Man, years ago, I came up with the idea for a Star Trek series following Nemesis, set in the Romulan Empire (before JJ Abrams nearly wiped out two entire interstellar civilizations in 1/2 an hour).

Well, if you ever go to a pistol range, you might be surprised at how many people don't managed to hit a target with any great reliability with a handgun even at 25 feet.

And, it was terrifically expensive throughout a large part of history. I remember reading about how in some Anglo-Saxon Heriot that a single sword was valued as the equivalent of 120 Oxen or 15 slaves. So, to own a sword showed that you pretty much controlled the combined wealth of at least one town. I'm talking…

Well, I look at the Dothraki the same way that I look at the Greeks and the Persians. The Persian empire used armor and shields made largely for wicker. It simply isn't a good idea to encase yourself in metal in a desert. When they encountered the Greek Phalanxes, the Greeks carried shields that weighed in at…

The gambeson would provide padding to absorb the shock impact. But, as somebody who as a tween took Tae Kwon Do, and in one sparring match found myself receiving end of side kick squarely to the stomach that even through a heavily padded chest piece knocked the wind out of me, and left me in tears for like 15…

I also thought about (after my comment) that if they do need more actors, let's say to fill all 24 helmets at once, with only 12 regular actors to fill the roles, they could just put out a casting call for random extras which I think the SAG rate for extras is like $50-$150 per day, and with no need to keep the same…

Was it? I mean, I'm purely a casual consumer of information on this topic. I mean, I've read several Osprey books warrior series, specifically Anglo-Saxon Theign, Viking Hershir, Norman Knight. I also have "Forces of the Hanseatic League 13th-15th Centuries" on my kindle, and just did a search for the word Mace, and…

I've joked that the books will end when they find a distant stark relative, that lives in a castle on a shoreline cliff in Dorne named Antonius will come in with a magical suit of Valerian Steel armor and take down the Lannisters.

There are some armors that seem very functional, there are other armors seem to be purely parade armors. This isn't too unusual for the exceedingly wealthy in the real world to have separate parade, tournament, and field armors. The parade armors might have completely stupid features, such as the armor of Maximilian…

Couldn't agree more with helmets. In fact, the wonderful thing with helmets is that with a dozen helmets for the good guys, and dozen helmets for the bad guys, when they have fewer than 12 total people on screen at the same time, they could just keep using the same 12 actors to play every faceless soldier you…

Leg and especially foot armor was often considered a waste of resources and weight unless you were on a horse. Attacking a person below their knee would typically mean opening yourself open to attack while you lunge. When on a horse, obviously, your legs are exposed to direct attack to anyone around you.

You know, a lot of Anglo-Saxon and Viking age axes are nothing like what people today would expect.

Bart Sibrel is useless. He calls himself an award winning film maker; but, doesn't say which awards, and when you go to IMDB, you don't see any awards listed.

But, according to Iron Eagle 2, that is a MiG.

The helmet's just as deadly with weapon catching protrusions, and given how tight it would seem to fit, if something hits the top that sends it flying, it's probably taking her head with it.

But, most, if not all modern jet aircraft (since about 1970) are actually powered by turbofans rather than just straight turbojets.

Well, the Me-262 did implement the axial flow turbojet (the Brits had a more reliable; but much bulkier Centrifical Flow turbojet). And the axial flow turbo jet did become the standard once the metalurgy for the compressor blades was improved. But, turbojets are terribly inefficient, and were combined with the…

Haha I called it a Bee Gee, it's a GeeBee.

Andres, that's actually a BeeGee, a racing plane from the 1930s.

Thing is, it's not up to the person who wishes to use the photo to decide what the photo is worth. Unless it says that it's creative commons, don't use it without permission.