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Military Develops Liquid Body Armor
kai5263499 writes "Military.com has an article about a new liquid body armor the U.S. Army Research Laboratory has developed. According to Dr. Eric Wetzel, the project coordinator: 'The key component of liquid armor is a shear thickening fluid. STF is composed of hard particles suspended in a liquid. The liquid, polyethylene glycol, is non-toxic, and can withstand a wide range of temperatures. Hard, nano-particles of silica are the other components of STF. This combination of flowable and hard components results in a material with unusual properties'."
In other related news, 8 billion dollars will
be diverted away from social programs such
as shelter for the homeless, in order to finance
Skynet and other military projects, including
Kevlar penis coverings.
Puh-lease... Iraq is a pathetic third world country. You didn't fight against a real country for a looooooooooong time.
YOU FUCKING GAYBOYS!!! I want to kill the president of USA. He is so stupid. I wanna kill each and every citizen of USA, cause USA is so LAME. USIANS are so fucking fat, dumb motherfuckers. They just deserve to die. I wanna kill all the americans! americans are losers - the worst of the worst. Let me put a bomb in your mouth you fucking yankee boy!!!!
Here is a paradox based off of logic I found in an earlier post:
We keep developing tools to make our soldiers safter. With this, we save more lives. The downside is that our forces and leaders become more bold and take more action more often resulting in more loss of life on the other side.
Do we have the right to make tools to prevent the deaths of our own at the cost of many more people on the other side?
Boldness and war are a dangerous combination.
Thanks, but we gods cannot be bothered with karma :-P
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And please, stop calling them "Americans". I am as American as any Usan, and we (Ibero)Americans really hate the Usans taking over our name and covering it with shame and blood. And since we outnumber them 2 to 1, in any case, it is *us* and not Usans who are the true "Americans".
On the rest of your post, how much must I agree, I lament! The USA is high on self-destruction mode, and we better take cover
As-salaam aleikum, Paz, Peace.
``L'imagination au povoir.''
"the same principal for the genitals "
Wow, who is this principal and why do you use the same guy for all the genitals?
Oh, did you mean PRINCIPLE?
You can be sure there's something in their arsenal (and if not in theirs, the UK will have something) to blow a carrier battle group operating near your shore away. You don't really have all that much experience with carriers vs. modern weapons.
Actually, wrong. The US Navy has EXCELLENT defenses against high tech weaponery. Feel free to read up on The Aegis Combat System. It's low tech that we continue to have a problem with, as men in row boats and boobytrapped bikes have proved and continue to prove. It's easier to fight a civilized country; they use civilized weapons. Weapons we largely know exactly how to counteract because we were crucial to the design of most of them.
If we were to engage France, we'd probably blow the hell out of them with a First Strike policy. The only sane way to fight a first world country is with inhumane weapons. In Iraq the battle was possible without having to play defense, if we fought France clearly they are able to reach us, so we would have to be sure our first strike was devastating. Translation: Nuclear wasteland.
In my admittedly biased American oppinion, the people who have arrogance problems are the rest of the world. If you aren't being targetted for attacks, if you aren't providing money, and if you aren't powerful enough to have an effect with your own sanctions against us, what gives you the right to dictate policy on how the United States should defend itself. Spain wants to withdraw their armed forces because they had a train bombed? Fine. I don't see them giving the destroyers back that we subsidized so they could afford them. Spain will most likely learn a painful lesson; they've just demonstrated that it only takes a couple bombs on a train track to derail the entire government. Our government was hit directly, the difference is we hit back.
Never confuse volume with power.
Hmm... the US destroyed damn near every military target (sometimes repeatedly). US soldiers were able to take nearly any land they wanted (although it was often abandoned within days). The numbers are sketchy, but it appears that 10 to 20 vietnamese were killed per american loss. Sounds like the US was pretty dominant, when it wanted to be. And when it didn't, the soldiers left and the country fell. This is losing?
Just because it's too easy: the 9/11 analogy is flawed. For example: An Abrahms tank is a hell of a fighting vehicle. But it won't stop a car from veering onto the sidewalk and killing people any more than a F-16 can stop a jet verring toward a building, IF WE DON'T KNOW IT's GOING TO HAPPEN. Once the US realized what was going on, F-16s were dispatched to shoot down one of the planes, but it crashed before they got there.
Out of curiousity, are we trying to decide something here? Because if we're just comparing dick size, I'd be happy to let you win, if you'll just shut up.
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.
Bravo - couldn't have put it better myself. Except you forgot that you are also cowards - sniping down people - and innocent too2 3.stm -instead of coming out and fighting like real men. Besides, those rifles shoot .50 cal amour piercing ammo at 2800 ft/sec from a 1000 yards - so it's almost as impersonal as playing a video game.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/36532
You also forgot that you're hypocrites - now wanting to forbid pictures also of your coffins on the web. What are you afraid of? That the romantic patriotic hero bubble may burst?
SUVs? You better enjoy those gas guzzlers quickly. At the current consumption level the known oil reserves will last 40 years from now - and that's not counting the upcoming needs by the chinese. What are you obese lardheads going to do when the oil is gone and there are no more countries with oil to assualt? Make a scene? Start crying? I bet we going to see a lot more fighting over this in the years to come. Better keep that romantic patriotic hero cult of yours polished. You'll need it. Eurofags? Lardheads.