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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I live right next to one of the largest airports in the world.

    I see 5-10 parallel lines in the sky multiple times a day.

    I also live next to one of the largest airports in the world, which is a few miles from a national guard base located right outside one of the largest cities in America.

    I’m probably in the fireball radius of a nuke, assuming the Russians haven’t been embezzling their government money and are still fueling their hydrogen bombs, so if the big red button gets pushed, I’ll just get vaporized about half an hour later.

    Don’t shoot yourself just because you see lines in the sky. You’re either close enough to civilization for planes to make lines in the sky, in which case the bombs will probably get you anyway, or you’re so far out in the sticks that you’ll have plenty of time to make a decision.


  • MIRVs have been a thing for like 50 years.

    The US even took them out of submarine launched missiles, because they made the soviets so nervous we had to promise that we couldn’t delete half of their country in 15 minutes.

    But don’t worry, nuclear war happens so fast, and diplomatic channels are so slow, if anyone launches anything, everyone is practically forced to launch everything or risk losing it. So even if Russia did just launch one to destroy 10-15 cities, all of the cities everywhere would be destroyed anyway.








  • They likely have little idea of what being governable means.

    They’re an uncontacted tribe. All they know is some strange people showed up on their land and started wrecking the place.

    If some people showed up at your house, wearing strange clothes and speaking a language you don’t understand, started tearing down your walls and throwing out your food, wouldn’t you resort to some kind of violence to defend yourself and your home?

    This must be terrifying for them, especially because a lot of uncontacted tribes have oral histories about being forced out of their original lands by what we know to be mercenaries.










  • It’s having problems with its RCS system

    The thrusters that turn the craft around and allow precise movement aren’t working properly, they barely got the thing to dock with the ISS.

    Despite what nasa says publicly, I’m sure there’s a lot of internal debate about if it’s even safe to undock the thing from the station. If it loses orientation control while still close to the ISS, it could easily damage the station and kill people. That’s if some of the damaged thrusters aren’t the ones that allow the craft to go backwards, kind of important if you want to leave the station.