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I didn't get how huge Starship is until a few months ago so it's worth mentioning that with some creative cutting to fit the wings and stabilizer into the fairing, it would be able to launch the shuttle orbiter as internal payload.
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Dec 10, 2020 06:01
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What happens when a high-ranking government official gets Alzheimer's bad enough to the point where it's impossible to cover up anymore? If it were the president, in a perfect world presumably the 25th amendment would be activated, but what about a senator or something?
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Dec 10, 2020 06:06
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Spoggerific posted:What happens when a high-ranking government official gets Alzheimer's bad enough to the point where it's impossible to cover up anymore? If it were the president, in a perfect world presumably the 25th amendment would be activated, but what about a senator or something? Basically nothing can be forced on a senator, they have to resign or die to be replaced unless 66 other senators agree it’s time for them to go.
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Dec 10, 2020 06:22
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She evidently had a few good days when she remembered to profit off of classified COVID briefings.
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Dec 10, 2020 06:42
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BIG HEADLINE posted:His juiced-up SCUD-Bs could've made a real mess of Southern Italy, ~80% of Greece, and could've *barely* hit Israel if he'd launched them practically on the border with Egypt. How juiced were they? I’m seeing news articles saying three hundred to eight hundred kilometres (lol), but it would take nine hundred to more like a thousand to hit Israel or Macedonia.
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Dec 10, 2020 06:44
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Spoggerific posted:What happens when a high-ranking government official gets Alzheimer's bad enough to the point where it's impossible to cover up anymore? If it were the president, in a perfect world presumably the 25th amendment would be activated, but what about a senator or something? It's already happened. And nothing was done. Reagans brain was full on cheese for years before he left.
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Dec 10, 2020 06:52
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Platystemon posted:How juiced were they? 1000km theoretical. That's why I said he'd pretty much have to launch from as far east as he could get. Supposedly after the Lampedusa incident they practiced duck and cover drills at Sigonella (and Comiso, when it was still open), since Sicily is a bigger and easier target to hit. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 07:27 on Dec 10, 2020 |
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Dec 10, 2020 06:55
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Spoggerific posted:What happens when a high-ranking government official gets Alzheimer's bad enough to the point where it's impossible to cover up anymore? If it were the president, in a perfect world presumably the 25th amendment would be activated, but what about a senator or something? I saw her speak at an event back in 2016. She was rambling and had like 6 handlers and it was obvious she was in decline then. Everyone in the audience knew and asked the very-nice-very-simple questions because it was obvious anything else would be cruel. It's a loving crime that she didn't retire for this last election cycle.
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Dec 10, 2020 08:36
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just when you thought 2020 was done serving up, it gives a bit more https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/us/northern-lights-display-wednesday-night-scn/index.html quote:A spectacular display of the northern lights is possible Wednesday night as far south as Pennsylvania and Oregon. oh and the sacramento area is offering 8600 per week (412k/yr) for nurses due to huge shortages ded fucked around with this message at 09:00 on Dec 10, 2020 |
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Dec 10, 2020 08:56
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On the bright side cyberpunk 2077 is loving amazing. I’m playing at using GeForce Now, Nvidia’s streaming service and it’s so so so good. Yeah it’s got some goofy rear end bugs, but unlike say fallout 76 the game is actually fun and worth it. GFN unlike stadia just uses the game that you buy off of GoG or Steam, so no worries about losing your purchase when Google kills off Stadia.
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Dec 10, 2020 09:01
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ded posted:It's already happened. And nothing was done. Any world where Reagan became president is not a perfect world. 
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Dec 10, 2020 09:25
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ded posted:just when you thought 2020 was done serving up, it gives a bit more Blew out my satellite radio signal about a half hour ago near DC!
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Dec 10, 2020 09:50
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ded posted:just when you thought 2020 was done serving up, it gives a bit more This seems like a bit of scaremongering from CNN. These kinds of events are fairly common during periods of solar activity which occur on a roughly decade-long cycle, though the sun has been on the quiet side of the cycle until recently. For comparison during one of the last solar maximums I was able to see the northern lights quite strongly from Missouri/Kansas and one solar storm in the 80s knocked out power in parts of Canada.
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Dec 10, 2020 09:53
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when was the last time we had a particularly powerful sun fart, anyway? sounds like it's been a while if we're only just now pulling back up into a more active cycle.
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Dec 10, 2020 10:00
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It amuses me that American tourists fly to Scandinavia to see the northern lights when the geomagnetic anomaly brings the show much farther south on their home continent.
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Dec 10, 2020 10:05
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Zamujasa posted:when was the last time we had a particularly powerful sun fart, anyway? sounds like it's been a while if we're only just now pulling back up into a more active cycle. https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/55580/biggest-solar-flare-on-record And this'un, which missed us by over a week: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_2012 BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 10:18 on Dec 10, 2020 |
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Dec 10, 2020 10:12
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Zamujasa posted:when was the last time we had a particularly powerful sun fart, anyway? sounds like it's been a while if we're only just now pulling back up into a more active cycle. The Carrington Event, which occurred in 1859, was likely the strongest geomagnetic storm ever recorded. If it had hit the Earth in modern times, after the advent of widespread electronics, well... Wikipedia posted:In June 2013, a joint venture from researchers at Lloyd's of London and Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) in the United States used data from the Carrington Event to estimate the cost of a similar event in the present to the U.S. alone at $0.6–2.6 trillion, which at the time equated to roughly 3.6% to 15.5% of annual GDP.
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Dec 10, 2020 10:14
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Spoggerific posted:In June 2013, a joint venture from researchers at Lloyd's of London and Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) in the United States used data from the Carrington Event to estimate the cost of a similar event in the present to the U.S. alone at $0.6–2.6 trillion, which at the time equated to roughly 3.6% to 15.5% of annual GDP. Apparently that study also estimated a recovery time of 4 to 10 years. 
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Dec 10, 2020 10:39
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Jesus, imagine that hitting in the middle of the rona.
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Dec 10, 2020 10:47
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Jesus, imagine that hitting in the middle of the rona. Knocking industrial capacity offline just as the first batches of vaccine were about to roll off the end of the production lines. The coup de grace to topple the United States forever. 
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Dec 10, 2020 10:52
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Apparently our entire electrical grid is held together with duck tape and rubber bands and we are no poo poo insanely vulnerable to all threats natural and manmade. I think someone mentioned some component that I don't really remember that we just plain don't have enough of and if they were to all get fried it'd be a long and lethal road back to semi functional. On an unrelated note, if you work from home, it's never too early to start drinking
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Dec 10, 2020 10:59
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The world only needs so many larger transformers built in a typical year. If for whatever reason we needed many more, we’d have to retool facilities on a scale not seen since the Second World War, and after a bad magnetic storm, we’d have to do it with our systems already broken. Once they’re built, just moving and installing them isn’t easy. 
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Dec 10, 2020 11:11
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Milo and POTUS posted:Apparently our entire electrical grid is held together with duck tape and rubber bands and we are no poo poo insanely vulnerable to all threats natural and manmade. I think someone mentioned some component that I don't really remember that we just plain don't have enough of and if they were to all get fried it'd be a long and lethal road back to semi functional. Looks like it's transformers. I took a look at that study that Wikipedia cited in my quote (PDF), and it mentioned transformers as being a bottleneck in several places. quote:The total U.S. population at risk of extended power outage from a Carrington-level storm is between 20-40 million, with durations of 16 days to 1-2 years. The duration of outages will depend largely on the availability of spare replacement transformers. If new transformers need to be ordered, the lead-time is likely to be a minimum of five months. The total economic cost for such a scenario is estimated at $0.6-2.6 trillion USD (see Appendix). They also appear to rate risk area by density of transformers at the county level.
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Dec 10, 2020 11:11
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To make a rebuild even more complicated, certain systems even around North America are running on older electrical power standards that are wholly incompatible with the 60 Hz grid. IIRC New Orleans' hurricane drainage pumps are powered by four turbines that run on 25 Hz AC; they're patterned after the 25 Hz AC generators developed in the late 19th century and installed at Niagara Falls by Westinghouse. Mechanically converting between 60 Hz and 25 Hz is a pain, and building new systems that can spit out an archaic power standard while you're trying to rebuild a whole power grid running on another standard would be basically something I'd imagine would be immediately considered not worth the effort by manufacturers. Imagine the combination of pandemic + global electrical grid failure + 2020 levels of climate change hurricanes.
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Dec 10, 2020 11:25
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Back in the tail end of the cold war there were plans to standardize designs for grid transmission equipment and then slowly convert things over while stockpiling spares for if the Soviets attacked, but the cold war ended and nothing was implemented, though there's been some recent movement as of 2015 with the creation of the Grid Assurance program after the cyber attack on Ukraine's electrical grid which is sort of a industry-run spares/reserve pool of long lead time equipment.
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Dec 10, 2020 11:39
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Surprising at all that reagan would give a poo poo about the grid
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Dec 10, 2020 11:50
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Milo and POTUS posted:Surprising at all that reagan would give a poo poo about the grid 
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Dec 10, 2020 12:31
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Milo and POTUS posted:Surprising at all that reagan would give a poo poo about the grid 
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Dec 10, 2020 12:47
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Porfiriato posted:This seems like a bit of scaremongering from CNN. These kinds of events are fairly common during periods of solar activity which occur on a roughly decade-long cycle, though the sun has been on the quiet side of the cycle until recently. For comparison during one of the last solar maximums I was able to see the northern lights quite strongly from Missouri/Kansas and one solar storm in the 80s knocked out power in parts of Canada. Eh most of the time it is minor poo poo like making ham radios not work too well. I kind of wish this one was a little stronger so the lights would come south enough for me to see.
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Dec 10, 2020 13:17
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Months ago during the height of quarantine I was researching Coronal Mass Ejections like the Carrington event for a novel I might write. Apparently, there's a lot of debate on whether it would really act like a nuclear EMP, i.e. whether it would take out all electronics, especially cars. I read somewhere that it wouldn't be powerful enough to completely fry cars, but that they might sputter, or shut down, and require you to turn your keys back and turn it back on again. Anyone here have any clue on that question? What about generators and stuff?
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Dec 10, 2020 13:19
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Milo and POTUS posted:Surprising at all that reagan would give a poo poo about the grid Well actually it was a big part of the factors in nuclear warfare an-- ... oh... ohhhhhh drat
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Not an engineer so grain of salt on this. My understanding is the power grid is especially vulnerable under these conditions because it has hundred/thousands of miles of antennas just ready and waiting to gather up that energy in the form of power lines, where a car is a discrete object only able to gather so much of the radiated energy.
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Dec 10, 2020 14:00
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https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/providing-police-military-gear-reduce-crime-protect-officers/storyquote:Two independent studies have drawn the same conclusions: billions of dollars in surplus military equipment, including armored vehicles and high-powered rifles, that have been transferred by the federal government to thousands of U.S. police departments have not reduced crime or increased officer safety.
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Dec 10, 2020 14:07
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Milo and POTUS posted:Surprising at all that reagan would give a poo poo about the grid 
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Milo and POTUS posted:Surprising at all that reagan would give a poo poo about the grid  Meanwhile, the State Department is ending 2020 on a very  energy international super spreader note:quote:The State Department hosted roughly 200 guests Tuesday night at the presidential guesthouse despite concerns of public health experts and a new positive coronavirus case on the premises since last week, according to two U.S. officials. I went to a State Department holiday party and all I got was a Be Best water bottle and the Rona! https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...00c2_story.html
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Dec 10, 2020 14:21
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Milo and POTUS posted:Surprising at all that reagan would give a poo poo about the grid
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Dec 10, 2020 14:40
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facialimpediment posted:Facebook just had a very bad day. And just like that, out of the blue Facebook, Messenger and Instagram - platforms which seem to have the sort of uptime that most administrators dream of, suddenly have widespread performance issues today. What an odd coincidence!
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This will go well. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1337067127455539201
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