1. bolt action because you don't need 30 rounds rapid to drop a polar bear. 2. bolt action because automatics are high maintenance and require training for effective maintenance. A bolt action is just a case of unlock, remove bolt, clean bolt, shove a pipecleaner through the barrel and pull it through the breech. Done. 3. bolt action because they are as quick to clear a jam as it is to clean. Shed bolt, ramrod down the muzzle, bolt back in, cock it. 4. bolt action because jamming is an extremely rare occurrence. 5. bolt action because anything with any more complicated of an action is just n+1 more components that are liable to fail at exactly the wrong moment.
composite (plastic) stocks do become very brittle in freezing weather (I know having had a Crosman Nightstalker disintegrate in my hands while out ratting just last February), this is why the CS proposals were rejected. There is an Enfield analogue already (what you might call a civilian version), but you won't find any Canadian hunters using it simply because it has a composite stock - the M10. Hardwoods are more stable in pretty much any environment as long as the grain is sealed, than any other material save titanium alloy, but I'm sure you wouldn't want to know what that'd cost.
...reveals that Colt Canada will be producing the new ranger rifle, the RFP was put to pasture last month. My thinking is that the stock will be a sealed beech rather than abs plastic (which would become brittle in the cold), keep the ten round box but chamber the rifle for.308 Winchester (7.62 NATO) and keep the turn bolt action.
I bought an LS120 drive after reading about all the problems people were having with Zip (Click of Death) at the time when hard drives were still £120/GB and I felt I needed cheap archival storage. Still use it, though for floppies. Never actually bought a LS120 disk in the end, because the day after I bought the drive I was given two DC300 decks and a crate of tapes...
not a pro, but I do love my Sennheiser flyspeck, and my Audio Research cans are pretty much the best sounding I've ever used. no idea what the coil hardware is, or what the magnets are, but it's like being kissed on the neck by Shahin Badar. I had a Bose radio, it went back because I thought it was broken. Sounded like shit. Or that could've been Radio 1.
a hunter with a double-recessive condition which means he has no teeth will starve. His brother, the one with double-dominant teeth, will thrive and reproduce. His offspring will at least be heterozygous toothy, healthy and go on to bear him grandchildren. Darwinian evolution at work.
The team at the Voyager project had a problem. See, when they were gearing up for the Neptune encounter, they needed to know where to point their camera for some good shots of the planet - what were to be, the clearest images of the planet ever taken. They'd have eight minutes during the pass and that'd be it, forever. The camera would have to be pointing in the right direction.
So what did they do? They cherry picked the best meteorologists on the planet and said to them, "Right, here's what we know, we need a weather forecast for two months from now, on another planet, down to the minute, so we know where to point the camera on our probe to get some good weather shots."
They got their weather forecast two weeks before the flyby. Two days before the close approach, they turned the cameras to position, and come the flyby they got the shots exactly as predicted by the weathermen. Absolutely beautiful pictures of clouds, a huge dark storm (the GDS), and just before the cameras were turned once again for the final images of the solar system ("Goodbye Neptune"), a tenuous ring system so gossamer thin it was almost missed.
Point is, get the right people on the job they can predict the weather on a planet billions of miles away with amazing accuracy two weeks into the future. Why can't we do that here, on Earth, six HOURS into the future? It's a question asked many times at NASA, and still unanswered.
I could tell you precisely why. It would involve the assumption that your rosemary oil was somehow contaminated with peptide aminoluciferin which causes spontaneous bioluminescence in certain epithelial keratins.
you should read what you link: Current techniques for creating large numbers of muons require large amounts of energy, larger than the amounts produced by the catalyzed nuclear fusion reactions.
I would immediately dismiss as unverifiable. There is NO WAY to prove chain of custody if you're not being given the CoC right back to and INCLUDING the source.
I left Kings Cross station in 1987 six minutes before the stairwell I had just ascended went up in flames. I was glad of the phone box on the corner, my mother could barely hear me over the sirens though.
preheating isn't needed with modern diesel mixes. Some pump oils (such as used on the Dalton) will start at -35C. #1 diesel turns to wax at -40C and will still turn over in a fairly well maintained engine at -20C. Should you find yourself in a situation of needing to start an engine in -50C like they do at the far North end of the Dalton after dropping a load of pipe or whatever, additives such as ethanol (which freezes at -114C) are added to the fuel in the tank to prevent it waxing.
paying total attention to the road and not being distracted by the radio, GPS or anything else with flashy buttons and blinkenlights never gets old. And you don't talk to the driver. My bus, I'm God.
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1. bolt action because you don't need 30 rounds rapid to drop a polar bear.
2. bolt action because automatics are high maintenance and require training for effective maintenance. A bolt action is just a case of unlock, remove bolt, clean bolt, shove a pipecleaner through the barrel and pull it through the breech. Done.
3. bolt action because they are as quick to clear a jam as it is to clean. Shed bolt, ramrod down the muzzle, bolt back in, cock it.
4. bolt action because jamming is an extremely rare occurrence.
5. bolt action because anything with any more complicated of an action is just n+1 more components that are liable to fail at exactly the wrong moment.
composite (plastic) stocks do become very brittle in freezing weather (I know having had a Crosman Nightstalker disintegrate in my hands while out ratting just last February), this is why the CS proposals were rejected. There is an Enfield analogue already (what you might call a civilian version), but you won't find any Canadian hunters using it simply because it has a composite stock - the M10. Hardwoods are more stable in pretty much any environment as long as the grain is sealed, than any other material save titanium alloy, but I'm sure you wouldn't want to know what that'd cost.
...reveals that Colt Canada will be producing the new ranger rifle, the RFP was put to pasture last month. My thinking is that the stock will be a sealed beech rather than abs plastic (which would become brittle in the cold), keep the ten round box but chamber the rifle for .308 Winchester (7.62 NATO) and keep the turn bolt action.
I bought an LS120 drive after reading about all the problems people were having with Zip (Click of Death) at the time when hard drives were still £120/GB and I felt I needed cheap archival storage. Still use it, though for floppies. Never actually bought a LS120 disk in the end, because the day after I bought the drive I was given two DC300 decks and a crate of tapes...
not a pro, but I do love my Sennheiser flyspeck, and my Audio Research cans are pretty much the best sounding I've ever used. no idea what the coil hardware is, or what the magnets are, but it's like being kissed on the neck by Shahin Badar. I had a Bose radio, it went back because I thought it was broken. Sounded like shit. Or that could've been Radio 1.
I mean like a carnivore which would ordinarily require teeth to catch its prey, you pedantic fucking fool.
I'll be a sprightly 75.
a hunter with a double-recessive condition which means he has no teeth will starve. His brother, the one with double-dominant teeth, will thrive and reproduce. His offspring will at least be heterozygous toothy, healthy and go on to bear him grandchildren. Darwinian evolution at work.
You're welcome.
The team at the Voyager project had a problem. See, when they were gearing up for the Neptune encounter, they needed to know where to point their camera for some good shots of the planet - what were to be, the clearest images of the planet ever taken. They'd have eight minutes during the pass and that'd be it, forever. The camera would have to be pointing in the right direction.
So what did they do? They cherry picked the best meteorologists on the planet and said to them, "Right, here's what we know, we need a weather forecast for two months from now, on another planet, down to the minute, so we know where to point the camera on our probe to get some good weather shots."
They got their weather forecast two weeks before the flyby. Two days before the close approach, they turned the cameras to position, and come the flyby they got the shots exactly as predicted by the weathermen. Absolutely beautiful pictures of clouds, a huge dark storm (the GDS), and just before the cameras were turned once again for the final images of the solar system ("Goodbye Neptune"), a tenuous ring system so gossamer thin it was almost missed.
Point is, get the right people on the job they can predict the weather on a planet billions of miles away with amazing accuracy two weeks into the future. Why can't we do that here, on Earth, six HOURS into the future? It's a question asked many times at NASA, and still unanswered.
it's easy to fool someone with a blackbox and a claim.
what he said. I was going to bring up the Rossi scam as well. Well played, radtea, for beating me to it.
I could tell you precisely why. It would involve the assumption that your rosemary oil was somehow contaminated with peptide aminoluciferin which causes spontaneous bioluminescence in certain epithelial keratins.
You're welcome.
you should read what you link: Current techniques for creating large numbers of muons require large amounts of energy, larger than the amounts produced by the catalyzed nuclear fusion reactions.
I would immediately dismiss as unverifiable. There is NO WAY to prove chain of custody if you're not being given the CoC right back to and INCLUDING the source.
I left Kings Cross station in 1987 six minutes before the stairwell I had just ascended went up in flames. I was glad of the phone box on the corner, my mother could barely hear me over the sirens though.
+1 funny
Fuck everything else, fuck the dislike button, I want the ability to DELETE identifiable information from facebook.
yes, they also consume vast amounts of pork products.
PDNFTT. ...and to the OP: try posting in the correct forum. Hint: it isn't Slashdot.
preheating isn't needed with modern diesel mixes. Some pump oils (such as used on the Dalton) will start at -35C. #1 diesel turns to wax at -40C and will still turn over in a fairly well maintained engine at -20C. Should you find yourself in a situation of needing to start an engine in -50C like they do at the far North end of the Dalton after dropping a load of pipe or whatever, additives such as ethanol (which freezes at -114C) are added to the fuel in the tank to prevent it waxing.
Figures: http://www.afdc.energy.gov/afd...
paying total attention to the road and not being distracted by the radio, GPS or anything else with flashy buttons and blinkenlights never gets old. And you don't talk to the driver. My bus, I'm God.
arthritis.
clear agar is fairly standard. Chemically identical wherever you find it, in fact.
the universe will die a heat death while you wait for #2.
...repeated attempts to get ANYTHING to grow on a Big Mac have predictably met with failure.