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    The UK's EU referendum: All you need to know

    You're welcome, love 'Merica. Everything's smaller in Europe. Ok not everything:D.
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    What Are You Listening to Right Now - Round 2

    Gojira - Silvera
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    MoD rethinking futuristic aircraft carrier plans

    It'd have to be nuclear. Remember, the US EMALs system: Could not be retrofitted onto a Nimtiz Class Carrier - which have two A4W nuclear reactors putting out 100MWs of power: That wasn't enough power for an EMALs system and the necessary overhead for emergency power. USS Gerald Ford...
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    Russia threatens Romania and Poland

    The contract for Aegis Ashore in Romania was finalized in 2010: Lockheed Martin received the contract for Aegis Ashore in Romania in 2010, which heavily leveraged the proven shipboard Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system...
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    DRDO developing E-bomb to paralyze Pakistani tactical weapons

    Right, mainly we're using EMSEC to ensure an adversary can't intercept signals that are leaked through unofficial channels, these being anything we didn't intend to have EM leaked through. For instance, when you turn on a radio and start talking, you expect radio waves to travel from point A to...
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    More Sad Remains Of The Soviet Buran Space Shuttle Program Pictures of the Soviet Space Shuttle in its hanger have been making the rounds on the internet recently, but there’s another shuttle out there. Russian photographer Aleksander Markin came across the remains of the original wooden...
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    Whatever

    Thought so, but what key word was being triggered in the article? Here's the article I was attempting to add: NASA Is Sending Bacteria to the Edge of Space to See if They Can Hitchhike to Mars I tried change a few words to less severe versions of themselves, such as "hellish" to "bad", but...
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    Whatever

    @waz does adding banned key words auto-deleted an existing post if they're edited into it? I've tried a few times to post something here: US Space Program - a thread | Page 14 Nothing bad, I save my naughty stuff for other threads. But it's being tripped up by some key word... I don't know...
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    US Space Program - a thread

    NASA Is Sending Bacteria to the Edge of Space to See if They Can Hitchhike to Mars Discovering life on another planet, only to contaminate that world with our own pesky microbes, is one of NASA’s nightmare scenarios. To find out whether single-celled Earthlings can hitchhike to Mars and...
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    US Space Program - a thread

    Bask in the Beautiful Destruction of This Space Junk Collision Test January 1, 1963: This is what happens when a piece of space junk hits a spacecraft in orbit. While gorgeous, the energy flash of a hypervelocity impact packs a serious punch. A projectile launched at 7,600 meters per second...
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    An Autonomous Shuttle Is Driving Public Streets for the First Time This fall, a city in the Netherlands will become the first to allow fully autonomous shuttles regularly on its public roads–in the form of a small bus carting people between two towns. They’re called WEpods, and they’re only...
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    This 17-Ton Magnet Is Now Ready To Study Mysterious Particles Last year, a massive, 17-ton, 52-foot wide electromagnet was successfully shipped from Long Island to Illinois. This week, it hit another milestone: It was successfully chilled to absolute zero temps after 10 years’ inactivity...
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    The Pentagon's Research Arm is Putting Money Into DNA Manufacturing The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is the governmnet division that tries to take cutting-edge technology and turn it into something the military can use. The agency’s latest target? Genetic engineering...
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    Have you ever gotten into a fight?

    Me and some lads got into a bit of a scuffle back in the day: But seriously, yes. I've been in a few fights. These days I let the "Complaint Desk" solve problems for me: And if angry :bunny: counts as a fight, then I might as well be a professional fighter. :partay:
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    US Space Program - a thread

    Perplexing Pluto: New ‘Snakeskin’ Image and More from New Horizons Perplexing Pluto: New ‘Snakeskin’ Image and More from New Horizons | NASA The newest high-resolution images of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons are both dazzling and mystifying, revealing a multitude of previously unseen...
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    Whatever

    Norwegian style. Damn budget cuts. :lol:
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    Paraplegic Man Walks Using Own Legs With Brain Signals Re-Routed to Knees A team of scientists has successfully re-routed the signals from a paraplegic man’s brain to his knees, allowing him to walk using his own legs for the first time in five years. The Guardian reports that researchers...
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    I wish I could give you an extra like... suppose I'l find another one of your posts instead. I'm awaiting the 90,000 feet flight, but a first test is important too. Not quite as exciting though, Photo of Perlan 2's maiden flight courtesy of Airbus Group.
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    Bloodhound SSC: This 1,000 MPH Rocket Is The World's Most Powerful Car The Bloodhound SSC landspeed racer is what happens when the people who build the car that broke the sound barrier try to build a car that beats 1,000 MPH. It’s already the most powerful land vehicle with over 135,000...
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    US Space Program - a thread

    Real Martians Moment: Low Density Supersonic Decelerator NASA’s Ian Clark is the Principal Investigator for the Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) Project; it’s basically an inflatable airbrake designed to help spacecraft descending through a planet’s atmosphere to slow from breakneck...
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