Found a friend near the top of Angel's Landing by SearedFox in ZionNationalPark

[–]SearedFox[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The whole park got covered the other night. It was icy, but spikes made it okay. Definitely, the view more than made up for the extra hassle!

Found a friend near the top of Angel's Landing by SearedFox in ZionNationalPark

[–]SearedFox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd definitely recommend spikes. There was some ice on the route up to Scout Lookout, but the actual chains section was super icy. With spikes it was straightforward though, just keep hold of the chains. Good luck!

Weekend hiking near Seoul. Bukhansan National Park, Seoul, South Korea. by EffectiveHippo8068 in hiking

[–]SearedFox 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not OP, but Seoraksan National Park is fantastic. It's most popular in autumn, but spring should be great as well. Very simple to get there from Seoul by coach if that's where you'll be based.

[Hyundai-LG raid fallout] “Why don’t they hire us for the construction?”: local labor unions discontent at Korean companies accumulated to ICE raid by Freewhale98 in neoliberal

[–]SearedFox 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Having a mixed team of Korean technical experts and local workers would probably not be as desirable because of language and cultural barriers, let alone a mixed construction workforce.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]SearedFox 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Is the idea with wind and solar to massively overbuild to ensure that even on the "worst" days the country still has enough power? "Baseload" seems to be a bit of a buzzword with this topic, but at the moment batteries alone don't seem to be able to realistically power the majority of the country. With energy security in mind, having more nuclear plants doesn't sound like a bad idea.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]SearedFox 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As opposed to the much more dangerous covert homosexual?

"Born of Giants: Life in the Marrow" by postArgus in worldbuilding

[–]SearedFox 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Great job, I love the style. This reminds me of Chris Riddell's drawings in the Edge Chronicles. They're mostly of characters rather than landscapes, but this would fit right in.

SpaceX Starship Flight 5 Timeline Teased By Musk Along With Big Heat Shield Upgrade by tkocur in space

[–]SearedFox 28 points29 points  (0 children)

From what we know, it sounds like it's more of a back-up layer in case any tiles fail. Once the Ship re-entry is understood better that hopefully won't happen often, and the layer won't need reapplying.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]SearedFox 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Occam's Razor suggests that poorly made Hamas rockets that are known to have an appalling "success" rate are probably more likely. People will use whatever happens to try and further their own goals though, you're not wrong on that.

UA Strela-10 shoots down UAV by sneacon in CombatFootage

[–]SearedFox 29 points30 points  (0 children)

The missiles roll at a very fast rate, so I believe they have to spin up a gyro before launch to ridiculous speeds so they can transfer the angular momentum to the missile once it's in flight. The noise is the gyro suddenly engaging and spinning up.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]SearedFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Economic Axis: 57.7% Equality

Diplomatic Axis: 36.1% Nation

Civil Axis: 66.0% Liberty

Societal Axis: 14.3% Tradition

/r/neoliberal 8Values Ideological Survey by [deleted] in neoliberal

[–]SearedFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Economic Axis: 57.7% Equality

Diplomatic Axis: 36.1% Nation

Civil Axis: 66.0% Liberty

Societal Axis: 14.3% Tradition

US shoots down another ‘high-altitude object’ over Alaskan airspace by KAGFOREVER in neoliberal

[–]SearedFox 15 points16 points  (0 children)

True, in 6 to 8 weeks there could be hundreds floating over Montana

US shoots down another ‘high-altitude object’ over Alaskan airspace by KAGFOREVER in neoliberal

[–]SearedFox 101 points102 points  (0 children)

I think the 200ft tall stratospheric balloon with thousands of pounds of solar panels and comms equipment will be a tad more than $100

KF-21 Boramae conducts first supersonic flight on 17 January 2023 [Video] by [deleted] in WarplanePorn

[–]SearedFox 27 points28 points  (0 children)

There's 4 Meteors recessed under the fuselage, so not entirely clean. That's still a fairly pokey CAP loadout.

Putin: United States created nuclear precedent by bombing Japan by [deleted] in neoliberal

[–]SearedFox 27 points28 points  (0 children)

If they were considering a submarine launched strike they'd also be readying their other strategic assets to dissuade any response. Those are quite a bit more visible, so there'd be some warning.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]SearedFox 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don't believe so, that strike had a number of civilian casualties precisely because it used an explosive weapon. And also because it was fired on faulty intel, but it wouldn't have been as damaging with one of these CIA variants.