Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Thanks Ralph NaN, Perfect infinite justice edition
As I've been noting for quite a fucking while, Russia never offshored its manufacturing. This means that Russia continued to TRAIN its own engineers and mechanics, and continued to USE its own engineers and mechanics to make its own products.
We offshored everything except FUCKING DEBT. We let Japan and China do the engineering on all the shit we consume using the debt produced by our bankers, who are the only "producers". All of our effort and intelligence has been devoted to Disruptive Innovation of new frauds and tricks and scams and rackets and swindles and extortions and shakedowns and stings and cons and gyps and cults and chaos and mayhem and genocide and insanity beyond insanity and evil beyond evil.
Now we're paying the price for our total loss of SKILLS, and it's BEAUTIFUL.
Via ZH,
GAO also lists the challenges of developing a hypersonic weapon, and are likely some of the reasons why the U.S. is losing the weapons race against Russia and China. Heat-tolerant materials: At hypersonic speeds, the exterior temperature of a hypersonic vehicle or weapon can exceed 2,000°F, necessitating advanced materials that will protect interior electronics. Such materials also need to be mechanically strong and efficient. Propulsion technology: Refinement of engine technology is needed for HCMs. This includes increasing the reliability and efficiency of scramjet engines. New types of engines that allow for propulsion from standstill to hypersonic speeds are also being developed, which would eliminate the need for rockets to provide the initial launch. Weapon tracking: Defense against a hypersonic weapon would involve tracking and intercepting it, but current radar and satellite systems are inadequate for this task. Limited testing resources: There are limited places to perform ground tests and flight tests of hypersonic weapons and vehicles in the United States. Currently, there are limited wind tunnel facilities in the country capable of running propulsion tests of hypersonic weapons and vehicles. Safety and control: Hypersonic velocities require additional improvements of aircraft control and guidance to help ensure the accuracy of hypersonic weapons.Now it's too late, and I'm DELIGHTED. We are technologically checkmated. For at least a few years we can't even DREAM of attacking Russia or its friends. The world is SAFE for a few years. THANKS, RALPH. INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE EMERSONIAN JUSTICE.
Labels: defensible spaces, Emersonian justice, Experiential education, skill-estate
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