jgzman
jgzman t1_j616u8h wrote
Reply to comment by Darkwaxellence in doomsday clock real or fake? by Ludwik2006
> Conventional ICBM launches . . . could be destroyed before reaching target
Source, please?
> They put dirty bombs in vans not airplanes.
It takes a while to get vans to the target, unless you've pre-positioned them. Plus, a ground-burst is not gonna do the kind of city-obliterating damage an airburst does.
jgzman t1_j6167gp wrote
Reply to comment by PersonNumber7Billion in doomsday clock real or fake? by Ludwik2006
> But it shouldn't be taken as an accurate gauge of how close we are to nuclear war.
I mean, we are, at any moment, about five minutes away from a nuclear war.
Any other measure is just someone trying to figure out how likely someone is to push the proverbial button.
jgzman t1_j1xcg20 wrote
Reply to comment by Flynn402 in China stages big military incursion, Taiwan says by No_Dependent_5066
> Have you seen what Russia has done in Ukraine? Have you seen what China has done in Hong Kong?
No, I haven't.
I've been told, though. By "trusted sources," that I have no meaningful way to check up on.
jgzman t1_j1wz4ud wrote
Having played KSP, I'll tell you the answer: it takes a lot of fuel to get a little fuel to orbit. If we could find a way of generating fuel outside the gravity well, like the H2 they claim to have found in the Lunar regolith, that would be so much easier.
But whatever we launch has to be dragged out of our gravity well, weather we do it in bulk, or IKEA style. And doing it in multiple launches is multiple opportunities for accidents to happen.
jgzman t1_ir1hjn8 wrote
Reply to comment by variousred in EU votes to force all phones to use same charger by 2024 by WallStreetDoesntBet
What exactly do we want in charger innovation, anyway?
jgzman t1_jd0b0bl wrote
Reply to comment by ArOnodrim in Do you think BluRay DVDs are the final form of physical media? Or will a new physical media format come to be, and what would that look like? by Daveyb003
With SD cards the size of your smallest fingernail, another physical media is needed. Maybe one of those credit-card sized things they use to store phone chips on.