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    It's cool that they do stuff like that. Unfortunately, the one guy I know who has a 3D printer usually ends up with variations on this theme:
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    https://www.pinterest.com/pin/245798092146141505/
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    "TSTO is still in the exploratory stage, and there is no clear aerodynamic layout plan that can achieve a recognized consensus" Yep
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    Russia must have small bears. ...
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    I did enjoy that - thanks very much for the link!
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    Yes. Postwar USAF research was for purely peaceful and scientific purposes.
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    Never seen a cutaway like that - thanks! Also illustrated the problem I had understanding Kerbiloid's grouse about Christie. Makes sense, now.
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    I always presumed the Soviets used wide tracks because of ground pressure. How was Christie, then 'critically bad'?
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    Imagine this project started back when Clinton was in office and Newt Gingrich was Speaker. FWIW - there were only 5.79 Billion people on the planet in 1996. That was the year 3Dfx started selling graphics cards. The Palm Pilot was cool. 36 Million people used the World Wide Web
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    Decision was made long ago. SX capacity came on after decision was made.
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    No kidding: the ESA being taken over by the French was spot on.
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    A clamp?
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    Nothing succeeds like success.
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    No matter how perplexing it is to outsiders... it still dismays us.
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    Have you looked at nuke map? https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ You can specify a number of different types of bomb over a variety of cities. Still requires a lot of interpretation as I don't think it takes terrain or construction into account... But if you want to compare fireball of Fat Man to Tsar Bomba you can
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    Welcome. (this next is meant to be snarky / funny) <Looks around at all the people and history of humanity...> You must be new here.
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    I think you won the forum tonight. Cudos! D'oh!
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    It really depends on detonation altitude and distance and secondary propagation. Much of Hiroshima's aftermath was due to uncontrollable secondary fires - which may not be the case for a modern city. Or it might be. You can look at the Camp Fire in Northern California (City of Paradise) and see that there are no guarantees for 'modern' buildings - especially residential - to survive the fireball (but no one thinks that the crater zone will have any survivors.) But both Hiroshima and Nagasaki had 'modern' stone /masonry structures that did not get erased. There is a zone outside the crater / fireball that is subject to intense thermal radiation - which can cause secondary fires, and it is here that the 'modern concrete building' idea arises to differentiate past urban detonations from the future ones.
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    It's exactly the same thing. Pretty much any nation that anxious about America sees our weapons tests as a rattle. (We would be pretty Pollyanna-ish 'who me???' to not recognize it. Pax Americana)
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    We did help the other Chinese nation (Taiwan) with some development. CM-11 Brave Tiger | Military Wiki | Fandom But after Korea I'm not sure how much mil-tech went officially from West to East. Perhaps just enough to balance out Sino-Russian tensions. Also, from WOT: Type 59 Patton (Fake) (tanks-encyclopedia.com) Back to Christie and his suspension: that was the old US arrogance. He did not have 'the right connections' and so no one took him seriously. (Also, I'm not naive enough to think the US isn't picking through RU and CN trash and data transmissions for interesting tidbits. Should - heck pretty much anyone - come up with a good idea... what's the old saying? I don't care what color the cat is, so long as it catches mice?)
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    DD-ERS (stsci.edu)
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    Missed that. Although my Russian is a bit rusty (as in never extracted from the bog) so I just skimmed it. Thanks for the time-stamp. Perhaps the guy who made the video got turned down by a Spanish girl that one time? Hoping that Russia, once adopting the tech would follow his targeting suggestion as well?
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    Nothing new under the sun U.S. Changes Its Stance On Damage by Toshiba - The New York Times (nytimes.com) These are the games nations play with one another. Deng Xiaoping was just 'next level'.
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    Explain? Musk said they've developed a couple of unique alloys (vis the cryogenic strength quote). Doing that shouldn't change the temperature at which the steel deforms when heated, should it? Most need to be 800-1500 degrees F for that, IIRC. Or - were you talking about something else, and I misinterpreted it?
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