29 Jan 2008
New Navy Test of Railgun

Well, the teaser's a bit misleading: you don't generate megajoules of power without fuel, but it'sd still a pretty fascinating technology.

The Office of Naval Research tests a ship-to-land gun that uses no fuel.

(link) [New York Times]

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Weird Weather

I've lived in Indiana nearly all of my life, and even when I wasn't living here my family was and we stayed pretty close. And I have never seen or heard of such weather in January in the Hoosier state. Two hours ago the temperature was 52°F - it's now 28°F. And we just came out from under a tornado warning - straight line winds with the storm were clocked in excess of 70mph by the NWS at the Indianapolis airport.

The high temperature tomorrow is supposed to be 14°F.

This is insane.

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