You might want to recheck that. The average nuclear warhead in the US arsenal is approximated to be 33,500 kilotons (slightly larger than the well known B41). For comparison, the nukes used in/on Japan were 15 and 21 kilotons. 33,500 kilotons is large enough to destroy/kill everything in a 55-60 mile diameter. It would take about 1000 of these to DIRECTLY kill everything in the United States. Factor in the indirect damage (nuclear poisoning, fallout, etc etc), and you could kill everyone in the United States with far far fewer. India (for example only), has 1/3rd the area of the United States. It would take probably 100 33.5 megaton nuclear bombs to kill everyone in an area equal to the size of India, and it would likely kill a couple hundred million of people not in that area.
That's completely false, most modern missile-based nukes are in the hundreds of kilotons, like 100-500 kt.
33.5 megatons is larger than the largest bomb we've ever had in service, the B53 at 9 megatons.
I've heard numerous variations of this by parents trying to justify why their precious snowflake doesn't do well in school. Usually it is the teacher's fault, and their child is just so much smarter than the other students. BS. If your child is so super intelligent that ordinary schoolwork bores them, they should be smart enough to breeze through the tests. They should just "play the game" while at school and do their own learning at home, or in additional enrichment programs (most are free for low income).
You aren't allowed to just breeze through the tests. You are also required to do hours and hours of repetitive, mind-numbing homework that is below your level and serves no useful purpose if you're smart enough to just listen to the lecture and then ace the test. If you don't do the busy-work, you receive a failing grade regardless of how well you do on the tests.
I rented some TNG DVDs and was disappointed that I could hear that they were walking on plywood floors. I don't think duranium floors would make a hollow thud when you walk on them. Are they going to fix the sound so it will sound good on a surround-sound system?
Most use stereo because we have 2 ears... and therefore only 2 channels are necessary for 3D sound. 5.1 is a gimmick.
Stereo forever.
That's false. We only have 2 ears, but each of those ears can distinguish sound coming from many different directions because your head and earlobes alter the sound differently depending on where it comes from. You can only try to generate realistic soundfields with 2 channels if you use headphones. You can record sounds with microphones in the ears of a dummy head (binaural recording), or you can try to simulate these effects through headphones. Both of those methods have problems, including the fact that the sound stays the same when you turn your head.
By your reasoning, we should only need 2 pixels on a TV since we only have 2 eyes.
Shoulder-fire guided missiles do not just cost "thousands." They cost tens of thousands of dollars, and you can't just buy them anywhere. You would have to buy one from a government, and that government would face retaliation if the missile was identified.
Nerve Attenuation Syndrome. Information overload! All the electronics around you poisoning the airwaves. Technological fucking civilization. But we still have all this shit, because we can't live without it.
This guy should get the same sentence that the guy he framed would have gotten. However, this is the obvious consequence of severe punishments for simple possession of something that is easy to obtain, and a commodity as opposed to things like guns which can be identified, traced etc. I'm sure people do this with drugs.
An iPhone doesn't cost $100. That's just the downpayment. You cannot buy an iPhone without signing a contract that obligates you to pay several thousand dollars.
Because knives are needed as tools in kitchens and many other settings, and more importantly because it's impossible to stop people from making knives. All you have to do is find a piece of metal and sharpen it.
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Tom Lehrer on the subject of sociology as a science: https://youtu.be/gfZWyUXn3So?t...
If you're going to post that, then don't forget the video of Nimoy and the Mystery Accent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Remember a 9mm is really only effective out to about 50 yards before it has slowed down enough that most of lethality is lost.
Complete and utter bullshit.
Are you thinking of "Game" by Donald Barthleme? http://www.latexnet.org/~burnt... [Warning, eye-bleeding white on black text]
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The heartbeat sensor thing in Rainbow Six was based on a real product Clancy had seen, that turned out to be a fraud.
You might want to recheck that. The average nuclear warhead in the US arsenal is approximated to be 33,500 kilotons (slightly larger than the well known B41). For comparison, the nukes used in/on Japan were 15 and 21 kilotons. 33,500 kilotons is large enough to destroy/kill everything in a 55-60 mile diameter. It would take about 1000 of these to DIRECTLY kill everything in the United States. Factor in the indirect damage (nuclear poisoning, fallout, etc etc), and you could kill everyone in the United States with far far fewer. India (for example only), has 1/3rd the area of the United States. It would take probably 100 33.5 megaton nuclear bombs to kill everyone in an area equal to the size of India, and it would likely kill a couple hundred million of people not in that area.
That's completely false, most modern missile-based nukes are in the hundreds of kilotons, like 100-500 kt. 33.5 megatons is larger than the largest bomb we've ever had in service, the B53 at 9 megatons.
I've heard numerous variations of this by parents trying to justify why their precious snowflake doesn't do well in school. Usually it is the teacher's fault, and their child is just so much smarter than the other students. BS. If your child is so super intelligent that ordinary schoolwork bores them, they should be smart enough to breeze through the tests. They should just "play the game" while at school and do their own learning at home, or in additional enrichment programs (most are free for low income).
You aren't allowed to just breeze through the tests. You are also required to do hours and hours of repetitive, mind-numbing homework that is below your level and serves no useful purpose if you're smart enough to just listen to the lecture and then ace the test. If you don't do the busy-work, you receive a failing grade regardless of how well you do on the tests.
Have you ever _seen_ Obama try to decide what to eat? This is him ordering burgers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1TxMKaYHYA
Imagine if there was a war on.
I rented some TNG DVDs and was disappointed that I could hear that they were walking on plywood floors. I don't think duranium floors would make a hollow thud when you walk on them. Are they going to fix the sound so it will sound good on a surround-sound system?
All right. It's Saturday night, I have no date, a two-liter bottle of Shasta and my all-Rush mix-tape... Let's rock.
This sounds great, but why does NASA have to fund this? Can't the plane manufacturers pay for their own R&D?
Most use stereo because we have 2 ears... and therefore only 2 channels are necessary for 3D sound. 5.1 is a gimmick. Stereo forever.
That's false. We only have 2 ears, but each of those ears can distinguish sound coming from many different directions because your head and earlobes alter the sound differently depending on where it comes from. You can only try to generate realistic soundfields with 2 channels if you use headphones. You can record sounds with microphones in the ears of a dummy head (binaural recording), or you can try to simulate these effects through headphones. Both of those methods have problems, including the fact that the sound stays the same when you turn your head.
By your reasoning, we should only need 2 pixels on a TV since we only have 2 eyes.
The aircraft carrier Gerald Ford was sunk today, and eaten by a pack of senseless sea-wolves. It was delicious.
Shoulder-fire guided missiles do not just cost "thousands." They cost tens of thousands of dollars, and you can't just buy them anywhere. You would have to buy one from a government, and that government would face retaliation if the missile was identified.
Indeed, the metric system is thriving among inner-city youth: http://www.theonion.com/articles/metric-system-thriving-in-nations-inner-cities,458/
Nerve Attenuation Syndrome. Information overload! All the electronics around you poisoning the airwaves. Technological fucking civilization. But we still have all this shit, because we can't live without it.
This guy should get the same sentence that the guy he framed would have gotten. However, this is the obvious consequence of severe punishments for simple possession of something that is easy to obtain, and a commodity as opposed to things like guns which can be identified, traced etc. I'm sure people do this with drugs.
Right, and we all know how well that worked out for Tesla. He spent his last days fantasizing about building death rays.
The NSA, NRO and DARPA don't investigate child porn.
Am I the only one who read this headline as a racist slur?
That sounds like a bunch of horseshit to me. Do you have any credible source?
Don't forget that the poor kids will learn how to steal a laptop or hustle their way into one.
An iPhone doesn't cost $100. That's just the downpayment. You cannot buy an iPhone without signing a contract that obligates you to pay several thousand dollars.
Because knives are needed as tools in kitchens and many other settings, and more importantly because it's impossible to stop people from making knives. All you have to do is find a piece of metal and sharpen it.