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by zipwitch 7y ago
From the fine article you linked (for which link I thank you): "Time compression has placed America’s senior leadership in a situation where the existing NC3 system may not act rapidly enough. Thus, it may be necessary to develop a sys
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by zipwitch 7y ago
>If there is no afterlife, then what IS the point of this life? If there is no afterlife, no elsewhere, then the takeaway is not that nothing matters, or that life has no point. Rather, it is the opposite: what we do in the here and n
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by zipwitch 7y ago
I agree. Feels like someone registered "Satoshi Nakamura" as a company, and is trying to run a scam from there.
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by zipwitch 7y ago
You've touched on the core problem of everything Earhart-related that TIGHAR does. (And most of what they do is Earhart-related, and most all modern Earhart-related news originates with TIGHAR). They start with the premise that &quot
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by zipwitch 7y ago
You're touching on something unspoken but very present in the modern US military machine. It's great for wrecking anyone who isn't on the short list of China, Russia, the EU, Japan and maybe India. Every other nation could se
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by zipwitch 7y ago
The US Navy is under-equipped for the possibility that a hostile power might mine key harbors or waterways. The existing, decades-old, minesweeping force is in the process of being decommissioned. https://nationalinterest.org&#x2
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by zipwitch 7y ago
The real scandal isn't that the Ford is having (lots) of problems with it's new technology. That can happen. It's not even that a decision was made to put multiple novel, unproven systems into a major warship. The biggest s
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by zipwitch 7y ago
While not exactly the sub-moon you're looking for there are some interesting objects that come close. Co-orbital moons, like Saturn's Janus and Epimetheus, are moons that are in stable orbit-swapping configurations. https:/
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by zipwitch 7y ago
It sounds like you're thinking of the heliosphere , which is the bubble in the interstellar medium created by the solar wind. The solar wind, in turn, is created by outflowing plasma from the Sun, and is also responsible for auroras a
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by zipwitch 7y ago
I hardly think the Office of the Director, Operational Test & Evaluation counts as an "anti-fanboy". And their reviews of F-35 progress of been the bureaucratic equivalent of damning. Full report here: https://www.d
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by zipwitch 7y ago
What does the F-35 actually offer in the field that couldn't be provided by a cheaper, simpler, more reliable weapons system? It offers Lockheed Martin one-point-five trillion dollars, much of which will be spent in key Congressional
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The Search for Planet Nine v2.x(findplanetnine.com)
1 points by zipwitch 7y ago|0 comments
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by zipwitch 7y ago
Living in a cyberpunk dystopia is much less pleasant than reading about fictional ones.
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by zipwitch 7y ago
Respecting borders has been an "unimpeachable norm" for how long, though? Since 1945, at most. That's not even 80 years - just long enough for us to forget why we made it verboten in the first place. I fear that Crimea and
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by zipwitch 7y ago
Your memory must be fuzzy. You just referred to Miyamoto Musashi as "lesser known" :-) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyamoto_Musashi "Musashi, as he was often simply known, became renowned through s
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by zipwitch 7y ago
Duck and cover gets a lot of mockery, but my understanding from reading morbidly fascinating Cold War history and source material is that is was an easily-taught response that was pretty effective at minimizing the damage from a shockwave a
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by zipwitch 7y ago
In American public discussion China is "communist" the same way America is "capitalist". You just need to understand what those using the term intend it to mean. (I'm talking about casual, conventional use in everyd
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by zipwitch 7y ago
You mean like, say, someone asking a foreign power to conduct a cyberattack on a US political party?
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by zipwitch 8y ago
And in one fell swoop, Microsoft has provided an example that will be used as a justification for piracy for years to come.
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by zipwitch 8y ago
Pure anecdote, but when I was visiting Vietnam (Saigon and Can Tho) recently, I would go up to the rooftop balcony in the evenings and watch the birds and then bats out hunting their (insect) dinners. It stuck with me, because the numbers o
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by zipwitch 8y ago
I'm in the same place from the opposite direction. I've refused to use Facebook from day one, and lost touch with a number of now-geographically distant friends for whom it is their primary mode of communication.
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by zipwitch 8y ago
So, he really wasn't the original Dread Pirate Roberts?
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by zipwitch 8y ago
As someone who grew up in Montana and North Dakota and has been an amateur astronomer from my early teens, I think you're being overly dismissive. Sure, sometimes and they're more of a faint white glow (which is pretty impressive
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by zipwitch 8y ago
Perhaps a better read might be "too low for 'the 1%' to continue extract wealth from the global economy at the rate to which they have become accustomed without provoking destructive backlash"?
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by zipwitch 8y ago
In the real. of achievable but not yet done, I want a Neptune and/or Uranus orbiter. A Neptune orbiter could give us a detailed look at both an ice giant and it's dwarf-planet-sized moon Triton, believed to be a captured KBO.
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by zipwitch 8y ago
I think it would turn out to be on balance very good for Centurylink's stock price and management if the root cause of the outage was determined to be hostile foreign action instead of, for example, a mix of profiteering and incompeten
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by zipwitch 8y ago
It wasn't just emergency calls. Most Centurylink service around the US was down intermittently yesterday.
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New Horizons is almost to second Kupier Belt flyby target(pluto.jhuapl.edu)
2 points by zipwitch 8y ago|0 comments
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by zipwitch 8y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/505/
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by zipwitch 8y ago
The author admits that what he's really doing is playing games with definitions, and more interestingly, exploring the question of what conciousness is . To try and exploit shock value via tabloid-style meaning twisting is unworthy of

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