Toxn
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Basically, the best way to 'solve' the ghetto would be to forcibly mix and expose children from that environment to one which is felt to be better suited to civic values. As this both involves forcibly integrating people and consciously erasing culture, it is equally unpalatable no matter what side of the isle you sit on. Nobody wants to hear that the solution is to blow up the ghetto, distribute all of the families in more prosperous areas and then do your best to kill off their own values and ideas in favour of whatever you think is better. -
I like all of this post, although I should caution against dollar-for-dollar comparisons. The above also lines up pretty well with the research we do have, which seems to show that solving complex social problems is something that we simply aren't doing very well right now because of how people work: http://www.unz.com/gnxp/how-your-subcultures-values-are-more-important-than-family-values/
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Colonising Ix will be great for the tech sector, at least.
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Ya and where I live has essentially zero crime once you exclude the centre of town, the industrial area and the place where we pack all the poor, desperate people together in a heap.
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If you're allowed to simply cut out all the bad bits then every country is safe. Also, didn't you just get back from nearly being shot by some idiot who couldn't into basic gun safety?
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On the one hand, fuck Australia. On the other hand, the US constitution is shit. It seems that a lot of people's feelings about the idea of regulation depend on whether you find the idea of bubba or home-invading crims more scary. Given my feelings about the people I share the road with, the idea that they might also be allowed to own anything more dangerous than a plastic spoon is apt to keep me up at night.
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This was presumably taken before they discovered that the plane wouldn't fly unless they made it look like a broken-tailed hunchback.
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Yup. Unless you go for an aluminium one, in which case enjoy your 10 000 maximum units. The best possible material I can think of would be something like a tri-axial glass/carbon weave in epoxy, constructed as a sandwich (core tbd). You could make damn near the whole gun this way. Edit: they also clog nozzles, which is way worse.
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The main issue with injectable reinforced plastics that I've heard about is that they don't play nice with your nozzles. I will happily be corrected on this, however. Per material properties; my main reference is back at the office but you infer the relative properties by comparing chop strand gfrp with weave. Weave is, needless to say, much better for a similar proportion of glass: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiberglass
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Agreed that fibreglass is harder to mould, although I'd quibble about it being an insurmountable problem. Extruding fibre reinforced thermoplastic is, after all, a gigantic pain in the ass on its own account. My take is that plastics get more love primarily because of cost, dimensional stability and ease of manufacture. Material properties are a distant fourth.
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See, I'm not sure that that is the case at all. Your average wood clocks in at 0.7g/cm3, while raw nylon is around 1.1g/cm3. Reinforced plastics are even heavier. No condescension either, I'm just explaining things carefully and not assuming that the audience all has the same material science knowledge as myself.
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The Plateau: Next Big Leaps in Small Arms Tech?
Toxn replied to Alex C.'s topic in Infantry Tools & Tactics
More rail gun malarkey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAs9EHtKfVc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMT97bqaOdM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_30BSXzb4Mo A car full of capacitors don't get you much over the paintball gun you started with, it seems. More DEW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvrQciFL0ig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTLCHKb20zI HAHAHA IT WAS ACTUALLY A HOAX Have a laser instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVrJUbeuG44 -
Big rock... worse rock? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyYLFO3o_rY
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Slings in a nutshell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzDMCVdPwnE
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Unironic appreciation is a dangerous beast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C04brWWdMgw&list=PLFxgk8G3AsHU_-nqrUdNH8wJlujkC870B&index=4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed9g87Rs9qk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-eIuIMUREo
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No, it's less dense*. This doesn't mean shit if you end up having to use so much more of it that you end up overweight anyway. For a gun you want something that is light, heat resistant, has good stiffness, has at least average mechanical properties otherwise, doesn't change shape once formed and is easy to form. Here, plastics are mediocre, bad, bad, good, excellent and excellent. Woods are good, good, good, bad and bad. Edit: fibreglass: great, great, great, great, great, good. I have no clue why more guns don't use fibreglass furniture. * Than metals. Most plastics are significantly more dense than woods.
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Trust the brits to put a loader on one of the few designs where that is actually more complex then having an autoloader...
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How on earth did they manage to make something rougher and heavier than a gun which is composed mainly out of mild steel stampings? I've mentioned this to Sturg, but I have a suspicion that plastic components just aren't any lighter than wood in practice. This is, of course, ignoring the tendency to then also put chunks of aluminium all over the place when modernizing.
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5.56x45 was technically possible in 1900, yo.
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Boo hiss, where will my fantasy korean army get their guns now? Also: thanks
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Now imagining horses grazing upon fields of carbines...
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I wonder how much the internals had to be messed with? In any case, thanks.
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Quick question: could an M1 carbine be successfully chambered for 5.56x45mm? Edit: I promise that this is not for alt-history purposes.
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Who would have thought: the same folks who brought us the Overlord tank (plus propaganda towers, because damn that health regen is good) were actually right on the money when they described the GLA. I, for one, can't wait to see anthrax-spewing tractors make their triumphant debut on the battlefield of tomorrow.
