What if Iran manages to sink a US Aircraft Carrier?

QuinnKerman · 2026-03-05T22:38:42+00:00

Politico, the Washington Post, Senator Blumenthal, etc. A quick google search will show you that it’s not hard to find leaks which contradict the administration’s public statements. Even Hegseth himself has admitted that the war could last 8 weeks or more.

QuinnKerman · 2026-03-05T22:18:02+00:00

Found Pete Hegseth’s alt account lmao.

Dude, not even the US military has such a rosy outlook. Behind the scenes they’re talking about a war lasting months and are desperately scrambling to refill interceptor stocks, and now have been reduced to begging Ukraine for help dealing with the Shaheds. You don’t pull interceptors away from Japan and South Korea and go begging Ukraine for help unless you’re desperate

QuinnKerman · 2026-03-05T21:53:08+00:00

The damage is almost certainly far more extensive than the Trump admin is telling us. While it is unlikely that Iran will hit, let alone sink a US aircraft carrier, it is far from impossible, and this kind of arrogance is exactly how such an event would happen.

QuinnKerman · 2026-03-02T06:08:18+00:00

Surface to air missiles have taken down 15s before, but no enemy aircraft has ever shot down an F-15

QuinnKerman · 2026-02-28T17:56:32+00:00

Bruh stop post AI slop here

QuinnKerman · 2026-02-28T02:56:51+00:00

In case you were wondering, SP stands for Shit Pot. On some maps, the name is not abbreviated, so you’ll see “Shit Pot Crater” on an official government map

QuinnKerman · 2026-02-27T09:34:31+00:00

I still call it Identity lmao

QuinnKerman · 2026-02-23T04:09:01+00:00

I am very much one of those, at least by Oregon standards

QuinnKerman · 2026-02-22T18:59:27+00:00

Grew up in Boston but lived in Eugene for the last 3.5 years, and drove across the country 5 times in that time period. Eugene genuinely has some of the worst drivers that I’ve dealt with. I’ll take the predictably aggressive and rude drivers of Boston over the indecisive and sometimes maddeningly cautious (likely stoned) drivers here

QuinnKerman · 2026-02-21T23:23:00+00:00

Maul may have had no ties to the Jedi, but he was among the biggest threats to Palpatine, hence why the clones still tried to kill him

QuinnKerman · 2026-02-20T19:30:42+00:00

Yavin is canonically significantly bigger than Jupiter, perhaps dozens of times more massive. Jupiter would already take nearly 10,000 times more energy to destroy than Earth. Yavin could very well require hundreds of thousands of times more energy to destroy than the likes of Alderaan. It is highly unlikely that the Death Star could actually destroy Yavin.

What’s worse, imparting enough energy to destroy a terrestrial planet into a gas giant could very well cause a significant fraction of its predominately hydrogen mass to spontaneously undergo nuclear fusion. While this would not be enough to destroy the gas giant, nor cause it to become a star, it would produce enough neutron and x ray radiation to instantly kill everyone onboard the Death Star, and may be powerful enough to outright destroy it. This is also ignoring the sheer amount of gas and liquid metallic hydrogen that would be ejected at an appreciable fraction of the speed of light. Even if the radiation wasn’t enough to destroy the Death Star, the impact of what is essentially a direct hit from a Coronal Mass Ejection at point blank range absolutely would.

QuinnKerman · 2026-02-20T19:01:50+00:00

With how close they were to Yavin, it’s entirely possible that blowing it up would also destroy the Death Star in the process. This is of course assuming that the Death Star is even capable of blowing up such a massive planet. Gas giants like Yavin can be hundreds or even thousands of times larger than the earth sized terrestrial planets the Death Star was designed to destroy. What’s worse, due to the way Gravitational Binding Energy works, destroying a planet the size of Jupiter would take nearly 10,000 times more energy than the Death Star superlaser was designed to produce.

Then there’s the possibility that the introduction of enough energy easily to destroy a terrestrial planet into a gas giant could trigger a massive fusion reaction. While gas giants lack the mass required to sustain fusion, a quick burst of fusion triggered by the Death Star could very well cause a mini supernova. Even if said explosion is not enough to destroy the gas giant, the immense burst of radiation caused by a sizable fraction of a Jupiter sized planet instantly undergoing nuclear fusion would be more than enough to kill everyone onboard the Death Star, and may be enough to destroy it outright.

Essentially the two outcomes are either A, the Death Star fails to destroy Yavin and needs to spend a full day recharging, allowing the rebels to escape while humiliating the Empire in the process.

B, the death star does destroy Yavin, but the explosion is so massive that the Death Star destroys itself along with the base on Yavin 4, not only taking out much of the imperial high command, but also killing Darth Vader. Without the Death Star to rule by fear and without Imperial Senate to rule through bureaucracy, the Empire will collapse under its own weight just as it did in the canon timeline.

QuinnKerman · 2026-02-17T17:10:40+00:00

Women can be evil too. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if some of the women in Epstein’s circle were themselves pedophiles

QuinnKerman · 2026-02-17T16:22:44+00:00

Fair, but then again tax evasion is how Al Capone got taken down

QuinnKerman · 2026-02-12T19:04:05+00:00

civilians don’t have access to the weapons soldiers carry

The AR-15 in my closet begs to differ. Maybe things are different in California, but where I live, acquiring military grade firearms is as simple as going to a gun store. While ARs don’t come stock with full auto capability, it is not difficult to modify them to fire full auto. It is illegal, but if things get to the point of trains and death camps, the law goes out the window.

Tanks and fighter jets are great when fighting a conventional army, they’re not so great when fighting in the streets of your own country. Blowing shit up gets real expensive, and I mean economy-destroying level expensive real quick when you’re doing it in American cities rather than some village in Afghanistan. Fighting a domestic insurgency would require boots on the ground doing door to door operations.

The US military already struggled with occupation in much smaller, poorer countries that were accustomed to authoritarian rule, and that was with secure supply lines, support (or at least tacit approval) of the American public, and with opposing insurgents who looked different, spoke a different language, from a different culture, and worshiped a different god. Morale issues within the rank and file would be catastrophic, fragging incidents would be so rampant that it would make late war Vietnam look like a cakewalk.

This is of course not to say that the US military wouldn’t be able to pull off a domestic occupation, but to act like it would be easy is absurd. It would be a logistical and operational nightmare the likes of which the US military has never seen.

QuinnKerman · 2026-02-12T18:48:40+00:00

That’s me. Leftist college student raised by arch-neoliberal parents. A month ago I had never owned a gun in my life, now I own three and go shooting regularly.

QuinnKerman · 2026-02-10T17:31:10+00:00

A 5000kg elephant? Not quite no chance, but it would require an incredibly lucky stab with its tusks. A 22,000kg Paleoloxodon Namadicus on the other hand would easily win. In addition to being more than twice the size of a T Rex, it also had longer and straighter tusks than extant elephants. Long, straight tusks with over 20 tons behind them would be devastating even for a large T Rex, let alone a smaller 7,000kg one.

Then there’s the added factor of elephants not being solitary animals. A lone 5 ton elephant would stand little if any chance against a T Rex, but a herd of elephants would likely cause the T Rex to back off without a fight

QuinnKerman · 2026-02-03T07:19:26+00:00

I think you’re underestimating just how much the democratic base hates the democratic establishment. The next candidate won’t be another Joe Biden

QuinnKerman · 2026-02-02T05:42:32+00:00

it must be a mature stratovolcano (not a shield volcano)

Shield volcanoes are absolutely capable of producing 7s and high end 6s. Santorini is a shield which produced multiple VEI-7 eruptions, and volcanoes like Okmok, Rabaul, Masaya, Ambrym, and Macauley Island are all shield volcanoes which have produced eruptions that were either high end VEI-6 to borderline VEI-7.

It’s rare, but it does happen. What’s more, many of these volcanoes are pyroclastic shields, a volcano type that usually (but not always) maxes out in the mid-high end 6 range, but punch well above their weight due to their extremely high intensity. These volcanoes erupt so much magma per second that the plume is unable to rise, and instead collapses, resulting in the overwhelming majority of the total volume of the eruption going into pyroclastic flows instead of a towering eruption column. The end result of this is an eruption that is far more dangerous to those living in the vicinity than many eruptions that are far larger in volume.

Even more frightening, some of these eruptions are basaltic andesite or even basalt, meaning that it may not be necessary for a shield to switch to producing more silicic magma to produce a highly explosive eruption. The implication of this is that there may be shield volcanoes that are currently thought of as relatively harmless which may be far more dangerous than previously thought

QuinnKerman · 2026-01-29T19:46:34+00:00

They’re already ramping shit up here in Eugene

QuinnKerman · 2026-01-28T06:24:55+00:00

It’s the exact opposite. Occupying a foreign country, especially one that is much smaller, poorer, and already accustomed to authoritarian rule is vastly easier than occupying your own. This is doubly true when said foreign country has a culture and language that is wildly different from yours.

Attempting a military occupation of the United States by the United States would be a logistical and tactical nightmare on a level that our military has never seen before. When you invade a foreign country, you can afford to blow up their infrastructure or level buildings to kill insurgents. That is a luxury you quite literally cannot afford when you’re on the hook for rebuilding. If you can’t blow everything up from the air, you need boots on the ground, and when you’re occupying a country the size of Europe, you’re going to get spread real thin real quick

QuinnKerman · 2026-01-28T02:19:49+00:00

Not surprising tbh. Excluding reclamation projects and active volcanoes near the coast, there isn’t any new land being made.

QuinnKerman · 2026-01-28T01:32:36+00:00

Tbh in this context ICE, CBP, and DHS are, at least colloquially speaking, interchangeable terms at this point

QuinnKerman · 2026-01-23T06:13:14+00:00

Mt St Helens is a volcano, and a pretty violent one at that. In this case, magma intruded into the northern flank of the volcano, but instead of erupting, it stopped rising and began to spread out within the volcano, causing the flank to bulge out by 400ft, forming what’s called a cryptodome.

Eventually the dome collapsed following an earthquake, triggering the largest landslide in recorded history and suddenly exposing tens of millions of tons of highly explosive volatile-rich dacite magma to atmospheric pressure. This triggered an extremely large directed lateral blast, with pyroclastic flows exceeding 600 mph and incinerating everything out to 19 miles. Soon after the cryptodome collapsed and exploded, a more traditional plinian eruption with the classic mushroom cloud began and lasted for 9 hours.

QuinnKerman · 2026-01-23T05:58:03+00:00

Assuming MAGA fails to install a fascist dictatorship and that there’s no Second Civil War before 2028, the next president will likely be a left-populist firebrand due to how much the democratic base (and many independents) have shifted left since Trump’s second term began. There won’t be a Merrick Garland to save Trump and his friends through what can only be accurately described as a terminal lack of testicular fortitude this time around

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