priznat posted:

Well for one you aren’t going to get notifications from coal plants like the one that happened by accident in Ontario yesterday causing mass pants making GBS threads


https://www.cp24.com/mobile/news/we-need-answers-mass-alert-about-pickering-nuclear-generating-station-sent-in-error-1.4763685


Logically yes, nuclear is a potentially cleaner and even safer option than GHG causing options but people by and large in large groups are neither logical or rational.

I think the reason it is successful in France especially in the west is due to the French weird blasé attitude to basically everything.

NightGyr posted:

Current US arsenal, ~1.5 Gt. Peak arsenal had 5x the warheads, and probably a lot of larger ones, so let's say 15 Gt.

at 173,000 terawatts, that's 6 minutes of solar flux hitting the earth.

So we just need to MRSI the missiles to all go off within 6 minutes, and we can overpower the sun.

Mazz posted:

You need a heater in most Diesel truck engines don’t you? At least when it’s actually cold outside

priznat posted:

Welp I can’t see much else topping this, daymn

Captain von Trapp posted:

Ah. Physical vulnerability of defense critical infrastructure. That makes more sense, although I'm still not sure what statutory authority they'd have to stop publication. Or when they're going to learn about the Streisand Effect.

Nebakenezzer posted:

I think that's a good thread idea, friend

Guest2553 posted:

If you think radially, every molecule of that leading edge is traveling at a slightly different speed which sounds like an affront to the laws of both god and man.

Cat Mattress posted:

The crew of an aircraft carrier shouting "fight the power!" is, I guess, the kind of things that happen now in this world that is ours.

https://twitter.com/AmberSmithUSA/status/1246052144115077120

Captain von Trapp posted:

Apropos of nothing, I once worked for a DoD agency that made a terribly unpopular decision that affected workforce pay, with the hardest hit being the newest and lowest paid. A senior leader sent an email to a mailing list that was basically "management-all" about how to break it to the employees during their performance reviews. It said words to the effect of "It's tempting to blame senior leadership, but don't. You must pretend with a straight face that we're right and they're wrong, even if we're plainly contradicting what we told the workforce a few months ago."

JcDent posted:

Reading this thread makes one wonder how US still has the world's most powerful military and you have to remind yourself that
a) the others are much smaller
b) everyone else probably has their own exciting grift, incompetence and gently caress ups.

Like India designing a rifle so bad it had to be replaced with mothballed AKs.

MrYenko posted:

Pontius Pilate posted:

Crossposting from the milhist thread since I figure y’all may be of more help for the second bit:

A couple of friends came to me for book recommendations (flattering) but I told them I’d ask people more knowledgeable than myself, so here I am. Neither of them are degenerate history nerds so they’re both looking for an approachable overview—like a book by a *journalist* would be alright so long as it isn’t bullshit.

First friend was looking for a book on the Khmer Rouge. Figured the scholarship has moved on since my high school paper “Pol Pot: Not so Hot” so I didn’t recommend that to him.

Second was looking for an overview of the war on terror during the Bush years. Perhaps not history yet but I trust y’all for recommendations on a still somewhat charged issue. She’d appreciate background on the subject so ideally it’d stretch into at least the firmly historical 80s, but she still did want discussion of US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. Same goes for the first friend—they may not be degenerate history nerds like us, but they’re still good people and thus appreciate historical context.

Thanks in advance goons!

quote:

The E. W. Bliss Company secured manufacturing rights to the Whitehead torpedo in 1892 and thereafter supplied the US Navy with this weapon.[3] In 1904, an engineer with E. W. Bliss, Frank M. Leavitt, designed a torpedo with a "single-stage vertical turbine engine"[2] that utilized compressed air preheated by alcohol. This design became the Bliss-Leavitt Mark 1 torpedo, the first non-Whitehead design after the Howell torpedo.

quote:

Model 53-27 (1927) with 265 kg of TNT was developed domestically in the so-called Ostekhbureau [Wikidata], and it had a poor 3.7 km range at 45 knots. In 1932 USSR bought in Italy several types of torpedoes, and the 21-inch model of Whitehead plant in Rijeka (in the Soviet Union it was designated 53F) was considered superior. After adapting several features from the latter in unsuccessful 53-36 the decision was made to copy 53F.

wiegieman posted:

"After the flight, Maj. Shokraee-Fard had to wear a neck brace for six months while I suffered injuries to my knees which resulted in two surgeries after my retirement. The G meter was locked at 11.5Gs on the gauge..."

Jesus

Valtonen posted:

Someone needs to retweet this to SOF recruiting and ask which MOS is the one here doing coke whilst planning Twitter coups.

Phanatic posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJRUDaw8DJE

FMguru posted:

Microprose's F-19 Stealth Fighter was a pro, pro game.

NightGyr posted:

Oh you can always airdrop them without a chute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-YsSL65quM

Wingnut Ninja posted:

Mach 170 is 130436 miles per hour, or about 36 miles per second. So atmospheric resistance is only going to be a concern for a fraction of a second before it leaves the atmosphere and, soon after, leaves the Earth's gravitational sphere of influence. If you aimed that at the moon it would get there in less than two hours.

Saint Celestine posted:

Road mobile ballistic missiles, are the trailers a one-time use? As in launching it destroys it?

Deptfordx posted:

Where are the crew when this is happening?

Have they beat feat half a mile, or are they cowering in the (hopefully) safety of the cabin.

I'm assuming that exhaust cloud is super-toxic.

Godholio posted:

90 degree corners are bad, this was figured out half a millennium ago.

Jesus Christ we're quitting Open Skies because they flew over his golf course?

Captain Log posted:

When I saw 40 new posts I quickly checked the news, expecting a war to have broken out.