The Pentagon reports a direct hit with yesterday's SM-3 shot at that errant spy satellite. The Navy expressed some confidence that they had hit and fragmented the hydrazine fuel tank, the primary stated reason for the shoot.
February 21st, 2008
"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer."
-- Thomas Paine (Common Sense, 1776)
French researchers have developed a synthetic rubber that seamlessly heals itself when cut. The obvious application for this stuff is tires that self-heal when punctured, but there could be all kinds of other applications.
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