Do you mean "slug and powder charge" as separate packages with no "shell casings" or something like slug-throwing rail guns?
I'm not an artillery or military student at all, just wondering as a layman.
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Do you mean "slug and powder charge" as separate packages with no "shell casings" or something like slug-throwing rail guns?
I'm not an artillery or military student at all, just wondering as a layman.
A bit of both. The slug and powder seems to be largely driven by size: If a person can't lift the shell, then what good is it? Separating the two becomes essential at some size just because of that. Of course, mechanical loaders changes the equation, as do space constraints.
The point is that if you're going to be firing a million shells a year, but your industry can only produce ten thousand...then you have to fight mighty short wars.
Good point.
No wonder the Federation and the Klingon Empire could dominate their working classes and the populations of alien planets. As long as they had enough workers (or obsolete holographic Doctors) to mine dilithium they could maintain their iron fists.
Another 16 inches of snow over the last two days, at least at 6000 feet. I was really hoping to start a bike ride in about three weeks, but that's not looking very likely. I'll probably have to give it a couple more weeks.
Am I the only one who see "Cleveland Guardians" and thinks: this doesn't sound right.
Washington Football Team sounds ok to me but I know that won't stay. But for some reason Cleveland Guardians just seems off.
Yeah, it sounds like the name you'd find on an amateur roller derby team.
Maybe they should use colors. There are tons of color names.
Or maybe names of types of ships. "Cleveland Steamers" might be an attention grabber.
That might be a little bit too 'on point' for that team. I doubt they'd dare use a euphemism for a fresh pile of poo.
I thought it was a really cool sounding name until you brought up the "poo" point of view.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Well, if it was a clam, then it would be good...but I'm not sure that I'd eat a clam that came from any of the water around there. Out here, there was a place that would occasionally hold a crayfish boil. I was never tempted to try it because I was afraid that they got their crayfish from the closest source...which would be the Snake River downstream of a couple hundred miles of agricultural runoff.
Mining runoff can be pretty nasty too. Lots of crap can leach from tailings in quite a mix of toxicities that water creatures can concentrate.
Oh yeah. Back when I was in college, we toured an active strip mine in PA. We got to ride in the walking dragline and chat with the operator. He was quite the artist with that bucket, as he was able to carry on a casual conversation about the operation while never slowing down. They were trying to mitigate for the runoff. I kind of wonder whether or not they were going about it wrong, but back then I wasn't thinking about that. After all, what they were doing was trapping and sequestering the heavy metals leaching from the exposed ground. What were those metals? Were they ending up concentrated enough to be of value? The mine wasn't looking at that, as they were into coal, not metal, but I've always wondered.
I also have some excellent pictures from along the Appalachian Trail of mine remediation projects. The pH coming out of some of those mines is so low that some acidophilic organisms can survive it. The solution, of course, is Tums...or at least a generic version. I've got a picture of it.
Arsenic, mercury, lead all come to mind. Probably other things like copper salts and random-metal sulfides in some places.
And then there's an excellent bike trail in northern Idaho. It's a beautiful, paved, route through rural country and some wetlands on the bed of a long abandoned railroad. A great place to spend a day or two, have a picnic, go bird watching, catch and release fish...but be sure to release them, because the route is paved to act as a cap for the old roadbed. The railroad serviced the mines in the silver valley. Since that ore is up to 50% lead, the soil in that area is toxic. There are signs along the route telling people not to go off the trail except in designated areas, not to drink the water, and so forth.
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Yeah, and almost all of those (except lead, which is probably too common to be economically recovered) are potentially valuable. If a mine is doing something to concentrate out the metals in the runoff, it seems like they should be able to harvest and refine it profitably. Perhaps they are.
For my lunch break, I got my Nintendo 64 up and running.
It wasn't showing any output but would power on.
At first I thought it was my VGA cable, but a replacement cable didn't work.