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  • Ignotum@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlReal
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    1 month ago

    killed hundreds of thousands of civillians

    A total of 563 strikes, largely by drones, targeted Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen during Obama’s two terms

    100.000/563 = 177
    Goddamn what kinds of missiles/bombs were those drones packing? Were they dropping nuclear warheads?









  • Ignotum@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlThe problem with socialism
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    3 months ago

    Then you didn’t understand what was being said and should reread it.

    yeah i did actually read it multiple times to make sure i didn’t misread it, did you?

    Edit: misread the comment thought the were making the quoted point.

    Let’s double check before making accusations next time








  • Yeah the first issue is in theory solvable, but they never managed to do it, not in a practical manner at least (huge cryocooled superconductors is probably not very practical)

    The forces are from the immense magnetic fields, two parallel wires with current in opposite directions will repel eachother, so the rails are trying to move apart from eachother

    This plus the heat causing material expansion plus the rails needing to be very straight for it all to work, and you end up having a bit of an engineering headache on your hands

    But yeah it’s mainly when you build large ones meant to fire things at really really high speeds, maybe we’ll find a way to improve it one day, but for now it’s sadly dead in the water (in the military sector at least, but they tend to be the main driving force behind technology that fires things)