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Caspar David Friedrich is cool as a Sea of Ice. 

Some Ruskie designs that were never made beyond paper. 

The Moskalyov SAM-4 Sigma was designed in 1934 and powered by twin Hispano-Suiza 12Ybr copies(one for each counter-rotating props). Max speed was to be an estimated 900 km/h and have retractable tricycle landing gear. 

Konstantin V. Pelenberg's STOL fighter. This thing was designed in 1943 to be capable of being able to operate on badly damaged airfields in the Great Patriotic War. It was powered by one V-12 engine of unknown type which would rotate the contra-rotating propellers. These propellers could be swivelled downwards 90 degrees during takeoff and landing by a hydraulic actuator. To even out the aircraft in takeoff and landing the wings were of variable geometry. Both the wings and propellers would return to normal in level flight. 

You should just go ahead and create a list of books that are canon. 

Well at least the order said Brass and not Latex.

Whose to say they didn't order those separately? 

Manhattan's Dr. Doom

Also Celestial Giants with Grenades

If the whole world used the 176 liters per person(US standard) then the yearly usage would be about 1/20 of the Amazon's yearly discharge. (I forgot the exact figure and the percent is likely a hell of a lot smaller but not smaller than 1/100)

How effective are nuclear plants as desalination plants?

That's what i was trying to find when I stumbled upon this on google patents.  

Well lucky you that you found this. 

An order for the Manhattan Project.

And to make sure there is more interesting content that 11900 cocks, I'll post some more info from Alex Wellerstein.

Organization of Manhattan

Groves to Oppenheimer on how many bombs they would need to end the war.

Approx. # of Bombs to destroy Soviet cities

Earlier I mentioned ants being a food source. Well Cornell didn't use ants, but they used mealworms to create "C-fu" which I wouldn't be opposed to eating. 

I was expecting a shield for Calvary horses against arrows, spears, or bullets.

That projects looks rather fugly to me. Might be good for Wuhan to help mitigate smog, but is looks so damn bad. 

Doesn't seem that different from the violence towards Sikhs who are mistaken as Muslims. 

Good thing you can tell them apart by their cheeks. 

The Dutch reclamation of land from the oceans seems pretty impressive. 

Interstate Highway System? That seems like a BFD that folks take for granted.

I think huge projects are a good thing, but modern societies seem too short-sighted to really take advantage of them.

The Interstate is taken for granted and probably needs a big renovation in a lot of places. 

Has societies always been obtrusive to megaprojects or is it just a modern phenomena? 

Are huge projects a good thing for a country/society? Looking at the most important pieces of infrastructure in most nations, it seems that megaprojects are extremely important and help countries advance. 

However there is a big risk. However, I am a gamblin' man so I'm not one to pass up on some awesome structures.

What megaprojects are the most impressive? Which proposed megaproject is the coolest? 

The Manhattan Project gets my vote for most impressive. The North American Water and Power Alliance is one that is the most outlandish to me, therefor the coolest. 

It wouldn't be the worst bet on the Internet. But I'm hoping that old Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (or whoever the actual owner of the library was) had a taste in literature and ancient (contemporary?) history.

 

Curious about the seal/sea lion theory. Particularly since I interact with seals every summer. I'm a believer that the ancient and medieval world was more interconnected than we give them credit for. (No, the Lost Tribe of Israel didn't journey to America and hang out with the Cherokee). 

We can hope. 

Nature provides the paper on the pinniped-TB connection here. Polynesian-American contact might have happened on the Peruvian Coast, but I'm not sure about the introduction of TB into the Americas pre-Columbus. 

I would bet 5 Internet Points that they are ancient porno mags.

The most interesting archeological news is that some pre-columbian skeletons in Peru showed signs of TB. The theory is that seals and/or sea lions introduced the disease into the Americas.

So this torsion bars layout does not create much of problems? Does it have any downsides at all?

This is what I'm thinking. Why aren't all torsion bar vehicles in this configuration if it is superior?

Truckfighters are pretty bitchin'. 

Would there be any significant extra stress put on that torsion bar? Is there any non-turreted versions of these vehicles on paper? If so do they retain the feature?

AMX-30 variants seem to keep it.

I've been looking up info on Zoroastrianism lately. It is a quite revolutionary belief system that basically came up with monotheism independently of Judaism & Atenism in the same general area where Hinduism originated. The dualism in Zoroastrianism which pitted good vs. evil was significantly different than the combat/trickster gods of monotheism where a god would do mischief or start a war but wasn't necessarily evil. During the Babylonian Exile, the Jews sorta picked up this idea of having a their own Angra Mainyu which later became Satan. The concept of an underworld filled with punishment for earthly sins also appears in Zoroastrianism which was also picked up by the Abrahamic faiths along with angels and demons being subordinate to God and/or Satan. Zoroastrian teachings also don't really care about spiritualism and rely more on materialism. No one really knows for sure when Zoroaster lived(likely around 1100 BC, but with about +/- 500 years error) if he existed at all or if he is only a mythic figure. 

Anyway, all praise Ahura Mazda! zoom-zoom-zoom

I still wish Nemesis existed.

I never got the memo on how a brown dwarf could cause extinction events every 26 million years without doing some irreversible damage.  

The idea of large planets existing well beyond Neptune is no new idea, it has been around ever since Neptune was discovered. With Voyager 2's recalculation of Neptune's mass, the hunt for an extremely large "Planet X" dwindled away. 

Today, the story of that there might be a "Planet X" and even a "Planet Y" appears again, but this isn't something really out-of-the blue. Space is big, objects that don't emit light are dark, and telescopes only have certain attributes making them good for certain tasks. I have also seen too much claims that one of these planets is Nibiru(which the Sumerians never thought existed as a planet, more of a crossing point) or some other fanciful thinking.

Here is the abstract from the Scientific Paper: Link

This blog/podcast does a good job addressing much of the Planet X myths and realities among other topics. 

Also submit hypothetical planet names. 

Richard Anderson is the hero tanknet deserves. Also, he wrote a very good book. Buy it if you want to know just about everything possible about d-day

I have that book, Forczyk's book on tank warfare, and Yeide's Weapons of the Tankers in my Amazon cart. I just haven't bought them yet. 

We need to attract him to the wehraboo hunting cause on the WoT forum

There is also Michael Kenny(mkenny) and Richard Anderson(RichTO90) who'd have been hunting wehraboos on a bunch of different forums before the glory days of the wehraboo hunts on the WoT forum. 

I really think that Forczyk is Zaloga's sidekick.