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And for the luftwaffe bombers & fighters, what was the combat radius for them? wikipedia seems to only list the max range, which is misleaing (doesn't include payload or Time-over-target). (It would've helped if they built the Heinkel 177 as a conventional heavy bomber rather than an exotic fre...

For those of you playing at home, 1.0.0 is out. Also, this one is just straight cheating: http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/2721/cheating.png :P You set the config file so that missions never fail, so you only had to purchase the necessary equipment, recruit astronauts and fly to the moon without ...

weemadando wrote:That RHIB had a M134 mounted on it.

THIS MOVIE HAS NO CREDIBILITY.

Blame Kanastrous!

Please provide evidence of this. Describe the kinetic energy of a lead sling stone (or its momentum) as compared with the kinetic energy (or momentum) of a stone. You'll see that they're the same. The lead might have significantly better aerodynamic qualities, which could extend its range, b Intuit...

Here's a Wikipedia list of Lost Cities . It should at least be a good starting point for your research, and its broken down geographically. It includes "buried cities", the location of which is nonetheless known, and cities which have already been found some time ago, for example Hattusa ...

Ossus, you confused the SA with the SS and you vastly underestimated the value of slingers. Also, the range of a thrown speer is longer than 10 or twenty meters. Hmm. Basically he just said that composite bows (compound bow is a modern invention) and English long bows were superior to slings, which...

The abstract doesn't mention it, but I wonder if there were any controls for overall fluid or even calorie intake. I'd be hesitant to assign causality to the diet soda intake alone without knowing more about tendencies to consume in general; are diet sodas really the causing weight-gain, or is a la...

28,800. But then I only clicked the ones for words I knew the definitions of, not the ones where I thought I knew, or even had to consider about, going with the spirit of the survey. Probably would have been higher if I'd put the maybes in there. Oh well, better than I'd thought I'd get. Using the ...

It takes a lot of gall to just ignore a lot of the history and then go with "They might have helped somewhere along the line" when in fact the examples of surpressing experiments etc. are pretty massive. For example, the prohibition on disecting corpses. Or the emphasis on not reading any...

And do you believe their assesment that slings aren't lethal? A lot of armies used them for a long time. I doubt they would if they were really that useless. Slings are definitely potentially lethal, but much less so than bows or throwing spears. I don't know how one could conclude that slings are ...

Historians talk about ancient science - but they always qualify the term. The term "natural philosophy" is far more appropriate for periods before the 18th century, and especially for antiquity. Moreover, I've yet to see any indication of a thriving culture of natural philosophy in the Ro...

This is a horrifying situation & I hope gov't agencies throughout Europe & the US keep an eye out to prevent copycats from striking. Unfortunately, the extremist in this case had the intellect necessary to plan & pull of such a devastating attack. He may have let himself get taken alive...

I'm not objecting to semantic issues. I'm objecting to (a) the notion that science progresses inevitably unless there are specific factors that inhibit that progress, (b) the notion that there was significant scientific development during the centuries prior to the dominance of the Church, and (c) ...

Just to be sure - even if the Germans were only been trying to cut off supplies to the Russians, instead of trying to capture them - they'd never be able to attack Baku via bombing runs from where they managed to get to? Their bombers could reach Baku, but Sea Skimmer's point was that they did not ...

Moscow offered a way better chance for the Germans to achieve something. First by being closer to the border it was a much more realistic target. As an ecomomic target Moscow was an extremely important railway hub. Practically no Moscow way fewer Lend-Lease, so even as an economic target it is as v...

But as has been said, the battleships were already almost entirely gone by the end of the 1940s anyway How many US ships were left? The Royal Navy only had 5 in 1950 (Four KGV's and a Vanguard), and I'm pretty sure the French had Richeliue, Jean Bart, and Lorraine. Tennessee (2), Colorado (3), Nort...

That was a great game. It was like a WW2 sim in modern times, given that the gun was the most useful weapon and missiles were too expensive / missed too often :) To me it was more like "Wing Commander on Eaaaarth". Very unrealistic flight model, arcade style "avionics" and radar...

Now a battleship is remarkably resistant to a nuke, but only to the level that one need to land the 20 kt device in half a kilometer radius around a battleship for achieving an instant kill. Now this not a feat with even WWII gun from 20-30 km using dumb WWII era shells, and by 1953 the US had 280 ...

Not in a battle, but on a literary crit side. The two civilisations share a lot in common, but there are some key differences in how they were written. I don't think there's too much in common. The Hegemony is not even close to a true post-scarcity Utopia, which the Culture is. The Hegemony has a f...

How long before he starts pitching the comical "Battle Carrier" concepts? Battleships lost their position as the center of the Fleet when Naval Aviation grew to maturity in the 40s. The guided missile and HEAT warhead put the final nails in the coffin by totally undermining naval artiller...

I suppose it's worth noting that Catholicism in the Middle Ages inhereted a fair amount of intellectual baggage from earlier periods. Though perhaps not the best source on the subject, Bertrand Russell contended that the preeminence of Platonic and, particularly Aristolelian philosophy did enormous...

This information is limited since it mostly comes from TV programs on the history channel and what little I recall from grade school so take it with a bit of salt. But as far as I recall, during the middle ages the church promoted it's own brand of science named scholastics. The idea was that you t...

They've been catching up in sensor performance, too. Their K5 is apparently quite the performer. I just hope Ricoh treats them better than Hoya did. That's because they switched back a Sony designed sensor after the K-7. The Samsung sensor used in K20D and K-7 was pretty noisy compared to the lates...

In general, I would say because people expect more realism from their sci-fi, so hand held lasers are not as 'believable'... While that may be true, the real reason is probably that projectile weapons are cooler in a grimdark way that has been popular during the last ten years, whereas 'pew pew' we...

The US supplied Stingers after the outbreak of war, as well as a few other items and satellite photos. The things are kind of simple when used without IFF, like anti tank missiles the real training is in identifying targets. insert battery, unfold sight and then its just IIRC two buttons, one to un...