears up things,

Gums sends ...

"...of course the whole idea of a Doomsday Device is lost if you KEEP THE THING A SECRET!"

"The Premier, as you know, LOVES surprises."

Of course you know Gums, that had those devices been used in 'Nam, the war would've ended much more quickly, but we probably would've had to answer to the Coca Cola Company. Laughing

Ahhh the hell with it:

"MEIN FUEHRER!!!! I CAN VALK!!! (BOOOOOM!)

Weeeee'll meet againnnnn....don't know wherrrrre, don't know whennnnn...

Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

"It is not only POSSIBLE, it is ESSENTIAL!"

"Mein Fuhrer...er,...Mr. President" Laughing

And hey, how about Miss Scott? That is one Sierra Hotel gal if I ever saw one! HOT D@MN! Cool

Quoting Gums: "Then we have the nuke-u-lar bombs. Or "devices", as we in the secret world refer to them. Or maybe "the physics package", or the "gadget". Hell, the damned things are BOMBS!!! "

Remember the term "Special Weapon"? Or "shape"?

Well you know how it is;
''you wouldn't even be human-beings if you didn't have pretty strong personal feelings about nuclear combat.''

r2d2 wrote:

pretty strong personal feelings about nuclear combat.''

...Toe to Toe with the ROOSKIES! Laughing

PLEASE!!...Don't get TC started!! Wink

Forum: Air Power

Gums explains how nuke-u-lar wepons work