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However, an official with the US Department of Defense said he had not seen "anything to corroborate reports of lasers being used" in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mocked the Russian claim, comparing it to the so-called "wonder weapons" that Nazi Germany claimed to be developing during World War Two. "The clearer it became that they had no chance in the war, the more propaganda there was about an amazing weapon that would be so powerful as to ensure a turning point," he said in a video address. "And so we see that in the third month of a full-scale war, Russia is trying to find its 'wonder weapon'... this all clearly shows the complete failure of the mission." But missile defence expert Dr Uzi Rubin from the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS) said laser weapon technology would not alter the balance of power on the battlefield in Ukraine. "Zelensky is right - it's no wonder weapon," he told the BBC. "It took them several seconds to shoot the UAV down. There are much better ways to do it, to use a Stinger or any anti-aircraft missile would have been cheaper, faster and longer range." Lasers work by sending out a beam of infrared light that heats up its target until it combusts. Dr Rubin said the power of even advanced laser weapons was still too weak to make a significant difference on the battlefield, and such weapons had a low "kill rate". "It's not like in Star Wars where they point a laser gun at the bad guys and quickly push a button and the bad guy explodes. In reality, it's more like a mere microwave oven. If you want to make a cup of water boil it takes some time. The laser is the same. You need to put it on the target and wait until it heats up and destroys it," he said. Russia's laser weapon claim derided as propaganda (msn.com) -
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Another Footie Game? Well, maybe . . . just a feeler.
Just a trial KC, but like this? Arsenal goals > 2 A Villa goals > 2 Brighton goals > 2 Brentford goals > 2 Burnley goals > 1 Chelsea goals > 3 C Palace goals > 1 Everton goals > 1 Leeds goals > 1 Leicester goals > 2 Liverpool goals > 3 Man City goals > 3 Man Utd goals > 2 Newcastle goals > 2 Norwich goals > 1 Southampton goals > 1 Tottenham goals > 2 Watford goals > 1 West Ham goals > 2 Wolves goals > 1 Predicted score > 35 -
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Hiya, Footie fans, @BigHewer, @Chaimai, @Faz, @Marble-eye, @snapdragon, @spicy_girland @Slacker77! With our fab footie games both coming to a well-earned break this weekend and with, I feel, a downturn of interest in the LPS format, I was wondering if any of you gamesters may have ideas for starting a new game, hopefully to run alongside the FFFF game, if Faz is happy to continue running that. Maybe yes, maybe no, but truth is KC’s been hatching a little game, called – would you believe? – GOALS! which has the win-win factor of (A) keeping everyone involved every week and (B) is very easy to play and also to manage; so easy in fact that I’d be happy to do it. Here’s how it works:- Each game-week, I will post a template, simply listing all 20 PL clubs, as here . . . Gameweek 38 Initials > Arsenal goals > A Villa goals > Brighton goals > Brentford goals > Burnley goals > Chelsea goals > C Palace goals > Everton goals > Leeds goals > Leicester goals > Liverpool goals > Man City goals > Man Utd goals > Newcastle goals > Norwich goals > Southampton goals > Tottenham goals > Watford goals > West Ham goals > Wolves goals > Predicted score > . . . which players will copy and enter their predicted goal tally that each club will score, i.e. not a match result forecast but, instead, just a forecast of each club’s GOALS . . . hence the name of this super-fab game! The game is scored according to the number of goals correctly forecast, i.e. 1 point for 1 goal or 5 points for 5 goals, etc, based on the rationale that high-scoring games, besides being more exciting, are also more difficult to predict. Applying similar logic, nil-nil results, besides often being unexciting and more-easily predicted, will earn, as you’ve guessed, zero points! Just to add that little extra buzz to GOALS!, we are asked to predict our GW score, based on the total of our anticipated correct forecasts, i.e. whilst the total of the 20 predicted scores is likely to be around 30, we can only seriously expect that maybe 30 to 40% of these will be correct and thus we would enter a predicted score of around 10 to 12, maybe more, maybe less. A correct score prediction would earn a ‘massive’ bonus of 5 huge points. So . . . with my little game in mind, can I ask you to invest a little more footie game time by copying this post and entering your 20 predicted goal tallies, as applied to the coming Sunday’s final games of the season, along with your predicted score? Cheers, KC -
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Because the Russian navy does not want to be patrolling close to the coast because they have mysterious fires occasionally. BTW have you now accepted the Moscow was sunk or are you still claiming it was simply a case of poor source of ignition control?- 2
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