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It's fascinating how advances in siege technology resemble fast Darwinian evolution until of course the bigger fish in planes and tanks come in and eat everythi
by dh5 8y ago
It's fascinating how advances in siege technology resemble fast Darwinian evolution until of course the bigger fish in planes and tanks come in and eat everything else up.
- Theodores 8y agoBut the bastion - as in the HESCO Bastion - has made a comeback: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesco_bastion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesco_bastion Thanks to the wars in Afghanistan the founder got rich enough to buy Segway. Then he drove off a cliff in his Segway ending his life. Camp Bastion in Afghanistan is a big base that is named after the HESCO Bastions it is made of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Shorabak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Shorabak There is a surprising amount of money to be made in making containers for rocks, making black plastic bags for refuse and other things where you would not imagine a fortune could be made. As per the HESCO example it is a gruff Northerner with a 'where there is muck there is brass' attitude that inevitably exploits the potential. Shame about the Segway incident though.