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1 hour ago, Bullneck said:
By the same logic, if you wreck the truck, would it be considered a post birth abortion?
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1 minute ago, B00M said:
Someone catch me up. We’ve had the technology to go to mars and start crudely colonizing since what, the ‘80s? but instead, we’re fucking around and maybe going to land on the moon again (yay?) sometime in the next decade, where there are basically no useful resources, and the exercise in no way actually helps us get to further worlds?
In theory, we've had the tech to at least land people on Mars from the 70s (they'd have likely been dead bodies, but hey). Going to the moon actually makes more sense than meets the eye, and it does have resources.
1. Water exists on the moon, it isn't plentiful, but it exists. Where water exists, you can make rocket fuel. For deep space manned exploration, barring improvements in propulsion, that will be important.
2. It's beneficial to have a proving ground for new tech, like regolith 3D printing, or farming. The moon being only a few days away makes it a realistic test bed for emergent tech. In other words, you can afford to have something fail on the moon and get a replacement or a return to Earth in short order. Something like that happens on Mars, everyone could die.
3. Helium 3 exists in abundance on the moon's surface, while it doesn't here on Earth. This makes it potentially highly commercially profitable.
There are lots of other reasons, but a big one to me is the fact that we aren't likely to send people without lots of fail-safes. To me, that means we will realistically we will need essentially weigh stations in space in between here and Mars, all equipped with the ability for things like life support, supplies, and return options. I think it's far more viable (mind you not economically) to build a series of O'Neill cylinders as both research stations and lifeboats.
That isn't to say that leap in technology can't turn all this on it's head, after all, more or less we are using the same principles Robert Goddard and Werner Van Braun used. The Starship could be a game changer for a lot of reasons beyond itself, for example, the ability to get new test beds into orbit on the cheap could (and likely will) lead to new breakthrus.
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German media also reporting
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I'm about tired of this "Fire your housekeeper, and we clean your home for $19, plus we do all your laundry." commercial from, I think Homaglobe.
Who the fuck is cleaning your house for $19 and doing your laundry? Give me a break. I get that it's a intro rate, but damn.
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29 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:
I've been to the battlefield. The union troops were trying to advance up a 40 degree incline with cannons pointed down at them. An absolute meat grinder. Tablets cover the area marking where entire companies were obliterated.
It was fucking brutal, worth a stop if you are ever in the area and a bit of history fan. I don't live far from Kennesaw Mountain, which was a battle in the outskirts of Atlanta, the earth works still exist and one area where a company from Tennessee made the bend and walked directly into artillery. None survived.
What is crazy, is that with the benefit of hindsight, it's easy to see that conditions and battlefield tactics had changed, yet for at least another sixty years plus, everyone still taught the Napoleonic tactics. As it applies to today, the Russians still use some of this, (i.e. columns, over dependence on artillery, etc). It isn't just that they take untrained peasants and run them onto the field, it's also that their command is taught tactics that are 200 years old.
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8 minutes ago, Bevo said:
For being born and living in Vicksburg during the Civil War? I would have to ask my mom, but I'm pretty sure that it was a woman with her children in the cave. And not that I need your approval but some years later my mom's family was pretty prominent in support of desegregation in Mississippi - like they are in books.
Easy joke (relax not serious), It's pretty easy to be in a book in Mississippi, you just have to write it.
Of course no civilians deserve anything of this sort, just pure horror and misery.
An interesting thing to think about though, is how the siege of Vicksburg essentially foretold where artillery based warfare was going; i.e. the stagnation and trench warfare of WWI. In this case the side that one eventually exhausted supply of the enemy, however, what happens when neither side can be exhausted (hint, it's fucking bad).
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Looks like they will need more prayers in Kursk
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The Backup Plan has been unleashed
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The Ukrainians apparently launched a drone attack on Moscow, and the Russian's have claimed to shoot down 10. This would be the largest single drone attack on Moscow proper if true. As to whether or not the Russians actually shot them down, I guess we will see in the morning.
I like this strategy, for a few reasons. The first being, tying up their missiles in Russia keeps them out of the Ukrainian's hair and can only help to exhaust Russian stocks. The second being that psychologically this further removes the idea that somehow Putin is "protecting" the motherland with all this.
I hope they keep it up.
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Just now, Derka said:
unlike trump, who is equally inept at both speaking and governing. you make a good point.
Sound like Bush as well, but I digress
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3 minutes ago, softlynow said:
Like the best athletes, he just makes it look easy.
I know you can work hard at public speaking, and I know you can improve at it, but some people just have a natural gift with it, Obama is one of those. I'm not trying to take away from his the hard work he put in to it. He's just really good.
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This is only night 2. This is by far, without question, the best Democratic convention of my lifetime.
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I just hope Lil Jon closes the night with the East Side Boyz
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Earlier a poster put together an idea of a potential battle plan with the idea of going towards Melitopol (I forget the poster, apologies), that's a long way from the river banks. However, using the deep state map, I did notice that merely by crossing the river bank anywhere between Kherson and NIkopol, with any heavy equipment (to include HIMARS) they would be within the 300 km range of the Kerch Bridge, making an ATACMS strike possible. I'm not sure that would do the job entirely, I suppose it depends on the warhead. If they are going for it, I would at least have to think this is a strong secondary objective.
In searching, the average depth of the Dneiper in this area is between 1.3 meters and 12 meters, however, I'm unclear if this is pre dam demolition or post. Additionally, the width of the river in dry periods ranges anywhere from 200 ft to 1200 ft, again, not clear if this is pre or post dam. In any event, if it is significantly low from even these readings crossing heavy equipment with pontoons might be possible, but I have to imagine still extremely difficult. If they do accomplish this, it would potentially open a door behind the Surovikin line. Fingers crossed.
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1 hour ago, TeeDubya said:
Noel also picking it up, no confirmation of yet, but he's pretty much on the ball, so....
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5 minutes ago, RPM said:
and the food bill keeps going down.
along with the bureau of prisons budget, the motorpool, the navy, the air force.....
Gotta give it to Putin, he's really solved that age old pesky deferred maintenance issue.
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6 minutes ago, immamac said:
Is that bad? It seems bad.
By Russian standards, probably not, after all the Soviets had somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 million in ww2 (military only, perhaps 20 million more civilian), so this is going just great!
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Friendly reminder, the USA lost 419k in all theaters combined in WW2
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What a fucking clown
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2 minutes ago, Brandywine said:
What happened to him? He should go to work for Fox.
He was the first to buy into Zaslav's (and his dipshit Licht) mandate for "both sides" bullshit, and he hasn't let it go. Zaslav's day's are numbered, the Discovery merger is going to rank up there with the AOL Time Warner merger as being one of the biggest media disasters in history.
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2 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:
Aaaaaannnd CNN's first comments after that speech are about how Biden talked about his legacy more than promoting Kamala. Easiest decision ever to turn that shit off and go to bed.
Calling CNN a dumpster fire is an insult to a dumpster fire.
I still like looking at Erin Burnett though.
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3 minutes ago, AUS-97HORN said:
you are thinking nefarious.....
what you are forgetting is the US fucking blocking the attack on Gerasimov because reasons. the US intel team could just as easily have been told from the top to tell the Russians that info to try and keep the peace.
we are absolutely horrible allies unless we need to start killing MFers
I actually get asking for them not to kill Gerasimov, he seems quite shitty.
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22 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:
So you have not been to Washington lately? Everyone wants to tell someone what they know. Just sit in the right bars or hotel lobbies.
Politicians are gonna politic, that part I get. This however, is something more damning, at least to me. This indicates that our intel people are either incompetent or are compromised, or worse both. After that, who can blame the Ukrainians for keeping us at arms length on planning?
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23 minutes ago, KYHorn said:I've seen many reports expressing this sentiment
A highly placed Zelensky admin source to me: “Keeping the Americans in the dark was also key to keeping the Russian intelligence services and army from being able to prepare. “We have learned some very hard lessons from the events of the previous counteroffensive,” a highly placed member of Zelenskyy’s team informed Tablet. “Last summer we told everyone what we were going to do and we all know how that turned out. Everyone knew what we were going to do and in which location we intended to strike. There is definitely something to be learned from the Israeli example of acting first and only later explaining what you are doing.” My latest: tabletmag.com/sections/news/…
No CR. The decree is legit.
BREAKING: PUTIN JUST DROPPED A BOMBSHELL DECREE—INVITING PEOPLE FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE WHO ARE FED UP WITH THE GLOBALIST, NEOLIBERAL NIGHTMARE TO SEEK SANCTUARY IN TRADITIONAL RUSSIA!
This new decree blows the lid off the establishment's agenda, letting freedom-loving folks bypass the usual bureaucratic nonsense like language tests or history exams. If you're ready to reject the insane policies of your home countries that push these destructive, anti-human, neoliberal agendas, Russia is rolling out the red carpet!
The Russian government is about to compile a list of countries poisoning minds with these twisted ideals, and the Foreign Ministry is gearing up to issue visas to true patriots as soon as September! It's time to stand up for spiritual and moral values!
Source: Tass
That's one hell of an indictment of our people and their inability to keep their mouths shut, or worse even being compromised. Not great Bob.
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
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