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The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, also known as the "Mother of All Bombs", has been dropped in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. It is the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal.
The US military has dropped an enormous bomb in Afghanistan, according to four US military officials with direct knowledge of the mission. A GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, nicknamed MOAB, was dropped at 7 p.m. local time Thursday, the sources said. [...] A MOAB is a 21,600-pound, GPS-guided munition that is America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb.
The bomb was dropped by an MC-130 aircraft, operated by Air Force Special Operations Command, according to the military sources. They said the target was an ISIS tunnel and cave complex as well as personnel in the Achin district of the Nangarhar province.
Gen. John Nicholson, Commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, said in a statement. "This is the right munition to reduce these obstacles and maintain the momentum of our offensive against [ISIS]." The statement said U.S. forces took every precaution to avoid civilian casualties.
Also at Fox News. The bombing came days after the death of a Green Beret in the same province, but a defense official said the bombing was unrelated. Another official had this to say:
The MOAB had to be dropped out of the back of a U.S. Air Force C-130 cargo plane due to its massive size. "We kicked it out the back door," one U.S. official told Fox News.
Update: The Afghan defence ministry says that 36 ISIS fighters were killed by the strike.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 14 2017, @07:15PM (2 children)
Oh, I'm with you on that. NO religion has it correct and the vast majority are somewhere between hilariously and horrifyingly wrong. I look at this as just another branch of science, because it seems to be conforming to a set of natural laws. We humans have a very bad habit of distancing and "othering" ourselves from the rest of nature and reality; it's a kind of ego-sickness.
As near as I can tell "God" isn't the best word to use here, but it's a kind of metaphor not unlike "Mother Nature," when what's being described is a sort of base-concept to matter, energy, and intelligence, the old philosophers' "ground of all being." I don't think it's conscious, certainly not as a personal, egoistic entity. Why couldn't there be a naturalistic "afterlife" anyway?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday April 14 2017, @08:06PM (1 child)
A mother nature given soul?
(I like the Phillipe Jose Farmer thing: (No, i'm not going to google the spelling, no i cant remember the name of the series... i'm old and tired, lol))
I just don't see it: i'll be dust returned to dust and i have no soul to be reborn.
I. got. one. shot.
Also, i think there should be a law that you can kill one person EVERY year, no consequences, so long as you register the fact that YOU (state your name) are going to kill HIM (state his name).
Once per year, no consequences.
Wouldn't the world be a better place without all the dead assholes who piss off EVERYONE!!
:)
Tired... rambling... need vodka.... sleep....
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 14 2017, @08:34PM
"To Your Shattered Bodies, Go." Notable for the fact that some NDE researcher appears to have fabricated or confabulated his own NDE from his memories of the book.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...