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Popular Mechanics - Science News - War On Terrorism
Popular Mechanics — Bombs and cruise missiles delivered America's response to the terrorist attacks on New York City and the Pentagon. But the prolonged war is unlike any other conflict in the nation's history. We do not fight disciplined armies, but bands of ...More…
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POPULAR MECHANICS Readers Choice: Space Station Enterprise
Popular Mechanics — POPULAR MECHANICS readers have spoken 10,490 strong. In a close two-way race, they have voted to name the International Space Station, Space Station Enterprise. Enterprise, which received 38.3 percent of the vote, was followed by Aurora with 30.7 ...More…
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Republished from the POPULAR MECHANICS November 1927 issue.
Popular Mechanics — One Small Section of the Crowd Which Swept through the Police Lines at Croydon Field, Just Outside London, to Greet Col, Charles Lindbergh When He Landed in the British Capital AMERICAN commercial aviation, until recently a topic of ridicule, ...More…
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Fringe Season Finale Flirts With Theoretical Physics
Popular Mechanics — In the previous episode, "The Road Not Taken," Jones shot Sharp and removed an energy cell that Bell had hidden in her prosthetic arm. Jones was using this mysterious cell to pry open a portal to an alternate reality, slightly different from our ...More…
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Chevy Suburban Transmission Fluid, Using CO2 to Fill a ...
Popular Mechanics — I have a 2003 3/4 ton Chevy Suburban with the 6.0 V8 engine. I am doing a transmission fluid and filter change. How many quarts of transmission fluid do I need? In an emergency I used a CO2 regulator to pump up a tire on my work van. Is this bad ...More…
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America's moonshot in 1969
Popular Mechanics — stands as testament to great engineering and organization. However, all plans are subject to change. As early as 1962, was analyzing NASA's concepts for the Apollo program. The launch vehicle was to be a "white-and-silver shaft jutting ...More…
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Does the Stick N Click Work? As Seen On TV Lab Test
Popular Mechanics — Stick N Click is the "cordless, battery-operated LED light that you just stick and click." It goes anywhere, instantly illuminating cabinets, pantries and drawers with a multidirectional ambient light. Lights can be mounted or carried as ...More…
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Mission Guide
Popular Mechanics — Boosted by 7.5 million pounds of thrust, the Saturn V rocket thunders into the sky over Cape Kennedy on July 16, 1969. Five F-1 rocket engines fire 0.3 seconds apart to lessen astronaut-debilitating acoustic vibrations, and the Saturn launch ...More…
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Photo Gallery
Popular Mechanics — The capable Icon makes short work of Imogene Pass. The trusty companion took us on a four-day adventure in Colorado's Rockies. If you've got five days to spend in a single state, and you want to experience the best roads, the best views and the .. ...More…
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CONTINUED: High-Speed Rail, Roads and Bridges >>>
Popular Mechanics — In addition to roads and bridges, initiatives such as smart electric grids and high-speed rail received funding-along with attention from politicians and pundits quick to seize on a new set of buzzwords. There's just one problem: While the law ...More…
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Terminator Salvation T-800 Gallery
Popular Mechanics — If the cameo has a death mask quality to it, there's a reason-the basis of the digital model wasn't Rosengrantz sent those photos, as well as castings taken of the new bust his team created, to Industrial Light & Magic, which handled the ...More…
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Solar Thermal Power May Make Sun-Powered Grid a Reality
Popular Mechanics — Each Stirling Energy SunCatcher dish can produce 60,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity a year-enough to power a dozen U.S. homes. (Photograph by Jamey Stillings) The heat is used to run a Stirling engine, an elegant 192-year-old technology that ...More…