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Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Fri Mar 02, 2018 6:32 pm

angelfromanotherpin wrote:
Stahlseele wrote:@angelfromanotherpin
autopilots work remarkably well for ocean going vessels with no real obstructions in the way.
Harbors (and the surrounding waters) don't have 'no real obstructions.' They have the opposite of that, a large number of dynamic obstructions. Also, you still have to be able to communicate with the sub to tell it to arm and detonate the bomb; nobody's going to rely on a timer or other auto-system for that.

Quote from a shadowrun novel:"Close only counts when throwing horse-shoes, hand-grenades and thermonuclear warheads"

Voss · Post by **Voss** » Fri Mar 02, 2018 11:13 pm

That's.... not from shadowrun. That's a basic training aphorism of basically every post-WWII military.

And only because of the nukes part, the original is decades older with just horseshoes and hand grenades.

maglag · Post by **maglag** » Sat Mar 03, 2018 2:54 am

Stahlseele wrote:@angelfromanotherpin
autopilots work remarkably well for ocean going vessels with no real obstructions in the way.

@Thaluikhain
Yeah, basically a larger Torpedo but with a nuclear paylod in the kilotons range instead of conventional boomex.

Tactical Intercontinental TorpedoS(TITS). When they are getting used, stuff is going tits up!

No no, the MOTOR needs to have some ferrous/magnetic parts, but the hull does not!

The thing with submarines is that they are SLOW. And the faster you try to move, the higher the chances you are detected. The ultimate stealth tactic for submarines is simply stopping in place. Your TITS would take days to make a retaliatory strike, meaning plenty of time to be found and intercepted in particular when it lacks an human crew in place to perform counter-measures to opponent sonars and whatnot.

That's why you have nuclear submarines carrying nuclear missiles. As long as the submarine is hanging in the middle of nowhere is basically undetectable. But if things are going horribly wrong for their nation, they can launch their missiles at something, and those missiles will be flying pretty fast, thus making them much harder to intercept.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 6:41 pm

https://preview.entsoe.eu/news/2018/03/ ... technical/

The hatred between Kosovo and Serbia is distorting the fabric of space-time and makes the clocks run slower.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 12:33 pm

I guess this is both US and non-US: 538: Trump on North Korean nukes in a worse position than Obama on Iranian nukes

Blicero · Post by **Blicero** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:53 pm

Longes wrote:https://preview.entsoe.eu/news/2018/03/ ... technical/

The hatred between Kosovo and Serbia is distorting the fabric of space-time and makes the clocks run slower.

Sounds like the setup to a The City & The City sequel.

Pariah Dog · Post by **Pariah Dog** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 4:06 am

Tis a sad day for Science.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5802634/p ... d-aged-76/

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 7:16 am

Today, the world as a whole has gotten a bit dumber . .

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:03 am

'tis also sad that you're using a link from a Murdoch sock puppet that vilified the victims of the Hillsborough disaster, but now's not the time to rant for too long.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43396008

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 7:41 pm

Terrorist takes hostages in small town in France. He said he was seeking the release of Salah Abdeslam, a suspect in the November Paris attacks of 2015. One officer swapped places with a hostage. A SWAT team stormed the building when they heard gunshots, and killed the suspect. The officer was seriously injured.

Ed · Post by Ed » Sat Mar 24, 2018 12:52 am

I'm visiting France for the first time and I'm struck (in an unambiguously positive way) by the reaction of French people in Marseille and Lyon to what happened. It's basically "well, that happened." No psychotic Muslim hate-babble (I assume Le Pen is at it but I mean normal people). No Thin Blue Line shit. Just people doing their jobs and living their lives.

I should move here...

maglag · Post by **maglag** » Fri Mar 30, 2018 4:14 am

So the current pope said in a speech that sinful souls simply disappear.

Many people around the world decided that the logic consequence is that there is no hell.

Which goes to show many people around the world never played D&D, otherwise they would know that sinful souls may simply be destroyed in Hell so their raw energy can be converted into magic items to power up the devil legions as they prepare for Armageddon.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Fri Mar 30, 2018 7:11 am

maglag wrote:So the current pope said in a speech that sinful souls simply disappear.

Many people around the world decided that the logic consequence is that there is no hell.

Which goes to show many people around the world never played D&D, otherwise they would know that sinful souls may simply be destroyed in Hell so their raw energy can be converted into magic items to power up the devil legions as they prepare for Armageddon.

It's weird to me that this was a surprise announcement, considering that this has been the pitch of Christianity since the beginning. Zombie Jesus promised that his followers get to live forever, not that everyone lives forever but you're going to like the forever part way better if you're one of his followers.

It's very strange to me that Christians have been wandering around shouting the slogan "Whoever believes in me shall have eternal life" and still acting like everyone else got really shitty eternal life options forced upon them. It sorta seems like you gotta pick one, and if you think the text of the religion's holy book means much, the Pope's version is the only one that makes sense.

Of course, as you point out, the fact that Jesus hands out eternal life does not preclude other souls from being forged into lances for angel battles, nor does it preclude other gods and demons offering various other eternal life packages of varying quality. But then, the basic fact that we've had really a lot of Christians running around for nearly two thousand years and we very obviously don't have any eternal living Christians out of the deal makes the whole thing rather suspect in my eyes.

-Username17

maglag · Post by **maglag** » Fri Mar 30, 2018 8:54 am

FrankTrollman wrote: But then, the basic fact that we've had really a lot of Christians running around for nearly two thousand years and we very obviously don't have any eternal living Christians out of the deal makes the whole thing rather suspect in my eyes.

-Username17

Depending on who you ask, someday will come the day of the Last Judgement and all good people will be ressurected (or both good and evil people get ressurected then judged, which the pope just noped) so basically early-access, quite popular in Steam nowadays. Pay now, get the final product later. Eventually. Before the entropy death of the universe. Maybe.

Iduno · Post by **Iduno** » Mon Apr 02, 2018 3:23 pm

Wasn't the reward also eternal servitude in Heaven, praising some invisible dickbag with a huge ego? So, like Steam, if you get the product you pre-ordered, it will be unenjoyable.

Fuck, at least Loki wants to end everything.

saithorthepyro · Post by **saithorthepyro** » Tue Apr 03, 2018 9:26 pm

Iduno wrote:Wasn't the reward also eternal servitude in Heaven, praising some invisible dickbag with a huge ego? So, like Steam, if you get the product you pre-ordered, it will be unenjoyable.

Fuck, at least Loki wants to end everything.

Technically yes? The Poetic Edda says Ragnarok ends with a new earth being formed with two new humans (man and woman) with Baldr being reborn to be the first of the new gods, but there is debate over whether or not that was added by Christians translating the original norse myths.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Mon Apr 09, 2018 6:40 pm

Syria uses chemical weapons on its own people. Putin denies Assad was behind it. Trump promises some unspecified strong response and name drops Putin in a tweet for the first time since assuming office.

maglag · Post by **maglag** » Sat Apr 14, 2018 9:09 am

Bitcoin can now be used to buy slaves!

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Tue Apr 17, 2018 8:05 pm

The 68-year war between North and South Korea may be coming to an end.

An unnamed South Korean official told a local newspaper that a direct line between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could be established by the end of the week and that the two leaders may release a joint statement officially ending the conflict at a summit next week.

At this point, it's pretty light on details. Also, the notion is full of complexities:

“Ending the state of conflict is the core of the whole thing. Peace is as complicated as denuclearization,” John Delury, an associate professor of Chinese studies at Yonsei University, told Bloomberg. “There also has to be a process of actually delivering the peace.”

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Wed Apr 18, 2018 5:00 am

Would we still be allowed to watch reruns of M*A*S*H?

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 6:21 pm

Castro steps aside, and Miguel Díaz-Canel becomes Cuban president

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Thu Apr 26, 2018 1:53 pm

This one is for shrapnel
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... conds.html

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Fri Apr 27, 2018 3:25 am

That is indeed awesome beyond measure. But I have one issue with that article...

The prototype robot was created by a collaboration involving Brave Robotics, Asratec and Takara Tommy.

IT'S TAKARA-TOMY, YOU BRITISH DOLTS!

Jeez!

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Fri Apr 27, 2018 5:01 am

It's the Daily fucking Mail, possibly the bottom of the barrel in British tabloids. I'm surprised it doesn't just say "ROBOT: DOES IT HAVE TITS? KICK OUT IMMIGRANTS"

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Mon May 14, 2018 8:45 pm

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/worl ... bassy.html
So. Uh. That went well.