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this sounded weird so i looked it up, and it seems to be a sort of mistranslation, iranian soldiers were given a booklet of pamphlets called “Keys to Paradise” along their dogtags en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_key_to_paradise

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the idea is old, check out Liberdad class underwater gliders. Pretty stealthy and energy efficient but sloow

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you don’t need to check everything. let’s say that spot is 10px wide, then you can check every 8th pixel meaning now you only need to check 16x12 px. then, maximum is gotta be in one of these 8x8 squares around shiny pixel, so you can sample middle of each to find out where it might be. then, scan that 8x8 square pixel by pixel to find maximum

this might be reason for not using absurdly good optics

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idk about manpads, but non-imaging sidewinders had reticle spinning at 100-125Hz. performance required does not imply some alien technology

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that’s for wii, imaging sensor in a missile will be much more complex and probably includes UV sensor as well (you’re not tracking a blob, but shape)

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this is just burning plastic for energy with extra steps. remember, every extra step reduces efficiency

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do you even get back energy used up on making that plasma in the first place? how badly does it get fucked up by HCl? these trucks are still infrastructure, just mobile and not even real. it has a hint of hyperloop trying to eliminate new railway projects

also trucking waste to waste energy extraction plant would probably still use up less energy than trucking around entire facility. this all makes it sound like badly thought out nonsense

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commercial drones have to be reflashed for combat use anyway. it only makes sense for them to standardize on something

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my first reaction to the headline lmao

the catch is that these things won’t fly, so these are useful only as spare part donors

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after wagner was dismantled in all but name (prigozhin was taken out eight months ago, can you believe that? time flies) the same deal was offered by russian army in form of Storm-Z battalions (it’s a real name, i couldn’t make it up if i tried). another low-quality type of units are BARS which is kinda, sorta like territorial defense units but it seems to me that they’re mostly football ultras and other menace that society at large wouldn’t miss

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dirty bombs are movie plot threat, bombers, suicide or not are not an issue in usa because alternatives are more easily available. your take sounds weird and disingenuous

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in this thread we respect laws of physics. you aint sniping anything with a rubber bullet

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heh exactly, if they were actually taking corrupt officers out, they wouldn’t have any kind of command. telegram rumor is that he was spying for the west and the actual charge would be for treason, but they decided to keep it cool with “just” corruption charge for whatever reason. or maybe he fucked with wrong people at wrong time

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my guess is that something else will be able to unzip it and use it as an energy source

yep in the linked article it is mentioned that product is ethylene glycol

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noooo not the cringe app! everything but the cringe app

yes, ban on tiktok is a net positive

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tiktokers aren’t a persecuted ethnic minority

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i will support whoever nukes bytedance datacentres

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it’s driven by greed, so chaotic evil

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Booo, get out of there with reasonable and grounded explanations!

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your solution to road-mobile TELs is significantly less psychotic than what was once proposed by usstratcom, namely burning entire siberian forests where these trucks could plausibly hide with megaton-range airbursts

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as far as i understand, modern mining explosives are thick slurries (or ANFO) that in some cases aren’t explosive at all in trailer, these are made so at borehole. and even then these need boosters, because a blasting cap won’t be enough to set them off. these boosters are also gels or slurries but this time packaged in waterproof film so they look like sausages. these all are safer, probably cheaper and less toxic than actual dynamite so it’s the modern replacement

there definitely are separate licenses, but this depends on country of course

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