roguetrick

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[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

More likely to be lipid pneumonia than popcorn lung. That's a very specific flavoring that causes that.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

Let me chime in with a middle ground: rolling the army into a metropolis and. Indiscriminately firing on apartment buildings because someone threw something out of them will get your soldiers killed.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

There's very little in common with using off the shelf drone hardware and software to deliver munitions/act as loitering platforms and this stuff. The Ukraine war comparisons seeny silly.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I would recommend strongly against inhaling any oil containing product. Your lungs do not have much surfactant and they cannot deal with it.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, I wouldn't consider the thorium fuel cycle as part of our current tech. India's going to be the first to start thorium breeding at scale which they haven't gotten close to doing to date. That said, Thorium fuel absolutely can produce nuclear weapons in a breeder reactor design, it's just more difficult because you have to reprocess the fuel for U233 which is what Thorium is bred into.

There are lower enrichment targets you could theoretically use for a small uranium reactor depending on your moderator. It's just easier to use highly enriched uranium, or maybe some sort of MOX fuel.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Just because the US never electrified it's train infrastructure after the obsoletion of the steam engine doesn't mean other folks didn't. Many trains straight up use their diesel engines as electric generators for electric motors. Electric cargo trains are cheaper to run than diesel, but the upfront cost is more expensive. Guess which option the non-state run train infrastructure of the United States chose. We're still seeing massive resistance from the train companies for doing it because they don't want to pay the cost.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

48 hours without water can put you at risk for death, I wouldn't recommend trying.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That was one of the first Netflix films I got in the mail. Ghost Dog made me want to watch Jarmusch's other stuff.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

So it sounds like they finished purchase orders that were already pending then found a middleman supplier for what they needed after that.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's not what folks should seriously be comparing this to. You can run electric wires directly over the damn rail and feed a train off the grid. That's where money should've be going everywhere 20 years ago. Running a train off of a diesel electric generator is dumb too frankly.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's a very dumb solution to things that run on tracks and can be directly electrified. It's mindbogglingly silly.

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