Daily Archives: Mar 15, 2026

The reason why the 1911-versus-polymer carry argument holds is because both designs address a different number of real problems. One medium is rewarding of deliberate manipulation, of paying attention to the relationships between parts, and a manual of arms constructed on the basis of safeties. The other is designed...

Submarines are designed to endure an environment that is punitive to any error: high pressure, minimal redundancy and emergencies that occur in narrow spaces and have no easy escape. Other boats were given their reputations not due to their slowness or obsolescence, but due to the most notable aspects...

It is like calling something an intraterrestrial, which is like science fiction. In practice, the word can refer to much less dramatic, much more disturbing in its dimension: to a biosphere, which is not even living on the surface of the Earth. Deep under-surface microbes have been hard to dismiss...