http://www.popsci.com/boeing-just-patented-force-field-lasers
Boeing has just patented a system where a sensor detects an explosion and then quickly superheats air or water into plasma through a laser to take the brunt of the energy of the explosion.
http://www.popsci.com/boeing-just-patented-force-field-lasers
Boeing has just patented a system where a sensor detects an explosion and then quickly superheats air or water into plasma through a laser to take the brunt of the energy of the explosion.
I love the aerospace industry. I cannot wait for starfighters!
Start me out first with entangled morse code for instant communication, then complicate it so you can really transfer data quickly. Meanwhile make faster 3D printers and transport me to the place farthest from the center of the galaxy.
http://www.popsci.com/boeing-just-patented-force-field-lasers
Boeing has just patented a system where a sensor detects an explosion and then quickly superheats air or water into plasma through a laser to take the brunt of the energy of the explosion.
I love the aerospace industry. I cannot wait for starfighters!
Starfighters have been out for years!! matter of fact they are mostly retired now.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-104_Starfighter
Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters...
that is a frankly bonkers but brilliant album about Germany's purchase of the Lockheed F104 G.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Lockheed_and_the_Starfighters
That's pretty cool. I can't imagine the **** they'll have in a 100 years.
Horse drawn carriages is what I'm guessing. That 3d world war really sent us back to the dark ages.
(Oh and when I say "Horse" I mean giant mutant rat!
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Oddly despite it being portrayed as a 'tank war'... most armies in WWII had largely horse drawn transport.
The British Army was the only fully mechanised major power when the war broke out.
At its peak the German army was still 85 per cent horse drawn.. crazy eh?
Horse drawn carriages is what I'm guessing. That 3d world war really sent us back to the dark ages.
(Oh and when I say "Horse" I mean giant mutant rat!
Wouldn't that be the 4th World War, the first really being the Napoleonic wars?
A future world war would probably be actually a 5th world war
Seven years war is the first truly global war i can think of
Covering europe and the colonies of the time.
Then you've got the combined period of the Napoleonic/penisular wars and the war of 1812... different causes, same nations to a degree.
I think WW1 and WW2 are 'world wars' in the sense that very few countries were 'neutral' and the principal particiapants were using 'total war' economies... women in factories, melting down domestic metal items to make weapons etc.
There is a school of thought that 1914 to 1989 is one long ideological war between left and right... makes more sense to me to look at it as a long war from the russian revolution to the fall of the soviet union though.
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There is a school of thought that 1914 to 1989 is one long ideological war between left and right... makes more sense to me to look at it as a long war from the russian revolution to the fall of the soviet union though.
But WW1 wasn't ideological, not in a left/right sense, not capitalism/communism. The latter started in full in the twenties with the Red Scare though for the roots you'd have to go back to the French Revolution and Industrialisation. Probably you'd have to take the rise of Protestantism into account and the fight for representation in the government as witnessed in the 80 Years War or the Magna Carta.
I've always found it interesting that in the 1860's both great slave-labour nations (well, serfs in Russia) abolished the practice, with the violence immediate in the USA and Russia reaching a boiling point only a few decades later. There's a parralel there. Especially if you consider that for both countries the struggle really hasn't finished yet. Different roads, same destination.
One of the things I love about a global economy is the way it discourages global war. If we could only get global education, we could have a new enlightenment, maybe move to a post scarcity economy..... Mmmmmm.
Force fields though, frigging epic.