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Video Nasty posted:cyberbra but it just chops yer tits off 
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in the end this is (again) elon longing back for apartheid south africa. they gave up nuclear weapons because they didn't want their oppressed black population to get their hands on nukes if they'd ever take over
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Apr 23, 2024 06:33
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it's also not really true (unless he's talking about WWII or 1980's south africa style warheads), for instance the U.S. forgot how to make one of the required materials after a mere 11 years of being out of production and had to reverse engineer the process at great expense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogbank
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Apr 23, 2024 08:07
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shackleford posted:it's also not really true (unless he's talking about WWII or 1980's south africa style warheads), for instance the U.S. forgot how to make one of the required materials after a mere 11 years of being out of production and had to reverse engineer the process at great expense There is a difference between minimum viable product, so to speak, and the later advanced thermonuclear bombs.
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Apr 23, 2024 08:12
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yeah. Like its not something you do on a whim but making a clone of something like fat man or little boy is not super challenging except for the materials. if you dont care a lot about minimal size or maximal yield nuclear warheads are fairly straightforward items.
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Apr 23, 2024 08:25
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like everything elon musk says, it is barely true in a deliberately evasive way. it is true that it's not very difficult to make a little boy-type uranium gun bomb if you have access to "modern materials" (i.e. weapons-grade highly enriched uranium). the bomb itself is simple ballistics that a well equipped terrorist/revolutionary organization, something like aum shinrikyo, could probably pull off. hence why the nations of the world are so concerned about keeping track of HEU. of course, creating HEU is extraordinarily difficult and it costs billions of dollars to spin up enough for a bomb from scratch. so no, it is not realistic to be concerned that "anyone" could make a nuclear weapon, unless there's an etsy store i don't know about selling dozens of kilograms of artisanal weapons-grade uranium. creating anything more advanced than a gun-type weapon, including a fat man style implosion bomb (which is required to use plutonium) and any form of thermonuclear weapon, requires a national-scale nuclear science program and extensive engineering ability even beyond getting the nuclear material. let's guess what he's actually trying to say here, though. i'm guessing it's dogwhistle fearmongering that hamas is going to get the bomb, to eventually be used as justification for israel nuking gaza.
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Apr 23, 2024 08:27
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Personally, I would save time & cost by developing a modern fusion weapon directly, and not waste effort on obsolete designs.
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Apr 23, 2024 08:31
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is elon talking about little boys again
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Apr 23, 2024 08:34
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Sagebrush posted:
hes pitching his services to whoever will bite i cant wait for myanmar or venezuela to get a tesla brand nuke with all of the quality and top notch engineering that name implies
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Apr 23, 2024 08:51
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@nmaduro Historically nuclear weapons design is multi year process, but can be achieved in under 6 months by leveraging Grok AI + Tesla manufacturing. Creating nuclear fuel is solved problem & not a concern. Venezuela will be nuclear power by end of year
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Apr 23, 2024 09:11
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he's gonna start on a "we can terraform mars by nuking it" thing just wait
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Apr 23, 2024 09:30
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yeah, the problem isn’t building a device, it’s weaponizing it.
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Apr 23, 2024 09:49
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I would start by shoving Plutonium down Musk's throat.
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Apr 23, 2024 10:07
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gschmidl posted:I would start by shoving Plutonium down Musk's throat. What a fate for some innocent radionuclides.
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Apr 23, 2024 10:10
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a hollow plutonium sphere and some clever application of detcord is probably enough these days also IIRC modern warheads are neither size- nor weight-optimized in most cases, only constrained; the cleverness is in the safety features as well as maximizing density
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Apr 23, 2024 10:22
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:he's gonna start on a "we can terraform mars by nuking it" thing just wait might be misremembering a common sense sceptic video but I'm pretty sure he has unironically espoused this plan multiple times in the past
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Apr 23, 2024 10:56
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Sagebrush posted:let's guess what he's actually trying to say here, though. i'm guessing it's dogwhistle fearmongering that hamas is going to get the bomb, to eventually be used as justification for israel nuking gaza. almost we're about two exchanges away from israel nuking iran, or at least strikes on their nuclear facilities
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Apr 23, 2024 11:59
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It's actually really hard to build a nuke even a lovely one. Weapons grade fissile material is an order of magnitude harder to enrich than reactor fuel. Then you still need physicists skilled enough to understand how explosions work and build a conventional explosive bomb that will implode the material fast enough to trigger the fission event. Even if a supervillain handed you a box of enrich fissile material the average person could not build a nuke with "household items" and YouTube or whatever. At best you'd probably make a dirty bomb and despite the fever dreams of Bush era war criminals, rinkydinky terrorists aren't detonating these regularly nobody is handing suitcases of enriched material. Elon isn't even "technically correct", he's just wrong and an idiot.
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Apr 23, 2024 12:24
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on the other hand musk has proven himself an expert in accidentally improvised explosives
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Apr 23, 2024 12:42
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maxwellhill posted:is elon talking about little boys again and his compact tubes for them, yes
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Apr 23, 2024 12:46
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idk he's more of a fat man if you ask me
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Apr 23, 2024 12:56
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Koesj posted:the cleverness is in the safety features this sounds like a classic elon market disruption opportunity
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Apr 23, 2024 12:59
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how long until tesla earnings are announced?
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Apr 23, 2024 13:18
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the call is apparently 17:30 eastern, so around then I think
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Apr 23, 2024 13:31
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Was wondering about the odometer stuff, and it's not the first time it's come up. Tesla odometers have been fucky in a fun variety of ways for quite a long time now. It just seems like now it's getting more attention. lol
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Apr 23, 2024 13:33
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Fiedler posted:this sounds like a classic elon market disruption opportunity bomb guesses detonation conditions
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Apr 23, 2024 13:33
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Plank Walker posted:bomb guesses detonation conditions so dark star then: https://youtu.be/h73PsFKtIck?si=k4o2In-MYFsEHVYV
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Apr 23, 2024 13:38
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mrmcd posted:It's actually really hard to build a nuke even a lovely one. Weapons grade fissile material is an order of magnitude harder to enrich than reactor fuel. Then you still need physicists skilled enough to understand how explosions work and build a conventional explosive bomb that will implode the material fast enough to trigger the fission event. Even if a supervillain handed you a box of enrich fissile material the average person could not build a nuke with "household items" and YouTube or whatever. At best you'd probably make a dirty bomb and despite the fever dreams of Bush era war criminals, rinkydinky terrorists aren't detonating these regularly nobody is handing suitcases of enriched material. the only weapons grade to consider when it comes to Elon, is how much of a weapons grade dickhead he is.
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Apr 23, 2024 13:40
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mrmcd posted:It's actually really hard to build a nuke even a lovely one. Weapons grade fissile material is an order of magnitude harder to enrich than reactor fuel. Then you still need physicists skilled enough to understand how explosions work and build a conventional explosive bomb that will implode the material fast enough to trigger the fission event. Even if a supervillain handed you a box of enrich fissile material the average person could not build a nuke with "household items" and YouTube or whatever. At best you'd probably make a dirty bomb and despite the fever dreams of Bush era war criminals, rinkydinky terrorists aren't detonating these regularly nobody is handing suitcases of enriched material. to me it reads like the classic Silicon Valley idea guy dismissiveness of real world engineering. it would be right at home in a TedX talk.
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Apr 23, 2024 13:50
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Find replace “nuke” with “electric car” and it is still accurate
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Apr 23, 2024 14:05
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looking very swollen with potential here sir! great job!
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Apr 23, 2024 14:09
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elon, looking in the mirror, clutching his 'emotional support animal' X: "not so difficult to build fat man and little boy with modern materials"
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Apr 23, 2024 14:41
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mrmcd posted:It's actually really hard to build a nuke even a lovely one. Weapons grade fissile material is an order of magnitude harder to enrich than reactor fuel. Then you still need physicists skilled enough to understand how explosions work and build a conventional explosive bomb that will implode the material fast enough to trigger the fission event. Even if a supervillain handed you a box of enrich fissile material the average person could not build a nuke with "household items" and YouTube or whatever. At best you'd probably make a dirty bomb and despite the fever dreams of Bush era war criminals, rinkydinky terrorists aren't detonating these regularly nobody is handing suitcases of enriched material. a dirty bomb is exceedingly easy to build. the problem is, as everyone else has pointed out, getting the materials even the "bad" governments have been pretty good at the whole "keeping nuclear material extremely difficult to get" thing, except maybe in some places like that village in kazakhstan or whatever that the USSR used for nuclear testing and as a result everyone and everything in it is radioactive. but those places are obviously very dangerous to begin with e: and a dirty bomb would be more than enough to achieve whatever terrorist objectives you might have etc. there's no need for a HEU nuke unless you really want to wipe a place out Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 14:50 on Apr 23, 2024 |
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Apr 23, 2024 14:47
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somebody shop this into the infamous bigfoot shot.
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Apr 23, 2024 14:55
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Shifty Pony posted:to me it reads like the classic Silicon Valley idea guy dismissiveness of real world engineering. that plus the futurist mindset of treating technological progress like a videogame tech tree, so if it was hard in the 20th century then it must be easy now because we're so much smarter and higher-tech now
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TerminalRaptor posted:somebody shop this into the infamous bigfoot shot. maybe a cybertruck in the foreground instead of the pile of rocks
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Apr 23, 2024 15:31
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TerminalRaptor posted:somebody shop this into the infamous bigfoot shot. 
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lmao
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I think something broke on Twitter this morning because all retweets were prefaced with the old Manual way of "RT @handle", and when I went to post it would say something went wrong, and when I hit Retry it would say "you already posted that!" lol
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