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Centrist Committee posted:serious question what’s the shelf life of pre-clinton nukes? because it’s clear that even the nuke problem will eventually be solved by the only thing this wretched land can still produce: entropy NNSA does have programs to refurbish old nuclear weapons to extend their life: https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/articles/stockpile-stewardship-and-management-plan-ssmp quote:In 2021, DOE/NNSA:
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Centrist Committee posted:serious question what’s the shelf life of pre-clinton nukes? because it’s clear that even the nuke problem will eventually be solved by the only thing this wretched land can still produce: entropy one of the reasons we invented supercomputers was to run endless simulations on our nuclear stockpile so that we can pull and reprocess warheads before they decay too much
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Frosted Flake posted:people telling him it’s dumb acts as encouragement Thread title. For this thread and all others, really.
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I remember when the first images of the littoral combat ships came out and my immediate thought, even with no boat knowledge, was that's stupid and isn't going to work.
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Clever Moniker posted:Why is he cosplaying as Leon Kennedy? He seems interesting. https://twitter.com/2112Power/status/1598440563501846528?t=XwnKUYyWBrDfK2zCUgtdjw&s=19 https://twitter.com/2112Power/status/1556633157834776585?t=sSxaVhNd-Mo6JjKPhp4CUQ&s=19 https://twitter.com/2112Power/status/1528172286607470594?t=L9mnmdka3U5G0oQPKpvi4Q&s=19 https://twitter.com/2112Power/status/1380948100223655937?t=pZOtnDEupENkpCirXWWfEw&s=19
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Trabisnikof posted:NNSA does have programs to refurbish old nuclear weapons to extend their life: https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/articles/stockpile-stewardship-and-management-plan-ssmp Raskolnikov38 posted:one of the reasons we invented supercomputers was to run endless simulations on our nuclear stockpile so that we can pull and reprocess warheads before they decay too much yah I remember obama at least put cash into nukes but I think this thread makes it clear that absolutely no aspect of the american economic or political system is immune to the decay of the material base so at some point past present or future even the nukes are going to rot, regardless of what the institutions report it gives me hope to take the cynical view that this has already happened so that’s what I choose to believe
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Chris "White" Power
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Regarde Aduck posted:it's a real shame nukes exist because there's no better time for the PLA to invade and fix Americans TBF if we had not decided long ago to go nuclear in a peer conflict it probably would be this bad yet. You can grift your conventional forces when you know you only use them against goat herders and farmers, and you know you won't sail out to fight WW3, you will just launch the nukes.
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i did not have "the US losing ww3" on my 2023 bingo card, Holy poo poo
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“What I really want is an unmanned ship that’s got R2-D2 in it,” he said, recalling his thinking at the time
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should we build a navy around overwhelming firepower and unstoppable mass to steam roll our adversary? no, wait, no that's not what we want - we cant afford that! can we have a row boat with a robot please?
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I mean even if this was something that ends up working the Chinese could make them better, faster, and cheaper.
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Monash University Bachelor of CommerceAccounting & Business Law/TaxationDid not graduate 2008 - 2013
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Centrist Committee posted:yah I remember obama at least put cash into nukes but I think this thread makes it clear that absolutely no aspect of the american economic or political system is immune to the decay of the material base so at some point past present or future even the nukes are going to rot, regardless of what the institutions report yeah there are lots of signs our national nuclear program isn't doing that great, like the debacle over forgetting how to make FOGBANK or the massive safety issues, like the time they almost caused a criticality incident just for a photo shoot: quote:https://www.science.org/content/article/near-disaster-federal-nuclear-weapons-laboratory-takes-hidden-toll-america-s-arsenal always a good sign when everyone involved in preventing an accidental criticality incident quits. but I'd be even more concerned about the launch systems themselves. like the ICBMs where they're in deferred maintenance hell waiting for 2029 and a new missile system: quote:https://time.com/6212698/nuclear-missiles-icbm-triad-upgrade/ another good sign when our nuclear deterrent has watch commanders who can't hear what is being said over the telephone, they're scavenging from museums for spare parts, and silos lose power randomly
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eh, most of the nukes are on subs anyway. plenty to kill the world a couple times
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now to check on how the subs are doing
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I've been hearing rumors that staff at JPL are getting asked to work on nuclear missile poo poo and that Biden visited twice in the last year in secret. Why they'd bother to ask civilians outside that field without clearances, idk. America is not short on people who are read into this stuff already and labs like Livermore and White Sands still exist.
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Centrist Committee posted:serious question what’s the shelf life of pre-clinton nukes? because it’s clear that even the nuke problem will eventually be solved by the only thing this wretched land can still produce: entropy Obama allegedly spent something like a trillion modernizing the nuclear force so its 50/50 on if it actually happened or we spent so much on consultants there was notbing left for actually modernizing but they gave us a plan so itsncounted as modenized
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Hatebag posted:now to check on how the subs are doing *takes huge sip of coffee and opens report*
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skooma512 posted:I've been hearing rumors that staff at JPL are getting asked to work on nuclear missile poo poo and that Biden visited twice in the last year in secret. Over-under on "disrupting nuclear warhead delivery" vs "Livermore and White Sands 'still exist' could mean so many different things" nuclear warhead design in the anglosphere is now lostech
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skooma512 posted:I've been hearing rumors that staff at JPL are getting asked to work on nuclear missile poo poo and that Biden visited twice in the last year in secret. all technical work in the west is now down by an army of imported talent, which is hard if you are working in a cleared space and can't hire foreign nationals
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The Oldest Man posted:Over-under on "disrupting nuclear warhead delivery" vs "Livermore and White Sands 'still exist' could mean so many different things" Disrupting nuclear warhead delivery is a different project.
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nukes... on the blockchain!
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maybe we should fund education more in the US…? no, it’s the children who are wrong
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poisonpill posted:maybe we should fund education more in the US…? no, it’s the children who are wrong Educating my workforce is an externality and therefore the responsibility of everyone but me.
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poisonpill posted:maybe we should fund education more in the US…? no, it’s the children who are wrong Can't properly fund schools since that would violate the non-compete clause the local government signed with the charter school company
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but i dont want a functional society, that would mean i win less *kicks and screams like a baby*
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It's the little skully badge, isn't it... im_sorry has issued a correction as of 20:49 on Sep 7, 2023 |
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Trabisnikof posted:yeah there are lots of signs our national nuclear program isn't doing that great, like the debacle over forgetting how to make FOGBANK or the massive safety issues, like the time they almost caused a criticality incident just for a photo shoot: yes Hatebag posted:eh, most of the nukes are on subs anyway. plenty to kill the world a couple times Hatebag posted:now to check on how the subs are doing ha ha yes
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im_sorry posted:It's the little skully badge, isn't it... this video is loving cracked the cold war never happened because the ussr was never a global power e: lol theyre going on and on about BTGs in tyol 2023 e: the superior quality of recruits will enable the us to defeat russia easily The Oldest Man has issued a correction as of 21:01 on Sep 7, 2023 |
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skooma512 posted:I've been hearing rumors that staff at JPL are getting asked to work on nuclear missile poo poo and that Biden visited twice in the last year in secret. JPL has had a few massive blunders recently, in particular with massively ballooning costs for the Mars Sample Return mission...it wouldn't shock me if management (the private university CalTech) was trying to do something to earn some political capital or money quote:https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/06/the-mars-sample-return-mission-is-starting-to-give-nasa-sticker-shock/ quote:Why they'd bother to ask civilians outside that field without clearances, idk. America is not short on people who are read into this stuff already and labs like Livermore and White Sands still exist. Livermore and most of the other national labs wouldn't likely have great expertise in the missile side of things, mostly the payload. JPL at least has had a long history of missile development
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The Oldest Man posted:e: the superior quality of recruits will enable the us to defeat russia easily breaking out the calipers to measure national warfighting capability
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skooma512 posted:I've been hearing rumors that staff at JPL are getting asked to work on nuclear missile poo poo and that Biden visited twice in the last year in secret.
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Cerebral Bore posted:breaking out the calipers to measure national warfighting capability they have a slide where two guys are getting drunk next to a bear so yes
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The Oldest Man posted:e: the superior quality of recruits will enable the us to defeat russia easily just need willpower and democracy to overcome 152mm OF-540
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sounds like every single one of these problems stems from a single, ideological, source: WOKE MILITARY
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The Oldest Man posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDxm9i1XaKA I commend you for drinking the sewage so I don't have to
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Just realized that the M10 Booker It's also only slightly lighter than a Patton (which can fire said APFSDS when it was in service) so where did all the weight go to. Is it supposed to only shoot at T-55s and naked T-72s because god forbid anyone put some ERA on their tank.
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Danann posted:Just realized that the M10 Booker Well you have to fit a 5 ton server rack in there for all your always on intelligent cyber battlespace systems AR display stuff for every crew member plus all the networking and additional power generation. Careful driving over bumps though. That server crashes and you're blind & lose comms.
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we will just outproduce china and win ww3. simple as
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