Iran War now? Yea or nay?

[BKR]

Well, we all have the potential to be made into diamonds, don't we.

Not that many of us these days have any appetite, or tolerance, or grit enough for idle stress, or mildly painful transformation, let alone...

Tru dat...

[W. Rabbit]

You do understand that that is an unexploded warhead right? Aside from the fins and final booster that entire thing is supposed to explode in a fragmentation cone when it nears the target. That is either a dummy warhead or one that never achieved detonation proximity.

"Dummy warhead". LOL, no need for insulting Ghost now...

Seriously, my wife cracked me up this morning and I have to share it.

Me: "What's wrong?"

Mrs. Rabbit: "I'm worried about Israel"

Me: "You mean its destruction? Or that they'll do something stupid?"

Mrs. Rabbit: "both."

[Dr. Gonzo]

There are two things in this world that would fill me with childlike joy for a solid week: 1. Watching you eat crow, and 2. Watching Dr. Liar end up homeless and too disabled to work without access to any of the services he so badly wants to see gutted and no one willing to donate to help him.

What makes you think I want the disability services gutted?

Because I give advance warning to the members of this forum they seem to be in progress of material rule changes?

In any case, this is a planting year for me.

I am scaling back on my existing contracts,

And placing large bets to try and acquire new lines of revenue.

If I bet poorly and a perfect storm occurs, I could indeed end up broke.

I do so love a wager, though.

I’ll keep you posted as the year progresses if it all goes to shit,

so that you may enjoy it.

[W. Rabbit]

My understanding was the nose cone contains the sensors and the portion directly behind it is the part that explodes.

You realize to make a missile, you hook these two pieces together, right?

Crow? You'll watch me drink your milkshake, maybe.

[Michael Tzadok]

My understanding was the nose cone contains the sensors and the portion directly behind it is the part that explodes.

The "part that explodes" is a shaped charge that shoots forward a cone of molten copper that obliterates anything in its path.

So even if what you were saying was true, which it is not(you can watch videos of how these work online), that nose cone would be obliterated. Those SAMs are meant to eat through the titanium armor of American warplanes and Choppers. Aluminum housings for sensors aren't going to stand up well.

[ghost55]

Because every time the current shithead administration announces some way they are fucking the safety net you react with glee. You only are capable of empathizing with people going through things that you also have dealt with. Like cancer patients. You only give a fuck because you got to feel it for yourself. It's like parents that call other people's kids with learning disabilities "snowflakes that just need discipline" until they have a kid with autism and suddenly they're activists.

[Dr. Gonzo]

Because every time the current shithead administration announces some way they are fucking the safety net you react with glee. You only are capable of empathizing with people going through things that you also have dealt with. Like cancer patients. You only give a fuck because you got to feel it for yourself. It's like parents that call other people's kids with learning disabilities "snowflakes that just need discipline" until they have a kid with autism and suddenly they're activists.

I do not take joy in the hardships of others.

I do advise people to prepare for hard times,

and provide information on how they can do so.

There is a difference.

[ghost55]

I do not take joy in the hardships of others.

I do advise people to prepare for hard times,

and provide information on how they can do so.

There is a difference.

Yeah. In the Ayn Rand sense. You have zero fucking empathy for any form of hardship that you have not personally experienced and it is glaringly obvious. I've had disagreements with plenty of people here, but I could still see myself sitting down and having a drink with most of them. Even wabbit. I wouldn't trust myself to be in the same room with you though. You should take pride in that. There are very few people that I feel that amount of utter contempt for.

[W. Rabbit]

The "part that explodes" is a shaped charge that shoots forward a cone of molten copper that obliterates anything in its path.

So even if what you were saying was true, which it is not(you can watch videos of how these work online), that nose cone would be obliterated. Those SAMs are meant to eat through the titanium armor of American warplanes and Choppers. Aluminum housings for sensors aren't going to stand up well.

Unsure where this originated from but I believe it to be relatively up-to-date and accurate. I'll see if I can find attribution.

Seriously, thanks for the fake photo Ghost. It's no Sasquatch or Yeti, but I do love a good mystery.

[Michael Tzadok]

Unsure where this originated from but I believe it to be relatively up-to-date and accurate. I'll see if I can find attribution.

Seriously, thanks for the fake photo Ghost. It's no Sasquatch or Yeti, but I do love a good mystery.

That's Jane's. So typical of their stuff.

[submessenger]

oh yeah, that's totally from the crash site...anybody else see an obvious problem with that claim?

Fuckin Twitter.

That is not an Iranian warhead, methinks. It appears to be an M30 series from LM (i.e. it's USian).

[Dr. Gonzo]

Yeah. In the Ayn Rand sense. You have zero fucking empathy for any form of hardship that you have not personally experienced and it is glaringly obvious. I've had disagreements with plenty of people here, but I could still see myself sitting down and having a drink with most of them. Even wabbit. I wouldn't trust myself to be in the same room with you though. You should take pride in that. There are very few people that I feel that amount of utter contempt for.

If you live long enough to be 30, 40, and 50, etc

perhaps you will develop empathy for people older than you are now.

Regarding not trusting yourself in the same room with me, why?

Would you not be able to control a violent impulse?

[Michael Tzadok]

That is not an Iranian warhead, methinks. It appears to be an M30 series from LM (i.e. it's USian).

I thought it was a Soviet/Russian Tor M1. Russia to my knowledge no longer uses them but most MidEast countries do.

[submessenger]

I thought it was a Soviet/Russian Tor M1. Russia to my knowledge no longer uses them but most MidEast countries do.

That is a good call. 9M330.

[ghost55]

If you live long enough to be 30, 40, and 50, etc

perhaps you will develop empathy for people older than you are now.

Regarding not trusting yourself in the same room with me, why?

Would you not be able to control a violent impulse?

You are the human embodiment of the banality of evil on this website.