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@sapphire @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @egirlyuumimain @Hoss I thought the whole idea of Thorium (salt) reactors was that they cool and stop themselves without continuous power flow somehow? Wasn't there some type of freeze plug or something or other that would drain the molten material if the power went out?

I think Russia had a fuck it approach to building shit tbh.

One of my favorite stories from the Cold War arms race was how America got so shook by the MiG-25 that they designed and built the greatest fighter platform of all time to counter it, and then later found out the scary Soviet wunderwaffe was actually a gigantic piece of shit that could reach its purported top speed precisely once before melting its own engines.

@Hoss @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain and to be fair the Soviets didn't even hide that fact, we just assumed they made it out of unobtanium and adrenochrome cuz that's how we'd have done it

Nyet, is only have to intercept one time make out of pot metal

@sapphire @Hoss @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain @weknowwhygary SERGY BLYAAAT WE NEED FIGHTER JET TO DEFEAT PIGDOGS BUT ALL WE HAVE IS HIGH-NICKEL STAINLESS STEEL

THAT IS FINE SERGI JUST TO BE SLAPPING HUGE BALLISTIC MISSILE ENGINES INTO.

COMRADE PILOT DOES NOT NEED TO SURVIVE STRATEGICALLY NECESSARY INTERCEPTION OPERATION IF COMMUNISM SURVIVES.

WE SPEND LIKE 50,000 RUBLES AND THE US SHITS ITS COLLECTIVE PANTS AND SPENDS 700 MILLION COUNTERING SOMETHING THAT DOESNT EVEN REALLY EXIST COMRADE.

F15 was my favorite jet in the whole world when I was 4. It still is, but it was then, too. I guess I never even said thank you, roosky.

In case you've never seen Mustard. His videos are nice.

https://youtu.be/RmlWmDokzGg

@weknowwhygary @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain @Hoss @AGARTHA_NOBLE highly suggest taking advantage of that nebula deal btw, there are some good content creators on there

there's also legal eagle and jessie gender, but I ignore the FUCK out of those faggots lole

@weknowwhygary @AGARTHA_NOBLE @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @HonkHonkBoom @Hoss @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain https://nebula.tv/videos/paperskies-how-soviet-pilots-drank-alcohol-from-planes this guy in particular is always a joy to listen to because his father was a Soviet aviator, even if he's (a bit justifiably as a uke) very condescending towards Russia

You can also find him on youtube

Communism is one of the greatest travesties of human civilization, but the history of the Soviet Union is genuinely fascinating.

@Hoss @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain @AGARTHA_NOBLE having worked for an eastern european company for the last half a decade I now completely understand it though

Sometimes I wonder if America and the Soviet Union needed each other, like a deranged geopolitical manifestation of Batman and the Joker. Once the USSR fell and the "end of history" era began, the world started becoming progressively more fucked up.

The F-15 is a masterpiece. Fancier platforms may have followed, but they entered operation after the fall of the USSR. The F-15 mogged the Soviets in the air superiority game during the later half of the Cold War.

I'm sure the Soviets were happy to pocket the unexpected propaganda W and run with it as far as they could.

@Dudebro @WandererUber @CobaltSasquatch @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @Hoss @sapphire I mean they were communists in Russia of all places
Human lives meant literally nothing

Imagine mixing European ingenuity, communism, and Asian admixture in just enough volume to care about peons as much as zerg.

@Dudebro @CobaltSasquatch @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @Hoss @sapphire That's how you get a Xel Naga

@Dudebro @egirlyuumimain @CobaltSasquatch @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @Hoss @sapphire Sup

@WandererUber @sapphire @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @Hoss Thorium reactors are soyence psuedo magic gobilty gook
They seemingly do anything and everything, but are somehow unable to be built. See also cold fusion

@egirlyuumimain @sapphire @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @Hoss >soyence psuedo magic gobilty gook
don't take this the wrong way but you say this a lot about most things more complex than a shovel...

@WandererUber @sapphire @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @Hoss That's part of my charm

Sometimes I'll see a car, or a computer, or hell even a coffee maker, and I'll think to myself "3000 years ago that was in the fucking ground. Some guy woke up one day, looked at a rock and started changing it. We eventually changed rocks so much that we could turn them in to this stuff" and even with the benefit of a White IQ it seems like some low level sorcery

@CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain @Hoss it took 4.4 billion with a b years for life to go from rock to pointy rock

It took less than 1/1000 of that to go from pointy rock to iPhone

@sapphire @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @Hoss Really makes you think if it really is a billion years old doesn't it

I wonder what went through the head of the first guy that found copper and realized if he put it in a campfire and then let it get cold it would hold the shape. We talk about advancements in technology but copper weapons were the start of empire building. You take that away and we're all sitting in a forest eating squirrel bits

@CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain @Hoss to be fair the same way we discover anything
>use weird green rock to make campfire
>check in the morning
>shiny hard orange rock
>try to work it like regular rock
>fails
>really sharp edges though
>find out how to grind off the jags

@CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @Hoss @sapphire I often wonder similiar things about how we developed food or drug use

@CobaltSasquatch @egirlyuumimain @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @Hoss @sapphire According to some legends which may be true, Joseph of Arimathea was a tin trader, who travelled to Britain on a metals trade in the 1st Century. Though the Iron Age had been well underway for a milennium or so, bronze certainly never lost its basic usefulness - and hasn’t ever not been a pretty hot commodity

@egirlyuumimain @WandererUber @sapphire @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @Hoss Naw, china finally found some sort of fix for the corrosion issues, which if the only real sticking point, or they're just saying fuck it and building them anyhow, but they got it working, their big test reactor has been online for years and they supposedly have commercial models in progress.. and we got a shitton more thorium than plutonium or uranium..

@nicholas @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain @Hoss yeah India has been scamming research funds for years for it and China claims they have one

@WandererUber @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @egirlyuumimain @Hoss asking my pet nuke, stand by