They are really amazing, aren’t they? Relying on translations by a Freeper to make up claims about Saddam’s WMD program. Jimminy Christmas.

Isn’t Dafyydd the “go to” guy on simulation reactors?

There are so, so many things one could say in response to that headline.

However, I ought to refrain from saying any of them while at work, even if tomorrow is my last day.

But I’m laughing on the inside.

All three Power Line bloggers are apparent lovers of the taste of Bush’s grundle, as well as each other’s. (I say “apparent,” because I don’t know what a “grundle” is.)

Aren’t these the documents that have already been gleaned for incriminating intelligence? So they honestly think they’re going to come across the equivalent of “Dear Osama: Please find enclosed 3 huge-ass atom bombs for which to destroy the Great Satan. Yours Truly, Saddam. PS. See you on Saturday. Number four wife is making paella!”

…?

Mal, what drives me crazy about it is that there is no way for us to be able to tell at this point whether any American intelligence agency might not have seeded these documents with fake plants designed to incriminate.

Even if these yobs DO find a huge smoking gun, there’s no reason for anyone to necessarily put credence in it.

What’s worse, other documents prove that the Iraqi medical establishment was experimenting with something called a “placebo.” And all the while acting like it’s completely harmless. For shame.

They can find all the documents they want, and so what if they say “maybe we could do this” or “maybe we could do that” … unless they show off some chemical shells or glowing shit, the party’s over. Cheney and crew said they knew where the weapons were. First it was near Baghdad, later it was Syria. Fuck,me.running. The game is over.

Even if these yobs DO find a huge smoking gun, there’s no reason for anyone to necessarily put credence in it.

I know I won’t. That’s the unfortunate side affect of destroying the public trust.

But if they have planted something, they’re doing so at great risk. No evidence of anything is safer to lie about than actual evidence, which can be submitted for forensic analysis. They’d better hope they remembered how to properly kern Arabic.

Two words:

Plausible deniability.

As long as you have the wingnut brigade around to cloud the issue by hooting and flinging poo, it won’t ultimately matter whether people believe such a putative document were real or not.

Lordy loo. A simulation reactor is apparently a simulation OF a reactor. A model, it seems. (I suppose there’s no sense in making definite statements, right?)

If I snap together 300 no-glue-required models of F-16s, does that mean I apparently have an air force?

It Might Not Be Smoking, But It’s Getting Awfully Warm.

I think he means steaming, not smoking.

It Might Not Be Smoking, But It’s Getting Awfully Warm

So Assrocket crapped his pants again.

Not Arab scholar at Free Republic!!!! Gen. Bat Guano!

So they’re putting their faith in a FReeper now? Nice.

Between this and the whole Dafydd thing, it’s been a bad week for the boys. I’d say that they’ve lost all credibility, but I think it’s too late for that.

Perhaps it was a stimulation reactor. Saddam was just looking for a vibrator.

Well, this is apparently the steaming gun we’ve been waiting for, and we don’t want the steaming gun to take the shape of a mushroom pizza. I say “apparently,” because I don’t know what a “steaming gun” is.

A model, it seems.

So, let me get this straight: some simulated blogger/”journalists” report on a simulated gumshoe’s simulated discovery of some simulated proof about some simulated weapons.

Genius really.

Here’s my translation (excerpt, care of gizoogle…bitches!):

This document CMPC-2004-000167raps `bout a project tizzy started in early 2001 by tha Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) ta use components fizzy tha previously destroyed TAMUZ (also known as OZIRAQ) Nuclear Reactor ta build a Nuclear Simulizzles Reactor. The TAMUZ Nuclear Reactor was destroyed by an Israeli air attack in 1981. In Septemba 2002, afta almost a year n a half since tha stiznart of this Nuclear Project n whizzen it became very clear ta tha Iraqi Regime thizzay tha UN inspectors were steppin’ back ta Iraq, a decision was made ta stiznop this Nuclear Activity project. Wizzy is ho-slappin’ in this document tizzy tha IAEC was warned by tha Monitor’n Directory witin tha IAEC tizzle this Nuclear Project is prohibited by tha UN resolizzles wanna be gangsta tha IAEC wizzle on wit it until Septemba 2002 only W-H-to-tha-izzen tha UN inspectors wizzle on tha verge of com’n back ta Iraq cuz this is how we do it.

What’s a power blogger?

Sorry, Power Line Blogger.

I think I remember a simulation reactor design from the first set of encyclopedias that my parents bought me. It used a piece of plywood routed out with grooves, and some marbles. Killed ’em, but only at the science fair.

Reactor technology isn’t that difficult. The first one was built more than sixty years ago. Putting the thing together so it works, doesn’t immediately kill the people who run it, and nobody knows you’re you’ve got one, that’s the challenge.

These people are, by the way, idiots.

Surely you’ve heard of the old joke, where they build a wooden airbase to fool the enemy and the enemy responds by dropping a wooden bomb on it!…

Didn’t Gary Sinise use a simulation reactor to rescue Tom Hanks from Apollo 13?

Damn Hollywook traitors.

Reactor technology isn’t that difficult. The first one was built more than sixty years ago.

Um, is it too nerdy to point out that a billion and a half years ago one happened completely by accident, just mother nature herself playing fast and loose with U235 and a little something called “critical mass”?

Just google Oklo. Now there’s a sentence I never would have thought I’d write. Google Oklo. Over and out.

mikey

I apparently have an air force -MCH

I’m waiting for the announcement that we’ve declared war on MCH since we have documented evidence that he is building an air force and we know he hates America because he posts here. Look out.

I’ve translated some of the Project Harmony documents, too. I keep seeing phrases like “need to hide our weapons” and “Bush’s ass” which leads me to the speculation (it would be irresponsible not to) that Iraq’s WMD are indeed, apparently, up George W. Bush’s ass. The nerve of the guy doing his “oops! not here” schtick when he’s got them all along up his keister.

I say “apparently” because I don’t speak Arabic.

I only just thought to ask: did the dastardly Iraqi simulation reactor have fins to lower wind resistance, and a racing stripe for looking sharp? Somewhere in the documents it will say that the design was a contest-winning submission by Homer al-Simpson, over the protests of Frank bin Grimes.

I only just thought to ask: did the dastardly Iraqi simulation reactor have fins to lower wind resistance, and a racing stripe for looking sharp? Somewhere in the documents it will say that the design was a contest-winning submission by Homer al-Simpson, over the protests of Frank bin Grimes.

If ever a D’oh was warranted, this is the time. Sorry. I’m still getting used to the fact that they have the Internet on computers now.

The internet? Is that thing still around?

There are at least two of them.

So, one of Flip’s posts was obviously meant for the other of the internets.

The first one was a simulation post. I’m proud to announce its success.

jveritas’ English translations are often nearly as impenetrable as the Arabic originals.

If he knew the nuke business at all, he might have translated that as “Reactor Simulator,” which is basically a bunch of blinking consoles connected to training software. The software simulates reactor events, and operator and maintenance trainees learn which buttons to push.

It’s a ton of fun…but in the absence of a real reactor, it’s more or less a million-dollar Sega game with a really cool player interface.