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shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

Spacman posted:

Thank god he has not demonstrated at every opportunity his intention to escalate this situation

Known Unkown: which one you're talking about

Known Known: it doesn't matter

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orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



How does a magnitude 5.2 classify in terms of explosive power?

redneck nazgul
Apr 25, 2013

Waroduce posted:

Wanna be a fly on the wall when the staffers are picking who gets to wake up trump snd tell him lmao

He'll find out via Fox tomorrow morning.

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014

Waroduce posted:

Wanna be a fly on the wall when the staffers are picking who gets to wake up trump snd tell him lmao

Been done already, NSC convened 45 mins ago

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit
Do you think he'll loving go to war because he's worried about being so publicly humiliated if he doesn't?

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014


redneck nazgul posted:

He'll find out via Fox tomorrow morning.

It has been clearly established he gets his news twice a day in happy news packs, could be weeks before he finds this out

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

Pesticide20 posted:

Do you think he'll loving go to war because he's worried about being so publicly humiliated if he doesn't?

Here's hoping his reaction is the same as everything that happened after 'fire and fury': loving nothing.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose
Glory be to the Bomb, and to the Holy Fallout. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. World without end. Amen.

As Nero Danced
Sep 3, 2009

Alright, let's do this

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Glory be to the Bomb, and to the Holy Fallout. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. World without end. Amen.

Hail Satan, let the cleansing light rain upon us.

Waroduce
Aug 5, 2008
So what should be in my nuclear survival backpack if I am not returned to dust immediately

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Spacman posted:

Been done already, NSC convened 45 mins ago

Does he even deal with them directly?

Edit: Goddamn it we were joking at work that invasion was planned for this weekend but it was the holiday so it'll be in a few days.

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014
Handy lifehack: Repurpose your eclipse glasses so you don't get retinal burns while staring directly at the blast!

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?
Gentlemen, I come to you on this day with mixed feelings.

On the one hand, I'm deeply distressed to tell you I have learned that we may have to shift our efforts of worship away from the SS-18 SATAN to the RS-28 SARMAT, because it turns out the SS-18 was designed and built in Ukraine, and Russia deems all things Ukrainian icky and not good or cool these days.

On the other hand, this development brings no small amount of relief to me, because being German and worshipping anything connected to the designation "SS-18" on an internet forum is, uh, somewhat hard to explain.

Beeb
Jun 29, 2003

Good hunter, free us from this waking nightmare

Waroduce posted:

So what should be in my nuclear survival backpack if I am not returned to dust immediately

Bottlecaps, duh

And something more robust than a loving bobby pin

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Spacman posted:

It has been clearly established he gets his news twice a day in happy news packs, could be weeks before he finds this out

He will be watching Fox News, possibly even before he goes to bed, primarily because most news reports had images of himself passing out aid and hugging Texans.

Fox News will be replacing that poo poo immediately with North Korea warmongering because drat near every cable news channel, even MSNBC, jerk themselves off at the thought of a new war to cover. Especially when targetted attacks make pundits call Trump "presidential".

So there's Donald Trump, expecting his positive coverage all weekend, instead having Kim poo poo all over his good coverage with a whole bunch of pundits on TV calling Trump weak if Trump doesn't do anything.

:toot:

Loving Africa Chaps
Dec 3, 2007


We had not left it yet, but when I would wake in the night, I would lie, listening, homesick for it already.

Japan is saying it's 100kt which is a big step up from previous tests

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus
don't worry guys we have the best people on this, the best

As Nero Danced
Sep 3, 2009

Alright, let's do this

Loving Africa Chaps posted:

Japan is saying it's 100kt which is a big step up from previous tests

drat, isn't that nearly a whole order of magnitude bigger than what they've pulled off so far?

Gobbeldygook
May 13, 2009
Hates Native American people and tries to justify their genocides.

Put this racist on ignore immediately!

As Nero Danced posted:

drat, isn't that nearly a whole order of magnitude bigger than what they've pulled off so far?
https://twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/904197086815543296
USGS revised their estimate upward.

pick up the pace
Dec 7, 2009

I swear if this fucks up my long weekend...

Sushi The Kid
Sep 10, 2005
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I was just about to post the USGS update. 1 Megaton. 1000 Kilotons.

I was born in 77. Lots of duck and cover "Tornado drills" in elementary school. I figured out what was going on by reading and watching the news. Cracked open the World Book encyclopedia and read up on nuclear weapons. I knew then that if one nuke gets launched and detonated it was pretty much game over.

It's probably why I never really applied myself. Someday and probably soon, we are all gonna die in a nuclear hellfire

HAIL SS-18 SATAN. Or Dongs isn't that the NK version ?

Professor Bling
Nov 12, 2008

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

welp at least i won't have to endure the torture of seeing SF fall into the ocean

Loving Africa Chaps
Dec 3, 2007


We had not left it yet, but when I would wake in the night, I would lie, listening, homesick for it already.

I think it's been revised down again

https://twitter.com/stevenjgibbons/status/904237002752749568

Dead Reckoning
Sep 13, 2011
I mean, if we're going to do something about it, may as well start before they get around to mass producing 100kt+ class weapons.

Maimgara
May 2, 2007
Chlorine for the Gene-pool.
Along with all this "Norks test >100 kT bomb", there is pictures of Kim inspecting the son of the discoball of death:


ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus
They do better mockups than Iran at least.

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Guys it's ok they haven't demonstrated a working reentry vehicle yet!

Smiling Jack
Dec 2, 2001

I sucked a dick for bus fare and then I walked home.

Suck it up you millennial snowflakes wake me up when north Korea can single handedly initiate a truly world ending nuclear armageddon

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?
I feel really, really bad for South Korea

Loving Africa Chaps
Dec 3, 2007


We had not left it yet, but when I would wake in the night, I would lie, listening, homesick for it already.

hobbesmaster posted:

Guys it's ok they haven't demonstrated a working reentry vehicle yet!

In one of the threads about this test someone was claiming the re-entry vehicle survived to 1km and that's airburst territory so....

Dead Reckoning
Sep 13, 2011

Loving Africa Chaps posted:

In one of the threads about this test someone was claiming the re-entry vehicle survived to 1km and that's airburst territory so....

He was being sarcastic. Building an RV is trivial compared to a rocket or nuclear weapon. Yeah, if you're the U.S.A. and want to put your payload through the uprights of a football field on the other side of the planet, there are significant technical challenges, but if you're OK with "somewhere in Southern California" miss distances, it's not hard.

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





i'm wondering if putting a guy in the nosecone with a gps and a joystick is gonna be the cheapest and most effective option for NK

i'm only half joking

Dead Reckoning
Sep 13, 2011
Going by the memoirs of early NASA engineers, it's probably worse than just tossing it on an unguided ballistic trajectory.

As Nero Danced
Sep 3, 2009

Alright, let's do this

Two Finger posted:

i'm wondering if putting a guy in the nosecone with a gps and a joystick is gonna be the cheapest and most effective option for NK

i'm only half joking

Gives them a good excuse if we intercept, we killed their astronaut. Or a very dedicated defector.

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





As Nero Danced posted:

Gives them a good excuse if we intercept, we killed their astronaut. Or a very dedicated defector.

hahahahahaa LOOK I BROUGHT THEIR BEST WEAPON WITH ME

Maimgara
May 2, 2007
Chlorine for the Gene-pool.

Two Finger posted:

i'm wondering if putting a guy in the nosecone with a gps and a joystick is gonna be the cheapest and most effective option for NK

i'm only half joking

The Nazis were planning that with their Projekt Amerika follow-up to the V2 (Aggregat 4) missile family:

quote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregat_(rocket_family)
It was proposed to use an advanced version of the A9 to attack targets on the US mainland from launch sites in Europe, for which it would need to be launched atop a booster stage, the A10.

Design work on the A10 began in 1940, for a projected first flight to take place in 1946. The initial design was carried out by Ludwig Roth und Graupe and was completed on 29 June 1940. Hermann Oberth worked on the design during 1941, and in December 1941 Walter Thiel proposed that the A10 use an engine composed of six bundled A4 engines, which it was thought would give a total thrust of 180 tonnes.

Work on the A10 was resumed in late 1944 under the Projekt Amerika codename, and the A10's design was amended to incorporate a cluster of 6 A4 combustion chambers feeding into a single expansion nozzle. This was later altered to a massive single chamber and single nozzle. Test stands were constructed at Peenemunde for firings of the 200 tonne thrust motor.

It was considered that existing guidance systems would not be accurate enough over a distance of 5,000 km, and it was decided to make the A9 piloted. The pilot was to be guided on his terminal glide towards the target by radio beacons on U-boats and by automatic weather stations landed in Greenland and Labrador.

The final design of the A10 booster was approximately 20 m (66 ft) in height. Powered by a 1,670 kN (380,000 lbf) thrust rocket burning diesel oil and nitric acid, during its 50-second burn it would have propelled its A9 second stage to a speed of about 4,300 km/h (2,700 mph) and an altitude of 400 km (250 mi).[31]

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?
Current event: LA appears to be on fire

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

HEAVYARMS

Sushi The Kid posted:

The injured guy they were trying to get blood from was a off duty cop aledgely.

Bonus content: off duty cop was injured due to being the victim of a car crash instigated by a high speed police chase so it's just super likely they were trying to find any reason to pin the blame on the unconscious guy instead of you know, starting a high speed chase.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Maimgara posted:

The Nazis were planning that with their Projekt Amerika follow-up to the V2 (Aggregat 4) missile family:

Schwarzgerät?

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Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Trump's just delivering on his campaign promise to make anime real by ensuring we get a Neo-Tokyo by 2018.

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