Tar_Alcaran

Ah, so it’s the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, only more scientific.

If Russia and the west start shooting eachother, one of four things will happen.

1 - Russia grows a brain and backs down when they horribly lose a conventional war. (Unlikely, unless someone takes command authority away)

2 - Russia kept their nuclear arsenal up to date, and a tiny remnant.of humanity gets to enjoy the Stone Age again. It won’t hurt if you live in a city though.

3 - Only a tiny fraction of their nukes launch, and the west responds proportionally. A lot of people die, but at least we’ll fix global warming.

Especially in Australia, where there’s an insane amount of empty nothing to place wind turbines. Northern Australia gets twice as much solar irradiation as western Europe, it’s absolutely ideal for (rooftop) solar.

Economies of scale and “high density” power generation make sense for some places, but even a place with the population density of the Netherlands can cram in enough wind turbines to get a significant fraction of renewable energy. It should be a total no-brainer for Australia.

If you need to make your own replies, it’s obviously a pretty crappy film

And no gearing, so no complex moving part assemblies…

Roughly the odds of flipping heads 17 times in a row

It’s more than that. Conspiracy thinking like this is about feeling powerful and in control.

If all the bad stuff that happens to you is because of a shadowy cabal out to get you, it puts you in the middle of something huge, and you can even do something about it! If you just live in a vast uncaring universe where you can’t do anything and bad stuff just happens sometimes, that’s not comforting at all!

Do yourself a favor and quickly google “who uses the F-22”

Israel mostly uses f-22s

Lolno

Quite a lot by Israel right now.

How many times has a defense minister said they’re not going to use the F35 because it’s too expensive?

T-14 is a new design that’s currently being tested,

https://defence-blog.com/russia-abandons-armata-tank-due-to-its-high-cost/

It was never real buddy. All its achievements are as fake as the T95 it’s based on.

You know how to really get people interested in helping their society? Mandatory unpaid labour! Which lonely elderly person wouldn’t love to spend time with a teenager who doesn’t want to be there? Who better to help the NHS than a completely uneducated, unmotivated slave labourer? And I can see the police lining up to get the opportunity to work together with everyone who got the rejected from the other programs!

How to guarantee you’re going to lose the <30 vote, step 1.

You could even do away with a full skeletal system in the upper section. Could be almost all muscle around some bones for support and mobility.

Having more ribs isn’t a problem for a mammal, those are pretty variable between species, unlike vertebrae. And thats quite a puzzle, how many go into the horse bit, and how many in the human bit? Obviously the horses “neck” and the humans lower back overlap, but it’ll still be a puzzle. You’d end up with a less flexible body.

Now, I would think that with the extra space, there would be something like a stomach in there to begin breaking things down before sending them along but that isn’t mandatory for the basics to work.

Why? Centaurs aren’t ruminants, imagine eating grass with those poor underdeveloped human omnivore teeth, or stripping leafs with human lips, ouch. In fact, feeding a human brain and a horse body with a human mouth is going to be a LOT of work.

If you’re going to do tentacle-arms without bones, the human part would basically need to be all muscle, with some weirdly deformed vertebra for shoulders.

And that leads me to another thing. It must have some very intricate blood-pumping systems, because centaur hands can’t reach the ground unless they bend aaaaall the way down, like head to knees low. In order to actually use those hands, they’d have to be upside down for long periods, but also right side up for long periods. With a very thirsty human-stylr brain.

How the fuck is Putin supposed to take Gotland? Is the Russian Baltic fleet supposed to sail out of Saint Petersburg, pass within 50km of either Talinn or Helsinki without getting every single anti-ship missile in NATO launched at them and land every soldier they can cram into it’s (on paper quite decent landing craft) and conquer one cement factory that I promise will never work again, and some wild horses and rose bushes?

Russia can barely supply it’s troops by train against a nation without a real Airforce. How are they supposed to hold an island against inside lake NATO against a country with 2 fighter wings in easy bombing distance, and at least something of a navy?

On the other hand, the fact that they’re doomed to fail doesn’t mean they won’t try, so I can’t fault Sweden for getting some troops out there. There are probably worse posts than Gotland too.

Correct, which is all the more reason Russia really really shouldn’t try it.

So much self-inflicted pain.

It wasn’t, the pyramids ended up as planned. This won’t.

Amsterdam is at the wettest end of a giant floodplane, so going up is hard. That said, moderately tall building ARE being made on newly made land…