Thanks I hate it

Laws aren't moral because they're laws.

It is very much the topic. Read the room.

It’s not necessarily religion that is the problem here. It’s that people who don’t have critical reasoning skills are drawn to religion.

Not in all cases, sure. But in quite a number of them religion is encouraging that kind of behavior. They tell themselves and others to have faith, to not rely upon evidence, that testing god is a sin, etc. They actively discourage critical thinking and reasoning skills, which is a catalyst for the more dangerous stuff like qanon, anti vaccine rhetoric, etc.

We might still be in this boat without religion, but at the very least we'd have less holes.

If only we could have predicted this.

Fucking mood.

Take what I said with a massive grain of salt though. Even if I didn't oops a digit, the number of launches the military could have hijacked for this is very limited, and the number of them very limited.

If there are any in orbit, I'd wager its less than a dozen or so.

The space shuttle had a 60ft long bay, with a LEO payload capacity of 27,500 kg to LEO, 16,050 kg to the ISS, or 10,890 kg to geostationary orbit.

https://www.nasa.gov/reference/the-space-shuttle/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle

Tungsten has a density of 19.254 g/cm3

A 30ft tall, 1ft diameter cylinder is about 667,199 cm3. Made of tungsten, it would be 13,343.99 kg, or 13 metric tons. In 1995 the price per metric ton of tungsten was $20,674.11 after adjusting for inflation, or $268,763.43 for the entire rod.

https://www.metalary.com/tungsten-price/

Please check my math on this if you like, as I am very sleep deprived.

But the point is, it is well within the payload capacity of the tech we had, and the military budget. And the U.S. military would have absolutely been willing and able to hijack a ride on a shuttle, when the shuttle program was active.

That's another favorite of mine as well.

And I wouldn't be surprised at all if there were a few sets of them in orbit right now.

Don't forget to add an extra 25% for all the companies using the tariffs as excuses to raise prices further to extract profit.

They did it with covid, they'll do it again now.

Yeah, it is an absolutely terrifying concept.

"Let's make a weapon so awful, that it can fly around for basically forever, spreading nuclear fallout everywhere it travels at breakneck speeds, and load it up with a dozen or so nuclear bombs, only to cancel the project because the russians would absolutely make this machine as well"

What's worse is the implication of this being revealed to the public. The only way something like this gets unclassified if the military has something stronger/better. Maybe that's ICBMs, maybe something else. Spooky shit either way.

Purity tests just make adoption of positive change slower.

Economy of scales

Wild

Active directory for both, against my will. It's all three

FUCK active directory

if he decides “if I die, the world dies”, we’re doomed.

Unlikely, he's got kids.

They're hardly in a corner. They could stop invading and broker a peace deal at any time.

Russia still has plenty of nukes, and they could fire them all before anybody has time to react. If that nuke is an ICBM, though, as soon as it leaves the silo the world would know, and the counter barrage of nukes would be firing up before it even lands.

Obviously an ICBM is armageddon. However a tacticsl nuke, one dropped from a plane or something onto Ukraine would be a different story.

The world will be far less inclined to launching ICBMs over that. So it's just a game of how much they can get away with.