The electromagnetic railgun launcher is a long-range weapon that fires projectiles using electricity instead of chemical propellants; magnetic fields created by high electrical currents accelerate a sliding metal conductor, The weapon is known as an electromagnetic railgun. It consists of parallel rails and uses a magnetic field and electric current, instead of chemicals, to generate [...]
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Debris from tsunami to reach West Coast, join Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Ironically, the book was published in 1971, far before Hummers, the scare of An Inconvenient Truth and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. So Suess was something of a visionary — that's why Hollywood deemed his book worthy of a 2012 remake. Then, instead of continuing down to California, the debris is expected to circle back [...]
Navy close on making super-powerful railgun
But while a congressional committee recommended axing the Electromagnetic Railgun in June, the program survived — even if it's still got to clear lots of technical hurdles before it can launch bullets from ships at hypersonic speed. Engineers have test-fired the navy's first industry-built electromagnetic railgun prototype launcher in what they describe as an important [...]
Food Safety Official's Ties to Monsanto Spur Petition for Ouster
Judge Sides With Monsanto: Ridicules Farmers' Right to Grow Food Without Fear, Contamination and Economic Harm For related articles and more information, please visit OCA's All About Organics page and our Farm Monsanto Co., the world's largest seed company, has won the dismissal of a lawsuit by growers of organic crops seeking to have its [...]
Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Reactions
Reuters – Berkshire Hathaway's fourth-quarter profit fell sharply, in part on an underwriting loss in its reinsurance business related to life insurance, the company said on Saturday. //.com | Full Text RSS Feed | Amazon Script (Reuters) – Berkshire Hathaway has identified its next chief executive, who will succeed Warren Buffett when the 81-year-old investor [...]
Berkshire Hathaway fourth-quarter profit declines
Warren Buffett is the chairman and CEO of a Berkshire Hathaway, a holding company based in Nebraska. He is also the company's primary shareholder. Buffett is one of the wealthiest people in the world, with a fortune of over Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. was dismissed from a lawsuit filed in Indiana by a former [...]
