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re: America’s nuclear arsenal relies on this brand-new supercomputer
Posted on 11/24/18 at 3:56 pm to Street Hawk
Posted on 11/24/18 at 3:56 pm to Street Hawk
First output completed - boys have penis, girls have vagina - Trump is your President.
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Posted on 11/24/18 at 4:05 pm to kywildcatfanone
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I'm sure this is to throw you off the scent of it being somewhere in middle America.
It's in the back of a Cinnabon in Omaha.
Posted on 11/24/18 at 4:31 pm to AA77
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Posted on 11/24/18 at 4:40 pm to blueboy
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But, they likely still have a lot of doomsday protocols which require them to attack everyone if they are facing annihilation
shite, I hope we do too.
Posted on 11/24/18 at 4:48 pm to Street Hawk
I perfer the 1970s computers that took 5 inch floppy disc. They can't be hacked because they are not connected to the net.
Posted on 11/24/18 at 4:48 pm to Street Hawk
Posted on 11/24/18 at 5:25 pm to Street Hawk
That's one heck of a Microsoft excel macro.
Posted on 11/24/18 at 5:49 pm to soccerfüt
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Seems fine to me.
By the way. Have you seen this boy?
This post was edited on 11/24/18 at 5:50 pm
Posted on 11/24/18 at 6:50 pm to Street Hawk
Yeah I’ve seen a few movies about this. It won’t end well.
Well, I guess War Games did end well but still wasn’t fun getting there.
Well, I guess War Games did end well but still wasn’t fun getting there.
This post was edited on 11/24/18 at 6:51 pm
Posted on 11/24/18 at 8:53 pm to TigerStripes06
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How is that the case if it was just finished? We’ve had nuclear capabilities for decades.
That is why this computer is needed, our stockpile of nuclear weapons are old. The fissile material used in the core of the weapon has been decaying since the day it was made so the weapon may no longer perform as originally designed. Since taking out a nuclear weapon, and field testing it is not really practical, the next best thing is computer modeling. The more powerful your computer hardware the better the mathematical model that can be created.
Posted on 11/24/18 at 9:19 pm to AA77
hmm, maybe I'll look into Madagascar or the Faroe islands based on that gif.
Posted on 11/24/18 at 9:20 pm to EA6B
I believe it was the refurbishment of the submarine fleet's arsenal that found a glaring oversight in our weapons supply chain.
The two stage devices (basically all of them) used a classified material called FOGBANK as the conductor of energy between the first and second stage. Speculation is that it is/was an aerogel engineered just for this purpose.
Upon disassembly for overhaul, they realized this stuff hadn't aged so well and might not perform as it would have originally. The problem then became making more of it.
The building at Oak Ridge where it was made had been torn down along with the processing line to make it. Because the facility and the process to make it were top secret, documentation for how to build a replica facility had to be painstakingly cobbled together from whatever sources were available. Add to that, most of the design team, scientists and engineers in the 1950s & 60s, were dead so asking them for help was out of the question.
Eventually they figured out how to make it again and built a plant to do so. Production started but the material was off spec. It took a while to find but apparently the old plant either intentionally or unknowingly had added traces of impurities that made the product come out right. Once that was fixed they were back in business.
End of the day, it was a multi billion dollar boondoggle.
The two stage devices (basically all of them) used a classified material called FOGBANK as the conductor of energy between the first and second stage. Speculation is that it is/was an aerogel engineered just for this purpose.
Upon disassembly for overhaul, they realized this stuff hadn't aged so well and might not perform as it would have originally. The problem then became making more of it.
The building at Oak Ridge where it was made had been torn down along with the processing line to make it. Because the facility and the process to make it were top secret, documentation for how to build a replica facility had to be painstakingly cobbled together from whatever sources were available. Add to that, most of the design team, scientists and engineers in the 1950s & 60s, were dead so asking them for help was out of the question.
Eventually they figured out how to make it again and built a plant to do so. Production started but the material was off spec. It took a while to find but apparently the old plant either intentionally or unknowingly had added traces of impurities that made the product come out right. Once that was fixed they were back in business.
End of the day, it was a multi billion dollar boondoggle.
Posted on 11/24/18 at 9:21 pm to Street Hawk
Is it called the beast, skynet or Whopr
Posted on 11/25/18 at 12:11 am to biglego
Posted on 11/25/18 at 2:22 am to reverendotis
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The two stage devices (basically all of them) used a classified material called FOGBANK as the conductor of energy between the first and second stage. Speculation is that it is/was an aerogel engineered just for this purpose.
There have been a number of materials used for this purpose, they fill the radiation channel surrounding the primary,and secondary stages of the device. The material has to be low density and transparent to the X-ray radiation created by the primary which is used to develop the high temperature plasma that ignites the thermonuclear fuel in the secondary. A form of polyurethane foam is used in the devices currently carried by ICBMs, this may or may not be "FOGBANK". For devices subjected to high G loads such as in artillery shells metal alloys are used.
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