Cannonball run is 2906 miles. Assuming most of it is across highways at 65 mph, (a lot of the west is faster but the east is slower), you’d get it in about 44 hours. With a 10-minute delay every 300 miles you’d add about 2 hours for a total of 46.3 hours.

You want to stop every 16 hours of driving (since you don’t care about DOTs 10-hour limit) so it takes you slightly less than 3 days. Or less than half the stated “week”.

Imagine not blowing your fireballs and lightnings against level 1 mice when you’re level 10 and making your fighters regret running in headfirst.

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Wtf iowa?

NASA has no control of flight paths. The FAA also doesn’t specify sonic-boom allowed flight paths. They just outright ban it (with a few exceptions) for any boom that could reach anywhere in the US.

FAA also doesn’t want to deal with people complaining about sonic booms like they did back in the 50s when this all started (they received tens of thousands of complaints) so they have an interest in making sure NASA lives up to their promises.

Yes, they would reduce the overpressure. By how much I’m not sure, but that’s part of the research.

They’re promising a perceived 75 dB level, equivalent to the volume of a dishwasher. Sonic booms are normally about 110 dB or about a jackhammer or a rock concert

And it’s not like you’d hear it all the time, just once in a while and only if you’re in the flight path.

There’s a massive difference between an acoustically-optimized, AIP-capable Swedish submarine built thirty years ago, and what the North Koreans have which is basically none of those.

Also, while the Reagan itself was pretty new at the time, the Nimitz class was already a 30-year old design when that war game happened, and is now almost 60 years old as a class.

He is the governor of the state of Florida and a potential US presidential candidate.

Useful filters to get rid of him are: DeSantis, Rhonda sandtits, “pudding fingers”

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Didn’t realize Lithuania was under 3 million. For some reason I had it in my head that they were closer to 4-5. Insane.

It also means that the difficulty in taking over taiwan, from China, is also that much more difficult.

Every nation that trades with Taiwan has a vested interest in getting past, or preventing a Chinese blockade of the island.

China cannot defeat the combined navies of South East Asia + pacific + USA, plus the coastal batteries and medium-ranged missile capability that taiwan is building up.

China, at best, can attempt to bomb the island into nothing, which also isn’t exactly palatable.

Did you just compare letting non-active bots on a server to killing babies? Okay if that’s the comparison you really want to go with, I guess.

It’s very easy to sit on a high horse and say you’ve never had a negative impact due to your ignorance, when your own ignorance might include things that you don’t know are detrimental to others.

Are you perfect? If 7 billion people analyze your actions will none of them find you at fault? Because if even a single one does, then by your own standard, you should never be allowed a second chance by anyone.

Everyone has to start somewhere. We should reward honest effort instead of punishing honest effort but ignorance.

I’ve never heard someone say it irl yet.

Until then

My sentiment is the same, albeit wording.

I’m not sure I want to “get along” with fascists.

The USS PASADENA (SSN-752) doesn’t carry weapons of mass destruction. It is a nuclear-powered submarine, not a nuclear-weapon carrying submarine.

And the reason it went to Cuba is:

A U.S. Defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity to provide details of a military operation, said the Navy submarine made a scheduled logistics stop at Guantanamo Bay. It then continued south to participate in UNITAS, the world’s longest-running multinational maritime exercise.

Agree with the reason or not, and agree with the base or not, it is a reason for being there and it’s not “waving around weapons of mass destruction in other people’s territory for no reason”.

The amount it has improved over the last month since I joined has been insane. It’s a lot more stable, the apps that exist are improving at an insane pace (and many many many more are being created). It’s exciting.

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