Re: Ancient projectiles (was: Muzzle Velocity (was: High resolution sleep (Linux))

2007-06-02 Thread Ian MacLure
Roy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 625.area1.spcsdns.net: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) wrote: Hmmm; now you've got me curious. What *were* the first composite projectiles? Fetchez la Vache! Non, non, non, non, NON!

Re: Ancient projectiles (was: Muzzle Velocity (was: High resolution sleep (Linux))

2007-05-28 Thread John J. Lee
Roy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) wrote: Hmmm; now you've got me curious. What *were* the first composite projectiles? Fetchez la Vache! :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Ancient projectiles (was: Muzzle Velocity (was: High resolution sleep(Linux))

2007-05-27 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Cameron Laird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . Did you know that the first military smokeless powder round was for the French Lebel? - It threw a bronze ball, and could punch through a single brick wall.

Ancient projectiles (was: Muzzle Velocity (was: High resolution sleep (Linux))

2007-05-26 Thread Cameron Laird
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . Did you know that the first military smokeless powder round was for the French Lebel? - It threw a bronze ball, and could punch through a

Re: Ancient projectiles (was: Muzzle Velocity (was: High resolution sleep (Linux))

2007-05-26 Thread Roy Smith
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) wrote: Hmmm; now you've got me curious. What *were* the first composite projectiles? Fetchez la Vache! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list