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    US military news, discussions and history

    Navy Hornets Mock-Dogfight With Malaysian Flankers In South China Sea With Malaysia operating Russian and U.S. made designs alongside one another, including the thrust vectoring Su-30MKM Flanker, U.S. fighter crews love to get a chance to spar with their increasingly close Asian ally. This is...
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    Weirdest food

    :blink: - That's horrible! Cross the border, and get yourself some Swedish Meatballs:D. I really don't like Tofu either. It's not the flavor, since it takes the flavor of whatever it was cooked with, but the consistency that I find weird. o_O Thank goodness I'm a vegetarian:victory:.
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    Weirdest food

    Vegetarian Haggis... YUCK:hitwall:!!! I've also, unfortunatly, eaten Casu Marzu - maggot cheese: Casu marzu is also known as maggot cheese. It’s so fermented that it’s actually beginning to decompose and is so soft that it’s turning to liquid. At this stage it contains live insect larvae...
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    Micro stories - small news bits too small to have their own thread

    GE 3D-Printed a Miniature Jet Engine That Runs at 33,000 RPM Curious about just how far they could take the company’s additive manufacturing technology, engineers at GE Aviation’s Additive Development Center in Cincinnati successfully created a simple jet engine, made entirely from 3D printed...
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    This Is How You Inspect an Exotic Spacecraft Heat Shield When NASA’s Orion crew module re-entered Earth’s atmosphere in 2014 tests, it did so covered in 180 small squares of an advanced heat-shielding material called Avcoat. Now, NASA’s research scientists are inspecting them to find out how...
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    What Are You Listening to Right Now - Round 2

    I hope so, otherwise I've been playfully flirting with a guy all this time:partay:. First :o: RUDE!!! That's our oil. Don't make us send you a strongly worded letter:taz:. Second, of course I Panic Lift! You don't seem to like heavy music, perhaps I can interest you in some Aesthetic Perfection?
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    A Remarkable Direct Image Of A Nearby Super-Jupiter You’re looking at the closest exoplanet ever directly imaged from Earth. To date, astronomers have catalogued nearly 2,000 extrasolar planets. Of these, a precious few have actually been photographed. That red blotch you see above is now...
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    What Are You Listening to Right Now - Round 2

    My Norge sister has good taste in music, why are our two nations separate? We're basically the same in everything we do. Love live the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway.
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    Team USA

    Why Washington Is the Best State for Biking The weather might not always be bike-friendly but that doesn’t stop enthusiastic residents from riding in it. The League of American Bicyclists released its annual scorecard for the most bike-friendly states today and for the eighth year in a row...
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    Slandering Pakistan must be banned

    Slandering anyone (any one, not just Pakistan or Pakistanis) should be banned, and as far as I know, it's already a ban-able offense. What is needed isn't a new policy, it's more strict enforcement of existing ones. Oh, and if people just stop with the slander or offensive behavior in first...
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    Micro stories - small news bits too small to have their own thread

    The White House's Fence Upgrade Looks Straight Out of Game of Thrones From toddlers to truly deranged adults, the White House has seen its share of intruders this year. Now, the Secret Service and the Parks Service are upgrading the fence that so many crazies have scrambled over. And they’re...
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    Micro stories - small news bits too small to have their own thread

    :usflag::usflag::usflag: We're all (mostly) going to die!
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    Micro stories - small news bits too small to have their own thread

    This Is What 15,000 Aircraft Look Like to Satellites in Space The main task of European Space Agency’s Proba-V minisatellite is monitoring vegetation growth on our planet—but it also sees something a little higher in our atmosphere, too: signals from thousands of aircraft. The collected...
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    Top of the Pops -- albums / songs - predominantly 80s

    Yvangelynn? That's about the only atmospheric metal band I like:
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    Top of the Pops -- albums / songs - predominantly 80s

    There's a metal music thread:o:? Oh, and I like your choice in metal. Dark Tranquility - a Swedish Classic (along with In Flames). :yahoo: Black metal, of all kinds (symphonic, blackened death, ...) that's my preferred style.
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    My very, very late introduction

    We had a run in, but that was only because she was deployed, hence my elongated absence from this website. Nothing I've said or will say on this forum is critical or classified. Try spending months on a submarine! You'll be like:taz: after a few minutes.
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    Aircraft carrier that survived atomic blasts lies at bottom of Pacific A former U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that survived a Japanese torpedo strike and was a massive guinea pig for two atomic bomb blasts looks remarkably intact at the bottom of the Pacific, according to federal researchers who...
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    How do we make PDF better?

    I'll agree with this sentiment (on the original content), and to be true I've been slacking since I've largely noticed people don't tend to view anything I post (so I stick mostly in the members section now). We need more mods, we need more civil discussions, we need more original content. A...
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    US Ballistic Missile Defence

    space weapons, earth wars - it's the second link.
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    Micro stories - small news bits too small to have their own thread

    Shooting a Laser at a Planet, But Not To Blow it Up This breathtaking photo shows the intense orange beam of a new 22-watt laser pointed at the planet Saturn. Wait, isn’t this like the shocking scene in Star Wars where the Death Star’s superlaser completely annihilated planet Alderaan...
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