Friday, April 11, 2014

Friday Randomness!

Every Friday, I'll post a few different links or videos to get you through the weekend. Let's start with the cutest thing ever:

Cats be cats

Here's an album of gifs that display different engine types:

Here are some articles of interest:

Marine creatures that only live on land plants??!!

Releasing mosquitoes to kill...mosquitoes?
Genetically modified (or sterilized by irradiation) male mosquitoes can be released into the wild to kill off the next generation, since mosquito females only mate once in their lives.

And finally, railgun technology is getting more realistic. The problem with these "guns" (they don't get their power from explosions, but rather from electricity and the Lorentz Force) is that they usually warp their rails after just a few shots fired. The Navy seems to have that problem under control...

It's "exploding" from sheer power, not a combustion reaction like a typical gun would have

Because railguns can fire projectiles SO very fast, the military hopes to use them to shoot down missiles in flight.

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