Showing posts with label moab. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moab. Show all posts

Sunday, April 16, 2017

One Hit Tech News

The 4th Industrial Revolution will be robots clogging our streets. From Technocracy:
When there are hundreds of delivery robots competing for sidewalk space, they won’t be so ‘cute’ anymore.
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Extreme Tech explains the Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb :
American forces dropped the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb on an ISIS cave complex...
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The MOAB device bears a charge of 18,700 lbs (8500 kg), composed mostly of H6, which is itself made of RDX. H6 is a standard-issue plastic explosive used by the American military for general-purpose bombs.
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North Korea may not yet be able to strike the U.S.  Wired:
One of the country’s biggest stumbling blocks has been securing enough fissile material to build bombs. Until recently, it found the stuff hard to come buy.[sic]