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Maintaining Muscle Mass while Malnourished
I'm working on a character who is homeless and relies on stealing and cheating just to get by. Obviously, not having a steady/reliable source of food or income (in a small village nonetheless) means they're probably pretty malnourished (at least to the point where their ribs are somewhat visible). The problem comes with the fact that their weapon ( Read more... ) -
Injury to Order: Kids playing with sharp things
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EMP weapons and the destruction of a civilisation
Quite bluntly, I don't have the physics to understand the information I'm getting. I've searched EMP weapons, EMP itself, read some articles about what happens when the sun decides to kill us all, wound up on a couple of survialist websites (fun!), and gone through tags and found semi-relevant questions in weapons, catastrophes, and technology.
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Resource: Black Market Prices / Criminal Statistics
Do you need to know how much a hitman costs to hire, or how much a human trafficker makes, but are afraid to google is because the NSA probably won't take it kindly? Do you wonder what a kidney goes for these days? Or illegally shot elephant ivory? Or do you just want a comparison between what prostitutes earn in various countries?
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Modern police methods - SWAT manual
Pointed out on the forums for a fanfic site, and possibly of interest to anyone writing about SWAT tactics, the police in California, etc: The official Californian manual on SWAT tactics etc.
California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training
SWAT Operational Guidelines and Standardized Training Recommendations ~weapons (misc), ~weapons: firearms, ~law enforcement (misc), ~helicopters, usa: california, #resources, usa: government: law enforcement (misc)Walking (or Riding) with Medieval Bows
There are many accounts and pictures of Medieval archers doing warlike poses and sticking folk with the business-end of their darts. What I need are the boring bits in between. How did the average archer transport their bows while riding, walking, or hunting (when they were not doing the shooting bits)? I have learned that the bows would be ( Read more... )WW2 Bombs on London
This might be of interest to anyone writing about London during WW2 - a map of (modern) London showing the locations of bombs that fell in the Blitz. Some of the information is a little sketchy, e.g. the exact date and size of bombs is rarely available. It's been compiled from maps made during the war ( Read more... )Alternate universe and different trajectory of scientific development
I'm trying to work out the details of a story set in an alternate universe that is much like ours, with some subtle and not-so-subtle differences. I'd love to get opinions (and explanations from more tech-savvy folk than I) on whether it would be plausible for humanity to have developed computers (or at least WWII-era technology, since this was the ( Read more... )RESOURCE: Travelling with weapons
This is an article posted to the website Romance University, written by a weapons expert on the topic of travelling with weapons, a resource for writers. The article is US-centric.
http://romanceuniversity.org/2013/06/03/travelling-with-a-gun-by-weapons-expert-adam-firestone/Apocalypse; collapse of society; here there may be zombies; utilities available when humans flee
I believe this has already been answered, but I can't find the tag it's under ( Read more... )