Futuristic Railgun Weapon Sets US Navy Record

This is not a video game.

The U.S. Navy shattered its record for firing velocity today when it demonstrated the force of the electromagnetic railgun during at test exhibition in Dahlgren, Va. The futuristic weapon fired at a phenomenal 33-megajoules, more than tripling the Navy's previous record set in 2008.

What on earth is a railgun, you might ask?

Firing at more than two to three times the velocity of a conventional weapon, the railgun employs an electromagnetic current to "accelerate a nonexplosive bullet at several times the speed of sound." Shots fired by the weapon can destroy a target more than a 100 miles away with minutes.

Although electromagnetic weaponry has actually been around since 1901, innovations on the technology continue to excite military aficionados. The Navy has spent more than $200 million in developing the railgun since 2005, and officials expect the weapon to be fully functional on U.S. ship decks by 2025. By that point, engineers expect the weapon to have a 200-mile-plus range.


Of course, how could anything less than a video do the railgun justice. Check out this clip of the futuristic weapon in action:

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QPR 1-3 Watford

Well, it had to happen sometime I suppose, as Watford brought QPR's superb unbeaten run to an abrupt end, in front of the dreaded live TV cameras at Loftus Road.

Well, for various reason's, the gang were not at full strength this evening with Jo, PK and Jenson sadly missing from the proceedings, but in hindsight, it probably wasn't a bad thing on tonight's showing. There have been many changes at QPR over the past few years, but one thing that hasn't changed, is Rangers failure to perform in front of the live cameras...

Rangers started the game well enough and the chances were coming - Mackie dragged a shot just wide and Helguson saw an effort superbly tipped over the bar by the Watford keeper, Loach. But from the resulting corner, Clint Hill's goalbound header was clearly palmed away by the hand of John Eustace. Referee, Darren Deadman amazingly waved the appeal away to the complete disbelief of just about every R's fan, including those watching on TV.

Another penalty appeal was again waved away, perhaps correctly this time if I am honest, as Helguson went down under a challenge from the big lump that is Andrew Taylor in the Watford back line. But on 26 minutes, the visitors were in front, when a deflected cross found the impressive, Danny Graham who made no mistake from 8 yards out.

Four minutes later, Watford doubled their lead in bizarre fashion - when a hopeful cross by Mutch was missed by Taylor and went straight in to completely stun the home crowd. It seemed to shock the QPR players too who I must say, went to pieces and the Hornets could have certainly extended their lead.

Half time came with no real complaints, despite the blatant penalty that another completely incompetant referee waved away. But seeing as the R's have pulled themselves out of similar positions before, Lee confidently marched down to Stan James and had a couple of punts on a 2-2 draw and a 3-2 Rangers win. Sadly, the betting slip was soon screwed up and on the floor of the Loftus Road Upper Stand as Watford went 3 ahead, three minutes after the break - but as impressive as he was/is, Danny Graham was clearly offside as he recieved the ball and fired past Paddy Kenny.



It was game over really now and despite a late consolation from Tommy Smith, the R's never really had any answers...

QPR: Kenny, Hill, Derry, Taarabt (Clarke 59), Helguson (Hulse 70), Faurlin (Orr 59), Mackie, Gorkss, Walker, Connolly, Smith. Subs: Cerny, Hall, Rowlands, Ephraim.

Lofty's Man of the Match - eventually, unanimous amongst the gang - but Lee opted for Kyle Walker and California Hoop, Jamie Mackie. It wasn't until Sam highlighted her choice of PADDY KENNY, that we all sat back and had a think and wholeheartedly agreed. This was also the choice from myself and PK. Although beaten 3 times, he couldn't have done much with either of them, but the R's stopper certainly kept the score down with several fine saves, including 3 one on ones.



Well, I think I can summarise this one very easily, this was a classic, QPR, TV Performance. You have no doubt, like myself, been raving about the R's to non QPR supporting footy friends at work etc and simply revelled in the glory of being top of the league and unbeaten - you convince these people to watch the game on BBC instead of Eastenders etc and they put in a performance like that, live to the nation. I don't want to go on about another inept referee and take too much away from Watford as they deserved their 3 points tonight.

So, the run is over, let's not be negative, let's look forward to starting a new one...

COME ON You R'ssssssssssss!!!

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Dofollow Be my friend ... Books

Today

change daily entries of this blog, on the other that I think will benefit us all. It is simply inform other bloggers about the benefits of removing the labels "no follow" in their respective blogs.

is a feature that comes preconfigured on blogs does not take into account certain links (backlinks). This limits the number of references that Google takes to award a position in your browser and to assign a Page Rank.

words, labels should be removed "no follow" on our blogs so that Google accounted for not only links to other websites (banners, blogrolls, favicons, etc) but also the user comments.

Each time a user signs a comment on the blog with your name, it creates a link to his blog that Google will take into account in their statistics. A greater number of links are best considered our blogs and get more benefits. This kind of links or backlinks are not taken into account if we eliminate the "no follow" to our blogs.

I personally on this blog from the beginning I joined this initiative and removed these tags, as made clear in the footer or footer of the blog. Also added the icon for this campaign to leave no doubt about it: "You comets, I follow you." Here you have buttons to give this initiative in your blogs.

If you want to know how to remove the labels "no follow" your HTML code blog, Rosa Showcase fully explain. See this LINK .

If you want to inform you first hand about the "Dofollow" I leave these two links so visit it:

- Blogs with Ñ.

- Directory blogs without "no follow" .

"had some knowledge about this? It is possible that yes, even you who are already pointed to it, but it never hurts make an entry about it because after all, we all benefit.

So "Be dofollow, my friend."

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"Choose Your Own Adventure"

This collection of books made me spend hours in my childhood with my nose glued to your pages. The good thing is that they could read over and over again, and then the odd more ... and history was never the same. Always changing.

It was about books in which, after reading a few pages, offered several ways to start building or, as the title indicates well, choosing your own adventure.

When the hero was about to happen any event, footnotes appear you options to move forward or backward depending on how you thought it was going to be better off:

If you want to enter Haunted Castle at night, turn to page 30;

If you prefer a night out and attempting to start the next day, turn to page 45;

If you find around and go home, continued on page 51.

Whenever

chose an option thought was the right one, but after reading the next page I realized the error, and the hero could end up dead, haunted, or something much worse. Actually these are the few books for kids in which the hero terrible things happen. I remember one called " The cave of time" in which more than varying the choices made, always ended up dead: I ate a dinosaur, I froze in the ice age, I ran, I burned a fire in the Middle Ages ... and even ended up dying once trampled by a horse. What a trauma for a kid of my age, right? Well, no ... the kids really is not traumatized as well as psychologists would have us believe.

course, I always, from my earliest childhood I have been a cheat in all games (what can we do ... cheating and piracy are my two weaknesses.) If you cheated in front of people in other games, imagine it with these books that no one saw me: When there was a crucial decision, put your finger on that page and if I did not like the decision he had taken, returned back and take reading by choosing another option. It sometimes took me back several decision-making behind, so that sometimes ended with all the fingers dialing different pages of the book and I was no longer free to continue reading. Would have seen me red-handed, lol.

I photographed the last three books that remain forgotten on a shelf in the house of my parents. The rest of them that I had (about 15 or so) have lost one of those mysteries that no one will ever succeed in resolving, or if ... (When my mother was tired of cleaning dust off my old room, give my stuff to the neighbors to avoid this torture ...)

All these books were also adventures were told in second person for the reader to mess further into history and it was really to take the decisions. I loved it because I made it and not someone else the only star of these books.

And now finally, I propose an end to this entry in the style of the books of "Choose Your Own Adventure "

"Have you finished reading this post that more or less reminded you of your childhood. I may have liked Having A more or less liked, but surely you had fun for a few minutes and made you exercise your mind and memory, much maligned items today ... What will you do now? "

• If you decide to leave a message in this post, it goes to contact form.
• continue reading If you prefer another different input , goes to the blog archive.
• If consider that you have read enough for today, history has come to an end.

elect What option? As I was a kid, you can cheat and retrace the path taken if any of the options does not suit you enough ...

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