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  1. Tsar didn't have a bomb, because it was developed much later. But AN602 which was meant had an aerodynamic shape, so its dimensions don't tell much *** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B41_nuclear_bomb is more cylindric, it's 1.32 m in diameter, 3.76 m in length, its mass is 4.84 t, its yield 25 Mt. Density ~= 4.84 / (3.76 * pi * 1.322 / 4) ~= 1 t/m3. yield/mass = 25 / 4.84 ~= 5 Mt / t. *** Starship cargo section is ~9 m in diameter and nearly same in length. To load.unload the warhead, the cargo bay should be a 9 / sqrt(2) ~= 6 m wide. (square in the circle) The warhead is cylindric, so its diameter ~= 6 m. Volume ~= 9 * pi * 62 / 4 ~= 250 m3. Mass ~= 250 t. Yield ~= 1 250 Mt. Area of destruction is (1250 / 1)2/3 ~= 116 times greater than 1 Mt has. I.e. 10 times less effective than a MIRV could be.
  2. A non-thou may unshalt, but thou shalt what they unshalt.
  3. "I'm your father, Luke!" Why did Princess Leia not send the Death Star blueprints by e-mail?
  4. Most of GTA champions would liquid the seat if the real road police stops them.
  5. Too heavy. They sink in the ground, then in the rock, then in the mantle, and finally continue dancing in the liquid iron core on the surface of the inner solid iron core, periodically causing earthquakes. Iron Core Hill
  6. "Here flies Clipper, onboard lies the skipper, the skipper got (something)".
  7. https://news.lockheedmartin.com/news-releases?item=129118 Many American firms are going to build Starlab orbital station.
  8. Because the mathematicians can't learn 26 letters, it's too many for them. Why are the Telebubbies so disgusting?
  9. Unexpectedly low chances. Usually 50%, "either flies, or not". Probably, 30% is for "flies / explodes / stays and nothing happens".
  10. Air Force Train? With wings it flies? Able to run for years or decades? Somebody watched "Snowpiercer" too much.
  11. The KSP is a very peaceful game by its nature. One race. One VAB. One führ player. Nobody to fight against.
  12. While the owner is sleeping, he's ninja'd by the Shenanigan family, known for their bad habits and unpredictability, Goodningt, @ColdJ.From Shenanigan Hill.
  13. The Shenanigan family is known for its unpredictable and bad behaviour. They move you away. Shenanigan Hill (ninja'd)
  14. To the date there are effective vaccines against polio and pox.
  15. Stargate? That endless promo clip from the American draft office? P.S. Btw, did they really need hanging each other by hands in every episode, or it was a sublimation of the authors' fantasies? *** Anyway, the best part of the Stargate franchise was SG Origins. Others are worse.
  16. Depends on the what. Why do the English questions always start with "wh"? Why? Who? When? Where? What? Which? Whow is it possible?
  17. The soup plate is either half full, or half fool, or half empty, or is full of flies. Waiter! Bill! Is it you?
  18. An offtopic question: C19 vs AIDS? Both seem having no effective vaccine. Both caused global panic in their time. Currently, are they comparable in sense of modern plague?
  19. Poopular mechanics. *** A house built out of manure bricks: "shigloo". A set of them - "manure manor".
  20. Cold climate vs Warm wet climate East. They don't have much room to migrate, as every place is already inhabited. So, they have to stay and grow, expanding locally. West. They had a room to expand by slash-and-burn agriculture. So, when a tribe/a family/an individual was gotten by the jerks around and lack of food, they moved to another forest and founded another village. The abandoned villages turned into forests to found a village several years later by same or another group. East. The agriculture is based on organic sediments accumulated by water pools (wet fields or so). West. The agriculture was slash-and-burn, then turned into poorly fertilized, then got powered by the chemical industry. East. In both respects the individual skills were mitigated in favour of diligence West. In both respects, in a small migrating group the individual skills and efforts were significant for the survive-or-die final. Btw compare to the vikingish self-nickname for "a freeman at arms", the "oarsman", róþsmenn / róþskarlar. As the vikings were swimming floating running in puny boats, and anyone at oars could effectively revenge the whole gang by one easy movement during the storm, they had to free a prisoner before letting him sit at the oar. East. Warm and short winters, huts of paper and bamboo. Less wood required for shorter for winter. Quickly rotting in wet climate disposable houses requiring many little efforts to rebuild the village more-or-less yearly. See the Japanese "gates", which are "ancient" even being rebuilt every several decades. Less food for cattle to be stored. The agricultural activities are spread across the year in a thin layer. All-year hunting/fishing. Several harvests per year. Diligence and patience. West. Extremely cold and long winters, but a lot of forest around. Houses made of logs and standing for decades, a lot of wood required for winter heating. A lot of food for cattle to gather and store, because the winter is coming long. The agricultural activities are concentrated in short summer. Hunting/fishing in summer, because in winter the water pools are frozen, and the animals either sleep, or have flown away. One-two harvests per year. A shorter but more intense effort. So, for half-year you eat what you collected in another half-year, and warm the house with wood mostly gathered in summer. Who didn't - dies. Everyone helps a valuable, strenuous neighbour, because later he can help in return. Nobody has excessive food&wood for a non-valuable neighbour. East. Short winter vacation. West. Several months of the winter, when no agriculture to fill the time. East. Wars take place when the mud gets dry. West. Short periods to undertake wars, because you should spend the short summer on agriculture. Winter wars taking a lot of resources to be taken. East. Middle-sized bodies are enough in warm climate to supply the same brain. Requiring less food. West. Larger and heavier bodies have more chances to survive, both because of more concentrated physical work in short summer, and because of surface/volume ratio. Requiring more food. *** So, the survivability of a commune in the cold climate is more depending on individual and small group efforts than in warm wet climate. On the other hand, big wars require big armies, so the survivability depends on their ability to operate under higher commandment. And as a large army gives more opportunities for an individual career, so makes an individual less dependent on his tribe.
  21. The orthography of The Tall Hill has changed. Thetall Hill
  22. https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2018_Phase_I_Phase_II/PulsedFission-Fusion_Propulsion_Concept/#:~:text=The pulsed fission fusion propulsion,compress a fission-fusion target.&text=The fission energy boosts the,which boost the fission process. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-pinch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-Mag_Orion
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