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Does anyone know of a good book on the history of DARPA?
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Hauldren Collider posted:Does anyone know of a good book on the history of DARPA? All the good stuff would be redacted, wouldn't it? I don't know if it's any good, but I've been meaning to read this one: https://books.google.com/books?id=m...epage&q&f=false
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Dec 19, 2019 04:07
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Smiling Jack posted:All the good stuff would be redacted, wouldn't it? Actually I think a lot of what DARPA does is unclassified.
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Dec 19, 2019 04:08
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Hauldren Collider posted:Actually I think a lot of what DARPA does is unclassified. 
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Dec 19, 2019 04:09
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Don Gato posted:WWII starts in 1950 when Stalin invades the unprepared Allies, but that war ends after a dating raid using Chrono-technology to end the war early. The Soviet Tesla tower technology was also very overhyped and could easily be defeated with airpower. 
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Dec 19, 2019 05:30
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Raenir Salazar posted:If a time traveller went back in time and killed Hitler before 1938, would the USA still have invested the resources into the Manhattan Project? Would the Soviets had without the West's scientific atomics literature suddenly and mysteriously all drying up after 1938? France might have become the first nuclear power.
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Dec 19, 2019 12:39
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This looks very interesting (Apologies if already posted): http://www.nuclearwarsimulator.com/ Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55x11a0aKtY The dev Ivan Stepanov expects to release it in early 2020.
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Dec 19, 2019 12:44
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quote:There are currently over 13000 nuclear weapons on this planet of which over 9000 are in military stockpiles. What do they mean by this sentence? I'm confused. Does he mean that 4,000 are deployed and 9,000 are in warehouses? Are 9,000 in use by militaries and the rest are what, missing? In civilian hands?
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Dec 19, 2019 17:19
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Ice Fist posted:What do they mean by this sentence? I'm confused. Does he mean that 4,000 are deployed and 9,000 are in warehouses? Are 9,000 in use by militaries and the rest are what, missing? In civilian hands? Amazon is now a nuclear power.
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Dec 19, 2019 17:29
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Problematic Soup posted:Amazon now offers nuclear weapons as a prime day deal Fixed that.
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Dec 19, 2019 17:55
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Problematic Soup posted:Amazon is now a nuclear power. Same day delivery!
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Dec 19, 2019 18:02
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Ice Fist posted:What do they mean by this sentence? I'm confused. Does he mean that 4,000 are deployed and 9,000 are in warehouses? Are 9,000 in use by militaries and the rest are what, missing? In civilian hands? I assume they mean decommissioned from service and in some point in line for disassembly and disposal.
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Dec 19, 2019 18:15
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Bezos heard 30 minute delivery anywhere on the planet and started salivating uncontrollably while speaking in tongues
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Dec 19, 2019 18:45
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Semi-related, but is this graph I keep seeing accurate? Did the USSR really have 40,000 nuclear weapons in ~1990?
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Dec 19, 2019 18:46
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1177/0096340213501363 it's accurate* e: *a well-informed and plausible estimate, not confirmed hypnophant fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Dec 19, 2019 |
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Dec 19, 2019 18:58
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So about that Chinese pig (the food kind) epidemic...
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Dec 19, 2019 18:58
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Captain von Trapp posted:This is less and less true for China, whose arsenal size and launch platforms are increasingly capable of supporting a first strike. I don't believe they have any intent to first strike in any vaguely credible circumstance, but as they modernize they acquire the capability almost whether they want it or not. B. A no first use policy kinda does imply that “the only purpose of one's weapons is to incinerate millions of non-combatant men, women, and children”. But the lack of such a policy implies that you’ll “incinerate millions of military personnel, non-combatant men, women, and children” if you feel the need to.
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Dec 19, 2019 19:09
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Hedenius posted:A. I don’t see how China would be capable of a first strike any time soon. Pretty much every official source seem to agree that they have around 260 nuclear warheads. Not a lot compared to the thousands in the US and Russia. They could absolutely first strike their immediate neighbors.
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Dec 19, 2019 19:11
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz9lnIDdkMo Tom cruise is a weirdo but I appreciate his dedication to his craft. i've ridden in a rear seat three times. all three times I managed to both black out completely and throw up everywhere. that poo poo is no joke and I like the idea of actors having to go through it
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Dec 19, 2019 19:19
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I've read multiple reports that have unanimously declared that yes, Tom Cruise is a weirdo but he is a consummate professional and a hell of a nice guy.
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Dec 19, 2019 19:26
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He’s apparently also crazy when it comes to stunt poo poo b
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Dec 19, 2019 19:46
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Cyrano4747 posted:He’s apparently also crazy when it comes to stunt poo poo b I mean if learning to fly an aerobatic helicopter for MI - Fallout didn't tell you that already https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um0aZKbpe1Y Dude is no joke
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Dec 19, 2019 20:19
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Didn't he break his ankle doing one of the skyscraper stunts in MI: Ghost Protocol? Also he's still a Scientologist and rich so he can afford to be dumb so gently caress him.
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Dec 19, 2019 20:23
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Pile Of Garbage posted:Didn't he break his ankle doing one of the skyscraper stunts in MI: Ghost Protocol? Yeah and like Jackie Chan he put a fake shoe over the cast and kept going. Dude's got serious mental health issues but I still respect his craft and he's enjoyable to watch in movies.
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Dec 19, 2019 20:23
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Shooting Blanks posted:I've read multiple reports that have unanimously declared that yes, Tom Cruise is a weirdo but he is a consummate professional and a hell of a nice guy. https://theaviationgeekclub.com/tom...sequel-filming/ He's a very good actor, but he's only nice to people who matter or whomever's allowed to point a camera at him at that given moment.
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Dec 19, 2019 20:30
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BIG HEADLINE posted:He's a very good actor, but he's only nice to people who matter or whomever's allowed to point a camera at him at that given moment. Pile Of Garbage posted:Also he's still a Scientologist and rich so he can afford to be dumb so gently caress him.
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Dec 19, 2019 20:42
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Cythereal posted:So about that Chinese pig (the food kind) epidemic... I pretty sure everyone can agree, that if China makes bacon go extinct, its complete justifiable reason for a first strike situation. 
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Dec 19, 2019 21:13
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If the US did go to war with China tactical nuclear strikes would probably be used somewhat early on.
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Dec 19, 2019 21:22
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Pile Of Garbage posted:If the US did go to war with China tactical nuclear strikes would probably be used somewhat early on. Why? China using tac nukes against US forces would be a very bad idea, and I can't think of a scenario where the US would need tactical nukes.
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Dec 19, 2019 21:34
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Smiling Jack posted:Why? China using tac nukes against US forces would be a very bad idea, and I can't think of a scenario where the US would need tactical nukes. I can imagine a scenario where if poo poo did get real the US might very much want to avoid a drawn-out costly conventional conflict with troops on the ground (A Vietnam v2 if you will) and might use tac nukes to accelerate the conflict. Conversely China may use tac nukes to close the gap, maybe try to take out a carrier group or something. I'm probably way off and it'd be incredibly unlikely but I think that the geopolitical conditions which would involve the US and China going to war are the exact same kind of conditions in which the use of tac nukes would be realistically considered.
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Dec 19, 2019 21:54
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Pile Of Garbage posted:I can imagine a scenario where if poo poo did get real the US might very much want to avoid a drawn-out costly conventional conflict with troops on the ground (A Vietnam v2 if you will) and might use tac nukes to accelerate the conflict. Conversely China may use tac nukes to close the gap, maybe try to take out a carrier group or something. I don't think there's any way a conflict like that goes nuclear unless one side or the other starts to view it as existential. The US isn't ever going to be quick to elevate a conflict to "world ending," and if the Chinese decide they want to for some reason, they're going to want a lot more bang for their buck than nuking a warship at sea.
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Dec 19, 2019 21:59
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Maybe there's an argument to be made for bunker busters but unlike the cold war where Soviet columns had a real shot at overwhelming NATO, there's nothing at all comparable in the pacific. There's at best, the scenario of China landing on Taiwan; in the same way the Soviets in Cuba had tacnukes in case of invasion. Nothing presents itself suffiently as a valuable enough target to warrant them; even in the case of Taiwan, the PLA's naval landing forces are likely highly mobile / high firepower and not reliant on big massive overlord style invasions and thus doesn't present enough of a target.
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Dec 19, 2019 22:03
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bewbies posted:I don't think there's any way a conflict like that goes nuclear unless one side or the other starts to view it as existential. The US isn't ever going to be quick to elevate a conflict to "world ending," and if the Chinese decide they want to for some reason, they're going to want a lot more bang for their buck than nuking a warship at sea. I feel like climate change may precipitate exactly the required existential threat. Almost every single sovereign defence organisation has produced multiple reports about the impending threat, most importantly to logistics (IIRC the last DoD report said getting and supplying potable water to all US forces globally will be hosed).
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Dec 19, 2019 22:08
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I’ve heard ta joke that each GBU-57 might as well have its dedicated JDPI added to the serial number of the bomb, but given how tate/expensive they are, that kind of detail may well have gone into the procurement order.
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Dec 19, 2019 22:11
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I can imagine a scenario
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Dec 19, 2019 22:50
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China threatening release of the president's dick pic and the US going with a desperate longshot first strike to prevent?
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Dec 19, 2019 22:54
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Defense watch watch: It is scheduled to take until late 2020 for the inevitable to happen and Davie shipyard to join the NSS Also, the three ministries currently in charge of mil/coast guard procurement have been assigned to assess options and create a new, eh, thing to do this job as these three ministries are manifestly awful at it After Christmas I might send them all a letter full of pointed suggestions e: sorry if this has been posted already, but: pig influenza all over Asia now https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50833054 Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Dec 20, 2019 |
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Dec 20, 2019 01:30
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Pile Of Garbage posted:I feel like climate change may precipitate exactly the required existential threat. Almost every single sovereign defence organisation has produced multiple reports about the impending threat, most importantly to logistics (IIRC the last DoD report said getting and supplying potable water to all US forces globally will be hosed). It is challenging to imagine a scenario where a resourced starved country improves its lot by being glassed. Keep in mind "existential threat" in the nuclear context is a threat to regime survival, not to population standards of living.
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Dec 20, 2019 02:41
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Isn’t that understating the problem by counting compounds that are related to each other and not independent in resistance, and also by counting new uses for old drugs? The last time a truly novel drug was developed for gram‐negative bacteria, JFK drew breath. e: relevant page number
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The CIA misidentified a piece of missile as part of an MH-17 and was corrected by Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDEWLine/status/1207687955042783232 I assume this is a psyop 
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