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piL posted:Pretty sure I got the reference from here. There's a 60s/70s science fiction book with fake interstitial advertisements that talks about people getting sick and offing a bunch of people as just a natural response to our sick society. There's some African country that's the happiest place in the world and a lot of talk about coerced sterilization if that helps ring anybody's bells. Stand On Zanzibar, John Brunner. I think about that book a lot lately. e: beaten
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Wonder Free, can a hurricane be too powerful for you guys to fly into? Like, do you have a cutoff where the missions are no-go because it’s got 200mph winds and poo poo? Semi-related, I guess: how do you guys deal with motion sickness? Scopolamine patches, other drugs, acclimatization, trade secrets, sacrifices to unnameable gods, etc?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Stay safe NOAA goon.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Stay safe NOAA goon.
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New forecast up, doesn’t look like any big changes. Still handrailing the coast Matthew-style, potential landfall anywhere between Savannah and NC’s Outer Banks (or not at all).
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Goddamn Wonder Free that is fuckin awesome
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Wonder Free has a legit cool job, the kind anyone’s inner child would love to do and anyone’s inner adult would never loving do. And you’re doing good helping people, weather forecasting is no shut the most important function of a modern government imo.
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Wonder Free posted:Definitely not my favorite hurricane at the moment. Took some big hits today, it’s intensifying still, pressure was like 913 mb when we were in it. Some very strong updrafts in the eye wall, we were gaining like 2k feet every time we went through, which is quite uncomfortable. Lots of positive and negative g’s going on and off quickly as we fight to keep level and on airspeed. Oh my god I want your job.
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echomadman posted:Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner Kesper North posted:Stand On Zanzibar, John Brunner. I think about that book a lot lately. Thanks guys! It feels very relevant.
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piL posted:Thanks guys! It feels very relevant. The Sheep Look Up is another one of his that deals with environmental/climate change in a corporate controlled world and its effects on society, which only gets more relevant as time passes. Brunner never got the credit he deserved while he was alive, even his older pulpy stuff always has some interesting themes and ideas.
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I might be crazy because flying in a hurricane hunter squadron is like a dream job.
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You guys can have all that flying jazz, I'll just keep working in weed.
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Yea I’ll stay underwater. A school of fish is fun, not only because they’re pretty but also because I don’t have to worry about them making me crash somehow 
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holocaust bloopers posted:I might be crazy because flying in a hurricane hunter squadron is like a dream job. This. I either want to do this, or fly on a P-8 and help kill some Russians in a submarine when the balloon goes up.
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The Clancy is strong in you.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:The Clancy is strong in you. Grew up on Clancy, it’s not good literature but boy will you have some stilted views of Russia and China if you grew up reading his books constantly. Literally initially picked my list of jobs when I started to enlist based on how those jobs had played out in Clancy novels. Vilerat convinced me to put Intel at the top of my list, and to take Security Forces and Aerial Gunner off my list. That man did me the greatest favor anyone could ask for with that advice. My life being as good as it is now is in part thanks to his advice.
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The coolest poo poo I ever did was fly Alaska NORAD missions intercepting Russian Bear bombers with the occasional Su-27 escort.
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piL posted:Thanks guys! It feels very relevant. Best part: I've never read the last four pages, because my copy's were EATEN BY RATS
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https://twitter.com/GBlack22wx/status/1168273327531679744?s=19 That's quite the stadium
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49541485 Footage starting to come out of the Bahamas and it's uhhh, pretty hosed  I did some backcountry snow stuff last week and at one point we were on a ridge in 100-120km winds and it was loving hard just trying to stay standing, I can't even imagine wtf 250+km would be like 
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49541485 Not good, terminal velocity for a human falling in the lower atmosphere is (seriously roughly) about 120mph, so that blowing up under you consistently and you'd float (depending on how you move, like those fake sky diving rigs). 250km/h is "you get launched unless you're anchored".
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49541485 quote:Dorian, moving westward at 7mph, is expected to continue to move over Grand Bahama Island later on Sunday into Monday.
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https://youtu.be/1wWrdwZpzvk That's 109 mph almost laying the guy out. Granted he's on snow and probably ice but he's able to use the wind as a chair. Add literally another hurricane worth of wind speed to that.
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Maybe the nuke wasn't such a bad idea after all....
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:
The largest nuke ever detonated, the Tsar Bomb, was 50 Megatons. That’s loving minuscule compared to the energy output of a Hurricane. H-Bombs release less energy than Hurricanes but on extremely small time scales. Hurricanes release way more energy than H-Bombs but over a much longer time scale.
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Yea, hurricanes output enough energy through wind and rain that it’s more than the entire output of the global electrical grid. Dorian could easily cover the entire state of Florida, and think of how much rain is is falling (which had to evaporate to get into the storm to start with). That’s before you’ve got the winds in the mix, too. It’s a mind-boggling thing all around.
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"Might as well try stopping a truck by throwing a brick at it" is how I've heard it. You could probably detonate all the strategic nuclear stockpiles of the world on a single point in the eyewall and you'd probably just make it stronger by adding heat.
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According to these guys, an average hurricane has more energy in it than the entire global arsenal of nuclear weapons. https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/energy-hurricane-volcano-earthquake1.htm Dorian is above average 
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I didn't think I'd have to point out that I was joking you dorks
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:when it comes to nukes in this forum everything is an option What’s the name of that propulsion mechanism that is basically a shuttlecraft dropping nukes out the back?
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Orion drive.
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:when it comes to nukes in this forum everything is an option I personally believe nuclear war is winnable in theory, but the circumstances required to get the U.S. to use it’s arsenal will make the war unwinnable or a stalemate. If we lusted for Slavic blood at the highest levels like I do we could definitely overcome Russia. But it’s one of those we either do it 100% right 100% of the way situations, because anything short of that? Millions and millions and millions more dead Americans.
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Nystral posted:What’s the name of that propulsion mechanism that is basically a shuttlecraft dropping nukes out the back? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Sv5y6iHUM
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