When two submarines are under water, can one hear the crew conversations in the other over their passive sonar? If so, what is the furthest they can be from each other and still hear?
Another Hollywood myth is about to be smashed…. We didn’t whisper, or talk in hushed voices, — we did wear sneakers but it was for comfort and we…
What replaces rocket fuel when in space, or does the container just become a vacuum chamber when empty?
Nothing replaces the fuel. That is the wrong question to ask, the tank becomes an empty room. The real problem is not the empty space, but the fuel that…
Are American submarines the best in the world?
A Royal Navy (RN} submarine was paying a goodwill visit to Norfolk naval yard. It was due to arrive at a certain time, let’s say 2 in the…
Has the US ever reached Defcon 1? If so, how and why?
In her 2016 book The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top-Secret Military Research Agency, Annie Jacobsen describes such an incident. On October 5, 1960 the newly…
What is the best military aircraft that was never finished or used?
North American B-70 Valkyrie. It was a very large, very high altitude, and very fast, bomber that was developed into two prototypes that flew a lot of test…
How do SSBN submarines like the Ohio class receive orders when its job is to stay undetected underwater?
In the old days they would trail out a 5 nm cable antenna to pickup a one way EAM (emergency action message) via VLF/ELF through the seawater. The…
How does the Navy control rats aboard its ships while on long deployments?
Don’t let them on. Rats can swim, but have a hard time climbing up the steel hull of the ship. So to get onboard, they either need to…
If all 43 U.S. Presidents were to run for office in 2016, who would win? Also, who would be best suited to deal with the current issues?
Let’s start with the ones that don’t stand a chance. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler,…
In the winter of 1993, while bulldozing salt from the Chehrabad Salt Mine in Iran, miners came across a body with long white hair and a beard, and some artifacts
These included the remains of a body, a lower leg inside a leather boot, three iron knives, a woolen half trouser, a silver needle, a sling, parts of…
Is it true that there is not a single scientific paper that has proven that carbon dioxide emissions are causing climate change?
Yes, it is true. Not. One. Paper. Guess what though? There’s also not a single paper that proves lead is poisonous. There’s also not a single piece of…