Getting two nukes to detonate sufficiently simultaneously that one does not simply destroy the other is much harder than actually building them in the first place.
Ok, assuming an air temperature of 77 degrees F, sound travels at 346.3 m/s. Assuming a fairly normal atmosphere with a refractive index, of, hell, let's make it a vacuum, c (299,792,458 m/s), and a detonation latency (ok, I made that word up.. time it takes for the detonators to set off the reaction) of 1 ms: A 1MT nuke would create a ~12psi blast ~1.7 miles from point of detonation. A 20psi blast travels at about 500mph (223.6 m/s), while a 5psi blast travels as slow as 160 mph (71.6 m/s). I'll let you work the equations.
What's all of this mean? Since the shockwave doesn't travel faster than sound for very long, and quickly slows down, the devices don't have to be that far apart as long as they're detonated via something RF-based (or an extremely accurate timer).
If you were referring to EMP, a surface detonation would greatly reduce the range to about 1.2 miles for a large warhead. Shielding is fairly easy for a self-contained electronic unit, and a simple 1mm thick welded-steel case for the device would suffice.
Of course simultaneous blasts may not be as damaging as a series of attacks throughout a major metropolitan area or region...
I always thought the easiest way to smuggle in a nuke would be to bring it in through Miami hidden in a bale of cocaine.
I think the best method is in a warhead attached to an ICBM
Surely that's the best way to get a nuke into the country, but it's not the best way to smuggle one in. On top of that, I don't think it's even legally possible to smuggle one in by that method, even if it did somehow come undetected. Nothing illegal about waging war against the United States, unless you're an American citizen...
smuggle, verb to import or export secretly and illegally esp. to avoid paying duties or to evade enforcement of laws
...is like saying basketball is a less difficult sport than soccer because more goals are scored.
Except, of course, that basketball is a much easier sport. I've seen it on TV a million times, and even in person. You just have to be a 7-foot tall black man. To play soccer you have to be able to run fast on top of being a non-(white american). Clearly the latter is more difficult.
They also violate the rights of tens of millions of "cheap adult" laborers and dump their waste in third world countries and cause enormous environmental damage which in turn destroys tens millions of lives (human, animal and plant) in due course of time....This has been going on for centuries now.
Centuries? You mean it was actually cheaper to ship the trash all the way from New York (by rail or by wagon?) out to San Francisco, then load it on a SAIL BOAT and ship it out to China than to just dump it in one of the ten-thousand acre empty lots in, say, the middle of the desert?
Thanks for Informing me; I guess you learn something new everyday. I didn't know our shipping infrastructure was so efficient back then.
How is this INSIGHTFUL?! I'd say it's flamebait, overrated, and inaccurate at best. Comparing modern American detention facilities to concentration camps is completely inaccurate. Unless you believe what the Iranians say about the quality of life in concentration camps...? I hear they were tropical resorts with an excellent health plan and 5-course meals.
So tru. Just ask anyone who's ever used the term "Olympic" on their website, restaurant menu, or anywhere else... even though it's a common adjective, refers to an actual place, etc...
Un simple brossage ne permet pas d'atteindre toutes les régions difficilement accessibles où la plaque s'accumule. Grâce à son léger revêtement de cire et à sa texture résistant à l'effilochage, la soie dentaire Oral-B EssentialFloss glisse aisément entre les dents et sous la ligne des gencives pour aider à enlever la plaque difficile à atteindre.
Utilisée matin ou soirs lors du brossage, la soie dentaire EssentialFloss aide à garder les dents et les gencives saines.
Thought I'd give you some instruction in an easier language for you and waste your time like you wasted mine. I wasn't critiquing your use of the language so much as correcting you calling it a "trademark secret", and saying that if you meant to say that you communicate trade secrets over PGP-encrypted email you really shouldn't be. Even if it didn't have any known flaws today, ten years from now breaking it would be a joke. I wouldn't recommend storing OR communicating trade secrets digitally. Or are your trade secrets the kind that only need to remain secret for a few years?
T-1's are a couple hundred dollars a month - OC-48s are about 1350 T-1s. Assume a big break for buying the big pipe, and that comes out to... several buttloads of cash per month.
It's rather different. To begin with, T-1s are essentially leased lines from a telco. They're pretty shitty and cost a lot more than they should.
OC-x connections are a bit different. When you get up to the level of OC-48 you're probably paying for your own fibre to be run. In google's case they're probably not paying so much for bandwidth since they have so many peering agreements. Why should they pay for bandwidth when they can just hook up a bunch of fibre to AOL's network? I hope you see where I'm going with this...
I'm not in the proper state of mind to really explain it, and I'm no expert on providers of OC-3+ connections. That's way above my damned level. But it's a whole different playing field from the shitty T-1s being offered by ISPs. A few meters of fibre and a router will dwarf the cost of something like T-1, but the price/bit ratio is much better.
All of that, and the fact that google probably pays a lot less for bandwidth than you'd think, aside, I think this's just more FUD from Verizon. I wish Google had some GHenchmen to go take care of those bastards...
I have used PGP over Gmail for some conversation (with trademark secrets etc) with other people. I thought the whole point of a trademark was that it's uh, well-known to the public... And if you meant to say "trade secrets", you really shouldn't be in the position to decide how to trasmit them.
You seem smart and well-versed in Windows. Maybe you can tell my why, on a brand new machine with a fresh, clean install of XP/Office 03, when a LUA first logs in and tries to run an Office app it attempts to install, then fails? The only solution I've found so far is giving them temp admin rights on that computer, letting the installer do its thing, then taking their rights away...
I've noticed fast torrents choking consumerl evel routers and switches on several ocaasions on different networks, and that's just with ONE running torrent. I shudder to think what a room full of torrenting computers would do.
Actually, what you're seeing isn't a router failing to handle x number of connections, it's either:
A) a router or software firewall attempting to resolve every IP address to a DNS record for its own internal logging, filtering, or other stupid activity. B) a rouer, particularly this linksys attempting to track old connections for as long as five days.
I'm not going to name names, but some people didn't think abot the capabilities of their hardware (or code) when implementing these asinine features by default and, in some cases, making it impossible to disable them!
(And yes, I know of what I speak. I'm doing some cryptographic research work as part of my Masters degree right now, and am not just some random/.er who has run PGP and who is pulling stuff out of his ass:) ).
While I've enjoyed, and agreed with, many of your posts, I have to point out that this does just kind of make you "some random/.er... who is pulling stuff out of his ass". Now if you said "I've spent 30 years working on __________ at the NSA" I'd give you credit, but "doing some cryptographic research as part of my master's" doesn't make one an expert on the topic. It means it's a part of your studies, but not really your specialty. Unless you misworded it or were trying to hide something...
For instance, a VoIP connection is a very consistent stream of data to one host, where anything file sharing related will be far from smooth, and will be talking to many hosts.
Unless, of course, that VOIP service is Skype, which uses a peer-to-peer protocol to multi-route packets.
I guess you didn't realize this, but that's just as bad! Even worse, really! You're stealing money from your internet provider by using a service which fits your needs better and causing your ISP lost sales! How are they supposed to sell you digital telephony solutions when you're stealing that bandwidth?!
when my wife was a first grade teacher, she used to keep tampons in her drawer. Why? Because her first year teaching, 2 girls had their first period in her class --6-7 year olds
Great, you just made my "if there's grass on the field, play ball!" saying look a lot worse.
What I enjoy is people that take experiments that dont prove anything from 50 years ago to show that because they couldnt produce a certain result in a very specific set of circumstances means that science is wrong in 100s of other cirumstances.
It's still better than the "it's just a theory, not a law!" crowd. Listening to those fucktards trying to explain science to me could well be the most torturous thing I've endured in my life.
A loving one. And remember, we were created to love him, not to do everything he says. (note: loving him is one of the things he says to do) After all, if he's omnipotent, do he need someone to shine his shoes?
Right, so why does Mr. Perfect get so lonely he has to create a whole planet filled with warmongering humans to love and worship him? That doesn't make any sense. That'd be an imperfection. Even my ex can go a day without somebody telling her she's great!
Furthermore, if he really wants everyone to love him, why doesn't he quit fucking with society and come down and speak to us from the clouds or something. Or as like a 100' marshmallow man! Something that'd let the entire planet know, beyond any doubt, that he exists, as well as what he wants society to do. And while he's at it, tell him to bitch slap Pat Robertson and Usama Bin Laden.
This tends to be my ultimate point in arguments with religious nuts. Even if you can convince me that faith is better than proof, etc., I still don't like God very much. I mean, we tend to put people who behave like that in prisons or asylums, and I'm supposed to worship the guy?
I think you'd enjoy reading The End of Pascal's Wager. I came to the same conclusion a long time ago, but Richard Carrier knows how to word things without sounding like an idiot...
What's interesting about this is that in king Tut's days wounds like that generally were lethal. How privileged we are living in this modern age (and having access to anti-biotics)!
Yeah, I think that every time I'm in a sword fight!;)
Actually, you should think about that every time you're not in a swordfight.
I'm just impressed that installing a user-level application (a web browser) is able to interfere with Wireless drivers in anyway what so ever.
Maybe I'm a dinosaur not seeing the benefits of integrating webbrowsers into wireless-drivers, but can someone please tell me how any sane architecture could allow this? Thanks. That's all.
I know there's a lot of MS bashing going on, but I'm sorry, this is legitimate and you deserve to know...
This is Microsoft Windows/Internet Explorer! What does "sanity" or "benefit" have to do with whether or not IE will be integrated with anything else in the operating system it can infect? You can't even browse files on your hard drive without IE functioning properly (OK, there are workarounds, but I hate windows' command line)! I've never been able to have a functioning windows OS after removing IE (98SE and later? 3 and 3.1 were fine, and I could swear 95 didn't have IE yet). Maybe this has changed now, but last I heard the entire operating system was dependent on the INSECURE WEB BROWSER FROM HELL for nearly all of its user interface.
So, I guess in response to "but can someone please tell me how any sane architecture could allow this?", the answer is that they can, have, and will. They get away with it and sell this utter shit to 90% of the market. They're sane alright. It's the people who are buying/using the products that are insane.
I know it was meant to be a joke, but please keep in mind that the military has been responsible for many revolutionary inventions, from radar to jets to better navigational systems and GPS to computers to... well, I think you get the point. Hopefully.
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Ok, assuming an air temperature of 77 degrees F, sound travels at 346.3 m/s. Assuming a fairly normal atmosphere with a refractive index, of, hell, let's make it a vacuum, c (299,792,458 m/s), and a detonation latency (ok, I made that word up.. time it takes for the detonators to set off the reaction) of 1 ms: A 1MT nuke would create a ~12psi blast ~1.7 miles from point of detonation. A 20psi blast travels at about 500mph (223.6 m/s), while a 5psi blast travels as slow as 160 mph (71.6 m/s). I'll let you work the equations.
What's all of this mean? Since the shockwave doesn't travel faster than sound for very long, and quickly slows down, the devices don't have to be that far apart as long as they're detonated via something RF-based (or an extremely accurate timer).
If you were referring to EMP, a surface detonation would greatly reduce the range to about 1.2 miles for a large warhead. Shielding is fairly easy for a self-contained electronic unit, and a simple 1mm thick welded-steel case for the device would suffice.
Of course simultaneous blasts may not be as damaging as a series of attacks throughout a major metropolitan area or region...
Surely that's the best way to get a nuke into the country, but it's not the best way to smuggle one in. On top of that, I don't think it's even legally possible to smuggle one in by that method, even if it did somehow come undetected. Nothing illegal about waging war against the United States, unless you're an American citizen...
smuggle, verb
to import or export secretly and illegally esp. to avoid paying duties or to evade enforcement of laws
Except, of course, that basketball is a much easier sport. I've seen it on TV a million times, and even in person. You just have to be a 7-foot tall black man. To play soccer you have to be able to run fast on top of being a non-(white american). Clearly the latter is more difficult.
Centuries? You mean it was actually cheaper to ship the trash all the way from New York (by rail or by wagon?) out to San Francisco, then load it on a SAIL BOAT and ship it out to China than to just dump it in one of the ten-thousand acre empty lots in, say, the middle of the desert?
Thanks for Informing me; I guess you learn something new everyday. I didn't know our shipping infrastructure was so efficient back then.
How is this INSIGHTFUL?! I'd say it's flamebait, overrated, and inaccurate at best. Comparing modern American detention facilities to concentration camps is completely inaccurate. Unless you believe what the Iranians say about the quality of life in concentration camps...? I hear they were tropical resorts with an excellent health plan and 5-course meals.
No, but I do have some of these proximity fuses...
So tru. Just ask anyone who's ever used the term "Olympic" on their website, restaurant menu, or anywhere else... even though it's a common adjective, refers to an actual place, etc...
atteindre.
Un simple brossage ne permet pas d'atteindre toutes les régions difficilement accessibles où la plaque s'accumule. Grâce à son léger revêtement de cire et à sa texture résistant à l'effilochage, la soie dentaire Oral-B EssentialFloss glisse aisément entre les dents et sous la ligne des gencives pour aider à enlever la plaque difficile à atteindre.
Utilisée matin ou soirs lors du brossage, la soie dentaire EssentialFloss aide à garder les dents et les gencives saines.
Thought I'd give you some instruction in an easier language for you and waste your time like you wasted mine. I wasn't critiquing your use of the language so much as correcting you calling it a "trademark secret", and saying that if you meant to say that you communicate trade secrets over PGP-encrypted email you really shouldn't be. Even if it didn't have any known flaws today, ten years from now breaking it would be a joke. I wouldn't recommend storing OR communicating trade secrets digitally. Or are your trade secrets the kind that only need to remain secret for a few years?
It's rather different. To begin with, T-1s are essentially leased lines from a telco. They're pretty shitty and cost a lot more than they should.
OC-x connections are a bit different. When you get up to the level of OC-48 you're probably paying for your own fibre to be run. In google's case they're probably not paying so much for bandwidth since they have so many peering agreements. Why should they pay for bandwidth when they can just hook up a bunch of fibre to AOL's network? I hope you see where I'm going with this...
I'm not in the proper state of mind to really explain it, and I'm no expert on providers of OC-3+ connections. That's way above my damned level. But it's a whole different playing field from the shitty T-1s being offered by ISPs. A few meters of fibre and a router will dwarf the cost of something like T-1, but the price/bit ratio is much better.
All of that, and the fact that google probably pays a lot less for bandwidth than you'd think, aside, I think this's just more FUD from Verizon. I wish Google had some GHenchmen to go take care of those bastards...
You seem smart and well-versed in Windows. Maybe you can tell my why, on a brand new machine with a fresh, clean install of XP/Office 03, when a LUA first logs in and tries to run an Office app it attempts to install, then fails? The only solution I've found so far is giving them temp admin rights on that computer, letting the installer do its thing, then taking their rights away...
Actually, what you're seeing isn't a router failing to handle x number of connections, it's either:
A) a router or software firewall attempting to resolve every IP address to a DNS record for its own internal logging, filtering, or other stupid activity.
B) a rouer, particularly this linksys attempting to track old connections for as long as five days.
I'm not going to name names, but some people didn't think abot the capabilities of their hardware (or code) when implementing these asinine features by default and, in some cases, making it impossible to disable them!
While I've enjoyed, and agreed with, many of your posts, I have to point out that this does just kind of make you "some random
I guess you didn't realize this, but that's just as bad! Even worse, really! You're stealing money from your internet provider by using a service which fits your needs better and causing your ISP lost sales! How are they supposed to sell you digital telephony solutions when you're stealing that bandwidth?!
No, only when I really feel like destroying the environment. One in each country.
Great, you just made my "if there's grass on the field, play ball!" saying look a lot worse.
Maybe not to you, but my property in the desert is going to be worth a lot more once the ocean gets closer! And yes, I drive TWO SUVs.
It's still better than the "it's just a theory, not a law!" crowd. Listening to those fucktards trying to explain science to me could well be the most torturous thing I've endured in my life.
Right, so why does Mr. Perfect get so lonely he has to create a whole planet filled with warmongering humans to love and worship him? That doesn't make any sense. That'd be an imperfection. Even my ex can go a day without somebody telling her she's great!
Furthermore, if he really wants everyone to love him, why doesn't he quit fucking with society and come down and speak to us from the clouds or something. Or as like a 100' marshmallow man! Something that'd let the entire planet know, beyond any doubt, that he exists, as well as what he wants society to do. And while he's at it, tell him to bitch slap Pat Robertson and Usama Bin Laden.
I think you'd enjoy reading The End of Pascal's Wager. I came to the same conclusion a long time ago, but Richard Carrier knows how to word things without sounding like an idiot...
Actually, you should think about that every time you're not in a swordfight.
I know there's a lot of MS bashing going on, but I'm sorry, this is legitimate and you deserve to know...
This is Microsoft Windows/Internet Explorer! What does "sanity" or "benefit" have to do with whether or not IE will be integrated with anything else in the operating system it can infect? You can't even browse files on your hard drive without IE functioning properly (OK, there are workarounds, but I hate windows' command line)! I've never been able to have a functioning windows OS after removing IE (98SE and later? 3 and 3.1 were fine, and I could swear 95 didn't have IE yet). Maybe this has changed now, but last I heard the entire operating system was dependent on the INSECURE WEB BROWSER FROM HELL for nearly all of its user interface.
So, I guess in response to "but can someone please tell me how any sane architecture could allow this?", the answer is that they can, have, and will. They get away with it and sell this utter shit to 90% of the market. They're sane alright. It's the people who are buying/using the products that are insane.
It's true! Doh, this post is removing my moderation, isn't it?
So... you're trying to tell me it's not like drugs?
Not at all
I know it was meant to be a joke, but please keep in mind that the military has been responsible for many revolutionary inventions, from radar to jets to better navigational systems and GPS to computers to