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Doctor Grape Ape posted:When can I buy one from one of the Government Surplus Auctions? Coming soon to a police department near you.
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Cyrano4747 posted:On the other hand Amazon is WAY behind the curve with their plans for a fleet of self driving delivery vehicles. SAAC has a service that can deliver multiple tens of thousands of MT of product to hundreds of locations across the globe Didn't someone have a brainwave about using missiles to deliver mail a while back?
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hobbesmaster posted:Under an hour? :three drivers speed into a brick wall while juggling demands from the dash mounted Domino's Brand Order Tracker:
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StandardVC10 posted:Didn't someone have a brainwave about using missiles to deliver mail a while back? It's been tried, but never really efficiently.
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Amazon is looking into it, instead of buying + certifying drones they’re just scooping up old M270s.
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LingcodKilla posted:Yes. Almost exclusively for 2 years straight and an alternative for the prior two. Yeah, the move to one man trucks by Loomis and Brinks was a mistake and they are gradually switching back.
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hobbesmaster posted:Under an hour?  But at least they're the closest anyone's ever been to having the technical capability.Now getting global permission to become a private ICBM operator is a completely different can of worms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqE-ultsWt0 Of course it's not a new idea. The concept of using hypersonic vehicles that fly on a ballistic trajectory before diving back down has been around for decades, the technology and willingness to spend money on the idea just hasn't been there before. Collateral Damage fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Aug 3, 2018 |
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Collateral Damage posted:If anything actually comes from it, ehh USAF General Carlton Everhardt, Air Mobility Command posted:“Think about this. Thirty minutes, 150 metric tons, [and] less than the cost of a C-5,” he continued. In comparison, it would take the service’s cargo aircraft take anywhere from eight to 10 hours to get to the other side of the world. Everhart floated to the idea to Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president and chief operating officer, who said that could be possible when BFR starts flying in the early 2020s. https://www.defensenews.com/space/2018/08/02/one-possible-job-for-spacexs-bfr-taking-the-air-forces-cargo-in-and-out-of-space/ From a press conference yesterday. I think he's gonna get him some of that. It's the Space Force DC-3 
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Dont tell Army about this or we’ll have pallets of orbit-freezefried MREs for field chow from 2022 onwards. ”I know we messed the schedule up and you didnt get to eat so bow theyre dropping another MRE box at our grid before midnight”
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Valtonen posted:Dont tell Army about this or we’ll have pallets of orbit-freezefried MREs for field chow from 2022 onwards. If they cook on orbital reentry, you don't even have to give the troops heaters.
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Kesper North posted:It's the Space Force DC-3
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Shooting Blanks posted:Hmmmm, let's see.... Dlr here in London is automated and works fine.
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Cat Mattress posted:Space Force DC-8, please. Can’t really do that lest you get misidentified as Xenu
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JcDent posted:If they cook on orbital reentry, you don't even have to give the troops heaters. A rock(et) or something.
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AlexanderCA posted:A rock(et) or something. nice
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Smiling Jack posted:nice This actual helped me get the joke.
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Normalising ballistic missiles for freight sounds like a great way to get sneak first strike'd in a couple of decades tbh
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feedmegin posted:Normalising ballistic missiles for freight sounds like a great way to get sneak first strike'd in a couple of decades tbh Still more humane than Amazon.
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Raenir Salazar posted:Apparently there's like a sub-LT in his 20's in the CF navy in charge of the entire fuel budget for the Halifax fleet, is this someone that happens in the US Navy or is it because we smol? If it's much like the Air Force that sub-LT will be nominally supervising a GS-12 with decades of experience, who will be in charge of all major decisions and a fleet of GS-11s and GS-9s who will make sure appropriated money is properly budgeted to be sent down to contracting, where another squadron of experienced civilians under another junior officer will do the actual purchasing and monitor compliance. The junior officers are mostly there to get experience towards their next promotion and to put their name on documents requiring a military signature. That's how AF does it, so it may not be as bad as it sounds.
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US icebreaker acquisition money is potentially being shuffled to fund a domestic program that can be discussed elsewhere on the forums. But goddammit bring on more ice smashy ships. https://www.stripes.com/news/coast-guard-icebreaker-funding-reallocated-to-us-mexico-border-wall-1.540857
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...Well, that'll certainly help ensure Russia's arctic dominance, good job to the Kremlin's team at the White House 
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Are we even going to need icebreakers in the Arctic in the next two decades?
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Comrade Gorbash posted:Are we even going to need icebreakers in the Arctic in the next two decades? Yes, and if anything icebreakers will be more useful because they'll be able to get through more of it.
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It’s a global warming joke, poorly made because I’m experiencing personal warming (fever) and am a bit out of it.
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FrozenVent posted:Weird how trucks drive all over the country without liability being a state by state issue right now. It's actually a giant hassle and a whole industry has developed just to constantly keep the books updated with every little state law change and make sure all vehicles are compliant. It's a massive pain for everyone involved.
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JcDent posted:Still more humane than Amazon. Could be both. Could be a first strike on striking Amazon workers.
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Thwomp posted:It's actually a giant hassle and a whole industry has developed just to constantly keep the books updated with every little state law change and make sure all vehicles are compliant. It's a massive pain for everyone involved. The company I work for (not trucking, consumer product development) spends a lot of money on payroll for people whose only job is to make sure we file the right regulatory forms as well as other regulatory and compliance paperwork for every country we sell in (which is pretty much everywhere). It's hard to grasp the scale of these issues without experiencing them personally.
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Cat Mattress posted:Space Force DC-8, please. Oh please, they'll get the AF's retired 707/135 airframes.
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Smiling Jack posted:nice Let's get this out onto a TRA.
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Cat Mattress posted:Space Force DC-8, please. You mean Galactic Confederacy.
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Comrade Gorbash posted:Trains could be automated tomorrow. In fact a pretty significant amount of train operation is automated. No one's taken the final step because there hasn't been enough cost pressure for anyone to bother making the capital outlay. The Docklands Light Railway has been driverless for decades now. FrozenVent posted:It’s cheaper to have all the sensors in the road, then all the vehicles can be basically dumb boxes. Except it’s not cheaper at all. Unless you already own all the land you’re proposing to build those tracks on, the people who do are going to want some compensation for it, for one thing. Some of them might not even want to sell, which means you detour around them or try and have the courts force them to let you.
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 Apologies if I've told this story before: As most of y'all I come from a town called Gander, NL in Canada, which is a big airport in the middle of nowhere. It's peak era was the 1950s and 1960s, (when airplanes could fly across the Atlantic BUT also needed to stop to refuel) and it's been a long slow decline ever since. Anyway, it also became a preferred refueling point for Warsaw pact airliners - the Soivets in particular used to tanker in their own fuel. So early in the 1960s, we get an unofficial visit from Castro, making the trip to Moscow by air. A winter storm dictated an overnight halt, so he did the normal human thing (checked out the gift shop) then stayed in a local hotel, guarded by his own guys and RCMP. The next day Castro wakes up and it has been snowing all night. Apparently, this is the first time Castro and company have seen snow, and full of enthusiasm, they try tobogganing for the first time. 
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mlmp08 posted:US icebreaker acquisition money is potentially being shuffled to fund a domestic program that can be discussed elsewhere on the forums. The icebreaker wasn’t cancelled because it’s be best place to get the money. It’s treason. It is a calculated move to put America behind and Russia ahead.
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Treason? I frickin HATE treason!!!
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Dandywalken posted:Treason? I frickin HATE treason!!!
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Kesper North posted:https://www.defensenews.com/space/2018/08/02/one-possible-job-for-spacexs-bfr-taking-the-air-forces-cargo-in-and-out-of-space/ This will go the same way as the "conventional" ICBM proposal from the Bush years went. Yes your rockets can deliver a payload anywhere in less than an hour, but it'll also start WW3. You retard.
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Just build a smaller missile and stick it on a Mack truck-sized launcher or something. Then you can just fly them into Kandahar or wherever and fire it off. Hell the Russians have been doing that poo poo for decades.
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