Posted on 02/03/2018 4:11:27 AM PST by beaversmom
Turgison:
“Doctor, you mentioned the ration of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn’t that necessitate the abandonment of the so called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?”
Strangelove:
“Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race”
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‘Then again, the whole thing might be a fake.
“The drawing of this drone looks more like an enlarged drawing of a smaller torpedo,” says Podvig. In other words, it looks as if the Russians may have just taken some torpedo clip art, blown it up to terrifying size and then broadcast it on state television.’
Run by a Mr. Fusion machine? Didn’t know that existed.
Put me in the skeptical column.
We cannot afford a Mine Shaft Gap!!
a kind of doomsday device...
A wedding ring?
Lol. Baddie.
The Orgasmatron...
“The whole idea of a doomsday machine is lost if you keep it a secret.....Why didn’t you tell the world!”
Quite some time ago, I believe the US announced that it now had satellites capable of spotting submarines deep under the water. Not just by detecting their wake, but allowing us to constantly track their locations at depth.
Which basically makes submarines obsolete.
Look up the “Tsar” device. The Soviets built the thing for a yield of 100 megatons, then got nervous and scaled the yield back by half.
The Tsar test results showed that, yeah, it could take out an entire coastal city out to the far suburbs. Yeah, that big.
Implicit in the article is the assumption that the torpedo will actually work as designed
I doubt it
Took me back many years to the NCO Academy and a discussion on why we were so loath to put women in combat....I posited it was built-in survival for the Human race - kill a lot of men and save the women and you could repopulate - kill a lot of women and the job of propagation became drawn out and tenuous. It was long enough ago I didn’t get booed by the females or any wussy men.
Exactly - the project is entirely feasible, and much of it involves decades-old technology. Frankly, any piss ant, entry-level nuclear power (i.e., North Korea, etc.) could do something similar (on a much smaller scale), with a fission device and a small cargo ship...
Wow! I was worried! I thought it might be the Q BOMB from THE MOUSE THAT ROARED.
I have always felt the same about women in combat. Noting perverse, just that is the way it really is.
If a primitive tribe fights a bear, and half the men are killed off, the tribe will suffer but can be backup to full strength in a few years.
Kill off half the women and it will be decades or longer to replenish those lost. Otherwise the tribe will have to raid other tribes for females.
Rookie members of the Nuclear Club could build a deadly low-yield device but it takes a ton of knowledge in metallurgy, electronics, miniaturization, etc., to build a (physically) small yet reliable device. Nukes are NOT easy to detonate because there is an awful that can go wrong.
The 'physically small' aspect is critical for delivery via missile, but almost irrelevant when you're looking at delivery via ship/submarine. Place a primitive nuclear device in the bottom of a ship's cargo hold, bury it in something that will absorb any telltale radiation (and perhaps enhance lethal fallout), and you have a workable first-strike weapon, just waiting for "slow boat" delivery to the target. The ship's crew wouldn't even have to know it's there. I imagine the US has been quietly watching for such threats for decades...
That's my biggest problem with the Walking Dead. 98% of the population dead, zombies all around, and yet the women don't stay behind the walls, they wander around getting killed and captured just as much as the men.
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