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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (6 children)

An ounce of high explosive won't take down a plane. Even at cruising altitude.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Apparently, the solution to this is retrorockets -

Once clear of the plane a single large main chute opens. The deployment of the main chute triggers the deployment of four long rods which hang beneath the pallet. As soon as the rods touch the ground fires, slowing the BMD to a descending speed between 6 m/s and 7 m/s and giving it a relatively soft landing. This system entered service in 1975 and allows a BMD to be relatively safely parachuted with both the driver and the gunner.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Fuck off right off with that briefcase shit, the only non-cringe nuke is the Davy Crockett. Russia's got fuck all to say to the atomic recoilless rifle of freedom.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Hitting a pasture and landing in cow shit would account for "non-human biologics." I'm incredibly skeptical.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A former intel officer testified to a house committee that the US has had a UFO retrieval program for years, and that we've recovered non-human "biologics" from the crash sites. He has no direct knowledge of anything, by his own admission, but he's willing to provide more detail to congress in a secure facility.

I'll keep the possibility open, I guess, but it sounds like absolute bullshit for a variety of reasons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Man, I'm so glad this global warming thing is leftist propaganda or I'd really be freaking out right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Of the many reasons you could be spending a big chunk of the rest of your life in federal prison, impressing NEETs on discord is one of the stupider ones. I hope he spends many years considering his decisions.

I also hope that a Republican doesn’t win the election next year, because whoever it would be, he’ll totally grant a pardon for dumb and completely political reasons. I wish the US had at least two functioning parties run by adults, rather than the 0.5 we have now.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

The embargo does not block food and medicine goods to Cuba from the United States, and other countries besides the US trade with Cuba (notably, China). But apart from that, great point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What US attack on Iran? Can you link to an article?

Edit: probably the killing of Qasem Soleimani in 2020