If even superficial hits are enough to make US carriers turn tail and run, then it may not be necessary to worry about causing significant damage to them.
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Matrix's "everything and the kitchen sink" problem feels like an overreaction to XMPP's problem of optional extensions that not every client implements properly (if at all).
Telegram has always been sus from a privacy perspective, because they use an oddball homemade cryptographic system instead of open and proven standards. I treat Telegram like I do Tiktok. A useful source of information that I assume is tracking everything I see and say.
That new dual-engine Centaur is making me nervous. The classic single-engine design has been one of the most reliable second stages in history. It's legendary for how many major probes were launched into ultra-precision orbits thanks to it. But this dual-engine redesign seems so finicky I wonder how much actual hardware heritage there is in it.
Hear me out...
Sigh. Fine. But I wear the Fields Medal when we go clubbing.
I've decided to watch Space Ghost Coast to Coast, start to finish. I don't know why either.
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Even just taking out some expensive and delicate equipment on a carrier is a victory. I wonder how much modern US navy equipment is actually more prone to damage than expected because the designers never expected an American carrier in the 21st century to do anything other than support an occupying army?
Called in sick today. Am genuinely sick, just not quite as sick as I made it out to be. I needed today.
I keep thinking about all those pundits a decade-plus ago who laughed at Russia's lack of a significant surface fleet and reliance on submarines as "proving" that Russia's navy was a paper tiger. And here we are in an era of relatively-cheap and relatively-accurate long-range drones and missiles, and the incoming age of hypersonic missiles, and suddenly all those American carriers and cruisers are looking less like fortresses and more like wet scrap metal.