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Dragon Skin Body Armor - Protecting Soldiers

Controversial ballistic vests save soldiers from explosions and bullets

Dragon Skin body armor has been developed to protect U.S. soldiers from a growing number of explosive devices and bullets on battlefields around the world.

Lying on a Grenade

Dragon Skin is an extremely strong and durable ballistic vest that has been designed by Pinnacle Armor of Fresno, California. The Dragon Skin body armor has been developed to help soldiers better withstand powerful direct explosions and hits from bullets and shrapnel. Some military observers claim that the Dragon Skin vests are so tough they can protect a soldier who is lying down on an exploding grenade. Tests have shown the body armor can withstand 40 rounds of ammunition at close range.

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Soft Body Armor

Soft body armor is a fairly mystifying concept: How can a soft piece of clothing stop bullets? The principle at work is actually quite simple. At its heart, a piece of bullet-proof material is just a very strong net.

To see how this works, think of a soccer goal. The back of the goal consists of a net formed by many long lengths of tether, interlaced with each other and fastened to the goal frame. When you kick the soccer ball into the goal, the ball has a certain amount of energy, in the form of forward inertia. When the ball hits the net, it pushes back on the tether lines at that particular point. Each tether extends from one side of the frame to the other, dispersing the energy from the point of impact over a wide area.

The energy is further dispersed because the tethers are interlaced. When the ball pushes on a horizontal length of tether, that tether pulls on every interlaced vertical tether. These tethers in turn pull on all the connected horizontal tethers. In this way, the whole net works to absorb the ball's inertial energy, no matter where the ball hits.

If you were to put a piece of bulletproof material under a powerful microscope, you would see a similar structure. Long strands of fiber are interlaced to form a dense net. A bullet is traveling much faster than a soccer ball, of course, so the net needs to be made from stronger material. The most famous material used in body armor is DuPont's KEVLAR fiber. KEVLAR is lightweight, like a traditional clothing fiber, but it is five times stronger than a piece of steel of the same weight. When interwoven into a dense net, this material can absorb a great amount of energy.

Author: Jomar Lipon

Illusion Image 3d Animation Review-SCAM! Read This Before Buying!

I bought the Ilussion 3D Animation a few months ago and I must say I was happy and very satisfied with the software. I create a simple animation and still learning on my own. I say to myself that the software was useful and very fun. I bought the Illusion 3D Animation few months ago at the price of $52.67. It create high quality 3D graphics, produce your cartoon animated film, draw and animate 3D models, Design your own 3D game easily, create real-time interactive 3D content, creating and render exceptionally rich and realistic natural environments.

Author: Dan Durant

Master the Art of Illusion: Learning Magic and Card Tricks

The lights go down, the curtain opens, and there in the middle of the stage is a helicopter. The magician and his assistants stand nearby as the helicopter is draped and with the wave of a hand and a few poufs of smoke, it’s suddenly gone! This was an actual illusion from one magician’s show and it was an awesome thing to see, but how did he do it and how did he learn how to do it?

Author: cosplay-dumbdumb

Blunt Trauma and Ranking Resistence

In the last section, we saw that a piece of soft bulletproof material works in the same basic way as the net in a soccer goal. Like a soccer goal, it has to "give" a certain amount to absorb the energy of a projectile.

When you kick a ball into a soccer goal, the net is pushed back pretty far, slowing the ball down gradually. This is a very efficient design for a goal because it keeps the ball from bouncing out into the field. But bulletproof material can't give this much because the vest would push too far into the wearer's body at the point of impact. Focusing the blunt trauma of the impact in a small area can cause severe internal injuries.

Author: Keith Londrie II

Get Identity Theft Help!

Identity theft crimes are not new, but they have become more pervasive in the past decade. One of the most insidious forms of white-collar crime, identity theft is a federal offense under the Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act. It occurs when someone deliberately assumes your personal identity to impersonate you in a legal sense. There are people out there who are malicious and want to mess your life simply because they can. Businesses and financial institutions that lose $52.6 billion each year are under tremendous pressure from consumers to tackle this problem.

Author: Dan Durant

The Ultimate Guide to the Chinese Language

China is a country that possesses values and cultures that are very different from those of the western world. One example of these differences is the Chinese language, both in written and spoken form. The written Chinese language is centuries old, and rather than having an alphabet like many Western languages, Chinese consists of characters that represent specific concepts or phrases. In the last century, Chinese characters have been converted to pinyin, which is the use of the Roman alphabet to spell out the meanings of words to allow western languages to read them.

Getting the Job

Many small video game publishers and PC game publishers actually post their writer's guidelines on their website and typically require a sample script with character development. (Usually 8-15 pages long -- by the time you get to this point, you'll want to be sure you're serious. A well-crafted script reads like a story and the characters are easy to visualize.) While small game publishers are more open to newcomers, they also tend to be unable to pay up-front -- which means royalties, or a lack thereof, for writers. Of course, the experience is valuable, and you'll have a game to pass on to your nieces and nephews with your name in the credits! You'll also have something to put on your resume when you apply for a writing job at a "big" game development company.

Competition is stiff, but with experience often comes success, and you can have a lot of fun along the way if you decide to give it a try!

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