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Secret's Out For Saracens Sabres (Damascus Steel)
New Scientist ^
| 11-15-2006
Posted on 11/15/2006 11:04:58 AM PST by blam
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To: Bear_Slayer
The rope will be in tension. Whether it breaks before a handle is pulled off the cabinet could be made a wager.
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posted on
11/16/2006 9:02:58 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(RTRA DLQS GSCW)
To: Grizzled Bear
Now they add carbon a different way.
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posted on
11/16/2006 9:04:35 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(RTRA DLQS GSCW)
To: LexBaird
They tested this one out on Mythbusters recently. Needless, I hope, to say it was found that a sword cannot cut a gun barrel in half.Damn, I missed that one. Not surprised at the results, though. Even the source I read seemed dubious, as I recall.
Japanese propaganda was just that: propaganda.
An interesting example of it, though, which harkens back to the pre-WW1 European belief that really good troops could advance against machine guns, which were better suited for gunning down native rabble in the colonies. The Social History of the Machine Gun by John Ellis talks about this, and may be where I read about the Japanese film--it's been twenty years since I read it.
To: Bubba Ho-Tep
Damn, I missed that one. Not surprised at the results, though. They did manage to bend the snot out of a SMG barrel. Ma Deuce shrugged it off, as did the .30 cal LMG.
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posted on
11/16/2006 10:00:52 AM PST
by
LexBaird
(98% satisfaction guaranteed. There's just no pleasing some people.)
To: blam
To: tacticalogic
They just "call" them damascus steel. They are not the real deal nor are they similar in properties.
These custom blades are produced either through acid etching.
Or through slightly different metals being heated, folded, hammered and otherwise manipulated just enough to produce a 'Damasus pattern' or 'Damascus effect'.
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posted on
11/16/2006 1:41:31 PM PST
by
GulfBreeze
(I asked God about it and he doesn't believe in atheists either. So can you prove they exist?)
To: Bear_Slayer
In reverse, would a rope tied at lowr depths snap when the sub surfaces? If the rope were strong enough, it would keep the sub from expanding, and therefore it would be unable to rise to the surface.
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posted on
11/16/2006 2:16:49 PM PST
by
Erasmus
(Why, I'm as sharp today as the day I was born!)
To: Red Badger; sionnsar; CholeraJoe; Cyber Liberty; VRWCmember; Argh; blam
All well and good.
Yes, they had 'embedded carbon" in the steel.
BUT .... It wasn't deliberately inserted or created to formed as nano crystals. It was an accidental by-product of hammering and folding the iron that a good craftsman was able (1) figure that what he did (Occidentally, the first time) was "good" ...
(2) figure what he did to do it that first time
(3) do it again.
and finally,
(4) teach somebody how to do it.
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posted on
11/16/2006 4:00:46 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Kielbasa
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posted on
12/14/2006 7:31:06 PM PST
by
RedRover
(God, I hate trolls.)
To: LucyT
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posted on
12/16/2006 3:39:31 PM PST
by
blam
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