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Machine Gun

2007-03-14T15:50:29Z

LeftWingDarwinist:

A Machine Gun is and automatic weapon that is capapble of rapid sustained fire. The Machine Gun was first used way before WWI, in the 19th century.

The first machine gun could fire seven rounds per minute, it was known as "The Gardner" or "Puckle's Gun".
The first well-known machine gun was the Gattling Gun, the original of which fired two-hundred rounds per minute.
The machine gun was placed on top of a metal tripod and required a crew of about five people to operate it. They could fire four to six hundred bullets per minute at the beginning of the war and nearly double that by its conclusion. The machine gun was not quite as perfect as it sounds, and overheated approximately every two minutes, and had to be cooled with water before further use. The machine gun changed the lives of soldiers it did not kill by conserving time wasted by loading a gun before every shot. The time used in loading rifle is at least three times that used in shooting. The machine gun eliminated that waste of time and allowed soldiers to fire bullets continuously. This ability significantly increased the chance of mortally wounding the enemy instead of giving him a chance of recovery.

Machine Gun

2007-03-14T15:49:06Z

LeftWingDarwinist:

A Machine Gun is and automatic weapon that is capapble of rapid sustained fire. The Machine Gun was first used way before WWI, in the 19th century.

The machine gun was placed on top of a metal tripod and required a crew of about five people to operate it. They could fire four to six hundred bullets per minute at the beginning of the war and nearly double that by its conclusion. The machine gun was not quite as perfect as it sounds, and overheated approximately every two minutes, and had to be cooled with water before further use. The machine gun changed the lives of soldiers it did not kill by conserving time wasted by loading a gun before every shot. The time used in loading rifle is at least three times that used in shooting. The machine gun eliminated that waste of time and allowed soldiers to fire bullets continuously. This ability significantly increased the chance of mortally wounding the enemy instead of giving him a chance of recovery.

Talk:Environmentalist

2007-03-14T15:12:20Z

LeftWingDarwinist:

Give a pat on the back to whoever changed this article from hateful Environmentalist bashing to something that's certainly more pleasant. Good job.

Your theory does not work under my theory, so your theory must be wrong

2007-03-14T15:06:18Z

LeftWingDarwinist:

This is a special case of [[circular reasoning]] in which the person tries to disprove a point of view by interpreting the facts through a different view. The logical structure of such an argument is:

# Fact '''A''' is interpreted by theory ''T'' as '''a'''.
# Interpretation '''a''' conflicts with theory ''U''.
# Therefore ''U'' is assumed to be wrong.

However:
# '''A''' is interpreted by theory ''U'' as '''b'''.
# Interpretation '''b''' is consistent with view ''U''.

In such a case, the holder of Theory ''U'' could as easily use that argument against the holder of Theory ''T''--and the proponent of Theory ''T'' would have no just cause to challenge that argument. (To do so would constitute [[special pleading]].)

In challenging a theory, one must not confuse the ''interpretation'' of a fact with the fact itself. Different theories infer different things from the same facts. Rejecting a theory out-of-hand merely because it infers things that your theory would not infer, is not logical and is not good [[science]]. The proper way to challenge an opposing theory is:

# To attempt to show that the theory is not self-consistent--i.e., that it leads to [[Logical fallacy#Contradiction|contradictions]], or failing that,
# To show that the opposing theory infers a given proposition, and then to show definitively that that proposition is contrary to fact. For example, the [[phlogiston]] theory of fire held that a flammable substance always contained another substance, called "phlogiston," that actually burned. [[Antoine Lavoisier]] demonstrated a combustion reaction in which the solid products clearly weighed ''more'' than the initial fuel, a thing that the phlogiston theory could not possibly explain.

== See Also ==
* [[Logical fallacy]]

[[Category:Philosophy]]

Morse Code

2007-03-14T15:04:50Z

LeftWingDarwinist:

'''Morse Code''' was invented by [[Samuel Morse]] in the 1840s. It looks like a bunch of dashes and dots, but in fact it is a [[language]] with its own way of expressing [[word]]s and [[punctuation]].

The most famous Morse Code is "SOS", ---...---, which actually does not mean anything, but was simply taken as the easiest code to remember in an emergency. People have taken it to mean many things, such as Save Our Souls, Save Our Ship, Save Ourselves, etc.

See also: [[Braille]], [[CB radio]]

[[Category:Codes]]