This 2 minutes to load bullshit has GOT to stop. A decently trained musketeer can reload and fire in 15 seconds. They used a paper cartridge, with the powder, wad, and ball wrapped inside, a solder would take the cartridge, rip the end off with his teeth, pour a little powder into the pan, drop the rest into the barrel, and ram it home with the rod. at this point, it was raise, cock and fire. Line formation really meant aiming was not that important. Now, a Pennsylvania Rifle could take 30 seconds to a minute to reload, because the ball fit much tighter, making reloading a more difficult process, but the major portion of the armed forces in the revolution would have been equipped with standard muskets, not rifles, which, by virtue of their much greater range, where limited to what amounted to the first snipers.
I don't need a machine gun to keep people from stealing my TV. Locks, walls, and intelligence mostly does that. I need the machine gun because it is fun to shoot at rotten pumpkins and cinder blocks out at the gun range.
I somehow don't feel bettered as a member of society immediately knowing when celebrities show their crotches to children or whatever other 'scandal' and other drivel that the news outlets spew, pretending its relevant. Also, the lightning speed at which we lynch our public officials when they make some stupid remark is depressing, the speed of the internet has removed any opportunity for public persons to correct their mistakes before they burn their careers to the ground. Everyone says stupid things, its just that most of us are not under a twitter microscope 24/7.
I remember listening to an interview with someone who was a presidential staffer back in the 80's and he was talking about how the president had said something stupid, and they where all "well, we have a couple days to run damage control on this, because the papers have already run, and the next edition won't be out for a few days". Compared to today, where if any politician says anything half witted, its all over twitter and the rest of the internet in a matter of minutes. A lot of things have changed, and not all of them for the better. We now hold our elected officials to a hilariously high standard, because there is literally no time between the moment they make a mistake, and the moment they are judged for it. The fact of the mater is, they are human, and they fuck up just as much as we do, the only difference is we are watching their every move.
Give it a try, see if the cops don't stop you. Hell, there was a guy here who had one of those Katana hilted umbrellas, and they spent half the day searching the town and school for the supposed 'swordsman'.
I think he's gonna need a video. I'm not saying you can't, because people do some impressive shit, but sub MOA at those ranges with a semi-auto is a spectacular feat, and we gun enthusiasts would love to see it.
http://www.longrangehunting.co...
read that. Its not an AR-15 (which would be far harder to MOA at a mile) but the guy was putting 6 out of 7.223 cal rounds on a 8" by 12" target at a mile.
Grazing sheep and goats is very damaging. Cows on the other hand, not so much. Sheep and goats will graze down to the root bulb, pull it up, and eat it before moving on. Cows don't do this, they will graze down to the ground, but generally leave the root ball intact. The major portion of the damage done to the southwest was the product of sheep and goats. (I know this because I live where the Chihuahuan desert moved north 100 miles during the wool and mohair era of west Texas) Now, cows CAN damage land, but only if kept on it to the point where they are starving to death anyways, at which point they will probably consume the root bulbs of the grass, but if your to that point, you have another problem entirely.
All I had was a couple rocks, a decent stick, and some string If I was lucky. Oh, and an extension cord with the female end cut off. You can guess how THAT ended.
Precisely. And on top of that, the few "X wing" parts that are custom made for the set can easily be used for any number of things, especially if you want to build any sort of giant robot of space ship. (which is what legos are for right?)
Thats pretty much what I had. I think most of my initial legos came from McDonalds, back when happy meal toys where small lego sets. Then I got a little space flier thing for christmas, and after that I got a set that made a front end loader. (my sister got legos those years also) After that it was a space shuttle kit, and an ice planet mining rig kit, and they where all in a bucket together, and thats how you played legos. Kit bash them into giant robots, boats, space ships, anything, It sort of depended on what movie we had seen recently (Robot Jox resulted in a LOT of giant robots piloted by a minifig).
my space shuttle became SO many giant mechs and other space ships, and a Y wing, and god only knows what else. I didn't have a huge amount of legos, so you had to get creative with those parts.
already see how I could use that piece as the cockpit for a giant robot, and on a sufficiently large build it could be part of a giant mech's jetpack. Sure, its the front of a plane, but if you get novel with it, it can be bunches of "Not exactly a plane"
You are clearly doing it wrong. You build the set, then you tear it apart and build the other projects on the back of the box that don't have instructions, then you tear it apart and build a Mech, then you tear it apart and build a space ship, then you tear it apart, throw it in with your other legos, stir, and then build some random thing. Then you do it again.
probably, but at the same time, the low gravity does allow for the fallen ring system to have built up into a mountain, instead of pounding a long valley around the equator in the form of impact craters.
No its not, the article talks about the idea that a collision with another body both caused the inclined orbit of Lapetus, and created enough ejected materials to form a unstable ring system that fell back to the surface, causing the fancy walnut shaped moon we all know and love. The article is more about how they gathered and interpreted the data that re-enforces this hypothesis. If saturn where solid, I'm sure it would have a similar mountain range, or at least an equatorial band of impact craters from parts of its ring system that have fallen over the millennia.
No they don't. You've never heard the rearm "Anchor Baby"? if you are born on American soil, you are a citizen, and its a major problem because many women try to enter the US illegally just in time to give birth here, because the government won't deport them if their child is a citizen. Some estimates run as high as 40,000 births per year are attributed to this. Of course, other nations have differing policies, but I'm speaking about the US, which is in following the context of this article.
The fun part of these is because they travel so fast, when they finally hit something strong enough, they convert all their kinetic energy into thermal energy via compression, and then explode into a white hot mass of flying molten metal that looks pretty much like an explosion. Its pretty much the next best thing to having a kinetic bombardment satellite.
The article explains what the major advantages are. Short version, is:
1. The projectiles are inert blocks of metal by necessity of their design, and yet they strike with enough force to cause incredible destruction on impact. (kinetic energy released as mechanical failure of structure, turning into an explosion) which leads to,
2. Inert projectiles are safer to transport for the military. (no one has to sleep on a ship full of explosives)
3. They projectiles are far cheeper to manufacture. (its a block of metal and a sabot, vs the complex things that go into a detonatable round that can be fired a long distance)
4. The range. 100 mile range on these things means they can engage targets without risking the ship itself as much, which is always a plus in combat.
5. One guy can operate it. If you ever watch any footage of large naval guns being fired, it tends to be a multi-person operation to load, fire, and work the gun. Less manpower devoted to a single operation is always helpful.
I suspect it is essentially acting like a giant fire piston. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]. Of course, because its so small and moving so slow, the piston has a closed end, but with the railgun, the projectile is moving so quickly that it can simply compress the air ahead of it in the barrel against the other air in the barrel fast enough to cause it to ignite.
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This 2 minutes to load bullshit has GOT to stop. A decently trained musketeer can reload and fire in 15 seconds. They used a paper cartridge, with the powder, wad, and ball wrapped inside, a solder would take the cartridge, rip the end off with his teeth, pour a little powder into the pan, drop the rest into the barrel, and ram it home with the rod. at this point, it was raise, cock and fire. Line formation really meant aiming was not that important. Now, a Pennsylvania Rifle could take 30 seconds to a minute to reload, because the ball fit much tighter, making reloading a more difficult process, but the major portion of the armed forces in the revolution would have been equipped with standard muskets, not rifles, which, by virtue of their much greater range, where limited to what amounted to the first snipers.
I don't need a machine gun to keep people from stealing my TV. Locks, walls, and intelligence mostly does that. I need the machine gun because it is fun to shoot at rotten pumpkins and cinder blocks out at the gun range.
I somehow don't feel bettered as a member of society immediately knowing when celebrities show their crotches to children or whatever other 'scandal' and other drivel that the news outlets spew, pretending its relevant. Also, the lightning speed at which we lynch our public officials when they make some stupid remark is depressing, the speed of the internet has removed any opportunity for public persons to correct their mistakes before they burn their careers to the ground. Everyone says stupid things, its just that most of us are not under a twitter microscope 24/7.
I remember listening to an interview with someone who was a presidential staffer back in the 80's and he was talking about how the president had said something stupid, and they where all "well, we have a couple days to run damage control on this, because the papers have already run, and the next edition won't be out for a few days". Compared to today, where if any politician says anything half witted, its all over twitter and the rest of the internet in a matter of minutes. A lot of things have changed, and not all of them for the better. We now hold our elected officials to a hilariously high standard, because there is literally no time between the moment they make a mistake, and the moment they are judged for it. The fact of the mater is, they are human, and they fuck up just as much as we do, the only difference is we are watching their every move.
Give it a try, see if the cops don't stop you. Hell, there was a guy here who had one of those Katana hilted umbrellas, and they spent half the day searching the town and school for the supposed 'swordsman'.
Yeah, but the crossbow is cumbersome to conceal inside my waistband.
I think he's gonna need a video. I'm not saying you can't, because people do some impressive shit, but sub MOA at those ranges with a semi-auto is a spectacular feat, and we gun enthusiasts would love to see it.
http://www.longrangehunting.co... read that. Its not an AR-15 (which would be far harder to MOA at a mile) but the guy was putting 6 out of 7 .223 cal rounds on a 8" by 12" target at a mile.
Grazing sheep and goats is very damaging. Cows on the other hand, not so much. Sheep and goats will graze down to the root bulb, pull it up, and eat it before moving on. Cows don't do this, they will graze down to the ground, but generally leave the root ball intact. The major portion of the damage done to the southwest was the product of sheep and goats. (I know this because I live where the Chihuahuan desert moved north 100 miles during the wool and mohair era of west Texas) Now, cows CAN damage land, but only if kept on it to the point where they are starving to death anyways, at which point they will probably consume the root bulbs of the grass, but if your to that point, you have another problem entirely.
All I had was a couple rocks, a decent stick, and some string If I was lucky. Oh, and an extension cord with the female end cut off. You can guess how THAT ended.
Precisely. And on top of that, the few "X wing" parts that are custom made for the set can easily be used for any number of things, especially if you want to build any sort of giant robot of space ship. (which is what legos are for right?)
Thats pretty much what I had. I think most of my initial legos came from McDonalds, back when happy meal toys where small lego sets. Then I got a little space flier thing for christmas, and after that I got a set that made a front end loader. (my sister got legos those years also) After that it was a space shuttle kit, and an ice planet mining rig kit, and they where all in a bucket together, and thats how you played legos. Kit bash them into giant robots, boats, space ships, anything, It sort of depended on what movie we had seen recently (Robot Jox resulted in a LOT of giant robots piloted by a minifig).
my space shuttle became SO many giant mechs and other space ships, and a Y wing, and god only knows what else. I didn't have a huge amount of legos, so you had to get creative with those parts.
besides, the castle shaped pieces work great as filler when building giant robots and death stars.
already see how I could use that piece as the cockpit for a giant robot, and on a sufficiently large build it could be part of a giant mech's jetpack. Sure, its the front of a plane, but if you get novel with it, it can be bunches of "Not exactly a plane"
You are clearly doing it wrong. You build the set, then you tear it apart and build the other projects on the back of the box that don't have instructions, then you tear it apart and build a Mech, then you tear it apart and build a space ship, then you tear it apart, throw it in with your other legos, stir, and then build some random thing. Then you do it again.
probably, but at the same time, the low gravity does allow for the fallen ring system to have built up into a mountain, instead of pounding a long valley around the equator in the form of impact craters.
No its not, the article talks about the idea that a collision with another body both caused the inclined orbit of Lapetus, and created enough ejected materials to form a unstable ring system that fell back to the surface, causing the fancy walnut shaped moon we all know and love. The article is more about how they gathered and interpreted the data that re-enforces this hypothesis. If saturn where solid, I'm sure it would have a similar mountain range, or at least an equatorial band of impact craters from parts of its ring system that have fallen over the millennia.
No they don't. You've never heard the rearm "Anchor Baby"? if you are born on American soil, you are a citizen, and its a major problem because many women try to enter the US illegally just in time to give birth here, because the government won't deport them if their child is a citizen. Some estimates run as high as 40,000 births per year are attributed to this. Of course, other nations have differing policies, but I'm speaking about the US, which is in following the context of this article.
Well fuck you to. No one should be able to be held accountable for crimes that precede their birth.
Projectile punches through the flames as it exits the barrel and the pressure ahead of it drops? heck, i'm just guessing anyways.
More than one. Underground.
The fun part of these is because they travel so fast, when they finally hit something strong enough, they convert all their kinetic energy into thermal energy via compression, and then explode into a white hot mass of flying molten metal that looks pretty much like an explosion. Its pretty much the next best thing to having a kinetic bombardment satellite.
The article explains what the major advantages are. Short version, is:
1. The projectiles are inert blocks of metal by necessity of their design, and yet they strike with enough force to cause incredible destruction on impact. (kinetic energy released as mechanical failure of structure, turning into an explosion) which leads to,
2. Inert projectiles are safer to transport for the military. (no one has to sleep on a ship full of explosives)
3. They projectiles are far cheeper to manufacture. (its a block of metal and a sabot, vs the complex things that go into a detonatable round that can be fired a long distance)
4. The range. 100 mile range on these things means they can engage targets without risking the ship itself as much, which is always a plus in combat.
5. One guy can operate it. If you ever watch any footage of large naval guns being fired, it tends to be a multi-person operation to load, fire, and work the gun. Less manpower devoted to a single operation is always helpful.
I suspect it is essentially acting like a giant fire piston. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]. Of course, because its so small and moving so slow, the piston has a closed end, but with the railgun, the projectile is moving so quickly that it can simply compress the air ahead of it in the barrel against the other air in the barrel fast enough to cause it to ignite.