Liberian Clown Car Gets Lit Up – They Use Each Other As Cover

A Liberian militia group decides to pack their entire unit into one technical vehicle. When it gets lit up, they use each other as cover.

When you get over confident in your units ability, you tend to make some stupid mistakes. I think this is probably the first time in the history of warfare that confidence lead to using one of your buddies as a source of cover.

What appears to be an entire unit of Liberian militiamen load into a single technical vehicle. Maybe they were trying to offer the gunner some moral support, but all they really managed to accomplish was dying.

Pay close attention to the guy in the yellow shirt. When the return fire starts, he uses the guy in the wife beater as cover.

A boy with the messi shirt on was found in Kerkuk with a bomb tied around his chest !

Shocking Video: The moment of explosion in Turkey

Βίντεο ντοκουμέντο έρχεται στο φως της δημοσιότητας το οποίο αποκαλύπτει στιγμή του αιματοκυλίσματος σε γάμο στο Γκαζιάντεπ της Τουρκίας.

Στο βίντεο φαίνεται ο κόσμος να διασκεδάζει και να χορεύει μαζί με το νεόνυμφο ζευγάρι και την στιγμή εκείνη μια ισχυρή έκρηξη τρομάζει τους πάντες!, Τζάμια σπάνε, παντού φαίνονται φλόγες και μαύροι καπνοί και όλος ο κόσμος αρχίζει να τρέχει πανικόβλητος.

Ανάμεσά τους και μικρά παιδιά που ουρλιάζουν και προσπαθούν απεγνωσμένα να βρουν τους γονείς τους.

Δείτε το συγκλονιστικό βίντεο:

£2 Million Lamborghini Centenario Roadster debuts at Pebble Beach – & it’s all SOLD out Read more: http://www.carsuk.net/lamborghini-centenario-roadster-debuts-pebble-beach-sold/#ixzz4Hzfcjn00

AUGUST 21, 2016 BY CARS UK

£2 Million Lamborghini Centenario Roadster debust at Pebble

The Lamborghini Centenario Roadster has debuted at Pebble Beach as a convertible version of the Centenario revealed at the Geneva Motor Show. Costs £2 million.

Lamborghini has lots of form for churning out cheap to build cars with fancy names, fancy bodywork and fancy prices to tempt buyers who really should know better, and what better place than Pebble Beach to deliver another – the Lamborghini Centenario Roadster?

Essentially a convertible take on the Centenario we saw at Geneva in the spring, built to celebrate the centenary of Ferruccio Lamborghini, there will be just 20 built – that’s half the run of the Centanario Coupe – and each will cost – as near as makes no difference – £2 million in the UK.

Just like the Coupe, the Roadster gets Lamborghini’s naturally aspirated V12 delivering 760bhp through all four wheels – which all steer too – with loads of carbon fibre and some clever aerodynamics to keep it all together.

But you can’t buy one.

Lamborhghini has, once again, managed to churn out a titivated Aventador at getting on for ten times the price and sold them all in quick sticks. Which is very good business if you can do it, but we’re not entirely sure it adds to Lamborghini’s credibility.

Still, with its OTT looks Lamborghini should mop up credibility in the supercar poster market. Assuming it still exists.

HELLISH ‘FIRENADOES’ ARE STRIKING EAST OF LOS ANGELES

Ashkey May for USA Today reports Fire tornadoes, also known as firenadoes or fire whirls, are spiraling out of wildfires east of Los Angeles this week. Wildfires have scorched more than 25,000 acres of mountain and desert near San Bernardino, Calif., where at least 82,000 people have been told to evacuate.

Scientists are closing in on turning hydrogen into a metal in liquid or solid form

The pressure is on to make metallic hydrogen

Scientists are closing in on turning hydrogen into a metal in liquid or solid form

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EMILY CONOVER 

9:00AM, AUGUST 10, 2016

UNDER PRESSURE  Physicists use powerful electrical pulses in the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories to create liquid metallic hydrogen for fleeting moments.

RANDY MONTOYA/SANDIA LABS

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In a few highly specialized laboratories, scientists bombard matter with the world’s most powerful electrical pulses or zap it with sophisticated lasers. Other labs squeeze heavy-duty diamonds together hard enough to crack them.
All this is in pursuit of a priceless metal. It’s not gold, silver or platinum. The scientists’ quarry is hydrogen in its most elusive of forms.
Several rival teams are striving to transform hydrogen, ordinarily a gas, into a metal. It’s a high-stakes, high-passion pursuit that sparks dreams of a coveted new material that could unlock enormous technological advances in electronics.
“Everybody knows very well about the rewards you could get by doing this, so jealousy and envy [are] kind of high,” says Eugene Gregoryanz, a physicist at the University of Edinburgh who’s been hunting metallic hydrogen for more than a decade.
Metallic hydrogen in its solid form, scientists propose, could be a superconductor: a material that allows electrons to flow through it effortlessly, with no loss of energy. All known superconductors function only at extremely low temperatures, a major drawback. Theorists suspect that superconducting metallic hydrogen might work at room temperature. A room-temperature superconductor is one of the most eagerly sought goals in physics; it would offer enormous energy savings and vast improvements in the transmission and storage of energy.
Metallic hydrogen’s significance extends beyond earthly pursuits. The material could also help scientists understand our own solar system. At high temperatures, compressed hydrogen becomes a metallic liquid — a form that is thought to lurk beneath the clouds of monstrous gas planets, like Jupiter and Saturn. Sorting out the properties of hydrogen at extreme heat and high pressure could resolve certain persistent puzzles about the gas giants.  Researchers have reported brief glimpses of the liquid metal form of hydrogen in the lab — although questions linger about the true nature of the material.
While no lab has yet produced solid metallic hydrogen, the combined efforts of many scientists are rapidly closing in on a more complete understanding of the element itself — as well as better insight into the complex inner workings of solids.

Not so simple

Hydrogen, the first element in the periodic table and the most common element in the universe, ought to be easy to understand: a single proton paired with a single electron. “What could be more simple than an assembly of electrons and protons?” asks theoretical physicist Neil Ashcroft of Cornell University. But at high pressures, the physics of hydrogen rapidly becomes complex.
At room temperature and atmospheric pressure, hydrogen is a gas. But like other materials, altered conditions can transform hydrogen into a solid or a liquid. With low enough temperatures or a sufficiently forceful squeeze, hydrogen shape-shifts into a solid. Add heat while squeezing, and it becomes a liquid.
If subjected to still more extreme conditions, hydrogen can — at least theoretically — undergo another transformation, into a metal. All metals have one thing in common: They conduct electricity, due to free-flowing electrons that can go where they please within the material.

Exotic forms of hydrogen

Under ordinary conditions, in a region too small to be seen on this chart, hydrogen is a gas. At very high temperatures, it becomes liquid. At high pressures, it’s a solid in one of several phases. Scientists expect that it will become a solid metal at pressures not yet reached. 

ADAPTED BY E. CONOVER AND J. HIRSHFELD

Source: I.F. Silvera/Harvard Univ.

Squeeze anything hard enough and it will become a metal. “Pressure does a great job of dislodging the outer electrons,” Ashcroft says. This is what scientists are aiming to do with hydrogen: create a sloshing soup of roving electrons in either a liquid or a solid.
When hydrogen is compressed, many atoms begin to interact with one another, while paired in molecules of two hydrogen atoms each. The underlying physics becomes a thorny jumble. “It is amazing; the stuff takes up incredibly complex arrangements in the solid state,” says Ashcroft, the first scientist to propose, in 1968, that metallic hydrogen could be a high-temperature superconductor.
Hydrogen’s complexity fascinates scientists. “It’s not just the metallization question that’s of interest to me,” says Russell Hemley, a chemist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Studying the intricacies of hydrogen’s behavior can help scientists refine their understanding of the physics of materials.
In 1935, when physicists Eugene Wigner and Hillard Bell Huntington of Princeton University first predicted that compressed solid hydrogen would be metallic, they thought the transition to a metal might occur at a pressure 250,000 times that of Earth’s atmosphere. That may sound like a lot, but scientists have since squeezed hydrogen to pressures more than 10 times as high — and still no solid metal.
Scientists originally expected that the transition would be a simple flip to metallic behavior. Not so, says theoretical physicist David Ceperley of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “Nature has a lot more possibilities.” Solid hydrogen exists in multiple forms, each with a different crystal structure. As the pressure climbs, the wily hydrogen molecules shift into ever-more-complex arrangements, or phases. (For physicists, the “phase” of matter goes deeper than the simple states of solid, liquid or gas.) The number of known solid phases of hydrogen has grown steadily as higher pressures are reached, with four phases now well established. The next phase scientists find could be a metal — they hope.

Syria: Orthodox church opens doors for Muslim and Christian refugees in Aleppo

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 18 Αυγ 2016

An emergency relief centre was opened by the Saint Elias Orthodox Cathedral in Aleppo, Thursday, with the aim of providing shelter and humanitarian aid to Christian and Muslim refugees from the surroundings of war-torn Aleppo, in the face of the intensifying battles.

An estimated 4,000 families are currently being taken care of by the Aleppo Orthodox Church, with half of them reportedly being Muslim.

World's 'largest aircraft' gets off ground

The Airlander 10 hybrid airship prepares to land after its maiden flight at Cardington Airfield near Bedford on August 17, 2016 (AFP Photo/Justin Tallis)

London (AFP) - The world's "largest aircraft" embarked on its maiden flight on Wednesday, four days after a previous attempt was abandoned due to technical issues.

The Airlander 10 -- part plane, part airship -- took to the skies amid cheers and applause from crowds gathered at an airfield in Cardington, central England.

The successful flight comes 85 years after another airship -- the ill-fated R101 -- took off from the same airfield in October 1930 before crashing in France, killing 48 people and effectively ending the development of airships in Britain.

Originally developed for the US army as a surveillance aircraft, the 92-metre- (302 feet-) long Airlander 10, also has potential uses in the commercial sector, such as carrying cargo, according to makers Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV).

The firm, which describes the Airlander as the "largest aircraft currently flying", received a British government grant of 2.5 million pounds ($3.7 million, 2.9 million euros to develop the project.

The Airlander can fly at up to 4,880 metres (6,000 feet) and reach speeds of 148 kilometres per hour (92 miles per hour), according to HAV.

Filled with helium, it can stay airborne for more than two weeks unmanned and up to five days if manned.

Its first flight was delayed on Sunday due to a technical fault, which was resolved in time for the aircraft to take off in clear weather conditions for Wednesday's 30-minute flight.

HAV CEO Stephen McGlennan said the aircraft was cheaper and greener than helicopter technology.

"It's a great British innovation. It's a combination of an aircraft that has parts of normal fixed wing aircraft, it's got helicopter, it's got airship," he said.

A project to develop the aircraft for surveillance use by the US military was shelved due to budget cuts.