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The Nastier Nate posted:You want me to stick that cotton swab WHERE? it’s sound medical advice
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Aug 18, 2020 02:17
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Chamale posted:For years, all of America's nuclear warheads were protected by the password 00000000 yeah, but to get to where you needed to put in that password, you had to get into the silo, the silo launch room and then turn both launch keys
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Aug 18, 2020 02:30
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Wheeee posted:also dealing with drones will likely be more important in the future than missiles ”Drones” are just low energy missiles.
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Aug 18, 2020 02:39
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Is it anyone else's pet peeve when the media refer to things as robots that are 100% remote controlled by a human? It's bothered me ever since 'BattleBots' on TV in the 90s. Also as far as I can tell the difference between a "RC plane" and a "drone" is a couple of commas in the price.
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Aug 18, 2020 02:44
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The correct term is "vegan cyborg"
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Aug 18, 2020 03:13
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The Nastier Nate posted:You want me to stick that cotton swab WHERE? to make sure we're actually who we say we are, we had to spit into a tube for the covid test over zoom. i am not investigating further.
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Aug 18, 2020 03:13
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V. Illych L. posted:didn't someone attach a nuclear warhead to a submarine-launchable torpedo or did i dream that yes, definitely, though for something more recent you may also be thinking of the Status-6, a Russian project for a nuclear-powered drone submarine with possible planned supercavitation capability that would deliver an atomic warhead to its target.
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Aug 18, 2020 03:14
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redleader posted:back in the day, they attached nukes to everything they could get their hands on Waaay back in the day, they knew that missiles were the future of air-to-air combat but they couldn't get this 'guidance' thing to work reliably. So they said "gently caress it", stripped out the unreliable guidance systems, and just put a loving nuke in the tip. You shoot it sort of vaguely nearish your target and let the blastwave do the rest. The Lone Badger has issued a correction as of 04:02 on Aug 18, 2020 |
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Aug 18, 2020 03:46
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i love abandoned shopping malls. i want to live in one.
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Aug 18, 2020 03:54
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The Lone Badger posted:Waaay back in the day, they knew that missiles were the future of air-to-air combat but they couldn't get this 'guidance' thing to work reliably. So they said "gently caress it", stripped out the unreliable guidance systems, and just put a loving nuke in the tip. You shoot it sort of vaguely nearish your target and let the blastwave do the rest. the AIR-2 Genie, which could also probably serve as an effective air-to-genie missile if necessary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIR-2_Genie it took until 1984 for someone to ask "wait why do we still have these"
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Aug 18, 2020 05:30
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redleader posted:yeah but those shootings are done by the right kinds of people. witness the difference between 9/11, benghazi, etc (foreigners) and school shootings (americans) This is 100% true and I think we're on the cusp of the RWM just plain calling them patriots at this point.
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Aug 18, 2020 05:37
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uber_stoat posted:i love abandoned shopping malls. i want to live in one.
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Aug 18, 2020 06:19
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Chamale posted:For years, all of America's nuclear warheads were protected by the password 00000000 the movie wargames prompted the pentagon to take infosec seriously, and the story is basically as stupid as anything from 2020 quote:At one point, he put down his index cards and asked if anyone else had seen it. No one had, so he described the plot in detail. Some of the lawmakers looked around the room with suppressed smiles or raised eyebrows. Three months earlier, Reagan had delivered his “Star Wars” speech, imploring scientists to build laser weapons that could shoot down Soviet missiles in outer space. The idea was widely dismissed as nutty. What was the old man up to now?
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Aug 18, 2020 06:27
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part of the problem the US military (and in fact I think we can guess other militaries have this going on too) is that while the nuclear mission is seen as vital to national security and defense policy, it sucks as a job. the USAF has trouble staffing the missile wings that run the silos with good people because very few people actually want to spend their time in the service hanging out in a bunker buried under North Dakota, and it also sucks for your career because, by definition, your job is not to do anything but maintain a high level of readiness, so it’s not as good on your resume as other jobs are. so next time you think about how the US maintains 400+ missiles with each bearing a warhead 20 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb, also think about how a lot of the people responsible for maintaining them and preparing for their use are there because they didn’t manage to get out of doing it, and would much rather be somewhere else.
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Aug 18, 2020 06:44
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Pirate Radar posted:part of the problem the US military (and in fact I think we can guess other militaries have this going on too) is that while the nuclear mission is seen as vital to national security and defense policy, it sucks as a job. the USAF has trouble staffing the missile wings that run the silos with good people because very few people actually want to spend their time in the service hanging out in a bunker buried under North Dakota, and it also sucks for your career because, by definition, your job is not to do anything but maintain a high level of readiness, so it’s not as good on your resume as other jobs are. so next time you think about how the US maintains 400+ missiles with each bearing a warhead 20 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb, also think about how a lot of the people responsible for maintaining them and preparing for their use are there because they didn’t manage to get out of doing it, and would much rather be somewhere else. isn't this why they keep getting busted doing psychedelic drugs edit: in all fairness I can't comprehend the kind of trip you might have if you were actually at that level of readiness all the time
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Aug 18, 2020 07:17
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I feel like tripping three feet away from the button that ends the world is not the best way to ensure you have a comfortable trip
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Aug 18, 2020 08:18
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blatman posted:I feel like tripping three feet away from the button that ends the world is not the best way to ensure you have a comfortable trip I'd lube up my rear end in a top hat and ride the button like a dong so hard
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Aug 18, 2020 08:24
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Honestly I wouldn't hit the button. Our nuclear stockpile rn can't kill all life on earth eg. ocean trenches, remote areas, human bunkers. We'd have to crack the planet open or something to really make sure sentient life never has the utter misfortune of existing in a dead universe again. If we're wiping out life I want to do it right.
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Aug 18, 2020 09:03
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gimme solid broadband and deliveries of Doritos and I’ll sit in your poo poo bunker pretending that I’ll push the button when we’re under attack for years at a time 
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Aug 18, 2020 10:22
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yeah not a chance in hell thats the original one. dude tells that story so goddamn good
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Aug 18, 2020 10:25
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Sing Along posted:isn't this why they keep getting busted doing psychedelic drugs it’s also why they keep getting busted cheating on examinations, because there’s a strong conflict between: 1. This is an important job so we have high standards for it and 2. This job sucks, so smart people don’t want to do it
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Aug 18, 2020 10:35
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https://twitter.com/BadFoxGraphics/status/1291688848163049472
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Aug 18, 2020 10:36
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its hosed up how each and every one of these usernames has an actual person behind it posting from maybe hundreds of thousands of km away . Thats pretty cyberpunk if you ask me
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Aug 18, 2020 11:09
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e-dt posted:its hosed up how each and every one of these usernames has an actual person behind it posting from maybe hundreds of thousands of km away . Thats pretty cyberpunk if you ask me It thinks it's people
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Aug 18, 2020 13:10
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e-dt posted:its hosed up how each and every one of these usernames has an actual person behind it posting from maybe hundreds of thousands of km away . Thats pretty cyberpunk if you ask me every poster on this website is a bot i made entirely to convince you specifically that people still post on early 2000s era message boards
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Aug 18, 2020 13:45
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e-dt posted:its hosed up how each and every one of these usernames has an actual person behind it posting from maybe hundreds of thousands of km away . Thats pretty cyberpunk if you ask me It's freakier to me when a goon talks about something in my immediate neighborhood. I could have walked right by one and never known.
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Aug 18, 2020 14:31
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Blockade posted:It's freakier to me when a goon talks about something in my immediate neighborhood. I could have walked right by one and never known. I just pooped in your mailbox, OP
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Aug 18, 2020 14:37
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what ever happened to that lovely bot that existed to widen and redden jpgs
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Aug 18, 2020 14:38
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Did they figure out the power supply issue on those lasers? Probably going to put them on satellites to prevent them from being knocked out of the sky. Anyone "fighting" the US will target the communication and gps satellites.
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Aug 18, 2020 15:11
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tanned laura loomer
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Aug 18, 2020 18:42
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e-dt posted:its hosed up how each and every one of these usernames has an actual person behind it posting from maybe hundreds of thousands of km away . Thats pretty cyberpunk if you ask me don't worry about me, I dehumanized myself and faced to bloodshed years ago. now i am a person shaped hole in the world.
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Aug 18, 2020 18:52
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uber_stoat posted:don't worry about me, I dehumanized myself and faced to bloodshed years ago. now i am a person shaped hole in the world.
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Aug 18, 2020 19:16
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T-man posted:Honestly I wouldn't hit the button. Our nuclear stockpile rn can't kill all life on earth eg. ocean trenches, remote areas, human bunkers. We'd have to crack the planet open or something to really make sure sentient life never has the utter misfortune of existing in a dead universe again. If we're wiping out life I want to do it right. If the goal is to end all life on the planet, the method that's closest to feasibility is to nudge a bunch of good-sized asteroids onto Earth-impact trajectories. But you'll need a crapload of impactors if you want to be 100% certain of getting ALL life, even those extremophile bacteria that live off of volcanic vents in the deep oceans. If you're content to only wipe out, say, all multicellular life, you can get away with using a lot fewer. And if it makes you feel any better about this option, those leftover bacteria won't have time to evolve into anything intelligent. The Sun is getting brighter all the time, and even though it won't hit the full-on Red Giant phase for another five billion years, in only a tenth of that time it'll already be bright enough to boil the oceans. In other words: Look at the bright side, the history of life on Earth is already 90% over.
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Aug 18, 2020 19:25
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uber_stoat posted:don't worry about me, I dehumanized myself and faced to bloodshed years ago. now i am a person shaped hole in the world. ur hole is meant for me 
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Aug 18, 2020 19:40
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T-man posted:Honestly I wouldn't hit the button. Our nuclear stockpile rn can't kill all life on earth eg. ocean trenches, remote areas, human bunkers. We'd have to crack the planet open or something to really make sure sentient life never has the utter misfortune of existing in a dead universe again. If we're wiping out life I want to do it right. Right, we just need a 10GT bomb. The man behind the original thermonuclear design proposed such a thing. http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2012/09/12/in-search-of-a-bigger-boom/ https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=10000000&lat=38.8946925&lng=-77.0218993&airburst=0&hob_ft=0&psi=3000,200,20,5,1&zm=9 If that map doesn't load it computes the fireball from such a thing extending from the middle of DC to annapolis and a fatal radiation dose covering the entire planet.
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Aug 18, 2020 19:42
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:tanned laura loomer Less hot Dana Loesch
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Aug 18, 2020 19:43
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hobbesmaster posted:Right, we just need a 10GT bomb. The man behind the original thermonuclear design proposed such a thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqGnAIgzUTY
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Aug 18, 2020 19:52
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duz posted:yeah, but to get to where you needed to put in that password, you had to get into the silo, the silo launch room and then turn both launch keys Which was not as hard as it sounds because silo teams would often leave the giant vault doors propped open
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Aug 18, 2020 20:06
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duz posted:yeah, but to get to where you needed to put in that password, you had to get into the silo, the silo launch room and then turn both launch keys Richard Pryor managed it while drunk!
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Aug 18, 2020 20:25
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Kitfox88 posted:gimme solid broadband and deliveries of Doritos and I’ll sit in your poo poo bunker pretending that I’ll push the button when we’re under attack for years at a time One nuclear weapons base didn't have any entertainment options, so the airmen put nuclear weapons on forklifts and played chicken. The DoE investigation into multiple warheads that got damaged from this activity recommended supplying the base with TVs and alcohol.
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Aug 18, 2020 20:26
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