This is stupid, but honestly I don’t know know that I’m that upset. I’m an Eagle Scout, and one issue I have with it is that it’s designed as a pipeline to the military partially. If the military pulls funding then they have no incentive for this. It’s stupid for them to cut funding for this at a time when military sign-ups are below what they need, but I don’t know that it’s a bad thing long-term for scouting.
Help wasn’t in danger. You are from yourself I think.
Technically it’s both. Only Congress can change the official name, so it’ll be DoD probably forever because they can’t do anything.
Honestly, I like the DoW. DoD was a fucking lie. We haven’t fought a defensive war since The War of 1812 (or, arguably, The Civil War). DoD was just branding to make it sound nicer.
The impressive thing is that they’re still leagues better than you! I assume you’re already getting help, since you recognize issues with them that you’re already seeking remediation for?
This is him extending his power. The president does not legally control the power of the purse. Congress does. The president can’t legally do this. Choosing a popular position with the citizens, and one Democrats can’t argue against without looking bad, gives him the clear to do this. Once it’s done once they can point back to it and ask why no one thought it was wrong this time.
The side does resemble an ICE vehicle, but yeah, I think it just sort of mashed some things up and got things wrong there too.
Isn’t that rear end of a British police car? Lol. You’d probably have had a better result photoshopping it yourself.
From what I understand, pigs are quite intelligent creatures, unlike this sorry sack of shit.
Your example? Sure. Almost certainly unlawful. It’s an extreme though. How about shooting civilian vessels in international waters? That’s more vague. How about shooting American citizens who are accused of attacking federal officers?
Yes, there are some situations that are pretty unambiguously illegal. Most orders will have some kind of argument behind them that they’re illegal, however dubious that may be. It won’t be as clear as your example most likely.
If that someone has the mental aptitude of a five year old.
Nah, I’m pretty sure it’s accurate. The article in the OP has the same event from a different angle. YouTube, or something, just ate the data in compression I guess.
NEW POLL: 15 Percent of Americans will lie to not have to admit they were mislead.
How I assume this works is those firms are watching social media. They see an increase in threats, which is real, but is also an opportunity for them to sell their services, so they take screenshots and use it to sell themselves. It’s not made up. It’s just useful. We’ve seen the threats over and over anytime someone deviates from Trump.
I suspect you’re right, but I also suspect she actually does care about pedophilia. That’s a big part of what she ran on, and at least she’s following through even when it turns out the people she was supporting are actually the people involved. I don’t like the woman, but she seems to have more moral determination than most politicians. She’s just incredibly stupid and gullible.
Well, a win-win for Democrat voters. Maybe not the leadership or donors.
Yep, this is accurate if it weren’t written as a quote. Since it is it’s satire but, as with all great satire, based in fact.
God, that sounds so nice. If you play these stupid games then you instantly end up on the chopping block. That fixes so many issues.
Lol. None of this had to do with Musk. I don’t know why you brought him up. If anything, a space elevator is anti-Musk, as he owns a rocket company, but whatever.
You can’t just maneuver a space elevator. The entire way it works is it sits at one point. The amount of forces it’d put on the structure to maneuver it is insane, especially if it has to be in time to avoid a hurricane. It has to stay at the equator, so it can only move along that axis, and the speed would need to be insanely fast. Basically, the structure needs to be built to multiple times the minimum required if you’re going to be moving it, without a stable base platform to have oscillation dampeners or whatever on.
The cable can maneuver to avoid trash and satellites, and satellites can maneuver to avoid the cable. Shielding can be applied to protect it from micrometeoroid impacts.
Trash can’t be maneuvered. We don’t even know where 100% of it is. You can’t shield the cable. The weight of the cable is the entire issue why we need insane materials to build it. If you add shielding then you’re adding to the weight, and therefor multiplying the size the cable needs to be. A cable made of steel literally needs to be larger than the size of the known universe because you need more weight to support more weight. It compounds. If you add shielding with a different material, you run into the same issue. The cable has to be very light so the compounding size doesn’t grow to impossible levels.
Space elevators aren’t “pop-sci”. There’s a plenty of real research that says that one is possible…
… The people who did that research weren’t idiots and did in fact account for everything you brought up rather than just assuming a perfect vacuum and spherical cows.
I didn’t say they’re idiots. They know what they’re talking about. Most of them are doing physics papers just showing how the calculations work out, not engineering. It isn’t stupid to assume spherical cows if the shape doesn’t matter to you. Physics is not engineering, just math.
The people who opened companies “doing research” into it have all shut down. Either it was a scam or they realized it isn’t possible. I’m leaning towards scam, because, like you said, I don’t think they’re stupid. They know other people are, and will give them money because it sounds cool and they don’t know any better.
The people doing materials science adjacent to this are not doing materials science to build a space elevator. They’re just trying to come up with new useful materials. They may write a paper about how it could potentially be used in a space elevator, based purely on the math, because they looking for grant money, recognition, or a media attention for a product for investment purposes or to sell. They aren’t stupid. It’s just useful.
Space elevator on the moon? Sure. That is somewhat reasonable, though still far out of our grasp. Space elevator on Earth? Not happening. We’ll have fusion reactors and nearly unlimited energy well before we even have the ability to build the mathematically minimum version, without any safety margins or defence for the environment, or systems to deal with vibrations/perturbations.
It’s impossible. You didn’t “explain” anything. It’s on the very edge of being physically possible in a perfect vacuum. That’s it. Consider how a hurricane effects a building. The building requires a ton of extra infrastructure/strength to keep it from breaking. Even the most exotic material possible it’s still on the very edge of technically possible, that if you add any extra overhead to protect from the environment it isn’t possible. Then there’s also satellites and space trash which will be hitting the cable. It’s not a thing that can work on Earth.
then proceeded to spout strange and verifiably false nonsense like this on multiple different points.
Sure… How do you deal with wind on a space elevator? I’m making strange and varifiably false nonsense? You’re repeating pop-sci stuff as if it’s real, without considering how it’d actually need to be to exist. We can barely build buildings that withstand storms. How is a thin cable going to? Carbon nanotubes are only good for tensile strength (resistance to tension). Shear strength is significantly lower, which is what would be required to withstand forces like weather or impacts. Even assuming it’s possible to make the cable, it wouldn’t work because of this.
I don’t care how many pop-sci articles or YouTube speculation videos have been made saying it’s totally possible and just around the corner. They ignore the reality and only discuss the absolute minimum vacuum requirements. It makes a much more appealing article/video to say it’s actually possible than to point out that, in reality, it isn’t because there’s a lot of additional things that were ignored.
This video talks about some of the issues realistically, though it’s mostly focused on math. It mostly is in the position of “if it were possible, why would we even want it” though, not is it actually possible: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z5aHMB4Tje4&pp=ygUcYXJlIHNwYWNlIGVsZXZhdG9ycyBwb3NzaWJsZQ%3D%3D
My dad was in the Coast Guard, so…