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  1. Grey Havoc

    Reactive Stiffening Armor System

    In other words bulletproof vests utilising what is in effect ERA. o_O http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6474213.html https://www.wired.com/2009/03/extreme-protect/ Might work with armored NBC suits and even infantry exoskeleton systems. But tactical vests?! I think I might have heard about...
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    • 2002 21st century cyberpunk explosive reactive armor mad science next-generation body armor reactive vests southwest research institute united states army war on terror
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  2. Grey Havoc

    Sturddlefish

    https://thetakeout.com/sturddlefish-scientists-accidentally-create-new-specie-1844466716 https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/11/7/753/htm
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    • 2010s 2020 21st century genetic engineering genetic modification gmos
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  3. Grey Havoc

    Narco-antennas

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-telecoms-cartels-specialreport/special-report-drug-cartel-narco-antennas-make-life-dangerous-for-mexicos-cell-tower-repairmen-idUSKCN24G1DN?il=0
  4. covert_shores

    Narco Submarines: Covert Shores Recognition Guide - H I Sutton, March 2020

    Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Narco-Submarines-Covert-Shores-Recognition/dp/B086G11WMM My third book, this time attempting to make sense of the many and varied 'narco submarines' used by drug smugglers. Mostly between Colombia and Mexico, but also in the Atlantic. As well as piecing together...
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    • 20th century 21st century midget submarines reference works semi-submersibles war on drugs
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  5. Flyaway

    Proxima Centauri

    If you follow this thread you will see that not only have they confirmed the existence of the first planet to be discovered in the planetary system, but there is also an indication of a third planet orbiting our nearest star Proxima Centauri. https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12114
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    • 20th century 21st century
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    International Defense Review, Jane's IDR, Wehrtechnik, and some other magazines

    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V For some time during last year and earlier this year I was visiting Russian State Library, and had an opportunity to make photos of pages of several military-related magazines from 1950s-2010s stored there, such as Interavia's IDR predecessor - five...
  7. Flyaway

    Hubble Space Telescope

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    • 1980s 20th century 21st century cold war nasa post-cold war space race united states
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  8. uk 75

    Replacing the M113 and FV432

    At the end of the Cold War it looked as if the M113 and FV432 would leave service either not to be replaced or to be replaced by more suitable vehicles. Thirty years later, they still serve in many forms and much refurbished. A bit like a London Taxi the simple box on tracks is right for the...
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    • 1990s 2020s 21st century late 20th century post-cold war
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  9. uk 75

    Replacing the British Army rifle

    I noticed a Teddy Bear in Guards Uniform carrying an M16 (like the Canadian Army) and it got me wondering about the saga of the SA80 and what we are going to replace it with. I get the impression that of the rifles introduced from the 1970s on only the French Army got one they liked. But even...
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    • 2020s 21st century british army british commonwealth united kingdom
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  10. Grey Havoc

    Turns out that today's date is a palindrome (02/02/2020)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-the-papers-51345055
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    • 2020 21st century 22nd century bbc leap year palindromes sunday the 2nd of february 2020 sunday times
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  11. Flyaway

    Axiom Space

    First commercial module to be docked to ISS. Eventually they will separate from ISS once a power module is launched to form the Axiom Station. https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/01/nasa-axiom-space-build-commercial-station-segment/
  12. Grey Havoc

    An alternative to Soylent Green?

    ;) https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51019798
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    • 1960s 2020 21st century finland food additive protein flour solar foods solein space race synthetic foods
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  13. Flyaway

    Tesla Cybertruck

    Looks like something designed for an eighties sci-fi film as to what they’d imagine we’d be driving in the twenty twenties. That said modern motor vehicle design is very generic. https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-cybertruck-price-features/
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    • 21st century mars
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    Commercial Space Station

    Another new NASA project based on the NextSTEP program. Story https://spacenews.com/nasa-looks-to-support-development-of-commercial-space-stations/ Obviously Bigelow will make this a "must win" effort. Hopefully, someone will have an artificial G proposal. Or maybe Bigelow can steal an old...
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    Artemis Moon Program

    Artemis is the overall NASA program aimed at re-establishing manned lunar exploration which includes the "lunar gateway". A human rated, reusable lander is being developed using the model of the commercial crew program. The schedule goal is to conduct the first, un-crewed landing in 2024...
    • fredymac
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    • 21st century lunar lunar probes moon moonbase nasa united states
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  16. Flyaway

    NASA/Google leaked quantum computing paper

    Article for putting this leaked news in prospective. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-quantum-computers-supremacy
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    • 21st century computing quantum computing quantum information science quantum mechanics
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  17. Ravinoff

    Musings on the "F-117 Companion"

    Okay, noticed the TR-3 thread was bumped again, and I was gonna make this a post there, but as it concerns a bit of a broader spectrum than just the (probably fictional) TR-3, I may as well make a thread out of it. I've been doing some thinking on the whole concept of the F-117 Companion and its...
  18. Grey Havoc

    Floating cities

    This is an idea that seems to be coming back into fashion. I have a bit of a suspicion that with the concept below, someone may have looked up the old hard engineering data from the production of Waterworld as part of their background research...
  19. Grey Havoc

    The United States Territory of Greenland?

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-eyes-a-new-real-estate-purchase-greenland-11565904223 https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSS3N23B02I https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/us/politics/trump-greenland.html?searchResultPosition=1 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49367792
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    • 21st century alaska purchase expansion interesting times louisiana purchase united states
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  20. M

    France to develop anti satellite lasers and "defensive" mini babysitting satellites

    https://www.france24.com/en/20190725-france-develop-anti-satellite-laser-weapons-minister https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-france-space-defence/france-to-launch-fearsome-surveillance-satellites-to-bolster-space-defences-idUKKCN1UK1TR?utm_source=reddit.com
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    • 21st century anti-satellite armeé de l'air armée de l'air et de l'espace asat france
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    • Forum: Military
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