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jemhouston wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2026 12:44 pm

rtoldman wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2026 12:31 pm why does all this give me skynet vibes?

Or Colossus: The Forbin Project

Slight difference between the two: Skynet wanted to kill all human. Colossus wanted to save humans...but was will to kill some to save the majority.

The Battle of the Baltic would've been a knife fight in a telephone booth holding 3-4 people.

I suspect nerves were quite frayed during such operations.

I tend to agree with Bernard, We are NOT worthy!

This, the other OOBs, and Dark Earth itself are great!

Old one that was great. For All Time by President Chester B Arthur (or Mike Davis) A dystopian post-WWII scenario resulting from the death of Roosevelt shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, featuring horrific three-way race riots in the United States between white, black and Jewish gangs, and fr...

Haven't seen and probably won't. No big reason, just doesn't interest me. From what I've read of the plot to the movie I wouldn't say its progenitor isn't 'Close Encounters' or 'E.T.' its a miniseries Spielberg produced for the Sci-Fi channel in 2001. Same ideas about aliens having visited the Earth...

On the other hand - if you're not pulling your hair out over map sections on the floor getting moved, or trying to tiptoe around a map on the floor without stepping on it.....do you REALLY game? ;) Mike Having an unused ping pong table in the basement was quite nice. Especially when I played agains...

Regarding the spoiler....

You'll have a blast that game!

I had it a long time ago and enjoyed it a lot. It eventually vanished into the ether though...

Think it will take more than duct tape to fix it. Probably duct tape and some bondo. Interesting thing is that this same pad suffered what was until now the biggest on pad explosion in KSC history. 1965 a Atlas-Centaur rose a few feet and then came crashing down with a huge explosions of LOX, keros...

I saw this in Fuldapocalypse Fiction: https://fuldapocalypsefiction.com/2026/05/22/review-history-force-structure-and-tactics-of-the-russian-airborne-troops/ The Russian Way of War: History, Force Structure, and Tactics of the Russian Airborne Troops. Legendary Kremlinologists Lester Grau and Charle...

Cdr Salamander posted this as part of an article on DDG(X) https://substack.com/home/post/p-198343447 2fad93d7-e69f-42fb-890d-28109d53855f_976x522.jpg yea, pretty much. I get Sal's stuff every day and I very much am on the same page. We have a similar staff background. The BBG is clearly crowding o...

Was she riding light? It appears that she's got a hell of a roll (30 degrees?) and at that roll, it looks like a chunk of her bottom would be out of the water on the far side. Or do I not understand hydrodynamics with respect to ships roll? Belushi TD They had a shallow, round bottom on the stern t...

Sounds a tad familiar.... Spring of '83 eldest son of a neighbor was getting married to the daughter of a newly retired KC-135 boom operator at Larimore, ND just outside of Grand Forks, AFB. The newly retired dad still had base privileges and the morning of the wedding took a few of us on a tour of ...

Buzz Aldrin proposed a Mar Cycler awhile back. Its essentially 1-2 space stations in an orbit that intercepts Mars and Earth twice in each orbit. One as its on the inward trip and then again on the outward. You rendezvous with the station, dock, and ride it until you reach drop off. You only need th...

At 05:26 local time there was a huge landslide in Tracy Arm fjord near Juneau, Alaska. It caused a mega tsunami that caused a runup in certain sections of 1578 feet. No one was in the area at the time but the area is visited by tour ships including at least one the afternoon before. Neat CGI of it: ...

I heard an idea like this about 15-20 years ago. You ID a long duration comet whose far point is out in the Oort cloud and hitch a ride on it. You keep watching during the ride and ID a comet from Alpha Centauri's cloud. You jump on that and ride it into the other system. Its going to be multi gener...

Just read a CDR Salamander post about a letter the Chief of Naval Operations sent out on 04/24/2026 https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/shoes-are-taking-back-the-amphibs In short, Aviators will no longer get command slots on the amphibious ships. Instead, they will go to Surface Warfare Officers. R...

122 VLS (2xMk 41) and a 5” is 14k, so you are highly unlikely to get what is advertised on 16k. 20-25k is more likely, and even then you may not have sufficient room for growth. We also have to keep in mind that both the railguns and the CIWS lasers are going to be available in fleet service by the...

The Zumwalt now has the useless 5” removed and replaced with hypersonic cruise missile battery of 12 Prompt Strike Missiles. (When available). So we do have a good baseline for what the capability and ship size will be at just about 15k tons. Side note, those will actually be some pretty useful shi...