SuperComrade

I keep thinking this is an Estonian forum with this colour scheme

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/01/20/firm-blends-ar15-and-ak47-rifles-to-create-new-mk47-mutant.html?ESRC=vet_8mo.se
 

Blasphemy?

I'm not terribly familiar with naval warfare, and obviously this is a TV show, but how successful were the T-class actually? They seem to have suffered pretty heavy losses, but they did bear the brunt of much of the fighting throughout the war for the British, particularly in the Mediterannean, and did sink quite a far amount of shipping

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bNKLUXVBSM

I am quite impressed by Forczyk's versatility. He writes on naval material as well as on army stuff.

Well, unless Uralvagonzavod decided to take up the Morozov tradition of naming tanks with numbers ending with 4

Technically, this one was an Indonesian subsidiary of Malaysian-owned Air Asia

Is it mentioned in DAV? I can't seem to find any reference to it

Has anyone actually published a document or picture of the rear turreted Obyekt 430? I have never seen any mention of it outside of Wargaming material

Needs more flashy CG graphics in order to capture the "Greatest Tank Battles" audience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEnBgg2HoHU

I think if it had entered service in 1940/41 as opposed to 1942, it would have been remembered much better than is the case

Your appendix actually serves as a reserve for gut flora

This Nature article about phage therapy is quite good

http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v22/n1/full/nbt0104-31.html

Or if you can read Russian (lots of pop up ads)

http://www.armourbook.com/bronetechnic/

It is, but there are also advantages in specificity. For example, they would not wipe out gut flora if used for gastrointestinal infections. On the other hand, as you mentioned, accurate diagnosis is crucial.

There are also concerns about the fact that phages can also transfer genes between bacteria, which can have unintended effects.

Incidentally, one of Gerhard Domagk's first patients for Prontosil was dyed permanently pink by the drug (it was developed from a dye), though she survived the infection. She was his daughter.

For more info on phage therapy and its history, this old BBC Horizon is recommended

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqlrSO-bgrY

Sulfa drugs (among the most famous of which was Prontosil) were the first truly effective antibacterial agents, and were widely used in the West in the years preceding World War II, and remained in widespread use in Germany until the end of the war.

Penicillin, discovered by Fleming and made practical by Chain and Florey, was the first antibiotic to be discovered. It replaced sulfa drugs in the second half of World War II among the Allied forces after tremendous problems with mass production were overcome.

Phage therapy (the use of bacteriophage viruses to destroy harmful bacteria) remained popular in the Soviet Union long after the West switched over to sulfa drugs and, later, antibiotics. It is still in use today in the former USSR, though concerns with using an evolving, self-replicating entity in medical treatments has thus far prevented their use in the West.

Discuss them here.


 

There is a story in one of my WW2 plane books where the pilot of a C-47 in the Pacific stuck a BAR or Thompson out of his window and shot down a Zero, or something to that effect

In light of recent events involving Antares and SpaceShip Two...
 

Rocket's Red Glare was a documentary made for TLC in 2000, and according to the site, they claim it is used by NASA for training astronauts. Sadly one of many, many shows that TLC/DC never bothered releasing on DVD in English, so we have to put up with the Gavrilov dubbing on this Russian version

Is that the mechanism at 0:50?

I knew the T-10 had a loader-assist rammer, but not the IS-3 too

Those concepts looks great. I want them in WoT. Those old Soviet archives are giving more and more interesting stuff. 

IS-2U already exists in the game...just not as a Soviet tank

In the long run, I honestly think the Lunokhod program was more influential when it comes to space exploration. Apollo was definitely one of the greatest achievements of mankind. But when it comes to long term impact, the rover technology pioneered by the Soviets has proved more important so far.

STS was an attempt to make space travel more affordable and thus accessible by having a reuseable spacecraft. Unfortunately, at this point, STS didn't prove as economical as hoped, which ultimately led to pressures on NASA to cut on costs and skip steps, which are a lot of the reasons why Challenger and Columbia happened.

Well, for one thing, they were titanium hulled, which is very difficult to build with and also really expensive.

Liquid metal reactors also means they had to be kept above a certain temperature constantly, or the liquid metal would solidify

I will write an article about it tomorrow but anyway here is drawing of the IS-2U.

 

Apparently the original armor scheme suggested would've required replacing the torsion bars with something smaller.

Apparently the Chinese 110 was a project based on IS-2U plans given to them