spatulan

The A-10 is a disaster that needs to be retired. It's completely incapable of facing modern air defences, so is useless against enemies like China or Russia, and has operating costs 30 times higher than a dedicated COIN aircraft like the Super Tucano, meaning you have a lot fewer aircraft supporting your troops than you should have, or end up spending way too much money.

Completely impractical.

ICBMs can't even reach orbit, never mind Mars. So we'd have to build enough rockets to lift around 10,000 nuclear warheads to Mars, typically weighing around 300kg each.

The inevitable launch failures would be interesting too. Even if 99% reliable, that's still a hundred nuclear warheads raining randomly back to Earth.

And on top of all that, I don't think it'd actually make Mars significantly warmer.

So on one hand we have a scientific study, and on the other some guy on the internet with a pet theory.

Because its morally bankrupt?

The reason some are sceptical, is the extra weight and leverage of the helmet is supposed to increase the chance of you breaking your neck in in accident.

I have no idea if its true or not.

No it isn't.

In 2007, the Chinese tested an anti satellite missile against a weather satellite.

The missile contained no explosives, it relied purely on kinetic energy.

The collision released 2,300 pieces of debris that were large enough to be tracked, so about golfball size or larger, and probably many times that number that are too small to track.

The RPG-7 uses an initial explosive charge to propel the rocket a safe distance away from the soldier who fired it, before the rocket ignites as takes the RPG the rest of the way. Otherwise the soldier would get a face full of rocket exhaust.

On the first test at around 1:16 you can see the rocket is lit.

On the second test at around 3:59 you can see the rocket motor failed to ignite.

Why is that the headline when the article contains the much more worrying

"And 20% of those surveyed said women often said “no” to sexual activity when they meant “yes”, and 18% agreed if a woman was raped while affected by alcohol or drugs she was partly responsible."

Ever notice that some of the nations with the longest prison sentences, also have high crime rates and reoffending rates?

Or the many examples of crime increasing as sentence length increases?

Or the studies that have shown people sent to prison for a crime have higher reoffending rates than people given community sentences?

Study after study, and real life example after example shows that punishment is a very ineffective way of changing behaviour.

Commonly available herbs like tobacco? Nope, no way any business could make money through a commonly available herb