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mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes amusingly enough, in ro the difference is made as "real" vs "humane" schools.\
mircea_popescu: the idea was quite deliberately to make connection with liquid flow etc, the next year bernouli discussion contained EXACT SAME PROFILE
mircea_popescu: old style curricula actually included machined piece of various metals, large chunk with varying thicknesses, with movable screw connectors. with voltmeter and amperemeter, you could measure the material.
mircea_popescu: uh. no, actually, in my country physics = 6th grade, they spend a year doing such stuff.
mircea_popescu: "My mom did the beds. I did the bedwarming. A memoir."
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> look i didn't grow up on usenet it's nyoooooz to me << your third grade sucks compared to his third grade!!!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sort-of an application of my above cylinder.
mircea_popescu: just in case anyone in argentina is both a) smart enough to know that #trilema logs are more important to his country than anything happening in spanish and b) interested in wtf would someone care about fauklands.)
mircea_popescu: (re interdiction zone : yes, subs fire icbms, so have range. but they're not orbitals, and interdiction zone can be practical things such as "a ring around either end of panama canal, down by terra del fuego and up by newfoundland, for instance)
mircea_popescu: doesn't have to find you across the atlantic, just lock on you if you come within 100km
mircea_popescu: and could consist of a 100kg batyscaph with some fiber towed, a sort of intelligent depth charge
mircea_popescu: the mirror relation between "world peace" and "bitcoin" in its treatment in usg agitprop sources being, of course, striking.
mircea_popescu: thus, undermines [what's left of] "world peace", as the usg defines the term. this after the 2000s saw the underminiung of the other chunk, with china, russia and now iran making carriers useless.
mircea_popescu: but yes, for the slow, THIS is what they mean by "undermine peace". the us doctrine is that its ability to strike is roughly speaking equal to "world peace", and this makes any sort of us "projection" unfeasible.
mircea_popescu: no idea where that's at by now, and i suspect everyone involved would much rather not even look at the discussion.
mircea_popescu: as well as a programme to deploy pu decoys on ocean floor. tho a) russians map the shit and b) so wtf does it do for you anyway.
mircea_popescu: anyway. if memory serves this became obvious during late 70s / 80s faroe islands gamewars with the russians, resulting in us subs doing all sorts of lulzy, dangerous, landhugging
mircea_popescu: this would allow nuke sub detector to unerringly destroy all the subs. that's the last hope, now that carriers aren't worth their weight in bull viscera.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the usg is very worried about it, because think about it - unshieldable missile target.
mircea_popescu: (incidentally - THIS is fundamental illustration of "republic may not exist if rules are homogenous". historical republics failed on the basis of people agreeing as to what's beauty in women.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, not that poor. unlike the rest of her misfortunate sisters, at least she has someone to say "you may not be a person until you learn fractions".
mircea_popescu: tall, pretty thing. small tits, but that's easily fixed.
mircea_popescu: and you'll have to desist with that, by the way. yesterday girl burst into tears in subte because i went "you don't understand fractions. pick up a third grade book, or at least it was third grade in romania, whatever highschool / college course it is in english, and study fractions."
mircea_popescu: i suspect nobody really went to YOUR third grade, alf.
mircea_popescu: and by "sun" i mean "earth" for all the difference this makes.
mircea_popescu: or in related news : guess oh dear reader why the sun is mostly nickel/iron by mass
mircea_popescu: suns don't yield them, supernova, quasars and black holes only
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes neutrons are interesting for the reason explained in alf's link : they only exist as result of activity of a select set of materials/conditions
mircea_popescu: lol wankery is one tyhing, but afaik no such observatory exists ?
mircea_popescu: (my crude idea being that according to wavelength, the neutrons will be captured top to bottom)
mircea_popescu: you need 3141 * 10**6 * 10**3 meters worth of fiber, and you get the best damn measure of background neutron radiation ever made.
mircea_popescu: actually i'm surprised not more radioastronomy effort is put into this. imagine if you will : array of a few million km long fibers, arranged inside a cylinder, in layers by angstrom thichness from 1mn on the bottom to 1 A on the top, in a circular pattern at 0.001 rads apart each.
mircea_popescu: anyway. let's leave this in mod6's ticket tree somewhere offscreen for nao.
mircea_popescu: this sounds more like a job of "if i had the she-thieves" than $$$
mircea_popescu: anywya. my solid state is dusty. i dun recall what all this was.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform technically speaking, thermalizing neutrons may take them to visible spectrum. but this wouldn't count would it.
mircea_popescu: ;;google material that neutrons excite, emits photons on deexcitement
mircea_popescu: (in my mind the foremost role of this place is exactly - begging for unconventional wunderwaffen)
mircea_popescu: just for the public relations embarassment of publicising this fact.
mircea_popescu: anyway, let it be said for the record that if anyone wants to move here and do the job, and we can keep costs within sanity, i'd definitely considering making a plant and exporting the product freely
mircea_popescu: you fill the underside with gas at pressure so exact same density as fiber.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so you use plastic and adjust temp correspondingly.
mircea_popescu: phf what do you keep doing to these women that they keep kicking you out every three weeks.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, this being unknown unknown. but as an example : take hard porous material (say, metallic carbide), cut into thin slice, heat to 3k, pour melted glas on top, let some of it find its way through necessarily open pores (ceramic is thin), select from the results usable fibers.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you're thinking "every sperm is sacred" style. think al schwarz "i really dun care if i waste 99% of the glass" style.
mircea_popescu: there seems to be no use made of it. i was tempted to make this into a qntra piece, but...
mircea_popescu: there was some sort of large scale diddling of germany
mircea_popescu: espcially because it amplifies well. 1km fiber, ~1mn x value of 1 mm fiber.
mircea_popescu: so depending on how you figure, there's 1.55 bad moduli per thousand ; of which 0.11 are outright factorable, the rest mostly bad exponents.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> jurov now has the (enviable?) privilege of determining the likelihood that the call will be exercised, and adjusting his reserves accordingly. << somethinglikethat.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> mod6: the baked-in presumption of webtardism is almost insulting << it is insulting, not to us though. think about it : the crab has pincers because in its environment THAT WORKS ; and so does "GET /blog/blog-config.php~".
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway. certainly good candidate for s.nsa product list, to be sold anonymously for btc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> (does everybody understand why scintillator ~fiber~ is neat, while the commonly-available scintillating plastic blocks are nearly useless for rng ?) << essentially, quantum antenna.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> (and happily detect, e.g., neutron flux) << it undermines peace you see. for some definitions of peace which reduces to "usg makes all the war"