Metal, exact

When my father was a boy, he lived near a town that had a blacksmith. He liked to hang around the blacksmith, and eventually the blacksmith taught him a few things, and he made himself a pocketknife on the foundry. Boys don’t hang onto treasures forever, and he dropped that knife in a [...]

Lost in Space

There is a long naval tradition that captains of military ships spend many years in training and practice before receiving command of a ship. Such an officer becomes intimately familiar with the details of their ship. In particular, they understand the limitations and advantages of their weapons systems to an extreme degree.
I realize [...]