Ninth Stage

Jane’s reports on a cool idea for accessorized ARs, powered Picatinny (maybe) rails.
A leading member of a NATO Research and Technology study team has laid out future possibilities for the standardisation of small arms, including the use of electrified power rails for accessories and sensors.
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NATO is therefore looking to replace the batteries of individual sensors [...]

Forecast: Sex and Marriage With Robots by 2050
Once the ring is on she’ll morph into a blender.

Dude, that is so ’70s.  The first time I saw the word “Dianetics” was from Stony Point in the sky over the San Fernando Valley.
Skytyper’ site.

“To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state of Earth’s climate today is the optimal climate, the best climate that we could have or ever have had and that we need to take steps to make sure that it doesn’t change,” Griffin said. “I guess I would ask which human [...]

Tonight at 8:04 pm Central Daylight Time will be the blue moon. The term Blue Moon has had many different meanings through the years. It is commonly known as the second full moon in a calendar month.
For more information about the meaning of “Blue Moon” and for the story behind this image of [...]

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I have a few more of these integers, [...]

You’ve probably read that Al Gore’s Belle Meade mansion home uses twice as much electricity in a month as the average home does in a year.  And you’ve probably read that the Gore family paid an average of $1359 for electricity and $1080 for natural gas every month last year.  But have you ever calculated [...]

You’re plan is to scatter tons and tons of dust (page 3) in the upper atmospere, over the arctic, to mitigate global warming. Now every cold related weather problem has become yours. Record snowfall in the northeast? Someone will try to get you to pay for any losses. Deaths? Your [...]

An ad for msVista gone wrong?  Their display probably had more than 520k pixels.

Fireworks for the new year. Concrete penetrating bunker buster video.
Happy New Year!

…(Khilyuk and Chilingar (2003, 2004) - the two researchers from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (USA) conclude that “the theory of currently observed global atmospheric warming as a result of increasing anthropogenic carbon dioxide emission is a myth,” and that it has “proved to [...]

Phalanx type system shoots mortar rounds in flight.
Here.
Via Taxing Tennessee.

I mentioned that I was preparing for Windows Vista by switching to Linux. I have an installation of Ubuntu 6.10 on my main desktop computer but I haven’t transferred my email archive to it yet and I’m still running XP mostly. I also have some software that I use occasionally that requires XP [...]

Reading about Windows Vista encouraged me to install Linux.  So far I like it.

For engineers, the race for a clean-diesel engine that can be sold in all states is resulting in different technologies to get there. DaimlerChrysler and General Motors plan to introduce engines that inject the common industrial additive urea, which is found in urine, into the cylinders during combustion to reduce diesel emissions. The urea will [...]

Or is it getting hotter? Maybe it’s doing both, we call it seasons.
“[Those] who claim that winters were harder when they were boys are quite right… weathermen have no doubt that the world at least for the time being is growing warmer.”
Before you think that this is just another example of the media promoting [...]

Global warming is a train out to flatten your tearful grandchild - unless we do something about the increased energy output of the sun.

Box of truth #29, kevlar helmets. All I can say is even with a kevlar helmet on I still don’t want to be shot in the head with a .357.

I’d mentioned a revolutionary (no pun) internal cumbustion engine. Here’s an 8 second video of a cutaway model demonstration.

Video link.

Jay Manifold has a modest and I think reasonable proposal to fix the controversy over Pluto’s status as a planet and the status of many other celestial objects.
This controversy goes to the heart of the distinction between two great human endeavors: the narrative art and the scientific method.