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You can, but the point of having a railgun is to have high enough speed that explosive is not necessary.

A possible advantage of Railgun projectile is that it is solid, dense and contains no explosives, chemicals or moving parts. This means that it will be least affected by next generation ray-based defenses. If increasing speed gives it similar range to a AshM at a fraction of the cost and...

Though at the end of the day, like everyone else, he has to turn off the PC and go to bed.

On second thought they might have dimmed the lights in those buildings to make the fireworks more enjoyable. Was this during new year?

For some reason the city scape looks better when being selective about lighting and not evey floor of every building is lit. The start of the video gives you a Sci-fi effect.

Evacuated tube transport technologies (ET3):a maximum value global transportation network for passengers and cargo, published in Journal of Modern Transportation, Volume 19, Number 1, March 2011, Page 42-50 Journal homepage: jmt.swjtu.edu.cn...

It's not confucianism that leads to the above, but rather believing that your system is the best in the world and that there is no need to improve on. This can happen to any major powers that allows hubris to set in.

I don't see Chinese as lacking innovation. What I see that is lacking but catching up to the west is a systematic, structured way of releasing that innovative force through improved education/learning technique, training, and redirection into science and other proper areas. I see it more as a...

^^^ Where do you get 200 million from? Can't be more than 20 mil at the max.

Japan never apologised, because the majority of the people that runs Japan are the descendants and relatives of those in the government of Imperial Japan back in WWII. Why would they admit any wrong doing? Dynastic thoughts still permeate through the Japanese political atmosphere and big...

China has come far since she first modernised. There was an anecdote where when China began to open up one foreign engineer was sent to evaluate the prospect of setting up car manufacturing in China. He was shocked to find a 1890 era Japan made milling machine still working. Military sector is...

type 056 Corvette:

For all we know the explosive could be remotely detonated. No one knows and it pleases some officials.

But he doesn't fly through the air at Mach 2+. :P 20 years time, could really be hard to predict.

As with alot of other things this is an area where there is more intra-ethnic than inter-ethnic variations.

I was talking about Judo, not Jujitsu. They added more margin of safety, removed certain dangerous holds and locks, removed armed combat, and put more emphasis on throws than strikes.[COLOR="Silver"]

Heard that Judo is a watered down version of Jujitsu adapted for sport and therefore loses some of the more lethal/potent moves.( I'm not disrespecting the art btw)