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 Discussion on answer by Moo: Why are …

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M i ech
Sep 24, 2021 08:44
Nuclear subs are not quieter. Coolant pumps are always on thus always emitting noise that can be picked up. Standard diesels subs are louder while running on diesel but virtually silent while running on batteries. One of the problems of US Navy is their stubborn refusal to field any diesel-electric subs which leads to US supercarriers being repeatedly sunk during exercises with countries operating diesel-electric subs. While nuclear subs have much longer endurance and higher performance, they are also much larger and have significantly lower capability in short-range and short time operations.
 

 Discussion on answer by Kevin: Why is…

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M i ech
Nov 5, 2020 20:24
Regarding 2: It would be logical and fairly simple solution to simply break up polling and counting stations further, to have one place handle fewer people. In last election in Poland we had about 27000 election commissions. For a nation of 38 million (including children), that averages out to about 1100 eligible voters per election commission. Typically final results are known by morning.
 

 Discussion on answer by TitaniumTurtl…

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M i ech
Jan 25, 2020 19:36
In my opinion you should heed AlexP's complaint and elaborate on perception part versus actual policy.
 

 Discussion on question by Dragongeek:…

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M i ech
Jan 25, 2020 12:11
@Dragongeek OK, now I see what you mean, for some reason I thought there was some way to store magical energy like a capacitor and release it in shorter burst. (1g projectile gaining energy at rate of 2kW with perfect efficiency would travel 18km in 3s, so, yeah, you are right)
M i ech
Jan 25, 2020 12:11
~6kJ is the minimum energy needed to accelerate 1g projectile to ~12km/s because you can't create energy out of nothing. How much energy you need to input into "accelerating device" to transfer 6kJ to projectile depends on conversion efficiency.
M i ech
Jan 25, 2020 12:11
@Rekesoft Watts are not energy.
M i ech
Jan 25, 2020 12:11
In my opinion, blinding beams you mentioned yourself give you best bang for proverbial buck. You really don't need much power to permanently blind someone, and it would be an attack very hard to protect against.
M i ech
Jan 25, 2020 12:11
2000W is 2000J/s, maintained over 3 seconds, 2000W becomes 6000 Joules. Object weighting 1 gram has that much kinetic energy while moving at about 3500 m/s or 12 km/s. Those are orbital velocities. For reference 7,62mm bullet has energy of 3275 Joules and weight of over 9 grams.
 

 Discussion on question by Metlam: Cou…

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M i ech
Jul 13, 2019 13:02
@Obie 2.0 Common external power supply is unfortunately voluntary, acting merely as a strong suggestion. And I weep at it not being mandatory. While EU has world's best consumer protections, those are still insufficient.
M i ech
Jul 13, 2019 13:02
@JonathanReez Market solves nothing. It exists to make rich richer at the expense of making poor poorer. Believing it to do anything else is delusion.
M i ech
Jul 13, 2019 13:02
@JonathanReez Right, because every company using different sockets for phone charging was so great for consumers, cornerstone of efficiency and fact that today one usb cable is sufficient is an ultimate evil, literally hitler. If spoiled brats running companies refuse to behave, they need to be regulated into behaving. Simple.
 

 Discussion between Obie 2.0 and user2…

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M i ech
May 7, 2019 12:02
See you in other questions.
M i ech
May 7, 2019 11:57
Could you elaborate on that "bluff" I don't recall hearing about it.
M i ech
May 7, 2019 11:57
Well, similar timezone. Americans are just waking up, I do believe.
M i ech
May 7, 2019 11:56
China is poised to challenge USA's dominance within next decade, at least that's my opinion.
M i ech
May 7, 2019 11:55
I'm from Poland.
M i ech
May 7, 2019 11:55
I think the upcoming "empire" will be China.
M i ech
May 7, 2019 11:51
Funny how it changed.
M i ech
May 7, 2019 11:51
Wiki on Monroe's doctrine: The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to take control of any independent state in North or South America would be viewed as "the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States."
M i ech
May 7, 2019 11:49
For reference, Russia has same attitudes to Eastern Europe and Caucasus area: Georgia and Ukraine are just first.
M i ech
May 7, 2019 11:48
Venezuela has misfortune of being in western hemisphere which USA considers it's playground.
M i ech
May 7, 2019 11:40
That's my point, yes.
M i ech
May 7, 2019 11:39
Note: remember that I asked "How much of bad economy was fabricated by USA sanctions?" earlier, I was just looking for this particular example of USA fabricating economic downfall to excuse coup.
M i ech
May 7, 2019 11:38
One of orders it "make economy scream", which is basically order to conduct economical warfare specifically to cause what Obie says: bad economy decreases support.
M i ech
May 7, 2019 11:37
It's from 1970. It outlines orders from Nixon, or gameplan for removing Allende from office and installing someone US-backed (turned out to be Pinochet).
M i ech
May 7, 2019 11:37
Handwritten note of Richard Helms after his meeting with Nixon.
M i ech
May 7, 2019 11:36
nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB8/ch26-01.htm
M i ech
May 7, 2019 11:36
Ah, took a while, but I found it.
M i ech
May 7, 2019 11:20
I distinctly remember that being the case in previous USA sponsored coups.
M i ech
May 7, 2019 11:20
How much of bad economy was fabricated by USA sanctions?
 

 Discussion on answer by JonathanReez:…

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M i ech
Feb 15, 2019 20:51
@GarethMcCaughan "Extra-cynically, some immigrants may provide more benefit to the host country if they are illegal, because then they're easier to get rid of, easier to get away with treating badly, and less able to claim benefits." Whoa. Calm down, Sheikh Khalifa.
 

 Discussion on question by Nyakouai: H…

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M i ech
Feb 8, 2019 13:57
@Demigan Any form of FTL creates time travel. Period. Dilatation is irrelevant. It's an issue do reference frames and simultaneity.
 

 Discussion on question by Banish: Is …

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M i ech
Dec 4, 2018 22:02
@JBentley If you want to call others on misusing terms, make sure to be correct yourself. There is only one Solar system. We live in it, solar system is planetary system with very specific central star: Sol, Helios, Surya, Słońce, Nap, Aurinko, Soleil, Eguzkia, Sonne, Солнце, or in english: Sun. Central star with orbiting planets is a planetary system.
 

 Discussion on question by Codito ergo…

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M i ech
Dec 4, 2018 01:00
@AloneProgrammer Lack of good reason has yet to stop Trump from doing something.
 

 Discussion on question by chasly from…

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M i ech
Nov 23, 2018 13:49
If this question is too "opinion based" then this stack should be closed altogether. World-building is inherently "brainstorming" with everyone putting out their opinions and ideas in answers, to be judged by soft and fluid criteria like self consistency, logic, plausibility, entertainment value and originality. "Objectively best answer" doesn't even exist for most questions on this stack. As such, I have voted to reopen.
 

 Discussion on answer by JBH: Ratio of…

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M i ech
Jun 6, 2018 01:55
Another possibility is that homosexuality emerges as interaction between genetic traits which are in itself purely beneficial to propagation. Another possibility is that homosexuality might emerge due to combination of genes, but only in one sex: for parent's genes it is beneficial that brother won't have children if sister will have so much more as to cover for him, and vice versa. Thinking of personal reproductive success won't get you anywhere, you need to think in terms of "Selfish Gene" (to reference famous Dawkin's book) to properly analyse reproduction and inheritance.
 

 Discussion on answer by SJuan76: Why …

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M i ech
Feb 14, 2018 13:24
Your strict reading isn't very strict. There's "and against the facts" operand, by rules of logic, this should be read as "((against_facts)and(publicly))and(at_least_one_of(list_of_t‌​hings))". If you have concerns about who and how in this case decides what are facts, that's entirely different discussion.
 

 Discussion on answer by AlexP: Why ca…

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M i ech
Jan 31, 2018 22:27
@DustinHalstead Strategy meanwhile concerns itself with logistics in broadest of senses "Dresden is a cargo hub, bombing it back to the stone age will disrupt enemy supply lines." "Stalingrad is the last bastion between Nazis and Caucasian oil fields, it has to hold at any cost." "El-Alamein is the last bastion between Nazis and Arabic Peninsula oil fields, it has to hold at any cost." "After landing in Normandy we need to take Cherbourg port ASAP to effectively supply our forces."
M i ech
Jan 31, 2018 22:27
@DustinHalstead Logistics are all the boring minutiae details like "do we create separate transport companies or attach them to units?" "how many truck per transport company?" "how many and what units should company supply?" "where do we put warehouses?" "how many beans, bullets, boots and bandages do you need per day?" "when and how many do we ship out to make sure units are supplied without being overburdened?" Only professionals and certain brand of nerds (mostly historians) care about those. It's all those details that are deliberately ignored in stories and games.
M i ech
Jan 31, 2018 22:27
@DustinHalstead "Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics". Wars are won by logistics and industrial capacity. Tactics and strategy are a secondary concern.
 

 Discussion on question by Pavel Janic…

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M i ech
Oct 6, 2017 18:08
Also, what about information? You said that supposedly only violent way to die is to have head cut off completely, so presumably gunshot to the head will heal, but logically, healed brain should be blank, so protagonist is effectively dead anyway.
M i ech
Oct 6, 2017 18:08
There's a problem with "cannot get fat" part. Increasing temperature is very disruptive to organs, too high fever is known to have brain-damaging effects. Burning energy in form of heat would put large systemic strain on regeneration factor, flooding organism with toxins caused by large scale cell death, triggering natural reactions to toxins and potentially runaway autoimmune reaction. That one just gets ugly. Autoimmune reaction is actually something that could kill you despite immortality, by making regen factor work against itself.
 

 Discussion on question by Vylix: Is i…

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M i ech
Sep 27, 2017 20:57
@Harper That's not semantics, you are simply ignorant. There never was nuclear explosion in Chernobyl. Nuclear explosion is what happens in nuclear weapons, reactors are physically incapable of that.
M i ech
Sep 27, 2017 20:57
Chernobyl was not a nuclear explosion. Chernobyl was an overheated boiler, which ruptured due to overwhelming pressure. And just like in explosion of boilers, it spread parts and fuel in wide area. Unfortunately, since furnace heating the boiler was of nuclear kind, fuel released during explosion was dangerous in itself, and also nuclear nature of furnace meant that temperatures and pressures involved were much higher than in case of coal furnaces.
 

 Discussion on question by Aric Fowler…

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M i ech
Aug 23, 2017 03:09
Yes, you said in this case there are 2 capships, but nothing exists in vacuum - in most other battles there will be fleets. Simply relying on own escorts might be an answer, depends on details of FTL.
M i ech
Aug 23, 2017 03:09
So if your enemy has regen ability you want him to rely on module redundance and ability to fix KKV punctures before next salvo comes in. That WILL be defeated by HE, which explodes inside causing expanding cloud of mess. Or possibly exploding before hitting to shred taret like shotgun blast. However you need to somehow make sure that this capship won't be too weak to escort ships, because escorts like destroyers will be weakly armoured and equipped to counter other weakly armoured escorts.
M i ech
Aug 23, 2017 03:09
@AricFowler I think I figured it out. Brace yourself. Multiple comments coming: you want enemy ship to have VERY WEAK armour and those nano-repairs. Why? Because HEs don't beat strong armour, they beat weak armour. Meanwhile KKVs beat strong armour and are ineffective against weak armour. When KKV hits weak armour it just goes through without doing much. Anything directly hit will be destroyed, but not much else. Strong armour is all-or-nothing, it stops much, but when it fails all that momentum and energy lost by shell will go to spall (armour turned shrapnel) causing mess.
M i ech
Aug 23, 2017 03:09
What you want in RL was called APCBC HE (Armour Piercing Capped Ballistic Cap with High Explosive filler). That kind of ammo went out of use in 50s. In favour of subcalibre KKVs. As velocities increase, KKVs come out more and more ahead. Remember that penetrated armour turns into shrapnel.
M i ech
Aug 23, 2017 03:09
High explosives have laughable penetrating ability compared to KKV. Shaped charges work only because we can't launch shells with orbital speeds, if we could they would go out of use overnight. Squash head HE in this case is like soft (worse) KKV which then tickles a bit. Besides, spallation is a thing, you know. And ships won't have much armour inside, once KKV gets inside, it will go a long way, creating own shrapnel out of every penetrated bulkhead.
M i ech
Aug 23, 2017 03:09
@AricFowler no, it won't. There's a reason why even modern tanks don't use high explosives against each other. Explosive material will detonate out of sheer shock of hitting the armour and reduce impact effects by turning mass into gas, spreading it in larger volume and stretching impact in time. If explosive is somehow stable enough, it still forces shell to be much wider than KKV To penetrate hard armour you want as much mass as possible hitting as small area as possible in as short time as possible.