societies in turmoil find it easier to acquire both lunatics and explosives

i’d just want to notice it’s much easier when you can just pick them up from field and melt them in a kettle

That’s nine dead by now

better source https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/1/five-children-among-seven-killed-in-attack-on-pakistan-polio-vaccine-drive

you’re overthinking it. yesterday an alleged draft text of ceasefire deal between israel and lebanon was doing rounds on twitter and telegram

they are protected by geography in that sense that any long range attack is a bespoke affair, uses rare and costly weapons and requires coordination of many assets. considering its value it could be expected that there are some GBAD nearby, and long distance makes it more likely for drones to be shot down by russian jets, like it’s done more commonly in western doctrine. i think it’s probable that long range strikes are only conducted when ukrainians have intelligence about weakened air defences

they are protected by geography

iirc somewhere in the city there is a factory that for some time was the only manufacturer of RDX in entire russia, and under direct control of FSB. it could be the same plant, but i’m not sure about it

another juicy target nearby is Motovilikha plant

higher voltage at the same power would actually make it more compact

looks like 9M27K 220mm Uragan (BM27) cluster warhead dispenser

Yeah, and lots of people died because doctors didn’t know about it, and thought it was something else

You can’t have hostage crisis if there are no hostages. See also Beslan school siege, where russian army fired thermocaric rockets and tank shells into that building with hostages inside

this happened once https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis

if large amounts of fentanyl are available, who knows, but it seems like a weird choice over, say, extra first aid kits or bulletproof vests

ah yes it’s reactionary to checks notes not support the righteous biggest bubble since dotcom era

you okay out there bud?

what neutrons? we’re talking about shielding of spacecraft moving out of earth’s magnetosphere, not a spacecraft travelling through core of active nuclear reactor

the kind of radiation that is relevant are high energy protons (and alphas and electrons, with a sprinkle of heavier nuclei) from sun, mostly. there’s no relevant source of neutrons

(and incidentally water is pretty good at absorbing neutrons too)

water does not expand upon irradiation, what the fuck are you talking about. you can’t reflect high energy protons (what would be important in radiation in interplanetary travel) you can only either absorb them or let them pass, there’s no third option, same for anything above uv and electrons

to a first approximation (rather good one at that) (for gammas) absorption is proportional to how much mass per area unit is used as a barrier. 1 g/cm^2 of water is just as good barrier as 1 g/cm^2 of lead or steel. this means that you can absolutely use completely normal, regular potable water as a radiation shield

Water in its purest form would have to take on mass to “absorb” radiation, expanding a hull and destroying it over time.

i’m not even sure what it’s supposed to mean, unless your understanding of ionizing radiation is uncut nonsense

chemically speaking, it’s completely fine to irradiate water because whatever is formed as a result of radiolysis would just most of the time form water back, with the rest becoming very weak solution of hydrogen peroxide. this is big part of the reason why water is used as a coolant in nuclear reactors

there are also specific nuances to stopping anything that is not gammas, like secondary x-rays, gammas from neutron absorption etc and this actually favours light element shields, like water or liquid hydrogen, for this kind of radiation shielding

i don’t get what you fail to understand, water doesn’t became radioactive or harmful in any other way after irradiation, and irradiation of food is routinely used for extending its shelf life

“remove” what exactly? water is not alive so it’s okay to irradiate it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_irradiation

that’s just rehashed fukuyama

i have no idea what they were cooking but it’s not coolant, unless temperature there never drops below 0C

mildly concentrated sodium hydroxide solutions would corrode the living fuck out of aluminum pretty quickly (https://www.calpaclab.com/aluminum-chemical-compatibility-chart/), especially when hot and circulating, so no

could have been a kind of additive maybe? but then it won’t be a lot of it. borax forms a gel or at least high viscosity solution when mixed with glycols so both can’t be used at the same time as a coolant

Dye might be fluorescein, it fluoresces under UV (duh) could be useful in checking what’s this thing

probably has a clause in terms and conditions that you agree to sell your soul to nestle