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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'."
Polyetheylene glycol also used to be in Dr. Pepper (at least 10 years ago).
Methanol-Ethanol - who cares! It's practically the same... HEY - who turned off the sun!!!
knock parent up a notch with a shot of your spice weasles. The man bitch-slapped that stupid flame war down.
And because I believe in talking directly to whom I'm replying, damn good job on bringing actual intelligence to that idiodic debate.
fs
Turns out those pictures of flag drapped coffins may have actually been the shuttle crew and not Soldiers who died in Iraq!
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... AFTER INTERNET MIX-UP: Russ Kick of thememoryhole.org filed a Freedom of Information Act requesting 'all photographs showing caskets (or other devices) containing the remains of US military personnel at Dover AFB. This would include, but not be limited to, caskets arriving, caskets departing, and any funerary rites/rituals being performed. The timeframe for these photos is from 01 February 2003 to the present.'
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=9
The pictures were obtained from thememoryhole.org and were mixed up in an Internet snafu.
From the Drudge Report:
WASHINGTON POST, REUTERS, CNN, AP RUN PHOTOS OF SPACE SHUTTLE COFFINS -- AS IRAQ WAR DEAD!
But Kick appears to have assumed all the photos given to him were of the WAR ON TERROR/IRAQ dead!
On Thursday NASA claimed more than 70 photos featured in Kick's war dead -- were photos of Space Shuttle Columbia's crew! The shuttle blew up on 2/1/03.
'An initial review of the images featured on the Internet site www.thememoryhole.org shows that more than 18 rows of images from Dover Air Force Base in Delaware are actually photographs of honors rendered to Columbia's seven astronauts,' NASA said.
CNN aired space shuttle coffins as Iraq dead from thememoryhole.org. The Washington Post printed a shuttle dead photo on page A10. [The paper is planning a correction on Saturday, sources tell DRUDGE.] Reuters is also distributing a photo of the Columbia crew remains. AP has a screen grab of the first page of photos - all of which are of Columbia crew remains. AP titles the image as 'A page from the Memory Hole.org's homepage shows photographs of American war dead arriving at Dover Air Force, the nation's largest military mortuary, Thursday, April 22, 2004'... It is not clear if other media outlets are currently featuring space shuttle coffins in their rotations...
Sorry, but these people who died in Iraq and Afghanistan
didn't do a damned thing to protect anyone in the US, any
more than the guys who died in Viet Nam did.
All their deaths are much more tragic because they died for
the "empire-building" attitudes of the current US regime.
Quit being sucked in by propaganda, people, and realize that
the real heroes are not those who go along with misguided
government policies.
Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice, shame on me.
I didn't click your link. I'd rather click on a goatsex link that any of that fat spandex tron bullshit.
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We have yet to start pumping any oil from Iraq. If the military had its mind on getting oil from Iraq, we would've been pumping from day one of the invasion. We could set up guards and patrol with infrared AWACS the entire pipeline. We could displace every single native Iraqi within a hundred miles of the pipelines, ensuring no one but America's finest could even see it. We could bring in people to man the stations, turn the knobs, steer the ships.
But we didn't. And we won't. We're not in Iraq for the oil, you see. It may be a priority, but it isn't our top one.
Our object in Iraq is exactly what President Bush said it was: To bring democracy to the Middle East, thus destroying terrorism at its source. If a successful democracy blooms in Iraq, then toppling Iran and Syria will be no problem. We could even set up a Kurdistan under a democracy and I believe the Turks would go for that when they see how domesticated and profitable Iraq has become. Then we move from there to the next neighbors. Pretty soon, people in Jordan and Saudi Arabia and Kuwait will be demanding the right to vote like their rich cousins in Iraq, Iran, and Syria. When psychopaths like Saddam or Osama try to rally up another dictatorship or theocracy, or try to convince people that the only way to heaven is by strapping bombs to their chests and running to an Israeli restaurant filled with teenagers, the people will turn them out on their ear, throw them in prison, or execute them themselves, whithout American intervention.
I can't believe after four years of President Bush in action, with President Bush following up almost every promise he has made with exact execution, that people still don't take President Bush at face value. He doesn't use double-talk, he just says things straight out and answers questions with "yes" and "no".
I laugh when people call President Bush dimwitted, only to see them fall into his trap every time he springs one. I'll help you identify the next one. They all look the same. President Bush says A, but all his opponents interpret it to mean B. After all, what politician would say what he meant? It's kind of like a general announcing to his enemies what his next move will be. The last thing the enemy expects is for the general to follow through. So they set a trap for Bush at B. When Bush shows up at A, they are surprised and flabbergasted, knocked off balance, and the joke's on them.
The radical sect of Islam would either see you dead or "reverted" to Islam.