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I'm a major HALO franchise fanatic. As far as I'm concerned, HALO makes the Tomb Raider games look like Pong.
I think your mantis may be the same as the one pictured several times near the top of this page. Says they're not uncommon in Central and North-Central Florida.And MANTIS! At least it looks mantis-like. I've never seen one like this before. I almost put my hand on it, it was so well disguised. Can any of the mantisphiles around here identify it?
See also:
http://growerjim.blogspot.com/2010/09/creature-feature-grizzled-mantis.html
http://blog.audubonguides.com/2010/11/15/grizzly-monster-the-grizzled-mantis/
http://bugguide.net/node/view/36149
Thanks, it must be a Grizzled Mantis. It was right in the middle of the Ocala National Forest, too.
It was my birthday on February 17 and my mom posted a couple pics of me on FB.
Here is my sister and myself shortly after getting out of the Air Force.
This is us just this past year at Cafe Du Monde in New Orleans.
Here is my sister and myself shortly after getting out of the Air Force.
This is us just this past year at Cafe Du Monde in New Orleans.
Here is my sister and myself shortly after getting out of the Air Force.
Your sister was in the Air Force with you??
Nice Depche Mode shirt. They were my favorite band for quite some time.
We're one week apart from it being exactly 20 years between us. Her birthday is February 10th 1988 mine is February 17 1968.
Were you in the First Gulf War by any chance, or were you stationed stateside? Sorry if this has been asked before.
Crazy! I can't even imagine having a sibling that young.
I was involved in the invasion of Panama and was stationed TDY in South Korea when the tension was very high in 1988-89 and it appeared that we we on the way to war.
Ahhh, okay. Thanks for clarifying. I imagine the Korean DMZ must be one of the scariest locations on earth. With more than 10,000 North Korean artillery pieces and close to a million troops sitting somewhere on the other side it has to be intimidating. I have faith that the U.S. and South Korea would decisively defeat the North if---heaven forbid---a second Korean War should ever break out. But those first hours along the border would be petrifying. I wouldn't blame some American soldiers for soiling themselves at the thought.
There is a reason they call the DMZ "the clusterfuck".
It would be shit for the first responders, but the Reds would be no match for 'em in the long run.
The North would cause a lot of catastrophic damage to the border region and the Seoul metropolitan area, but they'd shoot their wad early in the game. The overwhelming U.S. and South Korean superiority in air and naval power as well as the much better quality of their ground equipment would result in an Allied victory...but it wouldn't come quickly or cheaply. A second Korean War would make Iraq or Afghanistan look like quiet peacekeeping assignments.
There were a few incidents at the DMZ. The North Koreans had a huge buildup right before and during the 88 Olympics. The US and South Korea were having one of the largest exercises called Team Spirit, things were heading towards conflict quickly.
Yeah, basically, Seoul would be obliterated in a few hours, and then all of North Korea would be annihilated shortly after. It is not a war that NK can win in any way, shape, or form. While they can devastate the South in a first strike, that's really their only advantage.
Look at it as though it were a hostage situation: North Korea's got a gun to the South's head. If NK wants to live, the worst thing they could do is pull the trigger, because the US has a dozen snipers with a perfect kill shot ready to go and if SK is done, there's nothing left to bargain with NK over.
Absolutely. If Kim Jong Un and the generals ever start a war it will be near-instant suicide for their regime and way of life. U.S. airpower alone would lay waste to NK armored columns and artillery emplacements, and that doesn't include all the damage the huge South Korean military would do as it responded and poured additional firepower across the border. South Korea actually has more field artillery than the United States...it's one of only five nations that does. And it has a potent tank force with technology rivalling our own. NK would be sticking its head in a noose and stepping onto the trapdoor the moment its generals decide it's time to reunify the peninsula by force.
NK's only trump card might be to use its small arsenal of nuclear weapons and detonate them on U.S. and South Korean forces...but if that were to happen North Korea would become a radioactive pile of rubble. Millions would die or be horribly injured, and I don't think even the fruitcakes and warmongers in the NK military establishment are insane enough to want THAT.
Your forgetting that North Korea has China to fall back on and believe me, China would engage if the conflict started. To China, NK is the buffer and can't afford to loose them.
China does everything they can to keep NK on a short leash. The last thing they want is a war on the peninsula, not least because of the humanitarian crisis it would cause, with millions of NK refugees flooding into China.
The idea of China engaging directly against the US in a war the North started seems pretty far-fetched, though. China favors status quo above all else. If NK fucks that up, Beijing will hang them out to dry. The only real question would be what shape a new North Korean government will take--but you can be certain it would be backed by China.
I would agree that a reunified Korea isn't possible under the current political climate, though.
Ah, I disagree. Not lame. I loved the original way back when. The more recent ones are not as good but that's to be expected.
He is a 'real gamer' if anyone is. In fact, our love of gaming brought us together. He makes his own games as well.
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Ah, I disagree. Not lame. I loved the original way back when. The more recent ones are not as good but that's to be expected.
He is a 'real gamer' if anyone is. In fact, our love of gaming brought us together. He makes his own games as well.
lol. Sorry, I meant no offense. Ugh, everything I say comes off the wrong way.
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