BAE Systems has just announced they will be manufacturing environmentally-friendly weapons. How cool is that? What next... nicotine-free cigarettes? ... non-alcoholic-beer? Where will it all end?http://uk.news.yahoo.com/16092006/323/environmentally-friendly-fire-bae-promoting-green-munitions.html
2006-09-17 00:22:49 · 17 answers · asked by Saudi Geoff 5 in Business & Finance ➔ Corporations
Mannit... you have not confirmed your email! G. x
2006-09-17 10:26:35 · update #1
Pepsi... same applies. Can't reach you!
2006-09-17 10:29:07 · update #2
yeah, and just like nicotine-free cigarettes and non-alcoholic beer....what's the point? we can save the environment while we slaughter a bunch of human beings? (not that i'm a liberal "commie" or anything) but this just seems a tad ridiculous to me. is the environment really that much more important to people than OTHER PEOPLE? than the human race? i'm tired of hearing we should feel guilty for living. like, we have no right to live here because we destroy the environment for all the poor, defenseless, cute little animals by building shopping malls, and it's their world. why don't these same people, who are worried about them, calm their nerves in the belief that they will evolve to live in these "overly-developed" environments? natural selection, right?
2006-09-17 00:37:55 · answer #1 · answered by practicalwizard 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Although at first glance this sound ridiculous, there is a sound principle behind it. If, for example a country had to be liberated from an undesirable regime (eg. Panama, Grenada, Afghanistan, Iraq) then the use of non-polluting weapons would mean that when order and democracy etc etc was restored to the people of that country, they wouldn't be faced with the environmental nightmare of toxic materials from the weapons lying around the countryside causing sickness and disease to the inhabitants, their livestock or crops.
So-called Gulf-War Syndrome may be a result of some of these toxic materials harming our own troops (eg it may be the result of the depleted Uranium used to given shells more "penetrating power"). Therefore it is also beneficial to the user of the weapon to have something that safer to use.
2006-09-17 07:31:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know it sounds funny,but its true. Munitions made of high explosives are in the past.There is now a whole new generation of munitions that are environmentally safe as well as safer to transport,load etc. It's not a new process as it has been around for years now. The new conventional bomb MOAB(mother of all bombs is of this caliber).The new explosives don't leave toxic residue behind making them "environmentally safe". About the only thing toxic would be the left over fragments of electronics,ie PC boards ,etc.
Now you can blow a hole in the ground , and plant a garden there the next day.
2006-09-17 14:09:12 · answer #3 · answered by frith25 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Throwing crap is environmentally safe.
Sound like what BAE Systems is doing now.
Yeah way cool.
2006-09-17 07:34:45 · answer #4 · answered by icyuryy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they are sincere enough they should develop human-friendly weapons that cannot do any harm to any humans!
Seriously, have they ever thought how devastated the mind of weapon users are (and will be) after using those weapons effectively?!?!?
Why must there be wars at all?
2006-09-17 09:11:59 · answer #5 · answered by Kanda 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ok.. so we are saying that it is better for the bomb to kill you than it is to die from the pollution that the propellent leaves behind. Makes perfect sense.
2006-09-17 07:27:58 · answer #6 · answered by Joe K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there's already non alcholic beer, its for the underaged drinker who just really loves the taste and not the effect.
2006-09-17 07:24:11 · answer #7 · answered by Rvardell 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sugar coated cyanide pills is next on the list
2006-09-17 07:24:30 · answer #8 · answered by george grohan mendal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isn't that a bit of an oxy-moron? I'm right there with you, brother!
2006-09-17 07:24:29 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
who gets them ?
is it only environmentally friendly people ??
geoff x
2006-09-17 13:32:56 · answer #10 · answered by pepzi_bandit 2 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋