THE MINI GUN II

IN THE MOVIES:

1. Jesse "The Body" Ventura and Bill Duke carried it (connected with truck batteries) in Predator (1987).  
   
2. The T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) uses it to fire at police cruisers in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
3. Neo (Keanu Reeves) fought Agent Smith with an M134 mounted in a helicopter in The Matrix (1999).

THE MINI GUN

THE MINIGUN:

The most Bad-Ass machine gun that i've ever come across, it packs a mean punch and makes swiss cheese out of anything that gets in its way.

It is a 7.62 mm, multi-barrel machine gun with a high rate of fire (over 3,000 rounds per minute), employing Gatling-style rotating barrels with an external power source. In popular culture, the term "minigun" has come to refer to any externally-powered Gatling gun of rifle caliber.

HISTORY:

The original Gatling gun was a field weapon, which used multiple rotating barrels turned by a hand crank, and firing loose (no links or belt) metal cartridge ammunition using a gravity feed system from a hopper. The Gatling gun's innovation lay neither in the rotating mechanism nor the use of multiple barrels to limit overheating; rather, the innovation was the gravity feed reloading mechanism, which allowed unskilled operators to achieve a relatively high rate of fire of 200 rounds per minute.

The ancestor to the modern minigun was made in the 1860s. The Gatling gun (1861) was one of the most well known rapid-fire weapons to be used by the Union forces of the Civil War. Contrary to popular belief, the Gatling gun was not the first true machine gun. While it allowed for a high volume of fire, it used an external force to reload and fire the gun, and as a result, was not truly an automatic weapon. Richard J. Gatling replaced the hand cranked mechanism of a rifle-caliber Gatling gun with an electric motor, a relatively new invention at the time. 

Orion

Orion is a constellation, and it is my favorite one. It is often referred to as The Hunter, one of the largest and perhaps the best-known and most conspicuous in the sky. Its brilliant stars are found on the celestial equator and are visible throughout the world. In the northern hemisphere Orion is visible in the evening from November to April

According to the most common contemporary imagery: Orion is standing next to the river Eridanus with his two hunting dogs Canis Major and Canis Minor, fighting Taurus the bull, which happens to be my sun sign (April 21 - May 21).

Mythology:

In one version, Artemis, the goddess of hunt and the moon fell in love with him. She was so entranced by him, she forgot her divinely duty of illuminating the night sky. Her twin brother Apollo, seeing Orion swimming in the sea, dared his sister to strike what only appeared to be a spot on the waves. Not knowing it was Orion; Artemis shot an arrow and killed him. Later, when she found out what she did, she placed his body among the stars. The grief she felt explains why the moon looks so sad at night.

In a different ending of this myth, Apollo's jealousy led him to summon a giant scorpion, which the mighty hunter Orion could not defeat, and he was killed by its poisonous sting. This explains the seasonal alternation of the appearance of the constellations of Orion (October to April) and Scorpius (April to October), which do not appear in the sky together.

P.S: The reason why Orion is so darn famous is coz... if you look closely, you can notice two sets of stars (of 3) almost aligned in a straight line. It’s better off if you see the real thing at night. And remember, the hunter will disappear for a period of 6 months, starting from the end of this month. So start stargazing before he disappears into the final frontier, until he returns by November.

Life… as it is

Have you ever pondered back to the times when you were young? and everything was just plain fun and innocent? life filled with fun and joy, school, street cricket, loafing around, good night kisses, blanket being tucked properly in by gentle warm loving hands… rather than lies, betrayal, hatred and depression... How I missed those times, when life was cool and cheerful, rather than now... where it’s filled with greed, selfishness, jealousy, rage and anger... I hated this kind of life and yet I willingly walked onto that path of misery... I didn’t wanna hate anyone, I didn’t wanna despise anyone, I didn’t wanna loose anyone and most of all I never did wanted to be sad and depressed… 

DARTH VADER

Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith, was the scourge of the Jedi, a master of the dark side of the Force, and one of the Emperor's most trusted servants. Seduced by the dark side of the Force. His boundless abilities fueled a sense of pride that hastened his fall.When it came time to make the fateful decision, he agreed to follow Sidious' teachings and knelt before the dark master.

Dark warrior, star pilot, statesman, enforcer, saber master, leader - all words that could be used to describe the Dark Lord of the Sith.

The beginning

Hey Y'all, the name's Krupa... and this is my attempt to make my mark on the vast frontier known to man as the WORLD WIDE WEB. I will be posting my thoughts and views on how I see the world, and what I see in it, which means apart from a minor part of my past, present and future you will find a lot ‘bout mythology, history, paleontology, graphic novels, animation, action figures, random art, cult movies, movie reviews, love, sexuality, friendship, and probably much more.

You’re probably wondering why this blog is called THE DARK LORD; well it’s obvious that I admire DARTH VADER, the dark lord himself of STAR WARS. 

Well finally I would like to say: 

ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE!*

*-The gate of Hell bears an inscription: "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate", or "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" as it is written in The Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321 (refer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy)