Check out this test video footage of the Army’s Active Protection System, which is part of Future Combat Systems.? I don’t have a whole lot of information on it other than that it is designed to intercept and defeat incoming rounds (like RPGs).? Saying it is amazingly fast doesn’t begin to describe the insane reaction speed this thing has.
It’s painful enough trying to unwrap a printer cartridge that’s surrounded in 37 layers of cardboard and plastic, but this packaging feat from HP really takes the cake.? Seventeen boxes to protect a stack of paper?? WOW.
As some of you may remember, a B-2 bomber crashed a while back.? Gizmodo has some of the awful looking photos.? Apparently all that composite stuff is really nasty when it burns, thus the respirators on the firemen.? The full story is here.
I saw this presentation by Keith Barry on TED.? It looks pretty bizarre (and scary at the end!).? Does anybody have any idea how he’s doing this?? The car could have been rigged any number of ways, but some of the other stuff he does really is perplexing.
Congratulations to Richard and Lacy!? They had a beautiful wedding on Saturday and should be having fun on their honeymoon as I write this.? I posted some of the photos we took in the image gallery.? Click on any of the thumbnails below to go directly to the galleries.