China and Russia both have second strike potential. And anything you could rain from the sky will be noticed long before you do. De-orbiting a weapon to strike at some target isn't exactly something you can do in a surprise move. These things are kinda visible long before impact...
Not quite. To hit a target once around the planet (which is pretty much the maximum possible distance), you need a lot less dV than for reaching orbital velocity. A package that allows you to determine when to de-orbit would actually have to be quite a bit heavier than one that "only" has to go once around the planet, because "what goes up must come down" ain't so true anymore once you're in orbit. To get back down, at least in a planned way, you need a second unit of boosters that not only most likely need a second set of thrusters and fuel (because an ICBM isn't exactly meant to reignite after an unspecified long period of time), it also needn't be pressurized or suffers from any other negative effect of exposing the fuel to weightlessness (which can really spoil your day because the fuel starts to float and disperse in the tank instead of sitting conveniently at its bottom).
This isn't exactly easy. Actually, one of the tricky parts of space exploration is to make engines that can be ignited a couple of time, in vacuum and weightlessness. That's surprisingly nontrivial.
So you want to send a blast furnace and manufacturing plant onto an asteroid. Or the moon for that matter. I'm not exactly convinced that that's an easier (and less fuel consuming) task.
Look, show me ONE even remotely feasible projection and we'll talk. But this sounds a bit like scifi to me. What you have in mind either needs you to move a few tons of asteroid material into an earth orbit or move an ore mining, refining, smelting, processing and manufacturing toolbox into an asteroid (or lunar) orbit AND back into earth's orbit.
And all that cheaper and with less environmental impact (because that's still the core idea behind doing all that in the first place) than sending something like this up into the orbit, which by itself is already pretty much infeasible due to the amount necessary.
Sorry, but if you know anything about orbital mechanics, this does sound like a pipe dream of someone who played just a bit too much KSP.
We're talking about sending those things up into an orbit, which is by some margin more difficult than sending something on a ballistic trajectory. Also, we're talking about doing it in such a way that it can neither cause fallout locally nor start a nuclear war. Sorry, ballistic missiles are NOT good enough for either of these jobs.
You ARE aware that the only superpower that could remotely be considered a threat to the US is (again, I might add) leaps and bounds ahead of the US? Why would you want to cancel a treaty unilaterally that puts you at a disadvantage? Not even the fat little douche in North Korea is stupid enough to cancel the armistice, knowing that he's but a fart compared to what his enemy and its allies could field.
How about starting to toss some patents while we're creating solid rules on what not to use to keep people alive? Needn't limit it to 2 if you do it that way.
Ok. So we're back at the dV problem. Asteroids don't tend to be in a nice, circular orbit around earth. They pass by at rather large distances (thank $deity). So what you apparently want to do is to move to such an asteroid, match its velocity vector (to make a soft landing), then "grab" it somehow and change its velocity vector to bring it into an orbit around Earth.
I honestly don't even know where to start with the explanation why this is not going to work out.
An ICBM flies a ballistic curve. It's kinda in the name.
What you need here is a rocket that can take your nuke into orbit, and take it there with zero chance of it coming down prematurely because it could be kinda hard to explain to, say, Russia why there's an American nuke in the Red Square. Or to Florida's inhabitants why they have to move back to their kids in Wyoming because a launch error spread weapon grade nuclear material all over their retirement home's position.
Not really a problem when the nukes are already dropping anyway, i.e. when your ICBMs would be used. Kind of a big deal in every other case.
Trust me, to launch a nuclear warhead in peace time into an orbit, you DO want man rated equipment. You want a rocket that has a chance of exploding on the way up that is as close to zero as you can possibly get. First, because it could be kinda hard to all the residents of Florida that America's Wang just got uninhabitable due to fallout.
And then there's that unfortunate "what goes up, must come down" part where you could make it halfway around the globe before your rocket fails and it lands where it makes diplomacy really, really complicated.
Sure, when launching ICBMs in a nuclear war scenario, that all is very negligible. I mean, we ARE already in a potential fallout situation and whether it's your nuke or the Russian one, who gives a fuck? But in a peace scenario, you do NOT want that warhead to come down anywhere unplanned.
And I think I already pointed out why ICBMs make very poor orbital rockets. ICBMs fly ballistic. That's kinda short of what you need for an orbital shot. Going into orbit isn't about going higher. It's about going faster.
Maybe we never knew how ICBMs work? Or didn't learn that ballistic trajectories take WAY less dV than on that's supposed to put a payload into an orbit?
Start an arms race in the ONLY fucking military area you're NOT superior than the rest of the planet combined. You could simply lean back and be Number 1. On water, land and sea, nobody can hold a candle to your military power and in space there's the Outer Space Treaty that everyone who could even remotely matter signed and heeds.
The US doesn't even have the rockets to launch anything like a nuke. Russia has man rated rockets to launch them. China has man rated rockets to launch them. The EU... doesn't need man rated rockets to launch them 'cause where they launch, nobody gives a crap when the nuke comes back down prematurely.
Pence, we all know the worth of your brain is that of your name, but did you have to prove so blatantly that you're basically only an assassination insurance for Trump? I.e. "think twice before shooting me, 'cause then this bozo is prez!"
The conclusion is not really too clear on the reason. It details that bleeding happens more often in women and that CR procedures are less often used, but does not explore the reason why this is the case. The only thing I can take away from it with some veracity is that there is less data of AMI related deaths in women, that there are fundamental physiological differences between the sexes and and that this leads to a lack of experience to assess the symptoms correctly.
What does the taking of another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it have to do with copying stuff?
Accusing kids in school of being Jack Sparrow is maybe not what the MAFIAA wants to do, especially when at the same time depicting him as a hero and overall cool guy...
This is exactly the problem with content: People care mostly about convenience.
You know what caused the switch from Piratebay to Netflix? Convenience. Nobody gives a fuck about 10 bucks a month, what they care about is ease of use. Click it and it works. Netflix managed to be more convenient than TPB. That's all.
That's also the reason that certain content gets copied like crazy. Not even, but especially when prohibitive DRM is in place. You might notice that those always-online games are among those that get copied the most. Why? Convenience. If I buy a game that I then cannot play because the activation server is overloaded, tinker and toy for a few hours until I give up, download it from TPB and just play it.
Next time I omit the step that is of no use to me.
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China and Russia both have second strike potential. And anything you could rain from the sky will be noticed long before you do. De-orbiting a weapon to strike at some target isn't exactly something you can do in a surprise move. These things are kinda visible long before impact...
Not quite. To hit a target once around the planet (which is pretty much the maximum possible distance), you need a lot less dV than for reaching orbital velocity. A package that allows you to determine when to de-orbit would actually have to be quite a bit heavier than one that "only" has to go once around the planet, because "what goes up must come down" ain't so true anymore once you're in orbit. To get back down, at least in a planned way, you need a second unit of boosters that not only most likely need a second set of thrusters and fuel (because an ICBM isn't exactly meant to reignite after an unspecified long period of time), it also needn't be pressurized or suffers from any other negative effect of exposing the fuel to weightlessness (which can really spoil your day because the fuel starts to float and disperse in the tank instead of sitting conveniently at its bottom).
This isn't exactly easy. Actually, one of the tricky parts of space exploration is to make engines that can be ignited a couple of time, in vacuum and weightlessness. That's surprisingly nontrivial.
So you want to send a blast furnace and manufacturing plant onto an asteroid. Or the moon for that matter. I'm not exactly convinced that that's an easier (and less fuel consuming) task.
Look, show me ONE even remotely feasible projection and we'll talk. But this sounds a bit like scifi to me. What you have in mind either needs you to move a few tons of asteroid material into an earth orbit or move an ore mining, refining, smelting, processing and manufacturing toolbox into an asteroid (or lunar) orbit AND back into earth's orbit.
And all that cheaper and with less environmental impact (because that's still the core idea behind doing all that in the first place) than sending something like this up into the orbit, which by itself is already pretty much infeasible due to the amount necessary.
Sorry, but if you know anything about orbital mechanics, this does sound like a pipe dream of someone who played just a bit too much KSP.
We're talking about sending those things up into an orbit, which is by some margin more difficult than sending something on a ballistic trajectory. Also, we're talking about doing it in such a way that it can neither cause fallout locally nor start a nuclear war. Sorry, ballistic missiles are NOT good enough for either of these jobs.
You ARE aware that the only superpower that could remotely be considered a threat to the US is (again, I might add) leaps and bounds ahead of the US? Why would you want to cancel a treaty unilaterally that puts you at a disadvantage? Not even the fat little douche in North Korea is stupid enough to cancel the armistice, knowing that he's but a fart compared to what his enemy and its allies could field.
How about starting to toss some patents while we're creating solid rules on what not to use to keep people alive? Needn't limit it to 2 if you do it that way.
"We do not, for example, allow content that [...] aims to profit by tricking people using Facebook,"
That's our job, dammit!
That's Bikini Bottom, not Bermuda Bottom.
No, that grows under the sea.
You must've been sleeping a really long time...
Actually, it's even more.
In this age of reporting, be glad what they wrote about was at least a ship and they didn't claim it's a collar.
Ok. So we're back at the dV problem. Asteroids don't tend to be in a nice, circular orbit around earth. They pass by at rather large distances (thank $deity). So what you apparently want to do is to move to such an asteroid, match its velocity vector (to make a soft landing), then "grab" it somehow and change its velocity vector to bring it into an orbit around Earth.
I honestly don't even know where to start with the explanation why this is not going to work out.
An ICBM flies a ballistic curve. It's kinda in the name.
What you need here is a rocket that can take your nuke into orbit, and take it there with zero chance of it coming down prematurely because it could be kinda hard to explain to, say, Russia why there's an American nuke in the Red Square. Or to Florida's inhabitants why they have to move back to their kids in Wyoming because a launch error spread weapon grade nuclear material all over their retirement home's position.
Not really a problem when the nukes are already dropping anyway, i.e. when your ICBMs would be used. Kind of a big deal in every other case.
If you are planning for an all-out war against an enemy where a decapitating strike on a central and well known command structure is possible, yes.
I think the last war like this the US waged was WW2.
Trust me, to launch a nuclear warhead in peace time into an orbit, you DO want man rated equipment. You want a rocket that has a chance of exploding on the way up that is as close to zero as you can possibly get. First, because it could be kinda hard to all the residents of Florida that America's Wang just got uninhabitable due to fallout.
And then there's that unfortunate "what goes up, must come down" part where you could make it halfway around the globe before your rocket fails and it lands where it makes diplomacy really, really complicated.
Sure, when launching ICBMs in a nuclear war scenario, that all is very negligible. I mean, we ARE already in a potential fallout situation and whether it's your nuke or the Russian one, who gives a fuck? But in a peace scenario, you do NOT want that warhead to come down anywhere unplanned.
And I think I already pointed out why ICBMs make very poor orbital rockets. ICBMs fly ballistic. That's kinda short of what you need for an orbital shot. Going into orbit isn't about going higher. It's about going faster.
Maybe we never knew how ICBMs work? Or didn't learn that ballistic trajectories take WAY less dV than on that's supposed to put a payload into an orbit?
OK, then. Let's build locally. Up there in orbit. With what materials?
Start an arms race in the ONLY fucking military area you're NOT superior than the rest of the planet combined. You could simply lean back and be Number 1. On water, land and sea, nobody can hold a candle to your military power and in space there's the Outer Space Treaty that everyone who could even remotely matter signed and heeds.
The US doesn't even have the rockets to launch anything like a nuke. Russia has man rated rockets to launch them. China has man rated rockets to launch them. The EU... doesn't need man rated rockets to launch them 'cause where they launch, nobody gives a crap when the nuke comes back down prematurely.
Pence, we all know the worth of your brain is that of your name, but did you have to prove so blatantly that you're basically only an assassination insurance for Trump? I.e. "think twice before shooting me, 'cause then this bozo is prez!"
The conclusion is not really too clear on the reason. It details that bleeding happens more often in women and that CR procedures are less often used, but does not explore the reason why this is the case. The only thing I can take away from it with some veracity is that there is less data of AMI related deaths in women, that there are fundamental physiological differences between the sexes and and that this leads to a lack of experience to assess the symptoms correctly.
What I'm still missing is the answer to why.
I wish I had mod points to mod you offtopic...
What does the taking of another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it have to do with copying stuff?
Accusing kids in school of being Jack Sparrow is maybe not what the MAFIAA wants to do, especially when at the same time depicting him as a hero and overall cool guy...
Kids just might get that wrong.
This is exactly the problem with content: People care mostly about convenience.
You know what caused the switch from Piratebay to Netflix? Convenience. Nobody gives a fuck about 10 bucks a month, what they care about is ease of use. Click it and it works. Netflix managed to be more convenient than TPB. That's all.
That's also the reason that certain content gets copied like crazy. Not even, but especially when prohibitive DRM is in place. You might notice that those always-online games are among those that get copied the most. Why? Convenience. If I buy a game that I then cannot play because the activation server is overloaded, tinker and toy for a few hours until I give up, download it from TPB and just play it.
Next time I omit the step that is of no use to me.
What good is money if you don't live long enough to spend it?
Usually in an election year the blood sucking parasites try to downplay their activity, though.