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totallynotabrony


Mar
31st
2016

UNCLOS · 2:30pm Mar 31st, 2016

Ah, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. A little-known branch of law that is playing a part in some of the biggest political battles of modern times.


It's important enough that they have this sweet banner.

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Feb
29th
2016

Aerodynamics · 1:40pm Feb 29th, 2016

The magic stuff that helps planes fly.


Obligatory XKCD.

Think of a thing that you consider to be very aerodynamic. An airplane, yeah? How about the world’s fastest airplane?


Obligatroy “Do you even read my Christmas list?”

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Nov
22nd
2015

Command and Control · 5:31pm Nov 22nd, 2015

When the movies portray a crisis, there will probably be a scene with a big room full of people sitting in front of computers while some guy with lots of rank looks at huge screens on the wall that display all kinds of data.

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Mar
13th
2015

Ejection Seats · 6:11pm Mar 13th, 2015

What's one thing that fighter jets have that no other airplanes have?

I was going for "an ejection seat" but if you think of something funnier, feel free to let me know.


Of course, Aston Martins come with ejection seats, too.

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Mar
1st
2015

Low Observability · 10:15am Mar 1st, 2015

More frequently, though incorrectly, referred to as stealth.


And if you don't learn the difference, beavers and songbirds will kidnap you whether you're wearing your low observability suit or not.

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Jan
22nd
2015

Terrorism · 5:38pm Jan 22nd, 2015

Terrorism is probably the number one news topic of today – and has been for about fifteen years now. That might be as long as some of you have been alive. While I think we can all agree that terrorism is a bad thing, have you ever stopped to think about what it is? World governments try to blur the lines a little in rhetoric, so I’d like to takes this opportunity to discuss several topics of terror.

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Jan
17th
2015

Drones · 6:48pm Jan 17th, 2015

Drone: \ˈdrōn\

as a verb
1. to make a low humming sound
as a noun
1. a stingless male bee that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen
2. an unmanned vehicle
3. this, apparently:

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Dec
20th
2014

Throwing Stuff · 10:54am Dec 20th, 2014

This blog concerns humanity being awesome and also weapons.

Now that most of you are still reading, let’s talk about what makes humans human. There’s a lot that separates us from beasts. One of the biggest is throwing things.

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Aug
8th
2014

Machine Guns · 5:44am Aug 8th, 2014

The first firearms were single-shot. That clearly wasn’t good enough.


By some people’s definition, this still isn’t good enough.
dakka dakka dakka

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Jun
30th
2014

Classified Information · 6:05pm Jun 30th, 2014

Rather than inventing jokes on my own, I'll just post one of the top results for the phrase "That's classified."

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