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That’s a countdown. Given what they were working with, I’m sure there was a few fiery booms somewhere along the line.
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Aug 10, 2020 11:18
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RD-350, a rocket engine that spews pure hydrogen fluoride out the back. Certainly nothing can go wrong with this.
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Aug 10, 2020 12:59
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Bar Ran Dun posted:Edit: I love the smell of the odorant. It is garlic. Sometime in the late 80's National Geographic had a put out an issue focuses on smell, it came with a strip of like a dozen unlabeled scratch & sniff spots + a survey to fill out. In a follow-up they talked about the stats, and noted that one of the odors was a mercaptan warning odor for natural gas, but like 10% of respondents and 30% of older adults had described it as pleasant. Smelled like onion skins imho. They suggested that this be Looked Into, but I'd guess that there's a good financial reason for not making it unambigiously gross. Probably as simple as "an occasional hint of garlic blends in well with kitchen, as opposed to a stove that smells like farts."
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When the list of biggest non-nuclear explosions came up earlier, I was surprised that the SS John Burke wasn't on it down around #9 or #10. It was an ammunition ship that took a direct hit from a kamikaze in WWII. Also notable because it was caught on camera. Liberty ships carried about 10k ton of cargo, so a decent % of that would have been high explosive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thbQKQ094ho
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Aug 10, 2020 13:28
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I'm just tired of telling people on twitter that a) Yes, contaminated AN stored in a warehouse that's on fire next to confiscated illegal fireforks (also on fire, natch) can actually explode, b) no, it didn't take an Israeli missile to set it off, and that blob in your video is probably a bird or some debris, and c) no, this was certainly not a nuke.
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Aug 11, 2020 18:19
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Computer viking posted:I'm just tired of telling people on twitter that a) Yes, contaminated AN stored in a warehouse that's on fire next to confiscated illegal fireforks (also on fire, natch) can actually explode, b) no, it didn't take an Israeli missile to set it off, and that blob in your video is probably a bird or some debris, and c) no, this was certainly not a nuke. I'm just tired of telling people that the shock pulse from a bulk AN detonation doesn't yield the same damage circles as a unitary TNT blast or a comparably-scaled nuclear blast due to the impulse of the pressure wave. You can't make yield estimation from fireball size. You can't really make yield estimation from straight overpressure effects from the videos that have been released, either. Like jeez, people, sure it's 300 tons unitary equivalent, but that's not .3kt, nor is it the result of "only 300 tons" going off.
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Aug 11, 2020 19:06
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no see it was an israeli super thermite nano nuke, ignoring that if israeli agents WERE behind this they’d just need to start a fire and let 2700 tons of the material responsible for a dozen other massive industrial disasters do what it does when it catches on fire, that being cause a massive industrial disaster
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Aug 12, 2020 02:02
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It was interesting to see all the wild theories flying around twitter in the immediate aftermath while meanwhile I'm posting "yeah I'm 99% sure that's a fertilizer explosion" and being studiously ignored because that's clearly not wild enough for the world today.
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Aug 12, 2020 10:39
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Vando posted:It was interesting to see all the wild theories flying around twitter in the immediate aftermath while meanwhile I'm posting "yeah I'm 99% sure that's a fertilizer explosion" and being studiously ignored because that's clearly not wild enough for the world today. That poo poo doesn't get likes or clout. My extraterrestrial energy weapon theory, on the other hand...
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Aug 12, 2020 13:23
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Make your own fun: https://observatory.db.erau.edu/generators/signs/
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Midjack posted:Make your own fun: 
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Aug 20, 2020 05:55
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I mean you aren't wrong, if you're inhaling iron vapor it won't be good for you
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Ooh thanks, that link is fun for the whole family.   
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I figured this needed the dog somewhere, but wasn't sure where
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LifeSunDeath posted:I figured this needed the dog somewhere, but wasn't sure where 
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Aug 20, 2020 18:39
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If I start a new factory job and they ask "How good at you at platforming?" I'm going home.
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Aug 20, 2020 18:40
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By the way, this image link is where automatically generated images are placed. Every time you refresh this page, you'll see a different picture. Edit: Oh, seems it only updates if someone presses the random button on the page.
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Aug 20, 2020 19:42
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New form of Nitrogen has been found. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxPKuxrrG7A https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.216001 I wonder how explodey this stuff is
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jaken97 posted:New form of Nitrogen has been found. “Studies of polynitrogen phases are of great interest for fundamental science and for the design of novel high energy density materials.” So, probably very.
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Aug 21, 2020 00:05
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jaken97 posted:New form of Nitrogen has been found. Given that they say it only forms at 1.4 million atmospheres at 4000C+, it'll probably be a while before we find out..........or we'll find out rather quickly.
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Aug 21, 2020 00:05
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jaken97 posted:New form of Nitrogen has been found. Get Klapotke on the case.
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AAAAAAAAAA Jesus gently caress that episode hosed me up when I was an literal childe. It was the first and last time I tried to watch that show, and I don't even remember what it was about. (The PBS affiliate used to show that late-night on Saturdays).
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Aug 21, 2020 20:45
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I tried to make a FOOF sign and failed  
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Aug 21, 2020 21:42
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This thread often talked about Command and Control and other rockety stuff, so figured this would go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzR-uaJSZBo
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LifeSunDeath posted:This thread often talked about Command and Control and other rockety stuff, so figured this would go here: Jesus, at least it was only for Sidewinders. Although I'm 100% certain the lockout/arm keys for nukes couldn't have been that much more secure.
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Aug 24, 2020 15:04
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I mean if you're gonna pick the lock on your missiles while they're in the air/while you're flying the plane/while your trainer is in the rear cockpit I'm pretty sure a better lock won't stop you. Like it's clearly meant to just stop you shooting them accidentally.
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Aug 24, 2020 15:14
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He has a video on Master LOTO locks, which have probably the best cores Master makes, in plastic bodies with unhardened shackles, because they're not there to make it impossible to access something, but to make it impossible to access a thing without it being obvious. Sort of the same principle here.
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Aug 24, 2020 15:57
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Schadenboner posted:Jesus gently caress that episode hosed me up when I was an literal childe. It was the first and last time I tried to watch that show, and I don't even remember what it was about.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Jesus, at least it was only for Sidewinders. Although I'm 100% certain the lockout/arm keys for nukes couldn't have been that much more secure. The Brits used a *bicycle lock* on the WE.177. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2007/11/british-nukes-a/amp
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The Brits used a *bicycle lock* on the WE.177. Uhh holy poo poo the second part of that: quote:But an even-more unnerving fact remains. The BBC alleges that British Trident nuclear submarine skippers can still launch their missiles – without any code being sent from their commanders. According to the BBC, the Ministry of Defence said that "the safeguards that other countries built in... were not relevant to British submarines."
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Yeah, British boomers go out on the honor system because it's theoretically feasible that the Russians could vaporize their NCA before they could send any go codes. The "Letters of Last Resort" are  -worthy and have supposedly never been seen except by the PMs who wrote them. It's been rumored that Thatcher's was simply "Avenge us."
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BIG HEADLINE posted:It's been rumored that Thatcher's was simply "Avenge us." Yeah I'll get right on that *sound of me pissing on Thatchers grave begins*
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LifeSunDeath posted:Yeah I'll get right on that *sound of me pissing on Thatchers grave begins* That's the best possible response, but honestly "Avenge us" is pretty loving brutal.
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cakesmith handyman posted:That's the best possible response, but honestly "Avenge us" is pretty loving brutal. My response would be a simple paper sheet with the lyrics to Rick Astley's "Never gonna give you up" scrawled on it
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