Russia Today’s website ran a very interesting piece for the West to completely ignore. However, they ought not ignore it because it outlines the American hegemony’ plan to disrupt yet more of the world, and to try to hurt Russia at the same time. Let’s take the first excerpt, just to set the table: In […]
The US Navy is widely known in the world as the largest and finest in the world. However, aside from submarines, the Navy cannot do much in the Arctic. The Arctic has, of course, icecaps, and any ship that would sail the Arctic Ocean must be able to negotiate pack ice up to and exceeding 6.4 meters (21 feet) thick at times. If it cannot do this, its path must be opened by an icebreaker, a ship capable of breaking through such ice.
Originally appeared at RussiaFeed.com
A significant portion of the American space program depends on Russia. Most of us know that with the absence of an American launch vehicle, American astronauts to the ISS currently hitch rides with their Russian counterparts. What may not be as widely known is that Russia is actually an exporter of rocket engines for a widely-used American launch vehicle.
In what is becoming a tradition, Chinese troops have again crossed the border into Indian territory, this time in Sikkim. Indian and Chinese soldiers are facing off at the border, trying to see who blinks first. As usual, politicians and people on social media are calling for a boycott of Chinese goods. Forget the impracticality of the whole proposition for a moment – there is another good reason for not boycotting Chinese products.
Tuesday was the day we’d all been waiting for, our second, better Black Friday: Prime Day. The day Amazon puts limited amounts of random items on sale for a limited time. The day internet frenzy rivals the famed casual violence of Black Friday. It’s practically a holiday, and it’s only three years old. It's a brilliant marketing plan, and I – and you – benefited from Amazon's unprecedented success.
Tech companies from Google to Apple may be ploughing resources into driverless cars, but on our oceans, automated ships could be making bigger waves by the end of the decade: Norwegian company Yara is launching the world's first electric cargo ship next year, and that's just the beginning.
Notice how what we call morality quickly collapses under conditions of famine, war, or extreme deprivation following a natural disaster. Fortunately, humankind discovered a better way to deal with conflict over resources.
