The latest episode of the Skeptic\'s Guide to the Universe podcast even mentions the most likely cause for that mistake. I forgot what exactly it is, but it produces an effect that matches the anomaly perfectly. So yeah, turns out the laws of physics aren\'t overturned after all.
Yeah, I know. But we\'ve got thousands of the damn things. It\'s going to take them a while to get rid of them. Gosh, a popular news site has deceived me with false information. How shocking. I doubt anyone\'s ever going to find out.
Not quite. I happen to know for a fact that my country still uses these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa_vz._58 That may look like an AK, but it\'s actually completely different on the inside. We also have the Dragunov sniper rifle, which is based on the AK. I would imagine other NATO countries from the former Eastern Bloc haven\'t discarded their old 7.62 weapons just yet either.
A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel in his pants. The barkeep says: 'Um, you do know you have a steering wheel in your pants, right?' And the pirate replies: 'Arr, it\'s drivin\' me nuts.'
I don\'t think that\'s a problem. Any system has numbers that can\'t be properly represented in it. Just write it into your equations as 1/3 and then have the computer calculate that to the required precision when doing an actual practical application. Okay, so what should we move to?
That\'s not such a huge problem, with proper maintenance any car can be kept going for decades. But my point was that if you want something flashy and gaudy, why not buy something that is flashy and gaudy in the first place? Why buy something ordinary and then try to tart it up? That\'s still not going to impress anybody, because it\'ll still be very obviously something ordinary with a bit of garnish on top.
They\'re alright, but they\'re hardly hardcore street racers. Ram air scoops, racing stripes, and huge exhaust nozzles just look ridiculous on them. And as Jeremy Clarkson put it, the disadvantage is that if you buy a Honda, you end up with a Honda.