fullsquare

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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

you would need something silly like 50x more interceptors than ICBMs and SLBMs and these are more expensive and technically harder than either

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 3 weeks ago

The NMD program is limited in scope and designed to counter a relatively small ICBM attack from a less sophisticated adversary.

also ground-based interceptor is more expensive than ICBM, and you need one for each warhead and maybe also for decoys, and probably more than one to be reasonably sure. since everyone operates under MAD it doesn't matter if you destroy most probable adversary's nukes on the ground or in the air, so that's one of reasons why ICBMs are a thing, and then SLBMs as a second line. cue arms race. ABM are considered destabilizing and are limited by treaties

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 18 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

ai could never make this

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 3 weeks ago

it's not solved, it's just companies saying that they think it will be solved in the future

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago

none of that shit works and won't work for a good minute, cryonics is rapture for nerds that take scifi way too seriously

what we already know tho is that because there's one payment to store meat popsicle effectively forever and this shit is ran by true believer techbros, it tends to run out of money pretty regularly. that means they run out of liquid nitrogen and meat popsicles thaw, and this already happened more than once

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

there's no practical defence against nukes

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 3 weeks ago

France also has warning shots, js

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 15 points 3 weeks ago

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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 14 points 3 weeks ago

rocket lab is 4x too big (that's quarterly revenue, not annual)

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 3 weeks ago

now that i'm thinking: would be 4000 VMs enough for spacex? maybe it is some smaller organization. i also take it is state-owned or similar, which narrows it down to a handful of countries that launch satellites

and probably not government agency, because these would have people competent enough to do a git pull

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