Archive for the ‘defense’ Category
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Thanks to Google Maps, we know that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has an awesome swimming pool, complete with a bitchin' water slide:
(click to see it on Google Maps)
But Google Maps also shows us the cost of excess.
(click to see it on Google Maps)
This is a very small sampling of ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
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Atlanta
The Atlanta trip was a lot of fun. We stayed in a really nice rental house ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
This week I met someone who recently got to watch the Navy's latest railgun test firing in person.
The flames are caused purely by friction with the air, not by any kind of explosive propellant. Yikes.
The projectile was traveling at 5,600 miles per hour (Mach 7). By contrast, a ...
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