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You took "reflective" too literally. I just meant more reflective to IR than dark green paint that most military stuff gets painted with. I never meant a mirror surface. Just the I…

I can't help thinking that in the anti-mortar role, there are very simple countermeasures that would severely reduce the laser's effectiveness. Reflective paint, ablative coatings,…

Have you got hardware acceleration switched on?

Out of interest, why do you think there are so many valid criminals and lawbreakers in the US?

A bad case of rose tinted spectacles.

As the smaller party in a coalition, they got blamed for every unpopular decision and got no credit for anything popular.

30 seconds of searching later http://udenfor.dk/uk/Menu/News/The+number+of+homeless+people...

How do you give money to a poor homeless person?

I read this story a few months ago, it had a few more details then. They tried giving them iron cookware, but they didn't like the weight. They then tried putting a random piece of…

It's 7.5° high and 5.5° wide. If you don't consider that huge, then that's up to you. But for me, that counts as huge, especially since it's fairly near the middle of vision. That'…

That's just nature making the best it can of a historical accident. If you were designing the eye from scratch, you'd have the nerves coming out the back like in squid. Then if you…

It really, really isn't.

There are always people thinking "Uh oh..." Sometimes they are right.

"Internment/Resettlement (I/R) Specialists in the Army are primarily responsible for day-to-day operations in a military confinement/correctional facility or detention/internment f…

A super Earth is a planet that's larger than Earth, but not large enough to be a gas giant.

Evidence trumps theory. A theory can be as clever as you like, but if it disagrees with the evidence, the theory is wrong.

By "most weren't really executed", are we talking 99%, 90%, 51%?

Clock speed does not equal performance. For instance, the Z80's fastest instructions took four cycles, where the 6502's fastest instructions took two cycles. The Z80's slowest inst…

Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Vivaldi.

I thought exactly the same, though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj0HDN82Pfo is the video that got me to subscribe. I love her channel.

Out of interest, I looked up the motor used in the new Formula E racing cars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark-Renault_SRT_01E#Electric... I'm sure there are details other than …

Modern missiles cannot be dodged. It's mostly just a way to show off the plane's agility. It could just barely be useful for shooting at a target behind you, but you sacrifice a lo…

The British Museum does a lot of work cataloguing artefacts so they're available for scientific study, as well as doing their doing their own research into techniques to date objec…