BS: The ASSAULT on BAGDAD !

Subject: The ASSAULT on BAGDAD !
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Sep 02 - 07:27 PM

The Weapon Plans

Subject: RE: The ASSAULT on BAGDAD !
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Sep 02 - 07:32 PM

This being a music forum and all, I half-wondered if this was another one of those damn banjo tuning threads...

Good picture, though, Don. What's an EMP? I'm guessing electromagnetic pulse.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: The ASSAULT on BAGDAD !
From: GUEST,Brían
Date: 23 Sep 02 - 07:39 PM

...reyalp ratiug cixelsyd a rO

naírB

Subject: RE: The ASSAULT on BAGDAD !
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Sep 02 - 07:47 PM

I suspect e-bombs will play a large fole in the Bush assault. Less powerful than a neutron bomb they can knock out all computers, phones, power, hearing aids...
Of course neutron bombs can be detonated high enough for the pulse to knock out power without killing every living organism with its energetic neutrons, but it is risky.

Subject: RE: The ASSAULT on BAGDAD !
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Sep 02 - 07:57 PM

Joe, I did get the original banjo joke.
Remember Highlights magazine? It stuck with me so the challenge here is to find:
the oil well, the map of the USA, The dragon.
Bonus question: Is that a camel or a horse or a carse?

Subject: RE: The ASSAULT on BAGDAD !
From: artbrooks
Date: 23 Sep 02 - 08:06 PM

Too much science fiction, I think. Tactically, it would be useful to be able to generate an EMP and eliminate an enemy's data and communication systems. However, it would also take out hospital life support equipment, pacemakers and other such items, and I doubt that Dubya is that dumb, even if we had such a thing. Current technology requires a nuclear detonation for a useful EMP. It's theoretically possible to produce a non-nuclear "e-bomb", but I personally doubt that we'd have been able to put one into production and then field it entirely in secret.

My information may be out of date, of course, and I'd be interested in prood that such a weapon does exist in the current arsenal.

Subject: RE: The ASSAULT on BAGDAD !
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 12:02 AM

LOL! Not the theme, but the misunderstanding Joe posted. I thought that too, because of the mis-spelling.....there is an "h" in there somewhere........the theme is definitely NOT funny.

Subject: RE: The ASSAULT on BAGDAD !
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 12:14 AM

No it is chilling.

Joe's prior banjo joke had to do with a different thread.

Subject: RE: The ASSAULT on BAGDAD !
From: DonMeixner
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 12:21 AM

Well, has anyone tried BAGDAD tuning? Joe, Tuning thread was my first guess too.

Don

Subject: RE: The ASSAULT on BAGDAD !
From: Teribus
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 04:57 AM

If memory serves me correctly the EMP phenominon was first observed during early atmospheric nuclear tests. Some research was undertaken into its "harmless" use as a weapon to disable communications and weapons systems in the event of a war in Europe during the "Cold War" era.

It was discounted, immediately, once both sides realised that critical circuits can be protected, and that the nature of the beast makes it very indiscriminate - it cannot be focused and disables friend and foe alike. Use of an EMP as part of a precursor for an all out attack was considered (possible for US - Soviet conflict as the one is "shielded" from the other due to geography), the counter-measure for this was to build a generation of protected, second strike weapons, programmed to launch automatically on detecting an EMP. It was also one of the reasons (there were others) why it was agreed that there would be no testing of nuclear weapons in space.

Subject: RE: The ASSAULT on BAGDAD !
From: MudGuard
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 05:10 AM

EMP = electro magnetic pulse

When a nuclear device explodes, an enormous EMP is sent from the center of the explosion.
This electro-magnetic wave is able to destroy electronic equipment in quite a large area around the center of the explosion.

Subject: RE: The ASSAULT on BAGDAD !
From: bob jr
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 05:42 AM

for a minute there I thought Genesis had reformed and made a follow up to "ABACAB"

Subject: RE: The ASSAULT on BAGDAD !
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 12:12 PM

I heard a rather amusing (probably apocrophal) story that some CIA operatives had tried out a small limited range EMP device - presumably not produced by atomic means. Unfortunately it screwed up the engine management and other systems in their vehicle and they ended up stranded.

Subject: RE: The ASSAULT on BAGDAD !
From: Pied Piper
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 12:17 PM

I have often dreamt of a portable EMP generator to take out noisy Walkmans on public transport. Any ideas on how to build such a device? PP

Subject: RE: BS: The ASSAULT on BAGDAD !
From: X
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 06:05 PM

Hey guys, it's not a banjo tuning...it's a guitar tuning. Note the SIX strings? ;o)

Subject: RE: BS: The ASSAULT on BAGDAD !
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 06:37 PM

Donuel, the thin etching of light is the outline of the US, the very brilliant light sort of in the center is a dragon's head, and that looks like a horse, I think, right? Danged if I can find the oil rig, though. Great artwork and verse, though it rankles to see "Saint" before his name, even in poetic license.

Thanks,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: The ASSAULT on BAGDAD !
From: CraigS
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 07:33 PM

I just clicked on the clicky, and I can't work it out. Is the pool cue the weapon, and will it hold back the horde of advancing mushrooms - or is this biowarfare, and the mushrooms are advancing on the poor man who has nothing but a pool cue to defend himself with? How should he tune the pool cue to BAGDAD? Will this help? Can the mushrooms be tuned? If so, what do they sound like?

Subject: RE: BS: The ASSAULT on BAGDAD !
From: JohnnyBGoode
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 07:36 PM

i've heard of assults on major 7th chords, but not to a particular tuning.

Subject: RE: BS: The ASSAULT on BAGDAD !
From: GUEST,guitar player
Date: 25 Sep 02 - 02:11 AM

I tried it - BAGDAD on the guitar doesn't word real well -the sixth string becomes too slack, tends to vibrate on the frets and requires huge hand stretches to get the bass notes. Why anyone would think it was a BANJO tuning must be arithmetically challenged (or maybe a banjo player who hasn't figured out that there are usually a maximum of FIVE strings on a banjo - the six string ones are banjuitars - tuned like a guitar). Rather than Baghdad, I do agree we should launch an asault on banjos, whatever tuning they are in!