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Your Church Has a Safety Team — But Have They Actually Prepared? – USA Carry
On a quiet Sunday morning, the sanctuary is full. Children shuffle into pews. A greeter smiles at the door. The worship team begins to play. Now imagine this: a raised voice in the lobby. A door that should have remained closed swings open. A volunteer freezes for half a second too long. In critical moments, hesitation is not caused by…
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The US Army Has a $17,040,000,000 Abrams Upgrade Program. Now It Says the 73-Ton Tank Can’t Take Another Upgrade and Is Building a New One.
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Army is building a new main battle tank, and that looks like a bad idea. The M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams weighs 73 tons, and after finding that the upgrades it wanted would add weight, the Army canceled the SEPv4 and turned to the M1E3 Abrams:…
How to Grow Food When You Don’t Have Good Soil – reThinkSurvival.com
If you are trying to grow food for your household, waiting for the perfect garden spot is not always an option. You may have a small yard, poor ground, or soil that has been worked over by construction and years of neglect.That does not make growing food impossible. It just…
The Pentagon Is Paying $24,290,000,000 for 296 F-35 Fighters. The Engines Were Not Included. With Them, One F-35A Now Costs $92,000,000.
Summary and Key Points: The Pentagon has stated the cost of the newest F-35 in today’s dollars. The F-35 Joint Program Office confirmed in early September that an Air Force F-35A from Lots 18 and 19 carries an average flyaway price of $92 million, with the Navy’s F-35C at $110.8…
A US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird Came Apart Around Pilot Bill Weaver at Mach 3.2 and 78,000 Feet. He Never Pulled the Handle — the Aircraft Threw Him Out. He Survived and Was Flying Again 2 Weeks Later.
Summary and Key Points: In 1966, Lockheed Martin test pilot Bill Weaver made history when he became the first, and so far only, human to eject from an aircraft traveling at Mach 3. Weaver and his accompanying Reconnaissance Systems Officer (RSO), Jim Zwayer, were conducting a test flight on January…
Russia Commissioned the Nuclear Battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov in 1986 and Sent Her to the Yard at Severodvinsk in 1999. She Came Out in 2025. She Has Now Spent Roughly Twice as Long Being Repaired as She Ever Spent in Service, at a Cost of About $5,000,000,000.
Summary and Key Points: The Soviet Union laid down the nuclear battlecruiser Kalinin in 1983 and commissioned her in 1986. She served about thirteen years in the Northern and Pacific Fleets before going into the yard at Severodvinsk in 1999 under her new name, Admiral Nakhimov. She came out in…
Albert Einstein did not write the letter that started the Manhattan Project. Leo Szilard did. Einstein signed it, because his name was the only one Roosevelt would read.
Summary and Key Points: Albert Einstein did not write the letter that helped start the Manhattan Project. The Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard did, and he brought it to Einstein for one reason: a letter signed by Albert Einstein was a letter Franklin Roosevelt would actually read. It was dated 2…