carpoftruth

well a centrifuge is a machine that is supposed to spin extremely extremely fast. in order to spin something extremely fast, it needs to be well balanced. if a machine (centrifuge or not) gets jostled, like by say a giant bomb strike happening a few tens of meters away, then internal components could be vibrated out of alignment or pressure waves could stress the system in weird ways (different materials deform under stress different amounts, which can affect tolerances). Those kinds of effects could happen even to a visibly fine piece of equipment.

none of this is a guarantee that this kind of damage has happened, but certainly iran would be wise to test all these machines to see if things are fucked before just spinning them up at full blast.

a kinda silly example of this is an unbalanced top loaded washing machine - even though the washer looks fine, if you put all the clothes on one side it'll make a lot of crazy noises when you start it up.

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that's pretty wild as a difference

I didn't consider the impact of vibrations on centrifuges but this tracks. I used to work with much smaller centrifuges for much less dramatic purposes and if they got unbalanced it was a real problem. Unbalanced, they would start rattling like fuck and you'd have to turn it off before it hit full speed or you'd risk spills.

I wonder if any of the centrifuges were hardened against explosives with shock dampeners. I know the americans did that with the titan missile silos - they built the control/crew system module with a big vibration control dampener to prevent missile launch/earthquake/missile strike from fucking up the silo.

Russian internet runs on 720p so they change the gauge to prevent hackers

Anthony Loneliano

That would mean acknowledging the enemy as human, that won't do at all

She's Elizabeth-Warren-green with envy about his support

cuomintang rofl

hence the saying "after a victory, tighten your helmet"

was he in NYC lately? frankly, passing out from the heat is probably the most human thing these lizards in congress can do

these bombs are big but they aren't exactly high tech. they are nothing compared to the complexity of mass producing vehicles like the ones you cited. I suppose it's possible that these haven't been built in significant numbers, but I certainly wouldn't hang my hat on there only being a handful.

also, you cited cost of tungsten - I bet the bombs themselves are not even a significant portion of the cost of these strikes compared to logistics/mobilization/maintenance of the 120 odd planes used in this mission.

Awesome, and yes I think I speak for all true leftists when I say that yes there is interest in such a retrospective as long as you can do so without compromising your own privacy/opsec