#human wave

Putin is apparently now sending his troops to Ukraine armed only with firearms with limited ammo and small shovels which were designed the year before Vladimir Lenin was born. By “firearms” it’s probably meant to indicate personal weapons which can be carried by one individual. These Russians are facing Ukrainians who are much more heavily armed.

Russian reservists are likely using "shovels" for "hand-to-hand" combat in Ukraine due to a shortage of ammunition, the UK's Ministry of Defence says.

In late February, reservists described being ordered to assault a Ukrainian position "armed with only 'firearms and shovels'", the ministry said in its latest intelligence update.

It mentioned a shovel known as MPL-50.

The tool was designed in 1869 and had changed little, the ministry said.

"The lethality of the standard-issue MPL-50 entrenching tool is particularly mythologised in Russia," the ministry said.

The continued use of the shovel "as a weapon highlights the brutal and low-tech fighting which has come to characterise much of the war", it said.

One of the reservists described being "neither physically nor psychologically" prepared for the action, the update added.

So when the Russians run out of ammo they are presumably expected to hit Ukrainians with shovels – if they even manage to get that close.

Even when Russia has heavier weapons, many of them date back to the Khrushchev era. Except for the promised but still unseen T-14 tanks, these armored vehicles were designed or built before The Beatles became famous.

Daniel “Danno” Knight

30

Alien

Daniel was born in a planet with a similar atmosphere to Earth, albeit a largely more advance form of technology never having experience a dark ages period that cancelled progress. In order to explore and study other worlds, he joined an exploratory trip, despite all the knowledge of the world, his role in the grup could be simply describe as that of a handyman, as he was the one to repair and keep on check that everything went correctly, never have been one to major on other cultures history, sciences or similar in comparison to his partners. When approximating Earth’s orbit, a cosmic wave of energy proceeding ffrom the sun hit their ship causing the shp to evaporate, at least, in Daniel’s mind. The cosmic wave of energy altered his DNA and immediately transform him, guaranteeing that he survive the trip attached to a meteor that landed on earth as a small rock. He regathered there and found himself lost until he was found by Reed Richards after the similar readings to the wave that hit them.

He received the identity of Daniel Knight, and used his knowledge to earn a job as a high school science teacher while becoming the Human Wave as a hero.

Daniel’s alien nature grants him on average a higher immune system than earth individuals not being affected by any parasitic life form, virus or germ that could cause sickness to individuals, only being prone to allergies. He has a lighter mass which makes him faster than the average human being and his peak stregnth is equal to a superhuman strength, so at normal he can stop a car or receive bullet shots in human form with no more than a minimal piercing. The main forceo f his powers its at the DNA affected by the cosmic radiation that granted him the ability to manipulate and create water and ice, manipulate ambient temperature and create other forms of liquid. It is by this form that he survived as he transformed into vapor that crystallised with a rock ensuring his survival on an unconscious level. He can fly both shapeshifted and not as part of his body is naturally water that he can manipulate, he can telekinetically control other bodies and once wet he can move objects. The water that he transofrms to has higher ties to his own planet and even with the similarities with Earth’s it can has some toxins that affect the target on a neurological level that ensures him to cause status effects akin to confusion or paralysis. He can create water-based meteors, manipulate gravity and completely absorb light to emulate Sue’s powers of invisibility using the same energy type she uses albeit on a more fluid level.

He is openly homosexual and his species have the means for reproduction without the usage of the human body. With the time expent on earth, he has had enough time to learn how to revisit home, and found the plot of his world leaders to expand their culture as an empire and opposes it. 

I took the kids to see a movie last night. Normally I take them, drop them off, and come back later to get them. But this time they really wanted me to go, too. It’s a Marvel movie, which they know I appreciate, and as I told the Junior Mad Scientist later, the time approaches when one or more is moving out, and I don’t think there will be many more opportunities to do this with them. So even…