The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XVIII

[Bugfatty300]

That's actually been going through my head thinking about this one. The things is that brass has always been the material of choice and I don't think anyone's ever seriously considered using anything else. I consulted Wikipedia and found the following:

Actually the Soviet Bloc used steel cases and most of them still do. The vast majority of 7.62x39, 7.62x54 and 5.45x39 cartridges use steel cases. Even here in the USA, Russian steel case ammo is extremely popular.

In fact most of the center fire ammo I shoot is Russian Wolf steel cased ammo. Since I don't reload or shoot competitively, I see no reason shell out double the money for brass ammunition. Cost is definitely the biggest advantage to steel cases.

So we can summarize 1) corrosion resistance, as Farm Boy was saying, 2) less wear to the gun, 3) less gas getting past the cartridge because the softer brass deforms to restrict that, 4) cleaner gun less likely to get jammed up, 5) has characteristics that make it more rugged for handling in the field.

Lets trim that down a little.

1) True.

2) This is a myth among gun owners. Steel cases will not harm or cause anymore wear and tear to most modern guns than brass cases will. As I said before, steel cases are very popular for civilian shooters in the US because of their lower cost. If they were damaging the guns then they would not sell.

The only gun I own that doesn't like steel cases is my Mosin-Nagant which sometimes gets a sticky bolt. But the gun isn't being damaged or worn out. It's really just an annoyance.

3) True.

4) The casing does not determine how dirty the cartridge burns when fired. That is a combination of powder and primer.

5) Can't really say.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Culture isn't your thing.

Well no everything he made was great. I for one didn't care for Romeo and Juliet.

Although I really enjoyed Macbeth and Hamlet.

 

[_random_]

Well no everything he made was great. I for one didn't care for Romeo and Juliet.

Although I really enjoyed Macbeth and Hamlet.

I've acted in one of his crappier plays, so I'm certainly not going to praise him without restraint, but dismissing his entire body of work does seem like the mark of an uncultured individual.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Will we regress into the stone age within our lifetimes?

Spoiler :

(I'm posting it here cuz I've no clue how to make it a proper OP significant enough to generate dozens upon dozens of pages of discussion.)

 

[Cutlass]

Will we regress into the stone age within our lifetimes?

Spoiler :

(I'm posting it here cuz I've no clue how to make it a proper OP significant enough to generate dozens upon dozens of pages of discussion.)

No

 

[timtofly]

Will we regress into the stone age within our lifetimes?

Spoiler :

(I'm posting it here cuz I've no clue how to make it a proper OP significant enough to generate dozens upon dozens of pages of discussion.)

No, they were way smarter.

 

[Joecoolyo]

I've acted in one of his crappier plays, so I'm certainly not going to praise him without restraint, but dismissing his entire body of work does seem like the mark of an uncultured individual.

Yeah, true.

 

[Skwink]

Will we regress into the stone age within our lifetimes?

Spoiler :

(I'm posting it here cuz I've no clue how to make it a proper OP significant enough to generate dozens upon dozens of pages of discussion.)

We could try.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

No, they were way smarter.

Well, what WILL we regress into?

Seeing all the arguments made on this forum, I KNOW we're gonna regress at some point within our lives. Resource depletion, minimum size of transistors, environment degradation, space travel limitations, political BS, etc. Need I go on?

 

[timtofly]

Well, what WILL we regress into?

Seeing all the arguments made on this forum, I KNOW we're gonna regress at some point within our lives. Resource depletion, minimum size of transistors, environment degradation, space travel limitations, political BS, etc. Need I go on?

Like I always tell my wife. I will answer you when it happens. Since my theory is that we have been regressing since the first man, we can only regress foward. If anything we may became the animals that we have "dreamed" we came from.

Since you added technology, I do not see any regressing in that area. I do not think that we can reach that point period. It is funny that we are regressing while our technology keeps advancing, but even the brightest scientist have pointed that out. At least the one's that think we are devolving and not evolving.

The past may not have had the tools that we have, but they did far more than we do in a lot of areas. While the base of knowledge is widening, and things are becoming more specialised, the bulk of knowledge has been there for a long time. It only was developed as it was needed, or applied.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I would say his greatest talent was that his best works are defined by their insights into the workings of the human mind . They are like brilliant psychology manuals .

500 odd years later , humans pretty much think the same way so his work stands the test of time .

I feel the same way about Tolstoy . "Wow , that's so true , people do think and act that way" is often my reaction to their stuff

But why is it only Shakespeare is remembered, while all the other playwrights are forgotten?

 

[Arakhor]

Who says they're forgotten? Kit Marlowe and Edmund Mallory may not be well known to the general masses, but they're hardly forgotten.

 

[Flying Pig]

Actually the Soviet Bloc used steel cases and most of them still do. The vast majority of 7.62x39, 7.62x54 and 5.45x39 cartridges use steel cases. Even here in the USA, Russian steel case ammo is extremely popular.

Aye, found that on the Wiki article; I stand corrected.

Well no everything he made was great. I for one didn't care for Romeo and Juliet.

Although I really enjoyed Macbeth and Hamlet.

I didn't much care for Romeo and Juliet, but quite liked Romeo and Juliet once I decided that seeing them as mature, sensible human beings was missing the point - they're supposed to be teenagers and they're supposed to act like idiots!

 

[Leoreth]

Well, what WILL we regress into?

Seeing all the arguments made on this forum, I KNOW we're gonna regress at some point within our lives. Resource depletion, minimum size of transistors, environment degradation, space travel limitations, political BS, etc. Need I go on?

Huh?

 

[Joecoolyo]

I didn't much care for Romeo and Juliet, but quite liked Romeo and Juliet once I decided that seeing them as mature, sensible human beings was missing the point - they're supposed to be teenagers and they're supposed to act like idiots!

It wasn't so much that that the story felt really rushed, and (not it's fault) cliched.

I'm thinking that it's one of those plays you need to see actually acted out, rather than read in the book, which is what I did.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Huh?

Come on, man, you know damn well what I'm talking about. We've both seen the discussions on this very forum about the extreme difficulties of deep space travel, mining, and colonization.

And minimum size of transistors part, I know there's theories about how how small computer microchips and processors and stuff can't get any smaller after a certain point. I forget the details.

 

[aronnax]

I need a word to describe the relationship between Britain and some of her former colonies.

If Britain and Canada, Australia and New Zealand are now 'peers', what word or words best describes Britain and India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Kenya.

Colonies that gain independence amicably with Britain but had it's fair share of bitter anti-colonial feeling.

 

[Dachs]

If Britain and Canada, Australia and New Zealand are now 'peers', what word or words best describes Britain and India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Kenya.

Colonies that gain independence amicably with Britain but had it's fair share of bitter anti-colonial feeling.

Frenemies.

Though there was nothing amicable about the ways Malaysia and Kenya got their independence.

 

[Borachio]

Well no everything he made was great. I for one didn't care for Romeo and Juliet.

Although I really enjoyed Macbeth and Hamlet.

Yay! Wicked piece of Music by Prokovief for RJ.
Macbeth scary.
Hamlet hard.

 

[aronnax]

Frenemies.

Though there was nothing amicable about the ways Malaysia and Kenya got their independence.

More amicable than Egypt, Rhodesia and Ireland.

While frenemy would be a good good descriptor, I need something more formal to use in an essay.