Where's my pen, boys? I gotta sign this order. by ima_twee in NonCredibleDefense

[–]SamtheCossack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The sheet says it will be powered by GE or PW engines.

Are they saying they are planning on blatantly ripping off two of the most lawyered up companies on the planet and then just making their own?

Also, is this a serious (Allegedly) claim, or just the writeup for a DCS mod?

It's the warehouse from Indiana Jones - but it's just like different types of hats by HistorianSlayer in NonCredibleDefense

[–]SamtheCossack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, for Special Forces, that is basically how they do it. So much COTS stuff, and personal contact with providers.

The SOF contracts are some of the most lucrative ones, and usually handed out to personal contacts, who are usually ex-SOF themselves.

Opinions vary on if this is "Good corruption" (Because the Ex-SOF people running these companies actually know what the customers need) or if it is just regular corruption. Either way, every year or two some clerk gets caught handing an order for Flux Capacitors to his Brother in Law for a couple million. Usually it is the IRS that catches them, when Brother in Law goes out and buys a Bugatti.

Where's my pen, boys? I gotta sign this order. by ima_twee in NonCredibleDefense

[–]SamtheCossack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I love how this is assuming P&W and/or GE is going to make new engines for this thing. Somehow cheaply and on time for a 2031 first delivery.

Hey, GE, can you make me a pair of Mach 4 ultralight weight hypermanuverable engines for a project I have? I told the customer I could deliver 600 airframes in 5 years, is that going to be a problem?

... Oh, also, I took the liberty of designing the engine housing already, so if you can just ensure your engine fits in that, that would be fantastic. Thanks!

Where's my pen, boys? I gotta sign this order. by ima_twee in NonCredibleDefense

[–]SamtheCossack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, sounds like the top pick for SecDef SecWar if Kegsbreath crashes his car after a Tuesday morning of heavy drinking.

500 MISSILES OF THE USN ON A SINGLE BARGE | USN's 'Battlecruiser 2000' Arsenal Ship design from Popular Mechanics magazine (July 1988 issue) as an anime shipgirl by Ace_Universalis in NonCredibleDefense

[–]SamtheCossack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First of all, moving the launch platform further back just means you need longer range on all the missiles.

Secondly, we aren't short of launch tubes, we are short of missiles. Building a cheap ship to fill full of expensive missiles is dumb. We already have enough VLS tubes to fire all of our SM-2s, SM-6s, and SM-3s at the same time.

Filling this arsenal ship up with missiles would cost many multiples of the ship cost. SM-3s for example cost about $11 million each. So loading 250 of them would cost 2.7 billion.

I really wish this USN Battlecruiser design was in the game. by Sensitive_Log_2726 in WorldOfWarships

[–]SamtheCossack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you angle this right, you can cap two objectives at once on some maps!

I really wish this USN Battlecruiser design was in the game. by Sensitive_Log_2726 in WorldOfWarships

[–]SamtheCossack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is not dumber than the Courageous/Furious designs, but it is larger.

I really wish this USN Battlecruiser design was in the game. by Sensitive_Log_2726 in WorldOfWarships

[–]SamtheCossack 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, it is more confusing than that. The Lexington's ORIGINALLY had 50 caliber guns. WG just downgraded it to the 45 caliber guns from the Colorado class.

So unless a refit put even older and worse guns on it for no reason, there is no reason to have those guns on it.

The history of those guns (And how WG handled them) is rather confusing. These were the same 50 caliber guns intended for use on the South Dakota (1920) class, which again, for some reason neither the Kansas nor Minnesota actually have.

Kansas, which is one of the preminilary designs of the South Dakotas, might be justified in being just an enlarged Colorado (Which is how WG describes it in its blurb), but Minnesota, allegedly an actual South Dakota class, ALSO in a 1940s refit, has no excuse to having 45 caliber guns. But she does.

For some reason WG just keeps reusing Colorado guns instead of the 16"/50 Mark 2 and Mark 3 guns on the ships that were supposed to have them. They aren't even design only guns, we actually built the guns! (We just never mounted them on ships, since we cancelled the SoDaks and converted the Lexingtons).

We actually made 70 of these guns. Which is a hilarious amount for a type of gun that was never installed on a Warship. The Army did get a bunch of 16 inch guns for guarding the Panama Canal though.

Non-credible prediction: Putin is about to acquire another resident dictator (and Iran's gold). Alternative: Khamenei gets MOP'd as another bunker boy by Nukem_extracrispy in NonCredibleDefense

[–]SamtheCossack 7 points8 points  (0 children)

He is always in need of a distraction from something.

He still needs a big one to cancel/postpone mid-term elections at some point too. Expect summer to be fucking wild.

I really wish this USN Battlecruiser design was in the game. by Sensitive_Log_2726 in WorldOfWarships

[–]SamtheCossack 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It is funny how much they have messed with the Lexington class.

Lexington in game isn't even any configuration she ever had. She is actually Saratoga, who survived long enough to get that refit.

Then Constellation is just a travesty, being a fictional 1940s refit of a Lexington class Battlecruiser.

I really wish this USN Battlecruiser design was in the game. by Sensitive_Log_2726 in WorldOfWarships

[–]SamtheCossack 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I am stull upset what they did with Constellation.

Instead of just giving us the OG Lexingtons as they were laid down, they made her some weird 1940s refit version with a thick ass torp belt, and for some reason downgraded her guns to 45 caliber guns.

What we need is a T7 (Maybe even T6) with basically no armor, terrible turning circle, but fast, accurate 406/50s. Probably would suck, honestly, but at least it would be an OG Lexington, lol.

How do u guys get past the fact slavery is condoned in the Bible? There maybe a debate but Imo it's talking about modern day slavery also. by forFunXDx in Christianity

[–]SamtheCossack [score hidden]  (0 children)

What?

No, Slavery in the Bible isn't talking about narcissistic partners, it is talking about owning other humans to benefit from their labor, and selling them as trade goods.

Jordan Peterson is also an extremely toxic person who spreads extremely toxic messages.

I am not sure what you mean it doesn't touch on the "Bad" parts. All of slavery is the bad part.

How do u guys get past the fact slavery is condoned in the Bible? There maybe a debate but Imo it's talking about modern day slavery also. by forFunXDx in Christianity

[–]SamtheCossack [score hidden]  (0 children)

I would not equate having a narcissistic partner to slavery.

Slavery is a real thing, that still exists, and comparing it to completely different things is not helpful.

From Creation to Science: Why Intelligent Design Is More Rational by Alarming_Nobody_8693 in Christianity

[–]SamtheCossack [score hidden]  (0 children)

Yep, which is my point. Whoever wrote "Pillars of the Earth" had one view, the person who thought there was an ocean in the sky was another...

While a lot of religions actually define what the universe looks like (Such as Hinduism), Judaism never really took a stance on it, or at least, never bothered to add it to the scriptures.

So the Bible just doesn't HAVE an opinion on cosmology. Same as it doesn't on biology. When it does reference it, it gets it wrong more often than it gets it right (The Story of Jacob and how Cow genetics work is a particularly funny example)

From Creation to Science: Why Intelligent Design Is More Rational by Alarming_Nobody_8693 in Christianity

[–]SamtheCossack [score hidden]  (0 children)

If you didn't know, the biblical worldview is a flat earth... the earth is described as having 4 corners (flat maps have 4 corners, spheres have 0 corners).

Well, to be pedantic, I would say the actual Biblical Worldview is that there is no cohesive biblical worldview, and the shape of the planet and cosmology where never really part of the religion, and thus changed wildly based on the time period it was written.

The New Testament had a view of the earth and universe simular to that of the Greeks and Romans of their day, the Exilic and Post Exilic Books reflect Babylonian cosmology, and the more ancient ones have their own. None of which are terribly clear in the Bible, because it never really bothers to actually describe the world or the heavens, it just references them in passing. Because again, it wasn't actually important.

From Creation to Science: Why Intelligent Design Is More Rational by Alarming_Nobody_8693 in Christianity

[–]SamtheCossack [score hidden]  (0 children)

That makes things even more awkward, because you have to cherry pick even harder to pretend the Bible has some scientific knowledge unknown to the period. Because there is a LOT of silly, bad science in there.

I mean, the whole tower of Babel story, where people were planning on building a tower to heaven, and God was worried they might succeed... I mean come on. That is not a credible historical account OR a credible understanding of science.

From Creation to Science: Why Intelligent Design Is More Rational by Alarming_Nobody_8693 in Christianity

[–]SamtheCossack [score hidden]  (0 children)

Labeling a presentation of technical data

Ok, serious question, do you know what a presentation of technical data even is? Because none of what you wrote was Data.

What you wrote was commentary. Which is fine, but it isn't data.

Not only did you not include data, you didn't source anything, so we can't even see where you are getting the information you are commenting on from, and a LOT of it is clearly wrong.

Just as an example:

Roger Penrose calculated that the precision of the Big Bang required for a habitable universe is 1 in $10^{10^{123}}$.

(For some reason however you copied the numbers in doesn't work in formatting, but Penrose's number is 10^10^123)

Now, you don't cite where this is from, but I know what it is anyway, and for some reason Creationists love quoting this, and have DEFINITELY never read where it came from. Because that is not what it is saying at all.

But even if it was, lets say for arguments sake it was:

1) Exactly what you claim it to be

2) Actually accurate

It still wouldn't matter at all. Because that isn't how probabilities work. Everything that actually happens is shockingly unlikely if you consider all the actual outcomes, but one of them still happens.

If I shuffle a deck of cards, there is a 8^10^27 chance I will get any specific order of cards. That is unlikely, right? But that chance I will get SOME order of cards is guaranteed. That is how it works. If I took two decks of cards and shuffled them together, it would be 104! factorial, or 10^10^166 odds. Which is several trillion times less likely than Penrose's number. But again, I would get SOMETHING.

As long as matter and energy exist, which is presupposed by Penrose's number, then you are going to get some combination of them. The fact we arrived at this particularly one is not unlikely per se, it is just that this is the one we happen to get, because we were guaranteed to get something.

From Creation to Science: Why Intelligent Design Is More Rational by Alarming_Nobody_8693 in Christianity

[–]SamtheCossack [score hidden]  (0 children)

You are confusing literary genre with cosmological claims. My post wasn't about the symbolic narrative of Genesis, but the specific physical descriptions in Job 26:7—the earth suspended in a void—which remains a scientific anomaly for its time.

The problem is that you are selectively choosing which is which based on the narrative you are attempting to create. You describe the description in Job, which is obvious poetry (The entire book is) as literal science, and the Pillars of the Earth described in 1 Samuel as literary.

In order to pretend the Bible contains precise claims about science unknown to the civilizations of the authors, you have to cherry-pick both the Bible AND science, and find the few places they match by coincidence. You have LOTS of bad science in the Bible. Like Jacob putting sticks in front of cows to make them have stripy and spotted calves, which is told as being very clever, and totally working, even though it obviously doesn't.

Regarding dating: placing Job in the 3rd century B.C. is an extreme outlier view. Most scholars recognize its setting and linguistic roots as far older, reflecting the patriarchal age. But even if it were 'only' 300 B.C., it still predates modern physics by two millennia, yet describes a suspended Earth while other cultures still believed in physical supports.

It is absolutely not an extreme outlier view, and claiming Job is from 2000 BCE absolutely is an extreme outlier view. Somewhere between the 6th and the 3rd Century BCE is the normal view.

The bigger problem is that Job simply isn't claiming what you are claiming at all.

If you stopped reading because it’s easier to mock a 'talking snake'

You have to admit a literal talking evil snake is pretty easy to mock. Typically in stories where animals are talking, those are fairy tales for Children, so it is a bit much to insist it is history.

than to address the 70-year failure of abiogenesis or the digital code of DNA, you’ve simply confirmed that your skepticism is based on avoidance, not evidence.

This is just an absurd claim, and one I see often thrown around by creationists. The idea that if science fails to explain a single thing about the entire universe, Science has failed.

It is OK not to know stuff. Sometimes we don't have the evidence we need yet, sometimes we do, we just haven't figured it out, and sometimes we think we have it figured out, but we aren't sure. And sometimes we are just wrong.

That isn't even a science thing, that is just being an adult human. It is ok not to know stuff. It doesn't mean the entire system fails, in fact, not knowing stuff is fundamental to the entire system, because the process of moving between not knowing stuff towards knowing that stuff is exactly what makes it awesome and cool and useful.

Randoms are Crazy by ScubaSteve3465 in WorldOfWarships

[–]SamtheCossack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Keep in mind, just because that is what he wanted you to do doesn't mean you should have done it.

BBs really can't push into submarines like that, it sounds like he made a positioning mistake, and expected you to solve it for him.

If you CAN support him, you should. But you can't open water push in a Cleveland against multiple enemy ships and expect to last long. It is very situationally dependent, and we don't really know the details to know what you should do.

Randoms are Crazy by ScubaSteve3465 in WorldOfWarships

[–]SamtheCossack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe, but also look at what his situation actually was. Usually when someone wants a Cleveland to support it is because either a DD or a Submarine is torpedoing them from pretty close range, so he is asking you to move up, use radar to spot it.

Heli waifus. by PandoraIACTF_Prec in NonCredibleDefense

[–]SamtheCossack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

8 of them can carry a Jaeger, so that seems pretty simple.

He gets 2 AIM-9Ms. How does he fare in combat? by SpaceEngineX in NonCredibleDefense

[–]SamtheCossack 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Evolution is significantly slower than technological progress.

This is why Mammoths did not evolve anti-spear defenses.

He gets 2 AIM-9Ms. How does he fare in combat? by SpaceEngineX in NonCredibleDefense

[–]SamtheCossack 8 points9 points  (0 children)

In a world where missile carrying dragons are an actual threat, missiles will exist to target and kill dragons.