spatulan

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by spatulan 11y ago
8KB of ROM, 128 bytes of RAM. It doesn't even have a screen buffer, just a half a line buffer. You have to count scan lines and keep track of what's being drawn on a cycle by cycle basis, then update the line buffer live to get w
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by spatulan 11y ago
If an EA-18G Growler is close enough to effectively jam the HQ-9's radar, then its close enough for the HQ-9's missiles to shoot it down. And the HQ-9 or shorter range systems surround it are more than capable of shooting down any
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by spatulan 11y ago
That sounds horrible. I don't want the internet to become a giant echo chamber. I want to hear differing views from time to time, because I might be wrong.
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by spatulan 11y ago
Seems similar to this http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150701133348.ht...
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by spatulan 11y ago
I suspect a website called vactruth may not be the most impartial website around.
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by spatulan 11y ago
Margaret Thatcher was a research chemist.
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by spatulan 11y ago
The A-10 is a disaster that needs to be retired. It's completely incapable of facing modern air defences, so is useless against enemies like China or Russia, and has operating costs 30 times higher than a dedicated COIN aircraft like
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by spatulan 11y ago
Completely impractical. ICBMs can't even reach orbit, never mind Mars. So we'd have to build enough rockets to lift around 10,000 nuclear warheads to Mars, typically weighing around 300kg each. The inevitable launch failures woul
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by spatulan 11y ago
So on one hand we have a scientific study, and on the other some guy on the internet with a pet theory.
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by spatulan 11y ago
Because its morally bankrupt?
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by spatulan 11y ago
The reason some are sceptical, is the extra weight and leverage of the helmet is supposed to increase the chance of you breaking your neck in in accident. I have no idea if its true or not.
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by spatulan 11y ago
No it isn't.
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by spatulan 11y ago
In 2007, the Chinese tested an anti satellite missile against a weather satellite. The missile contained no explosives, it relied purely on kinetic energy. The collision released 2,300 pieces of debris that were large enough to be tracked,
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by spatulan 11y ago
The RPG-7 uses an initial explosive charge to propel the rocket a safe distance away from the soldier who fired it, before the rocket ignites as takes the RPG the rest of the way. Otherwise the soldier would get a face full of rocket exhaus
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by spatulan 11y ago
Why is that the headline when the article contains the much more worrying "And 20% of those surveyed said women often said “no” to sexual activity when they meant “yes”, and 18% agreed if a woman was raped while affected by alcohol or
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by spatulan 11y ago
Ever notice that some of the nations with the longest prison sentences, also have high crime rates and reoffending rates? Or the many examples of crime increasing as sentence length increases? Or the studies that have shown people sent to p
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by spatulan 11y ago
Commonly available herbs like tobacco? Nope, no way any business could make money through a commonly available herb