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[–] yogurt@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No source it's just pretty much physically impossible. Even if there's no safety system setting off alarms N2O4/UDMH is denser than water, you can't fit enough water in the rocket to make it weigh like it's full of fuel, it's going to read like 20% is missing either way. And if nobody cares about that why are you putting anything in it at all?

Water contamination and the 100 ton armored door not working are both super likely results of generals embezzling money, water instead of fuel is dumb and Bloomberg has a track record of fucking up this kind of thing

[–] yogurt@lemm.ee 55 points 10 months ago (6 children)

China missiles filled with water, not fuel: US intelligence

Somebody fucked up the actual story somewhere along the way. A normal problem with liquid ICBMs like a DF5 is tiny amounts of water contamination in propellant. N2O4 is meant to sit in a missile for months but if even just the humidity in the air gets in to it, it forms nitric acid and corrodes the missile. That happened to US ICBMs like the Titan II constantly and the US never reliably stopped it, they just switched to solid fuel. If contractors cut corners building a silo water contamination causing corrosion is the first thing that would go wrong. Meth heads siphoning rocket fuel and trying to replace it with water and dying instantly in a massive explosion didn't happen.

[–] yogurt@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

It's just War Thunder and that other thing with the jogging app that was mapping military bases. They already had rules about "harming national unity" for political content.

[–] yogurt@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The missing point is it's a property of stainless steel that it remembers being a coil and can unflatten itself weeks later if the manufacturer doesn't know how to work around that.

[–] yogurt@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

Yes one of their quotes is the opinion section of the bill at the beginning that has no effect on the law.

And "kill switch" is trying to get you to think that the police get a button to turn off the car, which is the one thing it doesn't do. It wants the thing most current luxury cars have where the car detects the driver falling asleep, but tune it to also detect drunk driving.

That's also bad if you just want a manual car that isn't full of DRM, but FEE is trying to tell idiots that BRANDON is giving the BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT a SWITCH to KILL YOUR FAMILY just like in your favorite CAMERON DIAZ movie THE BOX (2009).

[–] yogurt@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Helicopters can autorotate, if quadcopters lose power they tumble with no control at all

[–] yogurt@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

WP burns yellower, and magnesium is very rare because it's expensive and complicated. WP auto-ignites in air, magnesium has to be separately lit by the delivery system. You can't practically put a magnesium incendiary in an artillery shell, what you see in Gaza is mostly artillery.

And suddenly switching to magnesium would be an absolute psycho move. The way you treat a WP burn is pouring tons of water on it, magnesium explodes on contact with water.

[–] yogurt@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Half of the comments here think the point of the meme is that communists are right-wing, and half thinks the point is that Nazis are left-wing.

[–] yogurt@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Israel's peace treaty with Egypt after the Yom Kippur War gives Israel control of a 100-meter wide buffer between Gaza and Egypt. So it doesn't open its borders because it doesn't have one, just a border with Israel. A later agreement gave Egypt some limited control over the buffer zone, so there are Egyptian guards in charge of the border crossing now, but they can't do whatever they want.

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