Why are the F-111 aircraft buried literally? Couldn’t the government salvage the useful components?
All the usable electronics and hardware were removed and placed back in the Royal Australian Air Force supply chain. The engines were also removed and scrapped. The engines…
What if the battleship Iowa was to hit the iceberg the same way the Titanic did, how much damage would it sustain?
One problem for your scenario is that any modern (for the time) Allied fast battleship (like Iowa, S Dakota, or North Carolina, and several RN battleships) had a…
Why can’t an F-15 land on a carrier?
We had an F-14 pilot on an exchange tour in my F-15 wing back in the mid 1980s. I would be willing to bet that in an emergency…
How did the Roman aqueducts not have dirty, bug-infested water in them?
Dirty and bug-infested by what standards? The Romans built over 200 aqueducts, 11 in Rome alone, one of which still works and supplies the fountains in Rome (but…
Why has nobody built a rotating space craft to simulate gravity?
They have tried this exactly once, to prove the viability of the concept. The Gemini 11 mission joined two capsules together with a tether and maneuvered them into…
What happens if sugar is put in concrete?
One of my friends had this question in a BARC-2014 interview. The interviewer asked him “What if I threw my tea on the concrete.” See, that was an…
How advanced was the Concorde compared to modern planes?
Terribly behind-old technology. Designed in the 1960’s, so few computers. Going supersonic, while not easy, is not that hard. Doing so economically is REAL tough. The cost of…
What will the Earth be like in 50 million years? What will the sky look like?
Welcome to the 50 million AD using time travel technology. The highlights of this trip will be delicious fish fruits, animal-like walking pollen, kangaroos even in Africa, and…
How long will it take until Voyager 2 is one light year away from Earth?
Voyager 2 is one of the fastest craft mankind has ever built, clocking in at a staggering 57,890 km/h. In fact, the only higher velocities we have been…
When a Japanese destroyer was strafed by US Navy fighters with .50 machine guns could these rounds go through the side of the ship or penetrate the deck and superstructure?
This is the USS Cassin Young, a destroyer memorial in Boston’s Charlestown Navy Yard, built in WW2. Every single plate of steel, including the gun shields, is no…