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Necc0 posted:spy satellites do not work like you think they do how do they work? Surely there's at least 1 satellite over the pacific ocean at any given time that can snap a photo and get it to you within minutes if not what the gently caress is the NSA so proud of with its 'octopus devouring the globe' insignias for the satellites?
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best way to defeat china is actually ironically sanctions
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Jun 11, 2015 23:46
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Moridin920 posted:how do they work? Surely there's at least 1 satellite over the pacific ocean at any given time that can snap a photo and get it to you within minutes 1. the satellite still has to locate them which takes time 2. in the time it takes for it to snap a picture, beam it back to base, have that picture analyzed, have the coordinates sent to the missile people, have the missile launch and physically travel to the location where the ships were in the picture the ships will be long gone
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Jun 11, 2015 23:47
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That guy just traded a fish for the exact same fish!
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Jun 11, 2015 23:48
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Fojar38 posted:2. in the time it takes for it to snap a picture, beam it back to base, have that picture analyzed, have the coordinates sent to the missile people, have the missile launch and physically travel to the location where the ships were in the picture the ships will be long gone drat sounds like the whole system kind of blows then, why aren't we launching kinetic weapons from space already?
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Jun 11, 2015 23:50
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Moridin920 posted:drat sounds like the whole system kind of blows then, why aren't we launching kinetic weapons from space already? because we can't watch them fast enough jeez pay attention next time!
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Jun 11, 2015 23:51
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General Tofu posted:That guy just traded a fish for the exact same fish! They're just passing it back and forth!
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Jun 11, 2015 23:52
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Moridin920 posted:how do they work? Surely there's at least 1 satellite over the pacific ocean at any given time that can snap a photo and get it to you within minutes photographic spy satellites have pretty low orbits, and they're best at taking pictures of stuff that's nearly directly below them. they only see a small chunk of the Earth at any given point in their orbit, and each orbit takes about 90 minutes. there's satellites that sit high up watching for intense infrared stuff like rocket launch plumes and nuclear fireballs, but they're probably not gonna be able to differentiate between different kinds of warships, if they can even pick out warships at all. the soviets had nuclear-powered radar satellites that would detect ships on the ocean, but not everyone has those and even they could only look at limited swathes of the Earth at any given time. additionally, the US can grab data from satellites at any time because we have like two or three data network satellite constellations already in orbit. russia let theirs degrade to the point where during the 90s they could only talk to Mir when it was directly above ground stations. i don't know if china has a network in space; if they don't, then satellite data would have to wait until it passed a ground station (which if we're talking poo poo happening right off the coast probably isn't a problem, but far enough out to sea they might have to wait, depending on how high the satellite is)
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Jun 11, 2015 23:52
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:photographic spy satellites have pretty low orbits, and they're best at taking pictures of stuff that's nearly directly below them. they only see a small chunk of the Earth at any given point in their orbit, and each orbit takes about 90 minutes. that all makes sense and is interesting, thanks
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Jun 11, 2015 23:54
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Moridin920 posted:drat sounds like the whole system kind of blows then, why aren't we launching kinetic weapons from space already? tbf it only blows if you are trying to use the satellite to locate ships on the open seas and hit them with a missile its much more useful spotting things on land because airbases and islands dont float around at 30 knots
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Jun 12, 2015 00:00
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I could see someone at some point deploying attack satellites that target and disable something be else's communication systems, but then I can also imagine boobie robots and lasarcats™®© PLUS I'm an idiot so,
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Jun 12, 2015 00:32
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For all we know China ALREADY HAS the boobie robots
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Jun 12, 2015 00:33
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doobie robots
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Jun 12, 2015 00:34
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Although boobie robots seems more Japanese to me
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Jun 12, 2015 00:34
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Fortunately Japan and the U.S. Have strong positive relations, we should focus now more on the lasarcats™®©™ end of teh spectrum
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Jun 12, 2015 00:35
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Robo Reagan posted:if you're twinky you could probably become a gimp for a warlord of the apocalypse like in the first mad max but if you're fat my advice is become twinky or you will be used for food instead of sex There is no room for FATSO in the NWO
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Jun 12, 2015 00:57
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Angry Fish posted:China is the land where you go to a bar at a rural town and buy a bottle of $4 wine and they think you're some wealthy god coming from the city above throwing your hard currency into their lives. You can sex the girls hard because you have $80 in your wallet. Wait, 4 dollar wine? I would live like a skinny white drunk king. e: I have no excuse for my double post except 8 dollar wine.
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Jun 12, 2015 01:03
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IronClaymore posted:kids would be taught physics in places like Texas again. This is incorrect. You want bad primary schools? Try California, for example. I focus on this because it's almost a stereotype, or rather something you feel should be an American stereotype. It sounds naive. You like to make sweeping criticisms of government institutions yet attribute such universal flaws to the U.S. directly. You sound upset with Americans in general. Did one of us cuck you or something? Pack up your Occupy / early 2000s punk music mentality and go make posts on the Science gently caress Yeah! page or something.
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Jun 12, 2015 04:32
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China doesn't think. China feels.
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Jun 12, 2015 11:19
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Fojar38 posted:doobie robots Electric Laughin' Spittin' Doobie Robot
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Hey WW3 guys, is there any reason to think that a total war wouldn't kick off with an ionospheric nuclear detonation to EM wipe out every unshielded system on the opposing continent? Like, is that real science or just speculation? Because that's a ferocious opening move.
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Arkanomen posted:This is all you need to know about China and modern technology. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenzhou_train_collision The U.S. Really shouldn't be laughing when it comes to Train accidents.
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