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Kamikaze attacks... [were] a calculated, rational, and reasonable option that did the most damage to the enemy at the lowest possible cost in lives and material. I felt like dragging this topic back up. Bit of necromancy but I felt it warranted. Drachinifel, youtube naval historian, tackled the " s...

No worries. Thats just what people are taught, and honestly without someone picking through old archives and digitizing the actual stuff how would people know any different? If you want a good laugh though, give this one a watch. And again, its not particularly portraying the enemy here as anything ...

It is part of a pair of NHK documentaries that shed a lot of light on the tragedy at Okinawa. They both take a "US indiscriminate attack, the horror!" narration track at times, but its mixed in with the orders from the military to conscript the people, to use children as soldiers, to have everyone f...

[/quote] That´s sick imo. Live, at least "our" lives should be valued above all else. To me, that would either be the (absolute) last resort, or, a group of, say, terminal ill or so volunteers. This is too shallow a way of thinking. Lets use WW2 as an example, since that discussion has been broached...

There's a joke somewhere along the lines of "Well, that's because humans *have* no minds" but someone needs to write it better than that. Fine, I'll take a stab. "A ship full of hot telepathic babes can't read any thoughts from Alex's mind? Its cause hes not thinking with his *mind*" Giggity. Fireb...

Regarding 'gamification', although the alloying point is obviously true, stugs actually pretty directly traded off against tigers in terms of competing for resources. Do you mean it was equivalent to a Tiger in its quantity and type of resource requirement? I'll need some sauce on that before I bit...

Even there we can only say its wrong with hindsight in that it didn't work. If you are faced with the same limitations most people would make the same choice, though. The Germans were running out of strategic resources even before the war began. It was a ticking time bomb that was accelerated by cen...

Its a bit like the protagonist in most every isekai becomes the strongest ever because no one in the world ever thought about doing exercise or training and only relied on their "system given skills", or just trying to "imagine!" their way into using magic instead of chanting - which makes them the ...

I've seen it described as an open-galaxy* RPG game like skyrim but with spaceships and lasers. Hopefully they used the extra time making this game fixing all the bugs. These two lines... together... should not be... They'd have to debug their Q&A depar... they'd have to create a Q&A department.

So yes, babies are definitely forced into the world with the intent to have them mentally tortured. The medics that deliver them violate their hippocratic oath with each birth. A baby's forced birth is a sadistic act of child abuse (quite possibly satanic in nature) and a violation of human rights....

Its a difference of language and perspective. If Force is tantamount to Cause in 'cause and effect' then yes. That is a natural 'force'. However, force carries a distinct connotation that implies deprivation of will. I can be 'forced' to turn over my wallet after being beaten into submission. Being ...

Dirtside, I don't see this kind of tech becoming feasible until we have above room temperature super conductors - and can use them to create superconducting-electromagnets. There is too much waste in the system to maintain either rate of fire or even responsive fire on demand. This device needs time...

Honestly... Tie Fighter. XCOM is certainly difficult - and much of that rests in the razor's edge you have in resources coupled with RNG. Tie Fighter was just scripted to kill you mercilessly. And if completing the mission isn't difficult enough, going for the bonus objectives and secret missions is...

I imagine its more to do with what you are applying the power to. It is one thing to augment your ability to lift and toss objects. Another to increase the power output on your ability to marionette your target. A brain is a terrible thing to fry.

I understood this just fine. I think in the space between updates people forgot exactly what Talon said on the previous page and didn't take the time to re-read it. This. Coupled with the direction Alex's head is turned made me think, at first, that the speaker was obscured while Alex was listening...

I suspect if GD built thousands of tanks that sat in a desert during a war, Congress would be calling in SecDef and JCS to question why they aren't at the front. Not GD. Well lets check things in a bit more detail. Science is all about predicting the future, not explaining the past. https://pubs.gis...

I wouldnt put much faith into the nuclear winter type scenarios. They were based on flawed computer models that never properly accounted for precipitation, among other things, and were produced by people who had a vested interest in an outcome. The people who put it together wanted to scare the worl...

Well, the first question is going to be, "Why do we need a new plane?". Why spend money letting the DoD build another boondoggle?


Every admin should belly ache over costs. That's how Truman came to be President, after all. Belly aching over costs in the middle of a world war.

The F-35 is an abomination that should have died more than 10 years ago. That aside. The best fix (that will never happen) is the Air Force needs to go away as a discrete armed service. It was created at a time when the talking heads thought atomic war was the future, and the bomber fleet would make...

I was wondering about it, too. My hope was that they balanced it by using a lifting body with the heavy batteries in the rear pulling the center of mass aft. At speed maybe the body generates enough lift to compensate. Or maybe its just a tech demonstrator and they're just winging it. Its certainly ...