orange juche posted:

Doesn't plutonium have the capability to spontaneously ignite for pretty much no reason at all?

orange juche posted:

Doesn't plutonium have the capability to spontaneously ignite for pretty much no reason at all?

orange juche posted:

Doesn't plutonium have the capability to spontaneously ignite for pretty much no reason at all?

Booblord Zagats posted:

No. You see, there's a sizable difference between nuclear physics/chemistry and 'loving magic'

orange juche posted:

I got it mixed up, bulk plutonium only ignites when heated. Powdered plutonium, and Pu2O3 ignite at ambient temps.

Also, no I do not mean their ability to produce heat, powdered plutonium and Pu2O3 will literally burn.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070428220410/http://www.hss.energy.gov/NuclearSafety/techstds/standard/hdbk1081/hbk1081d.html#ZZ281

orange juche posted:

I got it mixed up, bulk plutonium only ignites when heated. Powdered plutonium, and Pu2O3 ignite at ambient temps.

Also, no I do not mean their ability to produce heat, powdered plutonium and Pu2O3 will literally burn.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070428220410/http://www.hss.energy.gov/NuclearSafety/techstds/standard/hdbk1081/hbk1081d.html#ZZ281

Bolow posted:

The SMAW has had thermobaric warheads for awhile now as well

Dead Reckoning posted:

Shim's been killing it in the otherwise worthless Israel/Palestine thread.

GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:

Hamas missiles are bullshit firecrackers but at least it gets us nice dystopian videos from weddings and poo poo of the missile shields intercepting them

Reverand maynard posted:

just because someone shot but missed doesn't mean you don't gently caress them up

Mad Dragon posted:

He has an entire waitstaff following him around?

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

Meanwhile, in Best Korea...

http://www.rodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?strPageID=SF01_02_01&newsID=2014-07-02-0010&chAction=T

at the date posted:

I basically never have strong political opinions on anything, even supposedly clear-cut issues like the systematic murder of unborn children or civil rights for gays, but somehow I am 100% on the Israeli government's side here. The few people in that thread actually making arguments instead of dogpiling the IDF dude are pretending like Hamas was a peaceful organization not at all bent on annihilating the Jews until like 5 days ago when an Israeli bomb killed a kid AND THAT CROSSED THE LINE.

e: Even Hamas says that they launched hundreds of missiles at civilian targets (including a nuclear power plant) this week to avenge six militants who died when a literal terrorist tunnel collapsed. DnD is now continues to invent its own propaganda.

Lazy Reservist posted:

Israel is looking for an ultimate answer, a final solution, if you will, to the Arab question

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

Meanwhile, in Best Korea...

http://www.rodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?strPageID=SF01_02_01&newsID=2014-07-02-0010&chAction=T

Helldump Immunity. posted:

he's actually holding his senior officers to physical standards? mad respect, baby chonger.

psydude posted:

Can't we just admit that both Israel and Palestine are terrible loving places and leave them to perpetually kill eachother in peace?

Courthouse posted:

We should just give them a one year free card from external involvement to settle the issue, and promise to pretend that we didn't see what happened during that time. May the best Semites win.

Reverand maynard posted:

I wonder what would happen to Mexico if they took up the habit of lobbing missiles at the US.

Reverand maynard posted:

I wonder what would happen to Mexico if they took up the habit of lobbing missiles at the US.

Booblord Zagats posted:

Mexico would be a crater. Israel shows way more restraint than any world power would given a similar situation. Look at Chechnya and how China handles EVERYTHING

Loving Africa Chaps posted:

I dunno mate they bomb the poo poo out of gaza on the regs

Booblord Zagats posted:

Mexico would be a crater. Israel shows way more restraint than any world power would given a similar situation. Look at Chechnya and how China handles EVERYTHING

Booblord Zagats posted:

The only reason Israel isn't engaging in WW2 style carpet bombing is they still worry about losing US/NATO support. If it weren't for that, I'm pretty sure Israel's borders would look an awful lot like the Ottoman Empire's by now

psydude posted:

Can't we just admit that both Israel and Palestine are terrible loving places and leave them to perpetually kill eachother in peace?

Booblord Zagats posted:

If it weren't for that, I'm pretty sure Israel's borders would look an awful lot like the Ottoman Empire's by now

Snowdens Secret posted:

Moral equivalency in action, also claiming Palestine is an actual place

Loving Africa Chaps posted:

You need to give palestinians 3 billion dollars too to even it up. Think of the rad rockets they'd come up if they had that.

EDIT: the interesting thing about iron dome is that the palestinians could put serious financial hurt on isreal by having $100 rockets get shot down by $50k intercepts

quote:

Sunny with light missile cover in Tel Aviv this morning. I awoke to muffled thuds in the distance, Iron Dome shooting down Syrian-made missiles launched from Gaza, according to news reports. I attended the obligatory morning mixer for hotel guests at the bomb shelter, which fortunately lasted only five minutes before the all-clear sounded. ...the thumbnail version is that Hamas is making a demonstration out of weakness. Money is tight, 44,000 Gaza civil servants haven’t been paid for weeks, and the IDF did significant damage to its infrastructure on the West Bank after the kidnapping-murder of the three yeshiva boys. Netanyahu will look indecisive and confused, because he has to deal with an openly hostile U.S. administration on one side and his nationalist camp on the other. Time, though, is on Israel’s side: economically, demographically, strategically. The proportion of Jewish births continues to soar. The fruits of a decade of venture capital investing are ripening into high-valuation companies. And the Arab world is disintegrating all around Israel’s borders.

I have no idea whether the IDF will go into Gaza on the ground, or what they will do if they do so: that’s a tricky cost-benefit calculation, and no-one outside the government has relevant information. But the broader point is that Israel will win a war of attrition. Hamas has shot off hundreds of rockets (including one that landed a few kilometers from me up north in Zichron Yaakov while I had lunch there yesterday) without causing a single injury. Iron Dome has worked brilliantly. Traffic was a bit lighter than normal last night, but there wasn’t a free table at any of the hundred or so cafe terraces on Dizengoff St., Tel Aviv’s main drag.

There will be no Intifada on the West Bank: the Palestinian Arabs are older, more resigned and less inclined to destroy their livelihoods than in 2000. Syria and Iraq continue to disintegrate, Lebanon is inundated with Syrian Sunni refugees (weakening Hezbollah’s relative position), and Jordan is looking to Israel to protect it against ISIS. Egypt is busy trying to survive economically.

Medium-term, the boycott and BDS threat become irrelevant. “Startup nation” is becoming market-cap nation as hundreds of Israeli firms exit the venture capital stage and become profitable, mature enterprises. There’s never been anything like this. India and China beckon with a combined market of 2.5 billion people. To the extent that the Europeans threaten Israel with sanctions, the term “Middle East” gradually will be replaced by “Western Asia.”

[I was interrupted by another brief visit to the bomb shelter, again for five minutes.]

In the short-term, to be sure, Israel must proceed with caution. It is still vulnerable to pressure from the U.S., which provides the bulk of its military hardware, and economic pressure from Europe, which accounts for a third of its trade. Nonetheless, Israel is winning and its adversaries are losing. B’ezrat Hashem Israel will prevail.

Lazy Reservist posted:

Israel is looking for an ultimate answer, a final solution, if you will, to the Arab question

Godholio posted:

quote:

A Polish news magazine said on Sunday it had obtained a secret recording of Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, in contention for a senior European Union job, saying that Poland's relationship with the United States was worthless.

The Wprost news magazine said the recording was of a private conversation earlier this year between Sikorski and Jacek Rostowski, a member of parliament with the ruling Civic Platform who until last year was finance minister.

According to a transcript of excerpts of the conversation that was published by Wprost on its Internet site, Sikorski told Rostowski: "You know that the Polish-US alliance isn't worth anything."

"It is downright harmful, because it creates a false sense of security ... Complete bullshit. We'll get in conflict with the Germans, Russians and we'll think that everything is super, because we gave the Americans a blow job. Losers. Complete losers."

According to the transcript, Sikorski described Warsaw's attitude towards the United States using the Polish word "murzynskosc." That derives from the word "murzyn," which denotes a dark-skinned person and someone who does the work for somebody else, according to the PWN Polish language dictionary.

Godholio posted:

He called America a friend of the family?

quote:

In some regards, In my observation, I may be inclined to agree with him. In my opinion (and that of many other Polish Diaspora here in the U.S.), Poland has been used as sort of a ‘shortstop’ in the affairs of the world; covering the holes of necessity when and where they are needed but not really given the equal reciprocation and due respect that should go along with that due credit and respect. Whenever the U.S. needs Poland, then they come, hat in hand full of promises.

[For example,] President Obama clearly stated from the beginning of his term of office, that he would make removing the Visa Waiver program one of his priorities, and, like most of everything else he’s promised, it’s all been hot air and pipe dreams, with absolutely no concrete results whatsoever. Meanwhile, on the surface, for the public display, it’s all smiles and handshakes.