The US will lose WW3

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mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

drilldo squirt posted:

Tankies are fascists wearing the skin of a real communist killed in a Stalin purge. Thank you for reading.

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drilldo squirt posted:

I'm not reading all that.

lol

# ¿ Mar 14, 2024 13:19

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 05:37

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

Orange Devil posted:

Plato was a dumb rear end in a top hat.

this is true

# ¿ Mar 15, 2024 13:59

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

dude just constantly getting clowned on by cynics

# ¿ Mar 15, 2024 14:00

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

Ardennes posted:

The US was barely holding it together during COVID and that was like a month worth of supply chain disruption.

It is 2024 and I don�t think the US could even handle way it did 4 years ago.

you�re right it�s not hold together during Covid right now

# ¿ Mar 20, 2024 20:07

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

The Oldest Man posted:

Solution: you get drafted into flipping burgers for small business owners any time you're not getting sent to die in Yemen

doing my reservist weekend at Goodburger

# ¿ Mar 21, 2024 01:34

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

I like Spartacus because movies about him have lots of sweaty, shirtless men

# ¿ Mar 23, 2024 13:51

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

poisonpill posted:

got a good source?

r/eveonline

# ¿ Mar 30, 2024 02:33

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/Marinetimes/status/1773000785984377205?t=aUrfWi1vMn2k3tIDrmkAIw&s=19

I don't think this is a problem that can be solved by best practices at the level of the individual soldier

"Have they tried Ambien?"

# ¿ Mar 30, 2024 21:32

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

Not even damage control. Just think about all of the routine things a warship needs to do at sea, like aid ships in distress, board vessels for inspection, constantly paint, the bo's'ns are constantly moving lines and chains on the decks, whatever other shipboard tasks.

You would need a perfectly smooth brain to not think of the thousands of tasks that need to be performed daily on a warship, compared to "firing weapons", which most ships throughout recent history have never done in anger.

if I read about these correctly the idea is to use them as scouts or embed them in a carrier flotilla? I see the real issues in navigating in ports and areas of crowded traffic. they can�t even get self driving cars to stop running over children. gonna be cool when one of these things runs into a bridge or capsizes one of those small day cruise ships with a casino deck

# ¿ Apr 4, 2024 14:07

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

drpk rules actually. any criticism I could possibly have is via propaganda and lies. all I know for sure is that they stood up to the us and are still loving here. that rules.

# ¿ Apr 12, 2024 22:57

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

the general physics is understood, it�s just that obtaining the plutonium is hard, as is rigging up detonators to fire precisely in order to compress the nuclear material to not get a fizzle

yep, getting concentrations of �weapons grade� isotopes (plutonium is common but other isotopes can be used like isotopes of uranium) is difficult and requires special equipment that the west tries to control access to.

sparking a reaction is easier once you have the material. compression is a method, where an implosion evenly compresses a core of weapons grade material into a small hot mass able to sustain an extreme �super-critical� environment, more neurons produced per fission than was used (quick escalation of fission events, and to us an almost instantaneous big boom), you�ll need an explosive and a �shield� around it to direct the explosive energy inward to the core.

a �gun�-type nuclear weapon design also existed iirc

# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 13:28

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

I saw someone mention the thought that nuclear weapons programs (in America at least) are really just funding scams, and I agree, but that�s par for the course for the MIC

# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 13:30

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

there is an interesting and mediocre but entertaining 80s comedy called The Manhattan Project about this very topic, a high school student builds a bomb for the science fair. has John lithgow in it

e: and Cynthia Nixon lol

mags has issued a correction as of 13:37 on Apr 19, 2024

# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 13:34

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

Owlbear Camus posted:

remember when the UK tested a slbm and it just sort of left the tube and tipped over for a belly flop? lol

lol if a nuclear exchange occurred (it won�t) it would be supremely awesome if none of ours launch

# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 13:47

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Drano posted:

with the premise of seldom mentioned laser isotope separation!

the laser scene is pretty cool. the 80s loved lasers

# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 13:50

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

oh yeah the dad from Frasier is also in it

# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 13:50

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Car Hater posted:

Note that this 'easier' method only gets you the classic fat man/little boy fission bomb. Modern thermonuclear fusion weapons rely on the same compression->fission principle but at a smaller scale as a boosted primary that produces a burst of x-rays. These x-rays then compress the gas secondary stage to create a much more energetic fusion reaction. They're a smaller and easier to deliver package but require much more precision in design than fission weapons.

what if we set off the nuclear bomb with a tiny nuclear bomb

# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 14:18