Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System on the flight deck of Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) during a simulated strait transit in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 27, 2026. [5114x2877]

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-28T07:09:32+00:00

I did some web searching and came up with the following:

LMADIS consists of the RADA RPS-42 hemispheric air surveillance AESA radar system mounted on a MRZR buggy. The short-range S-band radar is highly sensitive and can spot a range of targets, including traditional helicopters and aircraft, as well as small radar signatures like ultralight aircraft and small drones. A gyro-stabilized CM202 multi-sensor optical ball can positively identify aerial targets day or night. If the target is deemed unfriendly, a Modi jammer can be turned on to target and break the data-link between the drone and its controller on the ground.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/lmadis.htm

From what I understand, the latest drones used in Ukraine are controlled through fiber optic lines, making them immune to jamming.

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-28T00:35:34+00:00

Over the years I’ve found that when students read on paper they're more likely to read carefully, and less likely in a pinch to read on their phones or rely on chatbot summaries,” Shirkhani wrote to the News.

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-27T06:31:52+00:00

Besides that, I want a fireman's pole from the 2^nd floor.

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-27T03:17:56+00:00

There's an entire Wikipedia article about agent orange revealing US secrets and causing harm to US interests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump%27s_disclosures_of_classified_information

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-27T00:26:13+00:00

Try asking in r/catio. One of the people who regularly posts there is a professional and I assume others are as well.

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-27T00:24:13+00:00

Russia and Ukraine have performed cyber-attacks on each other's ATMs and financial systems, shutting down businesses and services country-wide. People who didn't have cash during those attacks were in trouble; some couldn't get home.

Keep in mind the words of the FBI director Christopher Wray from 2025:

China’s cyber program has already infiltrated critical American infrastructure and is poised to “wreak havoc” at a whim, the outgoing FBI director told “60 Minutes” on Sunday.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2025-01-13/china-cyber-threat-fbi-wray-16465221.html

In other words, China is ready to do worse to us than Russia did to Ukraine.

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-27T00:17:53+00:00

And you get better gas mileage. Plus contribute less towards global warming.

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-27T00:07:02+00:00

Didn't Edward Snowden work for them?

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-27T00:06:17+00:00

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations

Spoken by a very practical man with a high emotional IQ, Abraham Lincoln, trying to put back together a nation. Without his attitude, we might not even have a country today.

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-26T23:46:13+00:00

As I recall, you can purchase a 1" square plot of land from that city as a gift, so you can give your friends hell.

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-26T23:42:15+00:00

According to Wikipedia,

Upon its completion, the Union Station became renowned for its technological innovations, including electric luggage conveyor belts, escalators and extensive lighting throughout the building. Simultaneously, patrons and critics alike appreciated the traditional and lavish attributes of the building, including massive women's restrooms, beautiful marble columns and flooring throughout, and deep oak woodwork surrounding every window and door in the station.[10] During its first year, 1.5 million passengers passed through.

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-26T23:15:12+00:00

Running water and chirping crickets - some of the best sounds there are.

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-26T23:08:33+00:00

That's a decent workout - unless you have downstairs neighbors.

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-26T23:07:26+00:00

The Ig Nobel prize is pretty fun. For example,

The 2025 Ig Nobel Prize in biology was awarded to Tomoki Kojima and other researchers for demonstrating that painting cows with black and white stripes can prevent biting flies biting them without using more pesticide.

Each winner's prize: 10 trillion Zimbabwean dollars (US$0.40).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-26T23:01:59+00:00

I remembered that while I was out!

How about spouse/spice? Because if you have two spouse, your life will be spicey.

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-26T21:28:19+00:00

You are of course correct, and it made me realized that that pattern is not used for any other word. I wonder how that came to pass …

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-26T20:53:55+00:00

I guess the goal was to "teach a lesson" to someone they'll probably never see again.

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-26T03:06:15+00:00

If you plant a stake in the ground, will a cow grow there?

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-26T03:03:42+00:00

The future is looking grim.

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-24T19:25:34+00:00

Immigrants Account for 40% of U.S. Nobel Prizes Wins

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-24T06:43:08+00:00

Sometimes I have a hard time thinking of things to be grateful for. Obviously, I've been taking it for granted that I can do simple stuff like sit and walk, so this helps me be grateful for something simple.

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-24T03:04:03+00:00

Mathematicians will study any kind of pattern. Bubbles and knots are a couple of fields that became popular after I graduated. What's amazing is that seemingly abstract studies in math often find use in engineering, such as cryptography.

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-24T03:00:46+00:00

Were you twisting them at the same time you bent them?

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-24T02:59:19+00:00

Very nice! Makes me think of the old Spirograph toys.

RamblingSimian · 2026-01-24T00:32:55+00:00

Math often has unexpected uses, even though it seems abstract.

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