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Ag with kids

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  1. FIFY
  2. From the NYT:
  3. As I posted earlier, that twitter headline is not accurate. This is from the actual article: I'm so shocked that a twitter headline would be inaccurate...or, maybe, misleading.
  4. Interdasting... The actual article doesn't match that twitter headline...
  5. Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You invaded Ukraine. Prepare to die.
  6. Back at my last company, I was flying out to the Singapore Airshow. I wanted to fly Emirates. Was going to be sweet in Business on the A380. I'd done it on a previous trip to Dubai and it was amazing. But, as I was booking my $4500 ticket, I got a phone call to travel. I wasn't allowed to fly Emirates - I had to fly an American flagged flight due to the Fly America Act. I protested because it was an IR&D program I was working on but they told me no and were pissed that they hadn't stopped my earlier flight. So...instead, I ended up booking a business class flight on AA...ticket was $11.5K...yep, $7000 more and way worse. But, it was a marketing program so they think money grows on trees I guess.
  7. Yes. It's happened before. And we also don't have "one red button" that any POTUS can push. It's a process...
  8. Maybe we won't need to use our nukes after all...
  9. The first and only test...it was successful.
  10. I'd say that the APS study is probably a tad biased, but that's because I used to work in the industry and think some of their conclusions aren't 100% correct...but, I will agree that we do NOT have any system in place to even remotely handle a large scale nuclear attack by ANY country.
  11. For some reason, his name rings a bell...
  12. https://ifunny.co/video/ukrainian-stay-strong-by-rave-invade-us-if-you-are-y1YOV8rL9?s=cl
  13. Well, until 2002, we and the Russians/Soviets were bound by the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Neither of us could deploy ABMs. The thought was that being able to intercept the other side's ICBMs might make MAD obsolete and lead to a first strike... Meh...Our missile defense tech is REALLY good. But, we don't have many ABMs...not nearly enough to stop any Russian full launch.
  14. Yeah...I agree. It's a really dynamic thread. I hadn't seen it here. I actually got it from a friend via text. And I can't get into CR (by request). So, I figured it would be good to post it here...
  15. Also, our ICBMs/warheads are extremely accurate. The CEPs are tiny compared to what the Soviets used to have. Which is why they relied on high yield....they knew if they couldn't hit exactly where they wanted, they'd just blow everything the fuck up... I've been paying decent attention to this thread and I hadn't seen it here when I posted it...maybe you're wrong.
  16. After my trip to purgatory, I requested that when I gained reinstatement that I could NOT access CR so I wouldn't have to worry about that again... So, it's good this thread is here. And it's been really pretty good for the most part. Until those idiots started that Buick talk shit.
  17. A 100 MEGATON nuke? That's twice the yield of the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuke ever built - and the Soviets only made 1 of them. Divide by about 100 to get a reasonable yield...
  18. Since they won the National Championship, I think they get an automatic acceptance...
  19. In my first iteration of jobs, I was on the flight test team for the LOSAT missile at WSMR. We hit a couple tanks with the missiles and it was UGLY. I'd hate to be anyone inside. The round went in through the front then out through the back. Anyone inside would have died from the massive overpressure as the round went in, which would be nice, since they wouldn't feel the pain of dying from the the 1500 deg temperature increase over milliseconds and then having parts of them sucked out through the exit hole.
  20. My former company did cold weather flight testing for a helicopter certification up there. I was SO glad I wasn't on the program anymore. They were pissed because they needed it to be below -45 degF to do the testing and it took a week before it dipped from -42 or so to below -45...so they had to stay there the whole fucking time waiting before they could fly. BTW, the non-production aircraft did NOT have heaters...
  21. This is extra funny for me since I used to work for Bell and worked with a lot of Cobra pilots there and they made comments like this all the time.
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