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can you imagine phones in the middle ages?
"with skilled archers achieving even longer shots of 400 yards (365 meters) or more"
English longbow - Wikipedia
Yup, the more metro you get the bigger the pallets outside of stores. There is usually a rush on it with every cold front. After it hits of course.
can you imagine phones in the middle ages?
"with skilled archers achieving even longer shots of 400 yards (365 meters) or more"
English longbow - Wikipedia
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Note on the plate armor: The horse is a better target. Shoot the horse and the armored knight is more vulnerable.
Without ammunition, your gun is just a club. Without arrows, your bow is just a stick with a string.
Ever get a song stuck in your head?
30 pieces of firewood? That gets me through a weekend heating Schloss Nitrocellulose when I get the wood stove fired up.
Thanksgiving going to have the fireplace going and cook giant steak over coals! It's what fireplaces are for!!!
Sirhr
@Terry Cross this is right on as the current physics go. And I am onboard with the current physics!
But the really way out stuff (String religion -- not theory... and the current state of things like wormholes...) make this right on.
That said, I remain committed to the concept that we are not only 'not' alone... but that we are in a universe utterly FULL of cool sentient beings. But that contacting them is more than a little difficult. Especially since the distance that our planetary emanations have made it can't even begin to reach far enough to matter in our solar system... much less the observable universe.
The second most common question I got at NASA was "Are we being visited?" The most-common question was 'how do people go to the bathroom in space??' Which should tell you something.
My answer (both 'official' because I personally believe it) is: "It would be an appallingly boring Universe if we were alone in it. But that the energy budgets involved in interstellar travel do not work, as far as our having being regularly visited by other life forms in the form of UFO's. If another life form wanted to get in touch, then the electromagnetic spectrum was the most likely way it would happen. And since we have barely radiated enough electromagnetic spectrum energy indicating intelligent life from our planet... then the concept that anyone would even be 'interested' in us is somewhat remote."
This is not my concept.... but has been made eminantly clear by Carl Sagan... and was the premise for his book Contact. Which was a really good movie, too!
But... yeah... no aliens dropping into New Hampshire to ass-probe some moose-kissing alcoholic hillbillies.
Then again, maybe I am wrong. But my adherance to physics would indicate that the odds are pretty slim that we are being visited by probint aliens...
Cheers,
Sirhr
But we have galaxy rotations and gravitational lensing that require "dark matter". The same dark matter that the JWST is casting doubt on. We have the EM drive that shouldn't work, but seems to work, leading to more research in that area.
I have had a huge issue with dark matter and dark energy. Just because the math says so doesn't mean it really exists. I have a huge issue when astrophysics casts shade on anyone who asks the question, "is the model wrong." Especially when we know the model is incomplete because quantum science and general relativity fail consistent results for black holes. The fact the model is incomplete is staring them right in the face, but the gatekeepers in science shut them down because it would destroy research careers.
See this guy: https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/ . I think he is on to something. He may not be right, but he is at least challenging the orthodoxy, and with enough credibility to get DARPA funding for research on the EM drive.
There does seem to be a lot of gravity we can't tie out due to "dark matter."
A lot of people know there are problems and they are trying to figure it out.
We knew there were issues like this during graduate and other seminars in the 80s. I sat in a few given by Wheeler when I went to UT.
I read some physics books…. it all went right over my head. But will admit getting tripped up by string theory a couple of generations ago.
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Damn, I needed that Coffee!
Damn, I needed that Coffee!
Don’t need no blasted Roe Vs. Wade do we 
The man who wasn't mentally ill made his point very eloquently, however, the other two just sum up mental illness.
It's pronounced Faguar now.
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Amazing recoil control..........thats a joke. I just don't see it as special with bb gun loads
It was always pronounced that way. Especially if you’ve ever had to work on one of them
Just be quiet then.
Thats impressive as crap.
And he is a kid.
Likely .22 and very light shotgun loads.
Looked like .38 Spc cases ejecting. The kid is ridiculously fast.
I didnt look that close.
Its absolutely awesome.
And high skill.
Powder puff loads or not
This meme is just like the legendary R-46 subway cars on NYC Transit. They were awesome and are the apex of mechanical workmanship. Then they got briefly mothballed to make way for the R-160 series trains, but these got a lot of issues and many of them had to be taken out of service, and the R-46s came back.
2016-2020. And now 2024-2028 LETS GOOOO!
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