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It's filth! Hide the children!
Raven Gold
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Voicy
Resident Panty Kicker
Just another 20 years and I can afford to take a ride.
Uhm, it's going to take you a lot more than 20yrs to scrape together the dough to recommission the Discovery from the Smithsonian Museum and get it into mission-ready mode - considering this photo was its last voyage before retirement.
OmegaFenix
The Legendary Troll Hunter
There where murmurs that the private sector would buy 2 shuttles and continue to use them, but i think that was just a rumor. I personally think it is freaking sad that the human race is yet to travel beyond our own moon, 7 billion people on this little spec of dust, our entire species. One way ward asteroid, one solar fart and we are no more. Instead of trying to feed Africa or get the arab world to stop killing each other we should be pouring all our energies into colonizing other worlds.
Maplassie
AK47 Pew Pew
loooooooooooooooool
Voicy
Resident Panty Kicker
Funny you should mention that... There was a project leader for the Lunar / Mars unmanned expeditions from NASA who gave a talk in our town (yeah - an actual NASA dude) about the upcoming projects etc.
After the AWESOME presentation, during Q&A, some pompous ass stood up and arrogantly said "How can you justify spending so much money on riding little cars around on the moon when there are so many people starving that you could be feeding?"
The NASA guy smiled and politely replied something along the following lines: " Our total NASA yearly budget is 0.01% of the US Military budget - not to mention that the technological spin-offs of NASA's projects affect the world heavily. E.g. Teflon now being used in every kitchen's pans etc." He then also went on to say that history has shown that countries that were explorers and voyagers showed more growth and prosperity than countries which just focused on sustaining their population.
An example would be Spain / Portugal / England / Scandanavian countries etc. ... vs .. well ... Africa. Ethiopia was a thriving kingdom when the queen of Sheba ruled and ventured into trading with Rome etc.
No matter how much money you spend on feeding the hungry, 24hrs after your funds are depleted they'll be hungry again.
OmegaFenix
The Legendary Troll Hunter
I say let each country feed its own or better yet, let every person feed his/her own family, if they can not tough romarey (spelling) creams. I think rusty called it social darwinism. I would gladly sacrifice a few million for the sake a a billion or 2.
OmegaFenix
The Legendary Troll Hunter
How small do you feel right now?
to0kenZA
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Hurricane Earl - as taken from the ISS.
Whao!! That is so awesome...and scary!
Duke Dude
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Raven Gold
Local Boy Hunter
I'm buying me one of these next. Some bad-ass guns are deveolped here in SA.
Neostead shotgun.
Type: manually operated, pump-action
Gauge: 12 Gauge (18.5 mm)
Chamber: 70 mm
Length: 690 mm
Barrel length: 570 mm
Weight: 3.9 kg empty
Capacity: dual over-the-barrel tube magazine, 6 + 6 rounds capacity
The Neostead shotgun had been designed by two South African engineers, Tony Neophytouand Wilmore Stead, in the early 1990s. They originally patented the pump-actionтshotgun with forward-sliding barrel in 1991 and then modified the design for dual feed tube magazine by the 1993 (according to their second patent application). The working pre-production prototypes appeared in the late 1990s,and production began in 2001. At the present time Neostead is in production andis marketed worldwide by the South African company Truvelo Armory. It represents a very interesting and promising design of a combat shotgun, but it's still to be seen if the Neostead will be adopted and used by any major police or military force.
The Neostead is a manually operated, pump action shotgun with some rare (if not unique) characteristics. First of all, Neostead is built using fixed breech face and movable barrel. Assuming that the barrel is loaded with empty case, to reload the gun one must pull the slide forward, and then - backward. This will cause the barrel to go forward, leaving the spent case held against the breech face by the extractor. When barrel will clear the spent case, it will be ejected down through the opening in the gun shell. When slide is pulled all the way forward, the fresh cartridge is released and pushed back out of the magazine above the barrel, and then lowered by the feed ramp until it is aligned with the barrel and put against the breech face simultaneously. When the slide is pulled backward, it will take the barrel back, so the barrel will enclose the cartridge and finally lock itself to the fixed breech face. Now gun can be fired again by pressing the trigger. The only one other mass produced shotgun with forward-moving barrel and a fixed breech face is the Russian RMB-93 shotgun. The second feature of the Neostead is its dual feed system. It consists of two tubular magazines, located side by side above the barrel. Cartridges are loaded into the magazines and fed from the rear. Magazines are coupled and hinged to the gun frame at the front. To load or unload the gun, magazines must be tipped up at the rear, exposing its rear openings. At the rear openings of the magazines there is a magazine selector which can be manually set to enable the feeding from one or another magazine, or from both, alternately. This dual, selective magazine system results not only in increased magazine capacity, but also offers greater tactical flexibility: for example, one magazine could be loaded with full power buckshot and the other with less lethal rubber slugs for police work. Selection of the type of the ammunition used is a matter of a second. Third feature of the Neostead is its bullpup layout, resulting in relatively long barrel and compact overall size. The shell of the Neostead is made from high strength polymer.Safety switch is located within the trigger guard, ahead of the trigger. Sights are built into the integral carrying handle.
Neostead shotgun.
Type: manually operated, pump-action
Gauge: 12 Gauge (18.5 mm)
Chamber: 70 mm
Length: 690 mm
Barrel length: 570 mm
Weight: 3.9 kg empty
Capacity: dual over-the-barrel tube magazine, 6 + 6 rounds capacity
The Neostead shotgun had been designed by two South African engineers, Tony Neophytouand Wilmore Stead, in the early 1990s. They originally patented the pump-actionтshotgun with forward-sliding barrel in 1991 and then modified the design for dual feed tube magazine by the 1993 (according to their second patent application). The working pre-production prototypes appeared in the late 1990s,and production began in 2001. At the present time Neostead is in production andis marketed worldwide by the South African company Truvelo Armory. It represents a very interesting and promising design of a combat shotgun, but it's still to be seen if the Neostead will be adopted and used by any major police or military force.
The Neostead is a manually operated, pump action shotgun with some rare (if not unique) characteristics. First of all, Neostead is built using fixed breech face and movable barrel. Assuming that the barrel is loaded with empty case, to reload the gun one must pull the slide forward, and then - backward. This will cause the barrel to go forward, leaving the spent case held against the breech face by the extractor. When barrel will clear the spent case, it will be ejected down through the opening in the gun shell. When slide is pulled all the way forward, the fresh cartridge is released and pushed back out of the magazine above the barrel, and then lowered by the feed ramp until it is aligned with the barrel and put against the breech face simultaneously. When the slide is pulled backward, it will take the barrel back, so the barrel will enclose the cartridge and finally lock itself to the fixed breech face. Now gun can be fired again by pressing the trigger. The only one other mass produced shotgun with forward-moving barrel and a fixed breech face is the Russian RMB-93 shotgun. The second feature of the Neostead is its dual feed system. It consists of two tubular magazines, located side by side above the barrel. Cartridges are loaded into the magazines and fed from the rear. Magazines are coupled and hinged to the gun frame at the front. To load or unload the gun, magazines must be tipped up at the rear, exposing its rear openings. At the rear openings of the magazines there is a magazine selector which can be manually set to enable the feeding from one or another magazine, or from both, alternately. This dual, selective magazine system results not only in increased magazine capacity, but also offers greater tactical flexibility: for example, one magazine could be loaded with full power buckshot and the other with less lethal rubber slugs for police work. Selection of the type of the ammunition used is a matter of a second. Third feature of the Neostead is its bullpup layout, resulting in relatively long barrel and compact overall size. The shell of the Neostead is made from high strength polymer.Safety switch is located within the trigger guard, ahead of the trigger. Sights are built into the integral carrying handle.
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