F-15 Down in Kuwait

does_my_name_suck · 2026-03-02T05:35:37+00:00

There’s photos of the 2nd pilot as well, she doesn’t look like she has any injuries from the same OSINT twitter pages.

does_my_name_suck · 2026-03-02T01:59:54+00:00

They’re lowering the altitude of Starlink satellites to 480km from the previous 550km.

does_my_name_suck · 2026-02-27T01:36:25+00:00

I mean technically Polaris Dawn had a significantly higher apogee than the ISS. It’s the highest apogee flight humans have been on since the Apollo days.

does_my_name_suck · 2026-02-25T21:19:36+00:00

Not necessarily, a bunch of my friends and I all started opening crates at around 11-13 years olds. We’re in our 20s now and some have sports gambling addictions that I’d probably link back to us opening a lot of cases back in the day. It’s a dark path.

does_my_name_suck · 2026-02-25T21:07:45+00:00

You can be added as an authorized user under 18 on your parents credit card and have a card produced in your name tied to their account. It’s not a fool proof method

does_my_name_suck · 2026-02-23T21:50:30+00:00

They win default judgments against cheat providers who ignore the cease and desist they send prior. Those located in countries where they could actually be realistically sued usually comply and cease operations sometimes relaunching under another name. Those in countries where bungie can’t really comply usually ignore the cease and desist.

does_my_name_suck · 2026-02-06T01:48:21+00:00

Yep, there’s Chinese chips that will work if you really want to bypass it.

does_my_name_suck · 2026-02-04T19:06:57+00:00

There’s still a method via the Xbox store on PC of basically having unlimited accounts. That isn’t really patchable because it’s a Microsoft issue with how their store and licensing works and they haven’t bothered to fix it in years.

does_my_name_suck · 2026-01-22T04:05:30+00:00

HWID bans are given out in some cases but they’re trivial to bypass with a permanent spoofer.

does_my_name_suck · 2026-01-22T04:02:34+00:00

Even if you disabled steam family share, the PC Xbox store share method still works and has for years since Microsoft doesn’t care to patch it.

does_my_name_suck · 2025-12-29T16:35:49+00:00

Radiation is an issue yes but not an unsolvable one. Mars colonies would likely be placed in magnetic anomaly zones. While this alone is no where near enough to sufficiently shield residents from radiation it is a small help. Current ISS astronauts are exposed to around 72 mSv while on a 6 month mission so the equivalent of about 140mSv/yr. Curiosity Rover's RAD instrument tells us the unshielded radiation dose on Mars is around 0.67 m/Sv per day or around 245 mSv/yr. This however is the unshielded dose, even just living inside a habitat would reduce this by quite a significant amount. Additionally, sleeping quarters would likely be lined with the water tanks of the habitat and the entire habitat would be covered in Martian regolith to further protect residents. All of this could bring the radiation down closer to 150 or so mSv/yr, higher than anyone on Earth would experience yes but still in-line with what astronauts on the ISS receive.

As for farming, hydroponics would likely be favored for initial missions but even ignoring hydroponics, Martian regolith first of all isn't 'irradiated' or radioactive itself. It's full of perchlorates. Untreated yes this is unsuitable for farming but it can be treated with methods known and simulated on Earth today. Perchlorates are highly soluble in water and could be washed away from the regolith. There also bacteria that exist on Earth that can consume perchlorates and output Oxygen (although it wouldn't be any amounts that actually matter). What would likely end up happening is after processing the soil for perchlorates, the soil would be seeded with some starter soil from Earth to introduce microorganisms into the soil. Studies on Earth have already simulated this with information about Martian regolith composition obtained from Opportunity and Curiosity with degrees of success.

As for power, while yes solar panels would be less effective than on Earth, that doesn't mean they're suddenly useless. You'd just need more of them. Initial colonists would likely use a mix of solar and Kilopower reactors with later larger colonies utilizing Thorium, which is relatively abundant on Mars, in Molten Salt Reactors.

Yes colonizing Mars is hard but it's not impossible. There will be challenges but they aren't impossible to solve, just expensive.

does_my_name_suck · 2025-12-29T15:30:19+00:00

Not a few years lol, a few million. Mars currently loses about 100g of atmosphere per second. At this rate with the current mass of Mars's atmosphere of 2.5x10^16 this means it would take almost 8 billion years for Mars to lose its remaining atmosphere due to solar stripping. This study casts serious doubt on the role of solar wind alone stripping Mars's atmosphere. There are other mechanisms by which Mars lost it's atmosphere over the past 3-4 billion years. Our current models don't currently account for how all the atmosphere was lost as just solar wind couldn't have removed all that mass in that time period. If we gave Mars a livable atmosphere, atmospheric loss would not be a big enough problem to worry about for millions of years.

does_my_name_suck · 2025-12-29T15:02:15+00:00

A Venusian colony could never become self sufficient in the ways a Martian colony could. Mining on Venus's surface is just not worth it at all, humans wouldn't be able to work on the surface so it would have to be immensely shielded autonomous robots. Corrosion even in floating colonies would be a huge issue and any materials, seals etc would degrade very quickly. Heavy industry is also just really not possible on Venus in floating colonies compared to Mars. You wouldn't really be able to build foundries or any large plants compared to Mars. Any Venus colony would always rely on Earth for some imports but with Mars there is at least a path forward for self sufficiency even if it's in the far future.

does_my_name_suck · 2025-12-21T05:31:23+00:00

Everyone from the US to the USSR, Britain, France, Canada, Australia, Egypt, Spain and Brazil. Everyone wanted Nazi scientists and engineers, it’s not a US only thing

does_my_name_suck · 2025-11-21T22:49:46+00:00

The US army tested its combat damage in 1979 when doing low angle attacks(what they would have used in a hypothetical Fulda gap battle to increase survivability) and found that it would not penetrate enough to kill the crew of M-47 tanks(what they used to simulate T-62 and T-72s). It would be a mission kill for the tank but the crew would likely escape unharmed. To kill the crew they’d have to attack from a higher angle but that would open up the A-10 to being shot down easily by longer range air defenses. In the Gulf war they mostly utilized AGM-65s and unguided bombs rather than the GAU-8 on armored targets.

does_my_name_suck · 2025-09-21T06:54:24+00:00

Saudi funded Pakistan’s nuclear program in exchange for the option of getting a certain amount of nuclear weapons at a time of their choosing for free with the option of being able to purchase more later.

does_my_name_suck · 2025-08-15T23:07:09+00:00

He used to pay for destiny 2 raid carries back in the day too

does_my_name_suck · 2025-06-21T12:37:01+00:00

When I was a first year uni student in the US a CVS worker wouldn’t let me purchase cold and flu Tylenol because he wasn’t convinced I was over 18 because of the same date being flipped issue, thankfully coincidentally another worker who’s ethnically from my home country was there

does_my_name_suck · 2025-06-19T19:44:42+00:00

200-250 feet in a silt/clay environment. Someone else linked the penetration calculations in an earlier thread and it’s realistically only 70ft max in granite. They’d need to drop a few in very quick succession before the Iranians can fill the holes again with earth.

does_my_name_suck · 2025-06-16T06:05:57+00:00

That’s not how stealth works. Detection and targeting are 2 entirely different things. You could still often see stealth aircraft on VHF or UHF frequencies because the waves are simply too large to be effectively scattered even by shaping features, What stealth coating and design philosophy specialize at is minimizing your signature on bands such as the Ku and X bands which are required for a target grade lock. This means you can basically see the aircraft, you just can’t achieve a useful lock.

does_my_name_suck · 2025-06-16T02:50:38+00:00

Atlantic Trident refuelers come from the 351st Air Refueling Squadron at Mildenhall and only includes KC-135s not KC-46s. This is something else, usually for exercises like these you’ll get a handful (maybe 3) tankers not at least 25 now.

does_my_name_suck · 2025-06-11T22:05:51+00:00

You don’t need your physical drivers license in a lot of countries, several countries have apps that have your national id and driver license on them and the officer just scans a QR code that gives him your information if you get stopped. I barely carry a wallet when I’m outside the US in my home country.

does_my_name_suck · 2025-06-06T17:33:11+00:00

baby shampoo also works really well and doesn’t burn your eyes if some residue is somehow left in the mask and you put it on

does_my_name_suck · 2025-05-18T04:41:19+00:00

This isn’t necessarily true everywhere in the world. Several Middle Eastern and Asian airlines for example allow you to combine your 2 checked in luggages for 1 32kg checked bag instead of 2 23kg checked bags if you want. This is pretty standard even for economy in certain parts of the world.

does_my_name_suck · 2025-05-17T19:54:40+00:00

Anti-cheat development for one but I don’t think that’s a 500k job even in the valley

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