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TBDNN: NEWS AT THE SPEED OF DESERT WINDS!

Female Anchor: Hello everyone, I'm Jane Burn. Our top story tonight is The Burnsian Desert's new breakthrough in Defence Shield technology. One of the most crucial things to a defence shield is lasers. TBD has lasers already, but they either went right through the reception mirrors or were not powerful enough. We go live to Chuck Goodman at the Burnsian Defensive Ministry Labratories at Highfather. Chuck?

Chuck Goodman: Thanks, Jane. I am here right at the TBDDML where a new laser has been perfected for the defence shield.

*Camera pans toward laser*

http://www.uni-augsburg.de/fotos/laser.jpg

Chuck Goodman: This laser is capable of downing a large bomber, such as a B-52, a spacecraft, or an incoming missile at over 250 miles away. Here's how the grid works. The main laser, like the one the camera just panned to, is based on an underground bunker, deep in the mountains. When someone sees an incoming aircraft, spacecraft, or bomber, or if the heat-infrared-radar system picks it up, the doors here...

http://www.welchtravel.com/scubadiving/Launch_doors2.jpg

...open. They then transmit a beam which is sent to the two or three closest sattelites orbiting The Burnsian Desert and her allies. The beam is targeted, locked and destroys the incoming object. In a side note, the system is expected to be able to destroy 3 missiles, 30 bombers, or 15 spacecraft in a matter of 60 seconds.

Female Anchor: Wow, Chuck! In other news, Burnsain Chess Champion Sara...

I think you are a little young for this.

And how many lasers would this have, to be able to destroy 11 bombers a second?

1) I stated this days ago and no one told me 'I was too young' despite the other old posters in the thread.

2) The laser is split up inside the sattilite via mirrors and directed into targets.

1) I stated this days ago and no one told me 'I was too young' despite the other old posters in the thread.


That says it all.

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ok....

20 bombers a minute

15 Spacecraft

3 Missiles

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Well, the date of founding as a nationstate does not mean your country did not exist before hand. It is simply the date that you joined nationstates. Civilisations take many millennias to form and starting with 5 million ppl supports this. Those 5 million didn't appear overnight. When "older" nationstates claim a another is "too young" well nobody says when you are old enough to possess certain technologies.

I would say be realistic about your size and financial abilities, but essentially determining what you have is up to you. Older nations are simply trying to control the game.

There are no rules remember, so you can even make up technologies which don't exist in "real life" (real life politics should be kept out of this).

Thank you. This is an exact example of a "new technology". I have it in my storefront, as Resarch Still in Progress.

What excactly powers these lasers?

Right now, we are using 3 acres of power plant, but we hope to use some smaller and less dangerous power sources later.

What kind of power plant? Coal? Oil? Gas? People? :)

A highly flammable mixture of oil, gas, and nitro glyceryne. We are aware of the dangers and are willing to pay over the counter for an alternative, safe. productive energy source.

Nitro? That's not a good idea, if you don't have exactly the right conditions, BOOM!
You should work on solar power, that is much... Safer.

And expensive, and high-maintenance, and very low-productive. Do you have any better energy sources?

Considered Geothermal? Clean, efficient and cost effective. Of course it depends on whether your crusts rock formation is horizontal or vertical (vertical for most efficient).

I hate to say it, but nuclear. It is expensive to set up at first, but then provides a real lot of energy compared to cost for a long time. The only pollution is that nuclear waste, but there are ways to get rid of it.

You want a $500 million dollar contract to build a nuclear power plant to supply this thing with energy? Telegram me if yes.