Welcome the Newbies of the weapon world

Today war is not fought on front lines. Uniforms are just relics. Yes, right, I am talking about the urban warfare and If you think you are going to win a fight in the heavily crowded streets of an African city full of civilians with a nice big Tank and nobody will screw you for killing innocent people...forget it. So, here. Take a look at these gears of Modern Warfare.

LASER RIFLE -TR3

 

The TR3, developed by Xtreme Alternative Defense Systems and SPA Defense, can deliver a pretty intense 3-watt green laser at targets stationed up to one and a half miles away when operated at night. The rifle’s re-chargeable lithium-ion battery allows for up to 30 plus minutes of continuous firing. TR3 Threat Deterrent Laser Rifle is compact and the laser settings can be adjusted to inflict some serious pain.You can adjust the intense green laser beam’s focus using a dial that surrounds the weapon’s emitter (“barrel”/”muzzle”). You can disperse the beam so that it’s eye-safe for hitting bad guys in the face, or dial the beam into a retina-frying focus.

MAGPUL FMG 9

You can’t always judge a book by its cover and the Netbook-sized Magpul FMG9 is about as deceptive as they come. It looks like an industrial torch or a portable radio, and will fit in a girl’s handbag or the back pocket of a pair of jeans. One click later, the spring-assisted deployment mechanism snaps and you have a sub machine gun ready to fire. The innocuous FMG acronym stands for Folding Machine Gun and its small size and lightweight polymer casing belie its firepower - folded it holds 31 9x19 mm NATO rounds in a Glock magazine and although the prototype was only semi-automatic, a fully automatic version will almost certainly be available if production goes ahead. What’s the bet Q hands one of these to 007 in the next movie?

ARMATRIX DIGITAL REVOLVER

Stopping weapons from falling into the wrong hands is a major problem for law enforcement agencies all over the world. But if keeping weapons out of the clutches of the criminal element proves too difficult, the next best thing is ensuring that such weapons can’t be used if they do. That’s just what the Armatix SmartGun concept does by disabling the pistol unless it's in the hands of someone wearing a custom wristwatch that sends a signal to arm the gun. To ensure criminals can’t just steal the watch along with the gun the user must first have their fingerprints verified. The fingerprint is read by a sensor on the watch, which compares it against an internal database of stored prints. Once the print is verified the watch is then activated for a definable period of time – a police officer’s work shift for example – or until manually deactivated.

XM25 SMART GRENADE LAUNCHER

If you’re in the market for a grenade launcher with a kick and you’re a US soldier, check FedEx for your new XM25 Smart Grenade Launcher, a device that shoots a “25 mm microchip-embedded high explosive round that detonates above or beside the target, showering the enemy with lethal metal fragments.” Sounds like my senior prom! The system has a day and night sight, and it shoots standard RPGs as well in addition to the smart round. It holds four rounds at a time and the sight is almost completely automatic – you lase your target, fire, and wait. Then there’s an explosion.

BERETTA LTLX7000 SHOTGUN

Future Weapons recently demonstrated a fascinating prototype less-lethal shotgun from Beretta. What is interesting is that the kinetic energy expended on the target from the rubber bullet is constant regardless of the range. This fixes a common problem with less-lethal ammunition: they are often powerful enough to kill at close range and to weak at long range to stop the target.

WINDOWS AND ITS FUNNY "ERRORS"

Don't you feel so annoyed when you're working on something very important (like playing modern warfare?) and windows comes up a stupid error that doesn't even seem to make sense? But Microsoft is firm on its decision to make windows as smart and intelligent as possible, so what kind of smart errors can the smart windows of future have? Here, take a look.

REALLY?! ...

Oh...who wants enemies if you've got a computer like this one?

WTF?! and exactly how do I do that if the keyboard is not working, genius?

Wow...like I am blind man working on a God damned computer...I can see that the file is missing ugh!

KILL ME. HONESTLY...if that is the kind of errors I am going to get.

So like who do you want?...Britney Spears?

5 RIDICULOUS JOBS THAT ACTUALLY EXIST

Yes folks, there’s life beyond the B. Tech, B.Com and your other boring typical stuff. Here, take a look at these jobs that REALLY exist. Some of these jobs are so adorable that you wish you had this job…others?..just ew!..Check it out!

1.       LUXURY BED TESTER

Oh you’re going to love this job. As the name suggests, you get paid to sleep on luxury beds, that’s all. Take the example of Miss Madigan who is 22 years old and earns a decent sum of 1000 pounds at Simon Horn limited just to sleep on big, super cozy beds from 10 am to 6 pm and judge whether the beds are comfortable enough or not. Jealous eh?  Like this alone is not enough, she often gets free alcohol, chips, spicy food, and sometimes even cocaine to see the effect of all this on her sleep. Now what I am wondering is what are the qualifications needed for one to get this job?!

2.       SELL YOUR SPOT IN QUEUE

Imagine yourself standing yourself in a queue for three hours just to buy a train ticket for your way home. You are thirsty and irritated. If I ask you to get lost and let me stand in the queue in your place because I am in hurry, would you let me? Of course not. But what if I pay you, 50 dollars for that? Would you? Yes, you would. That’s what you do in this job. SuperOyster.com. are building a merchant service that allows people to sell their spot in line. This sounds whacky until you hear him rattle off the markets where this is applicable: pro football tickets, high-end automobiles, condos, fashion accessories, and exclusive memberships. It also applies very nicely to hot, scarce products like the Xbox 360 or concert tickets. 

3. WHISKEY AMBASSADOR

Hell yeah! To all the men and women out there who like to get drunk till they are about to explode, here is your dream job. Ready your resume! Whisky Ambassadors are responsible for choosing the finest whiskey’s and teaching their clients the proper way to taste them. They get to taste the finest of wines, costliest of whiskeys and classy champagnes for “quality check”. Get paid to get drunk…come on, what else do you want?! 

4. PET FOOD TASTER

This is one job I’d really like to see someone working at. All you have to do in this job is eat food meant for cats, dogs, cows, pigs, fishes etc. and write your report about the quality of food. It is quite an obvious sort of job actually. You must have seen Ads of TV and newspapers that “Dog Food is now tastier! Healthier!”…So? did you never wonder that if dogs can’t speak, how do they know that the food is “tastier”? So if your dog really enjoys eating pedigree, you owe a thankful note to a pet food tester.

5. ODOR JUDGE

Guys this is one really disgusting job. I mean it. You will hate this job even if you are paid in millions. If you’re the kind whose day gets ruined easily, don’t read it any further lol. Lets meet Mr. Levitt. He paid two brave souls to indulge repeatedly in the odors of other people's farts! Sixteen healthy subjects volunteered to eat pinto beans and insert small plastic collection tubes into their anuses (worst-job runners-up, to be sure). After each "episode of flatulence," Levitt syringed the gas into a discrete container, rigorously maintaining fart integrity. The odor judges then sat down with at least 100 samples, opened the caps one at a time, and inhaled robustly. As their faces writhed in agony, they rated just how noxious the smell was. The samples were also chemically analyzed, and-eureka!-Levitt determined definitively the most malodorous component of the human flatus: hydrogen sulfide.

VOYAGER II: A JOURNEY TO ETERNITY

If you are in your teens, chances are that you have probably never heard about Voyager II but your dad must have surely heard, and maybe even read about this beautiful space bird when he was a college-goer. Yes, that is how old is Voyager II. 

Voyager II is an American space probe which was launched on 20th of august, 1977, which means that as of now, while I am writing this article, Voyager II has already completed its journey of 34 whooping years, and 3 precise months! Even a mule brain would be able to figure out that it is indeed, a very big deal. But anyway, why, of all the topics, did I choose to write about Voyager II? Well the reason is that on 16th of November, this sweetheart of every astronomer, has successfully completed its all mission objectives and is bidding us good bye once again for its all new journey into interstellar space. No space craft has EVER, gone so far away from its home – the Earth. It  definitely makes Voyager II a very special probe. NASA has announced that Voyager 2 has successfully switched to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft. Do you have any idea how much has Voyager travelled in all these years since it began its journey? It is 9 billion miles away from us…think! 9 billion miles! Well more literally, it means that Voyager has started to go past the solar system itself.

So, since our little brother is going so far away into the space, chances are that it might actually intercept aliens at some point of time! No I am very much serious, people. That is why Voyager 1 and 2 each have a gold plated disk.  The discs carry photos of the Earth and its life forms, a range of scientific information, spoken greetings from the people (e.g. the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the President of the United States, and the children of the Planet Earth) and a medley, "Sounds of Earth", that includes the sounds of whales, a baby crying, waves breaking on a shore, and a variety of music. So maybe if the aliens find Voyager 2 someday and run the gold disk in their laptops (lol) they will get a feel of what Earth is like!... It Crossed Jupiter in 1979, Saturn in 1980, Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989 already and is now on an interstellar mission to become Earth’s eyes and find out what is the universe like past the solar system. Voyager 2 is currently transmitting scientific data at about 160 bits per second. Information about continuing telemetry exchanges with Voyager 2 is available from Voyager Weekly Reports. Information on the current location of Voyager 2 can be found at HeavensAbove.

So, did you realize where the big deal is? If not,        Duh! Haha, no well I’m kidding. This article is here to tell you why Voyager II is so interesting. Think about these two questions and you will know.

1. What kind of fuel is being used to make this spacecraft travel so far? I mean really, what sort of weird fuel doesn't get exhausted even after making this spaceship travel for nine billion years and that too at a speed of 16.49 kilometers per second! 

2. Secondly what kind of signals is this spacecraft sending to the signal reception points on earth so that even after being so far away from us, we are still able to get the signals from voyager very efficiently? Here is a little video about the Voyager.

  

Well the answer to the first question is Nuclear power. Some of the smart people out there will care enough to questions back? When the hell on Earth did we make a nuclear powered spacecraft?! But yes, Voyager 2 uses radioisotope thermoelectric generators to power itself at unimaginable speeds. A radioisotope thermoelectric generator is an electrical generator that obtains its power from radioactive decay. In such a device, the heat released by the decay of a suitable radioactive material is converted into electricity by the Seebeck effect using an array of thermocouples. So yes, even if not quite literally, Voyager 2 Uses nuclear power in the sense that radioactive decay is also a nuclear phenomenon. Two, Voyager is able to send us such strong signals because it transmits data on an S Band medium which is very powerful. Built with the intent for eventual interstellar travel, Voyager 2 included a large, 3.7-meter parabolic, high-gain antenna to trans-receive data with the Deep Space Network on Earth. Communications are conducted over the S-band which has a 13 cm wavelength and X-band with a 3.6 cm wavelength providing bandwidth as high as 115.2 kilobits per second! But even so, the spacecraft is not always able to communicate with Earth due to occasional disturbances in Earth’s atmosphere. When the spacecraft is unable to communicate with Earth, the Digital Tape Recorder (DTR) is able to record up to 62,500-kilobytes of data to later transmit when communication is reestablished.