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¡La mejor historia de la mañana!
(via tmblg)
Hoy se cumplen 64 años de Hiroshima y la pregunta que subyace sigue siendo: ¿la invención de la bomba atómica ha hecho de la civilización humana algo más inestable, o menos?
“La libanesa Saydeth Hajjar es la campeona del Magnum Shooting Club 2008.”
Qué cara de mujer peligrosa, cruel, resabiada, eficaz en el arte del intercambio balístico en sus manifestaciones reales y metafóricas. Instant turn-on.
Via Nacheras.
Random Wikipedia facts: Leonard v. Pepsico, Inc. »
“Leonard v. Pepsico, Inc., more widely known as the Pepsi Points Case, is a famous case tried in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1999, in which the plaintiff, John Leonard, sued PepsiCo, Inc. in an effort to enforce an “offer” to redeem 7,000,000 Pepsi Points for a AV-8 Harrier II jump jet, which Pepsi had shown in a portion of a televised commercial which was intended to be humourous.
The plaintiff did not actually collect 7,000,000 Pepsi Points, but instead sent a certified check for $700,008.50 as permitted by the contest rules. Leonard had 15 existing points, paid $0.10 a point for the remaining 6,999,985 points and a $10 shipping and handling fee.”
Sadly, Leonard didn’t get away with it.
Este aparato de belleza futurista es el giróscopo láser de un misil balístico Peacekeeper. La mayoría de los misiles nucleares avanzados de las últimas dos décadas o así llevan un juego redundante de bolitas como esta, cuya increíble precisión (funcionan en el vacío espacial y debajo del agua) tiene como objetivo guiar el petardazo al lugar correcto.
La foto forma parte de esta ominosa galería de retratos de armas de destrucción masiva, cuya visita recomiendo encarecidamente. Me fascina la luz mortecina y aséptica de instalación gubernamental que ilumina a los sujetos. Parecen casi apesadumbrados, como diciendo “yo sólo trabajo aquí” desde un punto impreciso entre el retrato de cine negro y un catálogo de diseño industrial.
El fotógrafo, Martin Miller, tiene unas cuantas galerías espectaculares que merece la pena ver (si te estimulan esta clase de cosas). También podéis leer más detalles sobre el funcionamiento del giróscopo láser, que conceptualmente no es tan complejo como parece, pero cuyo proceso de fabricación sigue siendo “highly classified”.
Random Wikipedia facts: Combat Shotgun »
“The limited ammunition capacity is one of the primary downsides of the combat shotgun. While box magazines are available in some models, the tubular magazine is still dominant.
This limits capacities; the current US pump shotgun issued, the Mossberg 590A1, has a 5 or 8 shot capacity depending on barrel length. However, the tubular magazine does allow easy “topping off” (a tube-fed pump shotgun can be kept shouldered and aimed at a target and ready to fire while being loaded), so training emphasizes the need to load the magazine to full capacity whenever the opportunity presents itself.
A common doctrine is “shoot one, load one”: load a shell immediately after every shot (when this does not jeopardize the operator’s safety), to ensure that the shotgun is fully loaded at all times; this ensures that the operator has a full magazine at his/her disposal in case of emergencies when he/she may not be able to reload in between shots.”
Point taken.
“VRD was initially developed for military use. Such devices are currently in use with several military units, such as the U.S. Army’s Stryker Brigade. The commander of a Stryker armored vehicle can view its onboard battlefield computer with a helmet-mounted daylight-readable display. So, the commander can observe the surroundings, drive the Stryker, choose the best path, and share tactical information.”
Pratt & Whitney F119 thrust vectoring turbofan engine, developed for the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor
Me estoy pasando con Xplanes, pero ¿cómo NO reblogear esta pasada? Venga, echadle un ojo a esto otro.
To experience a J58 in full burner close up and personal is hard to describe. Picture a gigantic blow torch, 40 inches in diameter, putting out a blue-yellow-orange flame over 50 feet long. Imagine standing 30 feet from this, feeling the vibration and heat. You wear both foam plugs and earmuffs. Your ears still ring afterward, because the sound is conducted through your body. The back half of the engine transforms from dull gray to bright orange, seemingly transparent. The flame has little three-dimensional diamond shaped shock patterns about every two feet. I lost count at 13. It is both frightening and beautiful, an amazing demonstration of perfectly controlled power. And to think - this was done with 1950s technology.
Two J58s powered the SR-71 Blackbird. Individually, they have more horsepower than the Queen Mary. On a typical flight at Mach 3.2 and 80,000 feet, two engines would burn in excess of 100,000 pounds of fuel in a little over one hour.
* orgasmo *
“Strategic Air Command maintenance mechanic, having slid into the barrel of a bomber’s jet engine with the help of his partner..” (1951)
rabbyte via bellechoses via suicideblonde via somehowsomeway via . - .
Ahora ya sabéis de dónde ha sacado Daft Punk su “concepto estético”.
SR-71 with flight crew, Dryden Flight Research Centre, 1991I want a suit like that. Especially the shoes!
Obama’s new limo - ugly but it can fend off asteroids.
Ayer mientras lo veía me preguntaba qué secretos escondía el cochecito. Creo que lo que más me ha llamado la atención es que lleve un depósito con la sangre del Presidente por si hay que hacer una transfusión de emergencia. Cómo viven estos negratas de hoy.
