a_party_german [comrade/them]

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Cake day: May 16th, 2021
  • a_party_german [comrade/them]tonews•Bulletins and News Discussion from December 2nd to December 8th, 2024 - May A Hundred Hazel Flowers Bloom - COTW: Russia
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    24 hours ago

    Oh we're doing missiles again? Great!

    There's one thing that was bothering me about the small speculation of what the actual damage at that Dnipro plant might have looked like. Years Decades ago I sat in a lecture by some NASA engineer who'd worked on the Deep Impact probe where they blasted a comet with a small impactor and looked at the resulting cloud or something. His main point was that above a certain speed that's sometimes (but not always) reached by a comet crashing down on Earth every impact is going to look pretty similar because it's basically just like an explosion on the ground. So no matter the impact angle or shape, above some speed you always get an explosion crater, or rather these typical meteor craters like this one:

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    (could you tell which direction that meteor hit the ground from?)

    Now I've looked it up and apparently there's this thing called a "hyper-velocity impact" which seems pretty consistent with what's written above, and which starts to occur at around Mach 11. That would also be the main damage-doer those Rods from God things. So my take on what the Oreshnik damage might have looked like would be a lot of little explosive craters, since the actual payload and hence energy on these 36 impact vehicles was probably not too big, and the velocity they travelled at was very close or equal to what a "hyper-velocity impact" would require.

    Of course, all these assumptions might be wrong just as well and it actually was just little holes and huge explosive cavities below, who knows.

    Just wanted to write this down, now I've got closure. Thanks for reading!

  • a_party_german [comrade/them]toaskchapo•Where did the name Hexbear come from?
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    5 days ago

    I heard it came from a hexadecimal interpretation of The Quran, which was first done by an important wahhabi scholar who may have played a part in 9/11, and then some El Chapo trap-house picked up on that because he hates America and the Russian bear is America's nemesis and everyone here gets paid Putin bucks on the side, or so I've been told.

  • a_party_german [comrade/them]toeurope•Thyssenkrupp to slash 40% of steel jobs in latest blow to German industry
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    7 days ago

    To me the most insane thing about these Germany deindustrialization stories is that German domestic media has successfully avoided talking about sanctions as the real reason. For the first year until 2023 they mostly denied it happening altogether, then they started acknowledging high energy costs but blamed Russia, or rather "energy costs have risen due to Russia's unprovoked brutal war of aggression against Ukraine". It's really maddening to see it happen and people sincerely believing all that, and when you mention sanctions it's always "oh the sanctions are necessary, and I'm sure they hurt Russia more".

    Deeply unserious country. I wonder and also fear what Germany will do when the industrial base has been substancially degraded, two to five years from now. Those jobs are gone for good then.