[LynnieS]

Originally Posted by justsomeguy

I'm not a sword user, so I'm wondering why taking out an unarmed guy with one slash would require that much skill. Wouldn't a baseball bat swing be enough?

There are different styles of iaido, and some of them, if I remember correctly, concentrate on performing a killing blow at the start. There isn't much point in the hack-and-slash method in a battle or duel after all.

You don't need to be an expert to make that cut, though. Being reasonably strong enough is fine, and I suspect the student had enough adrenaline in him to do it. I don't think his sword would have too sharp an edge either, which is a plus here. The hard part of that cut is due to the bones, which for the hand area (fingers and palm plus wrist), aren't too thick and not hard to chop through. A thick bone like the humerous or the femur would be more difficult and would take more strength and/or skill.

Originally Posted by killer3000ad

USAF Splashes one Reaper

So in a nutshell, a Reaper UAV stopped responding to human control and was leaving Afghanistan air space, forcing the USAF to shoot it down.

***cking SKYNET!

Did they forget to use all metric calculations or didn't convert from English to metric again?