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2 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:
I believe the blast radius of a 100MT nuclear weapon is about 40 miles. That’s 40 miles in every direction. How many did the Chernobyl meltdown kill? 60 people?lol - USSR I think acknowledged 39 total deaths directly attributed, but it was more like hundreds of thousands via cancers and shorter life spans. Maybe even upward of a million. Remember, they used human "liquidators" to clean the roof of the exposed radioactive graphite.
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1 minute ago, RockyMountainHighHorn said:
Dad?
The hatred of windmills is the part I just don't get, it defies logic on so many levels, its still energy production, going to be produced by the same people that currently produce energy. Am I surrounded by legions of Don Quixote? Just fucking weird.
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1 minute ago, tejas60 said:
looking at the satellite shot of it, there are only 6 reactors. unless they've added 4 more since that pic was made.
you are correct, its a top 10 in the world, with 6 reactors.
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Just now, TXSG8R said:
I’m starting to believe Putin wants to draw NATO in. He dangled a 40 mile convoy, and now he’s doing an oops on a nuke plant?
No, this is what happens when you have a population of uneducated hicks and you send them to war. They are just plain ignorant morons with big weapons and no concept of context
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3 minutes ago, immamac said:
They are launching missiles at it. Probably unintentionally because of incompetence.
Also, if they hit any of the containment with the shelling, there will be a spike in radiation for sure, but nothing like Chernobyl so long as they stop the reactor and repair the damage. For weeks if not months after Chernobyl Cesium 137 spewed from it, that's gamma radiation on such a massive scale that it's like that everyone in the world to this day has trace levels of it in them.
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6 minutes ago, BrickTop said:
Now Ukraine is saying if that reactor fails it’ll be 10 times worse than Chernobyl
Well, there are 10 reactors there, just one failed at Chernobyl so in a sense that could be correct, however unlikely. (It is the largest in Europe so lots of power could go down as well).
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2 minutes ago, MillerEP said:
From what little I understand. It won't explode like a bomb or anything, but it can crack and leak and turn into another Chernobyl depending on where they shell.
Well, safety systems should act to shut everything down automatically should anyone system fail, i.e. coolant, power, etc. So nothing like Chernobyl, where all the safety systems were deliberately bypassed. Additionally, the Chernobyl control rods had graphite tips that the operators didn't know about which is what actually caused the explosion because when they went to reinsert the control rods (that should have never been removed to the level that they were, a whole different problem), the graphite caused the reaction to spike, thus causing the actual explosion. To my knowledge the Russians actually did change this practice moving forward and retroactively replaced the boron control rods that had graphite tips.
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1 minute ago, Cheeseweasel said:
Having spent a week or so in Yellowknife, this is a war crime to hold them there..
Along the lines of saying, "I've got 2 weeks vacation coming up, son of a bitch, Laurel Mississippi here I come!" Said by no one ever, and I mean ever.
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1 minute ago, Royalfan5 said:
Fuck LSU, you have to send Wisconsin and Wazzu fans.
fair point, I did defer to regional bias on that.
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4 minutes ago, Doc Reeves said:
I mean, I’m not try to split hairs or be unpatriotic but… Russians would take the gold if we had to go up against them in crack, mdma or methamphetamines. With out question. While we would destroy them in prescription pills, cannnabis and cocaine.
just trying to offer facts
USA new national motto: We aren't number 1 in Meth!
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3 minutes ago, Doc Reeves said:
Buddy.
that’s the best part.
just hang out and crack a beer.
I don't think we can out drink them, unless we send in our finest, gulp, LSU fans.
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11 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:
It's on the way there right now. What happens is...Putin will be dead.
that's the hope, best thing that could happen at this point
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3 minutes ago, crash_davis said:
This is extremely funny, given a large source of their rumored internal funding mechanisms.
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1 minute ago, Constant said:
Wish it were that simple. They deserve help.
Can we covertly buy more Turkish Drones and get them into their hands?
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1 minute ago, Hefeweizen said:
Chrissie Everett!
But Jim Rome did need his ass kicked.
Still does, always have thought that was a total work, right out of wrestling. Worked out well for Rome.
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1 minute ago, Hermanator said:
Are you familiar with 2015 to 2022 America?
Regrettably yes, but my understanding is that this is a cloak room matter, of which I have no interest. Instead, please consider donating:
https://www.habitat.org/where-we-build/romania
https://www.habitat.org/where-we-build/poland
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9 minutes ago, Pods said:
Footage of civilians murdered by Russian artillery in Charkov. Fucking barbaric.
NSFW and very graphic.
If this doesn't make you angry I don't know what will. Senseless loss of life to appease thug.
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3 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:
Your Kharkiv update
It looks like they held, but with terrible consequence, I imagine there are many civilian and militia dead. The fucksticks are going full scorched earth as feared.
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1 minute ago, Gatorubet said:
Indeed, sort of Dr. Evil like shit, nonsensical. That having been said, I imagine this has to be nipped in the bud right away. The FBI can issue reward money for arrest or capture of anyone afoul of the law, but a private person (yes even not a citizen) doing this under any guise from our soil is strictly illegal. Where would it stop, this has to be prosecuted, otherwise we are turning a blind eye towards lawlessness, which could be contrived legally as state sanctioned murder. This will be an unpopular opinion but if we don't shut this down we risk looking lawless in the eyes of the international world.
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https://news.yahoo.com/russian-businessman-places-1m-bounty-231620021.html
So now we have an actual bounty on Putin. Seems like a PR stunt to me, but nonetheless $1 million dollar bounty. (Also, not sure about this, but on US soil he has just actively solicited a criminal murder for hire scheme, not that I think anyone would criminally indict him).
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4 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:
I didn’t start following this thread until shit got crazy. My apologies to the board for posting an obvious meme that I hadn’t seen posted in the last week.
In the midst of madness, I don't think a bit of levity hurts. But that's just me.
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2 minutes ago, Pods said:
It don't know if I'd call it Ukraine winning, but I don't think the Russians have any options left that result in a win. Their equipment is outdated and they don't have enough. I don't see how they logistically maintain a siege, when they can't even come close to supporting the units they have deployed currently.
Hannibal marched up and down Italy for 15 years kicking the shit out of the Romans every time they faced, but Rome refused to admit defeat. Extreme stubbornness is damn hard to beat. I see that in the Ukrainians and they are doing far better than the Romans ever did against Hannibal until Zama.
I think the more Putin hits Ukraine, the harder they will fight. Long-term, Russia is fucked and will retreat in disgrace.
I'm fearful that a few morale crushers could hurt Ukrainian prospects, but may strengthen their collective resolve. I'm highly concerned that we haven't heard about Kharkiv tonight, to me it signals that the Russians may well have escalated the attack there and may well have flattened the city. The longer they continue to hold in area's like Kharkiv, where the Russian's expected virtually bloodless transitions, the more apt their Generals are to unless everything they have at those targets.
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5 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:
At what point do I start thinking the Ukrainians can win this thing? With the assumption that a tactical nuke isn’t used. Which I like as an assumption, because it fits my preferred world view.
I guess it’s when I feel like the Russians have reached their peak military investment in the invasion, and they’re still not really getting anywhere. I’m not there, yet, but it’s no longer beyond my imagination.
That national review article about their lack of training and leadership, and how it affects counterintuitive local fire fights, compared with a single American unit in a fire fight in 2003 Iraq, was illuminating. Thank you for sharing @phdhorn
In the long run 100% confident they will win. In the short term, things could become extremely awful, lots, and I mean lots of civilian and militia casualties and death. My hope is that someone kills Putin and ends this madness, but that seems unlikely.
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I haven't seen any sort of update on Kharkiv tonight, I imagine its because much of the press has left the region due to the fighting. Does anyone know if its getting hit again tonight?
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For anyone that has an hour to spare and actually wants to understand Chernobyl I recommend the following from an MIT course: the professor is quite good.