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What is the most powerful flying bug? This poll is closed. |
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| 🦋 |
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15 | 3.71% |
| 🦇 |
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115 | 28.47% |
| 🪰 |
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12 | 2.97% |
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67 | 16.58% |
| dragonfly |
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94 | 23.27% |
| 🦟 |
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14 | 3.47% |
| 🐝 |
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87 | 21.53% |
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Cao Ni Ma posted:A picture of the "He fights for freedom" WW2 style propaganda posters but its an ukranian ultra nationalist emblazoned with a bunch of nazi imagery. Yeah man I do that all the time.
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Feb 8, 2023 21:09
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Ardennes posted:Yeah, but in the end, even Modi could figure out that going all the way with the US just wasn’t in India’s best interests and preferred to keep the more traditional balance of power in place. Modi doesn't figure anything out lol. The guy is dumb as poo poo and is letting his bureaucrats run everything; which means that institutional knowledge that was shaped by nehru is running indian foreign policy. Modi did wreck things like indo-iranian relations in his first term.
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Feb 8, 2023 21:14
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Cerebral Bore posted:no it isn't? sorry, i was thinking of estonia for some reason. the origin of the word "finnic" is unknown
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Feb 8, 2023 21:15
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slava muttoni
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Feb 8, 2023 21:16
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Tankbuster posted:Modi doesn't figure anything out lol. The guy is dumb as poo poo and is letting his bureaucrats run everything; which means that institutional knowledge that was shaped by nehru is running indian foreign policy. Modi did wreck things like indo-iranian relations in his first term. But at least his promise that a India will be a $5 trillion economy by 2025 will come true, right? *Padme meme* …right?
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Feb 8, 2023 21:18
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No we are now mad about soros because they are making fun of our big butifel sindhi capitalist adani.
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Feb 8, 2023 21:21
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Cerebral Bore posted:i was open to alternative explanations, but given this i'm convinced that everything that hersh wrote in 100% true
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Feb 8, 2023 21:21
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OctaMurk posted:The hersh story seems 100% believable. But why does russia say the uk did it? If you remember our discussion at the time, or maybe around the Crimea bridge, it's because the UK was the other major participant in the mine clearing exercise that was cover for this, demonstrating new remotely piloted surface and subsurface vehicles with shaped charges. The surface vehicles washed up in Crimea several times, were used to attack ships at anchor in Sevastopol, and according to leaks, were intended to be used against the Crimea Bridge. My guess would be that the UK was rehearsing their operations at the same time, during the same exercise. Two prongs of the same strategy.
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Feb 8, 2023 21:22
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mlmp08 posted:Hersh’s argument that Russia and the US are both lying to cover for the US is an interesting approach. Maybe Russia is colluding with the US to blame the UK. Two countries coming together against the royals. Probably safe to just blame the UK regardless. Germany is (was? no pipeline now) an economic rival.
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Feb 8, 2023 21:24
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Hatebag posted:If the nukeshitter is going even half light speed it would have to poo poo a nuke with instantaneous velocity of 150,000,000 m/s to get a nuke in its path of travel to a safe distance. Rail guns only do 2500 m/s. Maybe they could have rockets with nukes on em to poo poo out for braking no! that's not how inertia works. if you're flying around in a plane and take a poo poo you don't have to accelerate your poo poo up to cruising speed first. hopefully. apparently the "realistic" scenarios were like 0.1c doing that. and also the bombs used were on the order of 0.1 kT blowing up far enough away and some shock absorbing system that it wouldn't actually bang the ship up. also they'd just use a solar sail or something. i think the actual testing they did was with the shock absorber thing and real scaled down non-nuclear explosions. anyway solar sails and more boring stuff is the smarter money. nuclear pulse stuff is huge dummy bait but still funny
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Feb 8, 2023 21:24
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I seem to remember UK deployed their new submarine configured for underwater sabotage, with the hanger for the SDV (little submersible for sabotage divers) on that exercise as its maiden voyage, first major operational test, or something like that, which I think was remarked on at the time.
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Feb 8, 2023 21:26
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Frosted Flake posted:I seem to remember UK deployed their new submarine configured for underwater sabotage, with the hanger for the SDV (little submersible for sabotage divers) on that exercise as its maiden voyage, first major operational test, or something like that, which I think was remarked on at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6plOoDl_s
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Feb 8, 2023 21:29
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Cuttlefush posted:no! that's not how inertia works. if you're flying around in a plane and take a poo poo you don't have to accelerate your poo poo up to cruising speed first. hopefully. apparently the "realistic" scenarios were like 0.1c doing that. and also the bombs used were on the order of 0.1 kT blowing up far enough away and some shock absorbing system that it wouldn't actually bang the ship up. also they'd just use a solar sail or something. it's literally gigantic hydraulic springs and a big metal plate. the metal plate just ablates a calculated amount with each bomb, and the springs transfer the inertia into a safe g-force acceleration. bumpy ride
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Feb 8, 2023 21:33
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Cuttlefush posted:no! that's not how inertia works. if you're flying around in a plane and take a poo poo you don't have to accelerate your poo poo up to cruising speed first. hopefully. apparently the "realistic" scenarios were like 0.1c doing that. and also the bombs used were on the order of 0.1 kT blowing up far enough away and some shock absorbing system that it wouldn't actually bang the ship up. also they'd just use a solar sail or something. Yeah, i hosed up there. The nuke rectum wouldn't need any more velocity pointed in the path of travel than it would for initial thrust. I guess i just got excited about assholes. If the thing's only going .1c though it would take 44 years to get to alpha centauri which i guess would mean it would need to be a generational ship or unmanned.
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Feb 8, 2023 21:35
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it definitely seems like it shouldnt work. or not fail catastrophically in some way
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Feb 8, 2023 21:37
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Hatebag posted:Yeah, i hosed up there. The nuke rectum wouldn't need any more velocity pointed in the path of travel than it would for initial thrust. I guess i just got excited about assholes. If the thing's only going .1c though it would take 44 years to get to alpha centauri which i guess would mean it would need to be a generational ship or unmanned. 44 years to reach a new world is nothing, compared to the journeys our ancestors made
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Feb 8, 2023 21:38
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Cuttlefush posted:it definitely seems like it shouldnt work. or not fail catastrophically in some way it is kinda ridiculous, but.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Sv5y6iHUM it is the brute force approach, and that's why it might actually work
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Feb 8, 2023 21:40
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44 years to alpha centauri is a long time but a couple of weeks to get to Jupiter would be pretty handy
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Feb 8, 2023 21:43
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I notice people are discussing both interstellar travel and the country India On this topic, my best friend growing up was this Indian guy. We once got into a big argument because he was convinced that you could travel faster than light by simply continuing to accelerate for a really long time, due to the lack of friction in space. I said no!
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Feb 8, 2023 21:50
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Ytlaya posted:I notice people are discussing both interstellar travel and the country India chad frictionless ftl indian friend vs virgin causality obeyer ytlaya
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Feb 8, 2023 21:51
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Slavvy posted:44 years to alpha centauri is a long time but a couple of weeks to get to Jupiter would be pretty handy That's true. I guess we've only shot 3 probes out of the heliopause so far. No reason not to shoot a concrete disc full of nukes at stuff in the solar system
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Feb 8, 2023 21:55
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Slavvy posted:44 years to alpha centauri is a long time but a couple of weeks to get to Jupiter would be pretty handy i hope they remake alpha centauri in less than 44 years
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Feb 8, 2023 21:56
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they wouldnt even get close to alpha centauri cause gary buseys son would blow up the entire payload at launch
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Feb 8, 2023 21:56
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Tankbuster posted:Modi doesn't figure anything out lol. The guy is dumb as poo poo and is letting his bureaucrats run everything; which means that institutional knowledge that was shaped by nehru is running indian foreign policy. Modi did wreck things like indo-iranian relations in his first term. He also pulled India out of the Su-57 which in all honesty was the quickest way for India to get a fifth-generation fighter (with eventually domestic production). I don't think the switch to the Rafale was worth it even it was better than nothing, but India's own project is really far behind. Maybe they will give a go at the Checkmate. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 21:59 on Feb 8, 2023 |
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Feb 8, 2023 21:56
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You can't remake Alpha Centauri, that game was a product of its time and nobody is going to bother making something like that today.
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Feb 8, 2023 21:59
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https://twitter.com/BloombergUK/status/1623380660072095746?s=20 https://twitter.com/RoyalFamily/status/1623335580074377219?s=20
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Feb 8, 2023 22:16
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Lostconfused posted:You can't remake Alpha Centauri, that game was a product of its time and nobody is going to bother making something like that today. they did and they called it Civilisation Beyond Earth 
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Feb 8, 2023 22:19
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Beyond Earth was more like a sci fi mod for civ 5.Резидент posted:
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Feb 8, 2023 22:29
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I enjoyed civ beyond earth. It wasnt a remake of alpha centauri, it was its own thing and it was ok
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Feb 8, 2023 22:34
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Any operation to get ukranian refugees into the front line wont be officially directed by ukranian consulates. They will be done with cooperation from the governments by having peoples refugee status be invalidated. Once that happens they'll facilitate the transfer to ukraine to serve out their conscription.
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Feb 8, 2023 22:35
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fanfic insert posted:they wouldnt even get close to alpha centauri cause gary buseys son would blow up the entire payload at launch His name is Jake
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Feb 8, 2023 22:39
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smug jeebus posted:His name is Jake The proper way to refer to him is the Buseyspawn actually.
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Feb 8, 2023 22:41
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fanfic insert posted:they wouldnt even get close to alpha centauri cause gary buseys son would blow up the entire payload at launch lol
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Feb 8, 2023 22:44
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Ytlaya posted:I notice people are discussing both interstellar travel and the country India deva with vajra is superior to puny laws of relativity
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Feb 8, 2023 22:48
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paul_soccer12 posted:you suck shut up
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Feb 8, 2023 22:55
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Ytlaya posted:I notice people are discussing both interstellar travel and the country India I could exceed the speed of light. I would simply go faster than it.
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Feb 8, 2023 22:57
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The speed of light is really all about mindset.
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Feb 8, 2023 22:58
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OctaMurk posted:I could exceed the speed of light. I would simply go faster than it. Yeah has anyone ever tried that before? No? Embarrassing!
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Feb 8, 2023 22:59
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Hatebag posted:If the nukeshitter is going even half light speed it would have to poo poo a nuke with instantaneous velocity of 150,000,000 m/s to get a nuke in its path of travel to a safe distance. Rail guns only do 2500 m/s. Maybe they could have rockets with nukes on em to poo poo out for braking This is not the way relative velocity works
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Feb 8, 2023 23:00
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you are traveling faster than the speed of light from some perspectives
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