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United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea 567

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 28, 2013 @09:01PM from the nice-day-for-a-flight dept.

skade88 writes "The New York Times is reporting that the United States has started flying B-2 stealth bomber runs over South Korea as a show of force to North Korea. The bombers flew 6,500 miles to bomb a South Korean island with mock explosives. Earlier this month the U.S. Military ran mock B-52 bombing runs over the same South Korean island. The U.S. military says it shows that it can execute precision bombing runs at will with little notice needed. The U.S. also reaffirmed their commitment to protecting its allies in the region. The North Koreans have been making threats to turn South Korea into a sea of fire. North Korea has also made threats claiming they will nuke the United States' mainland."

Journal Journal: Well, somebody's being groomed for something.

Journal by countertrolling on Saturday March 05, 2011 @04:46PM

We are also honored to be joined here today by another champion of education reform, somebody who championed reform when he was in office, somebody who is now championing reform as a private citizen -- <Jeb Bush>. (Applause.) And we are grateful -- we're grateful for him being here.

Heroic Engineer Crashes Own Vehicle To Save a Life 486

Posted by kdawson on Friday October 22, 2010 @11:09AM from the delta-vee dept.

scottbomb sends in this feel-good story of an engineer-hero, calling it "one of the coolest stories I've read in a long time." "A manager of Boeing's F22 fighter-jet program, Innes dodged the truck, then looked back to see that the driver was slumped over the wheel. He knew a busy intersection was just ahead, and he had to act fast. Without consulting the passengers in his minivan — 'there was no time to take a vote' — Innes kicked into engineer mode. 'Basic physics: If I could get in front of him and let him hit me, the delta difference in speed would just be a few miles an hour, and we could slow down together,' Innes explained."

The Proton Just Got Smaller 289

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 08, 2010 @12:00PM from the size-does-matter dept.

inflame writes "A new paper published in Nature has said that the proton may be smaller than we previously thought. The article states 'The difference is so infinitesimal that it might defy belief that anyone, even physicists, would care. But the new measurements could mean that there is a gap in existing theories of quantum mechanics. "It's a very serious discrepancy," says Ingo Sick, a physicist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, who has tried to reconcile the finding with four decades of previous measurements. "There is really something seriously wrong someplace."' Would this indicate new physics if proven?"

Comment Count me in. (Score 1) 451

by Warrdragon on Tuesday December 25, 2001 @08:27PM (#2750407) Attached to: Who Works During the Holidays?

I'd normally take Christmas off, but we received a shipment of 6 servers, 6 desktops, 2 laptops, and assorted odds and ends on the 21st, and I've got to get them all up and running before the second week of January. Besides, it's the best time to get anything done. All the users are elsewhere, have the internet connection to myself, as far as work goes it ain't bad.

Matt

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