The Science of James Bond: From Bullets to Bowler Hats to Boat Jumps, the Real Technology Behind 007's Fabulous Films.THE SCIENCE OF JAMES BOND: From Bullets tO Bowler Hats to Boat Jumps, the Real Technology behind 007's Fabulous Films LOIS LOIS Land-Ocean Interaction Study LOIS Law Office Information Systems LOIS Lofar Outrigger in Scandinavia LOIS Loss of Interim Status LOIS Laser Operated Ion Source LOIS Learning Options in Suffolk LOIS Location Oriented Information System H. GRESH AND ROBERT WEINBERG The most famous fictional spy accomplished many seemingly impossible feats armed with a wide array of fantastic gadgets and weaponry. Authors Gresh and Weinberg comb comb 1. a vascular, red cutaneous structure attached in a sagittal plane to the dorsum of the skull of domestic fowl. It consists of a base attached to the skull, a central mass called the body, a backward projecting blade and upward projecting points. 2. the Bond films, pondering pon·der v. pon·dered, pon·der·ing, pon·ders v.tr. To weigh in the mind with thoroughness and care. v.intr. To reflect or consider with thoroughness and care. the scientific credibility of each death-defying leap, super equipped vehicle, and ingenious weapon. The authors provide a review of the physics that would apply to a flying car. They ponder Ponder - A non-strict polymorphic, functional language by Jon Fairbairn <jf@cl.cam.ac.uk>. Ponder's type system is unusual. It is more powerful than the Hindley-Milner type system used by ML and Miranda and extended by Haskell. the effects of a nuclear bomb such as the one devised by the villainous SPECTER organization. They review the plausibility of the various items devised by British intelligence's Q Division to keep Bond alive, including the jet pack that saw development by the U.S. Army in the 1960s, false fingerprints Impressions or reproductions of the distinctive pattern of lines and grooves on the skin of human fingertips. Fingerprints are reproduced by pressing a person's fingertips into ink and then onto a piece of paper. , and voice-altering technology that is today available in computer software. For true Bond lovers, appendixes detail, among other topics, the science of martinis and of Bond's cars. Wiley, 2006, 212 p., paperback, $14.95. |
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