| Space Station has a gun on it Why do you need gun in space? | | Ok, I have to say right now that there is no likely use for a gun in space, you aren't going to get space hijacked, you aren't going to have crime up there, So why?NASA and Russia won't talk about it.The Russian have a gun onboard their capsul which is attatched to the space station.....http://www.wesh.com/news/15298911/detail.html>Every spacecraft carries survival gear for crash landings, and the Russian Soyuz has a kit that includes the gun.A photo of a space tourist using one version of the weapon is posted on his Web site. | |
| | New Canadian Government will exercise sovereignty in its North! | | Quote: Published on 5 Sep 2004 by Times Argus. Archived on 5 Sep 2004. Canada presses claims in Arctic region
by CLIFFORD KRAUSS PANGNIRTUNG, Nunavut — Hundreds of Canadian troops were all around. Helicopters swooped over the tin roofs of this isolated hamlet. A navy frigate and coast guard icebreaker were moored and readied in a nearby fjord. Across the bay, Master Cpl. Carl Gale was doing his part, too, as he introduced himself to an Eskimo family out picking wild blueberries. "I suppose you know we are up here for training," he told Aluki Metuq, 31, and her four children, and then asked if they had seen any of the mock satellite debris his unit was hunting for. They had not. But the troops and their Eskimo Ranger guides gathered in a field of flowering moss anyway to join them for a snack of berries and a friendly chat before the patrol resumed. The show of force, coupled with efforts to win over local people, showed how far the Canadian military was willing to go to familiarize itself with an increasingly valued region where it seldom operated while strengthening Canada's claim to it. The $4 million exercise is the most prominent sign to date of... | |
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