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>accquire high power pulsed laser
>aim at flag on moon
>vaporize USA flag
>immortalized forever as one of histories greatest trolls
>not even a crime

>> No.3704374

>not even a crime

This is what butthurt haters actually believe

>> No.3704381

If you could aim that accurately then you deserve a medal

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>>3704381
one of these even

not even the fucking hubble telescope can see it, that thing has a resolution of like 300 feet on the moon surface.

>> No.3704396

>>3704381
shouldn't be too hard, just wave it around till you blow up the moon

>> No.3704420

>>3704367
except nobody can see the fucking flag so nobody can confirm it

if you could see the flag it would prove we landed on the moon

>> No.3704425

You wouldn't have to aim accurately. Just select a general area and have the laser beam scan slowly enough to ignite the material the flag is made out of, but quickly enough to fully cover the area within the time it takes the moon to track across the sky. Of course it will have to be one powerful laser.

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>>3704425
This whole post is just retarded.

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>>3704367

actually i think that would just about sum up the decline of USA as a super power if you are a furriner and shootin ur lazer from a different country.

just the symbolism makes me lol...one of americas greatest achievements just goes poof in a flash of smoke, erased forever. no fanfare, no nothing, just the cold emptiness of the lunar surface is left.

>> No.3704462

>>3704425
>ignite
>on the moon
I don't think so buzz.

>> No.3704465

>>3704430
And on what grounds do you base that. It's the equivalent of firing a machine gun blindly, true. However given enough time, you would be successful.

>> No.3704467

>>3704462
you don't have to ignite it, you'll simply ablate it away.

>> No.3704469

>>3704459
who would really care though? its just an empty symbol left behind, the science and the technology advances that lead up to and from the moon landing are the enduring legacy of America's time as a super power.

>> No.3704472

>>3704430
>>3704462
OH SHI....I retract all of my previous statements on the basis that ignition of materials which are not self oxygenating or reactive in the vacuum of space is impossible. Touche /sci/.

>> No.3704483 [DELETED] 

how are you going to destroy the US flag that's going to be planted on Mars in a couple decades from now???
you mad troll???

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Trolls gonna troll. How are you so confident in being able to aim THAT accurately at the small-as-shit USA flag?

>> No.3704498

>>3704483
Bigger laser is always the answer. After we are done destroying the flag, we can aim it at pigeons and satellites. Both of which should be easy to hit at that point.

>> No.3704508

>>3704497
because the amount of divergence of a laser beam over that distance means you've got one hell of a margin for error

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>>3704420
>implying that there's any doubt that we landed on the moon

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We may have to use....

Math!

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>>3704508
What if you use a collimated beam.?

>> No.3704544

>>3704459

>americas greatest achievements

German scientists.

>> No.3704555

>>3704537
you've completely missed the point

>> No.3704564

>>3704544
America is a melting pot you fat faggot. The fact he built that for us is a testament to the devotion even foreigners have to America, the greatest country on earth.

>> No.3704565

>>3704367

.>vaporize USA flag

The Sun most likely beat you to it a long time ago.

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>>3704555
What about a bessel beam?

>> No.3704573

>>3704564

America isn't a country you troglodyte.

>> No.3704574

>>3704573
Then Germany isn't a country either

>> No.3704575

>>3704572
what about it?

>> No.3704579

>>3704574
America is a country, where else would you find the United States OF America.

>> No.3704581

>>3704574

America is a continent, Germany is a country. You live in the United States of America, which is a country.

Canadians and Mexicans are both American.

>> No.3704584

>>3704581

No, they are North Americans and Central Americans.

No one in their right mind would assume you were talking about Canadians if you use the term American. You are a moron.

>> No.3704585

>>3704579
America is not a fucking country.
The United States of America is a country.

>> No.3704591

>>3704584

Cultural memes don't change definitions which predate them.

>> No.3704590

>>3704585

Do you know what a colloquialism is?

>> No.3704589

>>3704581

>>/int/

>> No.3704595

>>3704584

Its hilarious how Usainans believe that their Country is called "America".
Its even more ridiculous when they refer to themselves as "Americans".
Face it Usaians you arent Americans and you live in Usa.

>> No.3704596 [DELETED] 

>>3704585
The United States of America is internationally known as
'America'.

>> No.3704599

And people wonder why Canadians are so nice; they have to share a continent with obese "Patriots" who think they're the world police, and a bunch of dirty spics who think their country is the greatest place on the planet, but seem to be willing to do anything to leave it.

>> No.3704601

>>3704591
Words can have more than 2 definitions.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/american
Please read the 3rd entry to the entire class

>> No.3704603

>>3704585
No the united states of america is a Federal union of several states, and is itself a state. It occupies a large portion of the American country.

Country = land
Nation = group of people unified ethnically/culturally
state = political entity

>> No.3704608

>>3704601
Whoops. Please read the 3rd entry here, boyo.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/america?show=0&t=1315460833

>> No.3704609

>>3704601

That still doesn't mean that America is a country.

>> No.3704615

>>3704599

Sometimes one of them floats across the great lakes and we have to deploy our entire military to contain the beast before it crushes half of Toronto under its rolls.

>> No.3704616

>>3704595
Yep, that's why everyone always says "Bundesrepublik Deutschland" instead of "Germany" or "Confederatio Helvetica" instead of "Switzerland"

>> No.3704621

The official demonym of the United States of America is American. North America is not an political entity, there are no citizens of North America. There are Americans, Citizens of the USA.

Anyone calling Canadians as Americans is retarded. /argument

>> No.3704624

>>3704621
but that's not the argument at hand at all

>> No.3704628

>>3704621

I concur with the Usaian.
Citizens of Canada should be called Canadians.

>> No.3704630

>>3704585
No, the United states of a America is a Federal Republic, consisting of some 50 states most of which are in the American country

>> No.3704631

>>3704621

Anyone who lives on the American continent can describe themselves as being American by virtue of inhabiting the continent of that name.

This applies to every continent on Earth, your patriotism doesn't override logic.

>> No.3704633

>>3704631
However, trying to expression information in speaking and the understanding of language as use do

>> No.3704639

All i know is that the City of New York is situated in the Federal Republic of United States of America, or FRUSTA.

>> No.3704642

>>3704639

>FRUSA

FTFY

>> No.3704657

The United States of North America

>> No.3704661

>>3704657

Federal Republic Of United States Of North America

FTFY

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Ahem...

....Ringed by footprints, sitting in the moondust, lies a 2-foot wide panel studded with 100 mirrors pointing at Earth: the "lunar laser ranging retroreflector array." Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong put it there on July 21, 1969, about an hour before the end of their final moonwalk. Thirty-five years later, it's the only Apollo science experiment still running.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2004/21jul_llr/

Find those coordinates and you can shoot your laser at the flag.. Cept.. you know...

That whole lack of oxygen thing...

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Aim straight up
hit square to zoom in
Feather analog to sweep area
WHEEEEEEEEEEEHEEEEEEHEEEEEEEE
80PTS.

>> No.3704669

Do you guys also go on rail against homonyms and synonyms?

I mean...you can't used the same word, it's madness!!

Oh, what's that you say? No one is really confused by it? Oh, never mind then.

>> No.3704675

Op is a synonym for Cigar.

>> No.3704683

How about you cut the flag pole and let the flag float away

>> No.3705684

seriously though, couldn't a country use a pulsed laser to destroy satilites in earth's orbit?

>> No.3705691

>>3704662
how can they know where the mirrors are when it is said even the hubble telescope has only ~300foot optical resolution on the moons surface

how can they ping it with a laser?

>> No.3705702

>>3705691
becasue they know where it is

>> No.3705720

>>3704595

I believe all those thermonuclear devices say that we CAN call ourselves Americans.

>> No.3706122

Actually it was George Washington who first used the word "Americans" to describe the citizens of the US of A.

Lost the link, but I will look for it.

>> No.3706131

>connect green laser pens in series

gibe nobl prze i report u

>> No.3706132

>>3706122
And while we're on the subject, the original plan was for the US to encompass the whole of the North American continent, from the Arctic to the Isthmus of Panama. Hence a whole bunch of wars - mini-war with Britain and France over Canada, purchase of the Louisiana Territory, annexation of the Texas Republic, invasions of Mexico and Florida, etc etc.

>> No.3706262

mythbusters already did this on their show.... point is?