According to the article, pressure monitoring is actually one of the functions of this thing. As for the Big Brother aspect, I am willing to bet that your typical neighborhood tire shop owner will have no problem with accidentally overlooking the data update when changing your tires.
The first known issue of helmets to troops was to prevent death from being hit on the head with swords, maces, and other hand-held objects. Thousands of years later, the idea came back to life in order to protect skulls from rocks and debree thrown up by artillery. Grazing shots to the head are actually not all that common as a cause of death.
Rockets for space flight do. Artillery rockets, however, have no need for an on-board oxygen supply as they don't usually leave the atmosphere. I think that compression is at the root of the issue somehow. Don't ramjets rely on existing speed, built up by an auxiliary thruster, to compress air? Can one not call that a compressor of sorts?
The Wankel engine may have failed in commercial automotive production, but it powered aircraft around the world for decades. This went for both civilian and military applications.
The value of military intelligence is sometimes measured in human lives rather than purely in dollars. Occasionally people die to bring it back. Of course, almost any given soldier costs Uncle Sam about a quarter million in life insurance alone, so there is a conversion rate...
No. Only nitroglycerine in its pure form is explosive. In fact, pure nitro is never even used in grenades because it is so very unstable. A nitroglycerine grenade would probably never make it out of the factory, exploding sometime during the assembly process. Dynamite is essentially nitro in an inert matrix -- even sugar and clay were tried during the early days. However, when given in very small doses and rendered non-explosive by dilution with chemically inert materials, it can do really good things for heart patients.
Well, there is a monument in Moscow to two monks, Cyril and Methodius. They may have been canonized in the Russian Orthodox Church, but I am not sure -- pardon me for omitting the "St." if so. The cyrillic alphabet is indeed used by a number of languages, with variations, but is based on writing used in Byzanthium.
Saw-toothed bayonets tend to rip up the flesh more than usually when they come out and the resulting wound is more likely to kill. They were a particular sticking point (no pun indended) during World War I. The effort to make warfare more humane, which followed it, banned both saw-toothed and triangular cross-section bayonets.
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According to the article, pressure monitoring is actually one of the functions of this thing. As for the Big Brother aspect, I am willing to bet that your typical neighborhood tire shop owner will have no problem with accidentally overlooking the data update when changing your tires.
The link to O2 produced a missing page. Here is BBC's blurb on the same subject.
Funny, yet true. There are no actual windows on a ship, nor are there doors -- only "hatches," etc.
The first known issue of helmets to troops was to prevent death from being hit on the head with swords, maces, and other hand-held objects. Thousands of years later, the idea came back to life in order to protect skulls from rocks and debree thrown up by artillery. Grazing shots to the head are actually not all that common as a cause of death.
Best of luck, recruit. Remember, Windex works wonders on both brass and patent leather.
No, that's "scramjet." Doh.
Rockets for space flight do. Artillery rockets, however, have no need for an on-board oxygen supply as they don't usually leave the atmosphere. I think that compression is at the root of the issue somehow. Don't ramjets rely on existing speed, built up by an auxiliary thruster, to compress air? Can one not call that a compressor of sorts?
The Wankel engine may have failed in commercial automotive production, but it powered aircraft around the world for decades. This went for both civilian and military applications.
The value of military intelligence is sometimes measured in human lives rather than purely in dollars. Occasionally people die to bring it back. Of course, almost any given soldier costs Uncle Sam about a quarter million in life insurance alone, so there is a conversion rate...
No. Only nitroglycerine in its pure form is explosive. In fact, pure nitro is never even used in grenades because it is so very unstable. A nitroglycerine grenade would probably never make it out of the factory, exploding sometime during the assembly process. Dynamite is essentially nitro in an inert matrix -- even sugar and clay were tried during the early days. However, when given in very small doses and rendered non-explosive by dilution with chemically inert materials, it can do really good things for heart patients.
A hand-glider and a what? Besides, trying to glide into a medieval castle is a nightmare scenario.
Well, there is a monument in Moscow to two monks, Cyril and Methodius. They may have been canonized in the Russian Orthodox Church, but I am not sure -- pardon me for omitting the "St." if so. The cyrillic alphabet is indeed used by a number of languages, with variations, but is based on writing used in Byzanthium.
That, and the things don't do much for a force that's trying to be mobile.
Saw-toothed bayonets tend to rip up the flesh more than usually when they come out and the resulting wound is more likely to kill. They were a particular sticking point (no pun indended) during World War I. The effort to make warfare more humane, which followed it, banned both saw-toothed and triangular cross-section bayonets.