If true, this could well result in the Democrats seizing further control in November, since they will be able to use this to fearmonger. In any event, politicking in the next few months will be energetic.
Man, I wish I could invest in Libs of TikTok.
MASHUP! Pro-abortionists are losing their minds over the thought of not being able to kill babies. pic.twitter.com/0oqFZyMpu5
Previous footage showed a little drone dropping something akin to a grenade, doing damage to soft targets. Here’s one apparently kerploding a *tank.* WTF??? It drops *two* bombs, so it’s clearly not one of those dinky camera drones, but something bigger, but it still seems like a whole lot of bang for the buck.
A photo-illustrated article on some of the feline survivors of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. If you’re a fan of cats… prepare for a “Jurassic Bark” sort of response.
He’s jabbering away, filming himself with his cell phone …
… when something comes zipping in and explodes right next to him. The moment of the explosion is not captured well, as you would expect with a millisecond-moment on a crappy cell phone… but what is caught – badly focused, motion-blurred, jarred, etc. – looks like we’re seeing this guys soul being sent directly to Hell:
Neato. A Chechen fighting for Russia to invade another country? Hell would seem an appropriate destination.
Note: I saw the video yesterday, but durned if I can find it again. Oh well.
UPDATE: link to the video after the break. I have also put three frames there… “normal,” “uh-oh” and “transporter malfunction.” Seriously: modern pseudo-Star Trek *loves* horrible things and horrible people; I’m surprised I haven’t seen horrible transporter screwups. If they decide to do such a thing, that third frame could serve as a template. A disturbing template.
Nothing locks up like a stolen $300,000 John Deere combine shipped by Russian invaders to Chechnya.
What would be best would be if these stolen vehicles could go on some sort of Killdozer rampage. Or just burn themselves up. But turning themselves into bricks is a nice start. Sure, the thieves will simply take them to a chop shop and make some money on the spare parts (something Russian farmers are going to need since doubtless John Deere customer support is likely thin on the ground in Russia these days), but they won’t do near as well as if they’d had functional equipment.
YouTube has for several months kept suggesting videos on “nuclear diamond batteries.” Most of the videos I’ve glanced at looked like clickbaity rubbish about fraudulent pseudoscience… and ever now and then I briefly watch one of the videos, and they kinda don’t disappoint.
The Nuclear Diamond Battery itself seems a reasonable enough idea. Small quantities of some radioactive substance such as Carbon 14 or Nickel 63 are formed into thin films and sandwiched between thin films of diamond semiconductors. The radioactive element emits beta radiation – high energy electrons. The electrons are captured and converted to electricity by something akin to a photoelectic cell. The radiation is captured and prevented from escaping, and in the process converted to electricity… sounds like a winner, right? And apparently prototypes have been built that work. And thus we get videos like this:
The video promises batteries that are safe and last for thousands of years. And while this seems to be true, there is one problem that these sort of videos tend to not mention. From the Wikipedia article on the subject:
In 2018, researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials (TISNCM), and the National University of Science and Technology (MISIS) announced a prototype using 2-micron thick layers of 63Ni foil sandwiched between 200 10-micron diamond converters. It produced a power output of about 1 μW at for power density of 10 μW/cm3.
That’s ten *micro* Watts per cubic centimeter. A battery one meter on a side (which, using the density of diamond of 3.5 g/cm3, would mass 3,500 kilograms) would produce a power output of… ten Watts. Granted, it would do so for thousands of years but… ten fricken Watts. The Tesla Model S has a total motor output of 615,000 Watts. Such a car would require a Nuclear Diamond Battery with a volume of 61,500 cubic meters, massing somewhere in the vicinity of two hundred thousand *tons.* The Seawise Giant, the largest supertanker in history, could carry two of these batteries.
This saber was made by the Rock Island Arsenal with an additional feature not normally found on swords: a 1911 pistol. I can see this going kinda wrong, but I still kinda want to give it a shot. Clearly it was not adopted for use; it’s practicality is to be seriously doubted. I wonder if the people behind it made it hoping it would be a practical weapon, or if they did it purely as a conversation piece… or as a joke.
