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mircea_popescu: but maybe they buy a nascar stadium. it'll be good for bitcoin (fm)
mircea_popescu: williamdunne how do you mean ? it's only defined as #mask_head_ie{position:relative; for ie, are you on ie and they changed how they break css meanwhile ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ascii_c3sleep yo nooblets, ima come pay ye a visit!
mircea_popescu: hm, i guess what peterl's new job means is that scoopbot will have to be reimplemnted yet again ?
mircea_popescu: soo apparently nielsen media made a web crawler, and they called it BLEXBot
mircea_popescu: i imagine the doctrine is "better break them in private when the only broken is that one than break them in war when *for lack of a nail* comes into play"
mircea_popescu: anyway, i appreciate the irony of the thread a day or two back with alf going all nazi on people's scents.
mircea_popescu: would-liquify theoretical shaped charge. not practical.
mircea_popescu: insurgents do NOT have industrial ability to follow suit
mircea_popescu: the idea here being : us has the capacity to make purpose built item : too heavy armor for available weapons.
mircea_popescu: would-liquify but you can make armor so that no jet of hot metal cuts it, period.
mircea_popescu: (crater hole is also inside circle, so your radius is not the 1 m you lifted the tank
mircea_popescu: by the time you're a meter up, you're looking at a small projection on a circle.
mircea_popescu: because you realise, most of the pressure escapes to sides
mircea_popescu: fracture it, if it fractures, yes. but lift it 10 meters ? hardly./
mircea_popescu: nope. a 20kg charge will lift a single 10 ton slab about a foot.
mircea_popescu: would-liquify calculate the blast nbeeded to launch tank those 10 meters high
mircea_popescu: would-liquify not really. people routinely survive 6g. calculate the blast that will accelerate a 10 ton apv at 6g
mircea_popescu: (the sikriti io kept waiting for the us to open up - all the upset @ russia is over the rape they're delivering to us army via proxy in mid east)
mircea_popescu: and at 10-20 tons... they'll just blow out the barrier instead
mircea_popescu: you can actually make vehicle so tough that no blast can do anything but move it
mircea_popescu: why not just add six inches of composite armor sandwiched between steel plate and tracks ?
mircea_popescu: maybe it's because i'm ignorant, which... i haven't been following much
mircea_popescu: i can't escape this feeling that us materiel is broken.
mircea_popescu: the TAB-77 actually looks like it's 30 years ahead of those things.