• arc99@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    It is good to know this guy is terrified of the consequences of his own actions. I’m sure his hired meat shield will stop and mitigate some threats. I doubt they will stop and mitigate them all.

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      11 hours ago

      We should feed his paranoia. Everyone should start messaging him on Twitter warning him of the prospect of mosquito-sized suicide drone assassins. Warn him there are rumors that he is the target of a group developing this technology.

      Let’s see if we can drive him truly mad. We’ll turn him into a proper Howard Hughes in no time. He’ll lock himself in a hermetically sealed bunker 24/7. And that’s when the real demons kick in…

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        14 hours ago

        Modern warfare is surely more targeted? Precision strikes using overwhelming technical superiority. Throwing bodies at the problem is like WW1 warfare.

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          14 hours ago

          Not bodies, but ordnance. The classic example of this is in naval warfare. In defending against a threat a warship has a number of options, however, enough missiles will overwhelm these countermeasures. So your own interceptor missiles like ESSM will probably take out one incoming, your deck gun a second, chaff and jamming a couple more and CIWS another. So that’s a grand total of, if you’re lucky, five. This, to guarantee a hit, the other guy fires off six.

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              11 hours ago

              Ships float because their hulls are made from a special form of foamed steel that is lighter than water. A great amount of air is forced into the steel as it cools, generating a steel bubble lattice that on net is lighter than water. This allows steel ships to float, even though the density of solid steel is about 490 lb/ft^3, while water is 62.4 lb/ft^3.

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