I’m thinking that’s what you can get when you’re not
limited to a country, or even a planet, but to an asteroid
belt, comets, meteors, and other planets.
Still a waste…..
Wait, 4 mansions, They need housing for the crew, why
not use them for that until they need to come down?
Way cheaper and faster than building a barracks.
HOLY… Yeah not a typical ship-to-ship missile. They were
overkill for a ship-killer. This tells me it was planned to go
scorched earth on the Buns. I wasn’t expecting that many
at that tonnage! This is definitely a “lesson” attack, but
the wrong ones are to get schooled.
yes, typical missile… IF not, then they would have had to redesign the launch tubes.!
and,, because of budgets, the warheads are probably multifunction.
overkill,. (no such thing.) and have you seen the size of a dreadnought.!?
a ‘typical fighter’s weapons would be no real threat,. so anti-ship missiles.
and those things are not tiny.! https://www.pinterest.com/pin/650699846165834255/
Why wreck the houses?
Just move the workers into them.
The houses are ready, just move in.
Save time and energy by not
disassembling, then reassembling.
Can’t do it, they’d still be in violation of the zoning laws.
Both Empires remember what happens when
government exempts itself from it’s own laws.
I wanted to sue our local Post Office for violating
the Americans with Disabilities Act,
only to learn that the government is exempt.
Wouldn’t that include any barracks the crew would need
for housing as well? Unless they are using the MASH-style
tents for their living quarters for the duration.
That’s a local issue here too the dinky one we have here
has a flight of steps and nothing else. Although, ours is
smaller than a 2 bedroom house.
building crew housing.?? on site housing is used for “Remote locations.!”
this is in town,, the crew drives themselves on site…
our crew considered anything under a 2 hour drive local.!
beyond an 8 hour drive, was considered – remote.!
A building is a building. And using the houses as temporary housing
while other stuff is built doesn’t preclude them being torn down.
OR, more sensibly, renovated for public uses. Many a restaurant,
museum or store, among other things,
started out as a house that got renovated for a new purpose.
The reason that he first addressed Miral is that the worker housing is being
built on the site of the future Navy training base. Once the base and the
industrial park construction is complete, it will be repurposed as military
housing for trainees. So they want it nice, small 4 man apartments.
Permanent housing for cadre will be off site.
34k kilos, that’s almost 70k lbs, That makes each one a bunker-buster+.
40k tons of payload X 4080 missiles, that’s 163,200,000 pounds of explosive.
That’s 81.1 megatons, equal to 80+ common nukes…
(that’s at 10MT) yeah…
Very little will survive on that side of the planet, much less any of it.
The dust and debris alone will trigger a nuclear winter.
Not knowing what the payload is, they could BE nukes.
Well, a single-drive missile masses 20K Kilos,
so the entire non-drive section would be 6K Kilos,
including sensors, guidance, etc.
So probably a 4.5-5K explosive charge…
or gas container, or biological.
I doubt if they’d use biologicals,
as they do want to mine the planet.
True, and radiation would prevent mining by anyone that’s “squishy”.
I figured the engines would account for 40-50% of the over-all weight.
The mind boggles, what those missiles sound like is star-ship/booster
levels.
That side of the planet? They’re quite capable of directing
fully ballistic missiles to use the planet’s gravity to curve
the trajectories to hit the backside. That’s besides the
probable second drive system. The whole planet is in the
crosshairs.
I was just pointing out with that much explosive, the damage
would go planet-wide in an hour even if it was all one one
side of the planet, that’s more explosive than what was
dropped in WWII and the Korean wars. The shock-wave and
heat=wave would cover the planet. It would take months
for the fires to completely go out. What little Oxygen would
be left would be laced with so many toxic gases that it would
be uninhabitable for decades, if ever.
I got an email from him earlier today, it was raining like hell.
Thunderstorms just arrived where I am, it’s pretty bad.
Like lightning flash and thunder at the same time. I can feel
the thunder, no need to hear it.
I haven’t looked at the radar much in the last few hours, I know
it looks ugly. Thankfully, it’s all south of us, i dread those step
into the wellhouse. Bad enough I twisted my ankle thanks to a
rotted ramp board letting go, I guess I know what I’ll be doing
tomorrow…
I just replaced a rotten porch. Luckily, the frame was solid,
so I just had to replace the steps and decking.
Painted all the parts with a thick sanded paint for traction,
then tore it down, painted the frame, and assembled it.
The paint is definitely non-slip!
Same stuff I painted my motorcycle ramp with.
I’m fine. I live in San Antonio and not the hill country proper.
Only thing around here that floods are freeways downtown and a
couple of freeway access roads.
My house is well above the 100 year flood plain.
If I was in danger of getting flooded then somebody would have
been selling gopher wood.
I just haven’t had anything to contribute. But thanks for asking.
Good to hear. We had the same storm, but not with quite as much rain.
But it kept raining, even when there was no rain in the forecast. That’s
not a common thing, although heavy rainstorms of as much as 3 or 4
inches is an every-summer occurrence. We live about two miles from
the Brazos River, but right here, it’s actually Lake Whitney. We’re fifty
feet above the highest possible level of the lake, and there are no
significant creeks or streams near here. But it’s easy to see, by the
bluffs along the lake, that heavy scouring floods have been a common
event since time immemorial. Down by Waco, there is a mammoth
graveyard that shows repeated inundations over many thousands of
years, so I guess time and weather marches on. We have seen Lake
Whitney some 28 feet above full in 2016. It is the last flood control
dam on this river, which flows from here through Waco and on down
to Houston and the Gulf.
yeah,,, back in the 1700’s a guy named Franklin came up with that
idea for the nation (as it was at that time).! but was told no,.
as it was too expensive for something that would never get used
or pay for itself…
o.0
Depending on where the rain fell and the watercourse
it ran down, I suspect a good portion of it DID go into
an aquafer. That’s where we get our water around here.
The Edwards aquafer supposedly holds enough for San
Antonio to draw off it for 300 years at the highest draw
rate recorded before we got more water conscious. We
have mandatory water rationing because of some critters
and plants that somehow managed to survive droughts
before the White Man came along. Back in the 1920’s they
collected samples of those critters and plants and took
care of them during a bad drought. Then they reintroduced
them back to the springs where they had previously lived
EXCEPT nobody took notes of what critter/plant came from
which spring. Also the greenie weenies won a lawsuit to
ensure certain minimum flows from those springs. AT the
flow rate from AFTER the springs were dynamited to make
the springs more attractive to tourists. Funny thing. That
lawsuit was brought by some eco-warrior group but PAID
FOR by some generous chemical company (not Dow but
some company like Dow) who just happen to have a big
– water guzzling – chemical plant down stream of those
springs. It turns out that if the spring flows go below the
court mandated rate said chemical plant would have to
BUY water instead of getting it from the river. Imagine
that!
Salvage rights?
blink – blink… 34,000 kilos.! that’s a Minuteman Missile. (57 feet x 5.5 feet)
at the most the US had a 1,000 (now 400), and they have over 6,000…
That South Park banker…
“Aaaand, they’re gone.”
How much Motha money is now trapped in Bunnyspace, again?
I’m thinking that’s what you can get when you’re not
limited to a country, or even a planet, but to an asteroid
belt, comets, meteors, and other planets.
Still a waste…..
Wait, 4 mansions, They need housing for the crew, why
not use them for that until they need to come down?
Way cheaper and faster than building a barracks.
HOLY… Yeah not a typical ship-to-ship missile. They were
overkill for a ship-killer. This tells me it was planned to go
scorched earth on the Buns. I wasn’t expecting that many
at that tonnage! This is definitely a “lesson” attack, but
the wrong ones are to get schooled.
yes, typical missile… IF not, then they would have had to redesign the launch tubes.!
and,, because of budgets, the warheads are probably multifunction.
overkill,. (no such thing.) and have you seen the size of a dreadnought.!?
a ‘typical fighter’s weapons would be no real threat,. so anti-ship missiles.
and those things are not tiny.!
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/650699846165834255/
Why wreck the houses?
Just move the workers into them.
The houses are ready, just move in.
Save time and energy by not
disassembling, then reassembling.
That’s what I am saying, once the job’s done, a D-9
and a backhoe would turn them into a parking lot.
Can’t do it, they’d still be in violation of the zoning laws.
Both Empires remember what happens when
government exempts itself from it’s own laws.
I wanted to sue our local Post Office for violating
the Americans with Disabilities Act,
only to learn that the government is exempt.
Wouldn’t that include any barracks the crew would need
for housing as well? Unless they are using the MASH-style
tents for their living quarters for the duration.
That’s a local issue here too the dinky one we have here
has a flight of steps and nothing else. Although, ours is
smaller than a 2 bedroom house.
No, they’re not building on the beach.
The farm they’re building on is zoned mixed use.
building crew housing.?? on site housing is used for “Remote locations.!”
this is in town,, the crew drives themselves on site…
our crew considered anything under a 2 hour drive local.!
beyond an 8 hour drive, was considered – remote.!
A building is a building. And using the houses as temporary housing
while other stuff is built doesn’t preclude them being torn down.
OR, more sensibly, renovated for public uses. Many a restaurant,
museum or store, among other things,
started out as a house that got renovated for a new purpose.
they want these buildings ‘Down’. as an example! the faster the better.
… short of hurting anyone,. even as they move out.!!
also. Okinawa north point to south point. is less than 5 hour drive…
The reason that he first addressed Miral is that the worker housing is being
built on the site of the future Navy training base. Once the base and the
industrial park construction is complete, it will be repurposed as military
housing for trainees. So they want it nice, small 4 man apartments.
Permanent housing for cadre will be off site.
34k kilos, that’s almost 70k lbs, That makes each one a bunker-buster+.
40k tons of payload X 4080 missiles, that’s 163,200,000 pounds of explosive.
That’s 81.1 megatons, equal to 80+ common nukes…
(that’s at 10MT) yeah…
Very little will survive on that side of the planet, much less any of it.
The dust and debris alone will trigger a nuclear winter.
Not knowing what the payload is, they could BE nukes.
Well, a single-drive missile masses 20K Kilos,
so the entire non-drive section would be 6K Kilos,
including sensors, guidance, etc.
So probably a 4.5-5K explosive charge…
or gas container, or biological.
I doubt if they’d use biologicals,
as they do want to mine the planet.
True, and radiation would prevent mining by anyone that’s “squishy”.
I figured the engines would account for 40-50% of the over-all weight.
The mind boggles, what those missiles sound like is star-ship/booster
levels.
That side of the planet? They’re quite capable of directing
fully ballistic missiles to use the planet’s gravity to curve
the trajectories to hit the backside. That’s besides the
probable second drive system. The whole planet is in the
crosshairs.
I was just pointing out with that much explosive, the damage
would go planet-wide in an hour even if it was all one one
side of the planet, that’s more explosive than what was
dropped in WWII and the Korean wars. The shock-wave and
heat=wave would cover the planet. It would take months
for the fires to completely go out. What little Oxygen would
be left would be laced with so many toxic gases that it would
be uninhabitable for decades, if ever.
Someone (Upper Section) is enjoying themselves a bit to much. Ha Ha
Heh, I know I would! 😉
Hope Bill is OK. The rough stuff is between him and me, I think.
I haven’t heard from him here. Hopefully it’s
just a bit rough for him.
I got an email from him earlier today, it was raining like hell.
Thunderstorms just arrived where I am, it’s pretty bad.
Like lightning flash and thunder at the same time. I can feel
the thunder, no need to hear it.
I haven’t looked at the radar much in the last few hours, I know
it looks ugly. Thankfully, it’s all south of us, i dread those step
into the wellhouse. Bad enough I twisted my ankle thanks to a
rotted ramp board letting go, I guess I know what I’ll be doing
tomorrow…
I just replaced a rotten porch. Luckily, the frame was solid,
so I just had to replace the steps and decking.
Painted all the parts with a thick sanded paint for traction,
then tore it down, painted the frame, and assembled it.
The paint is definitely non-slip!
Same stuff I painted my motorcycle ramp with.
I’m fine. I live in San Antonio and not the hill country proper.
Only thing around here that floods are freeways downtown and a
couple of freeway access roads.
My house is well above the 100 year flood plain.
If I was in danger of getting flooded then somebody would have
been selling gopher wood.
I just haven’t had anything to contribute. But thanks for asking.
I meant to say “Only thing around here [that floods] are freeways
downtown and a couple of freeway access roads.”
Good to hear. We had the same storm, but not with quite as much rain.
But it kept raining, even when there was no rain in the forecast. That’s
not a common thing, although heavy rainstorms of as much as 3 or 4
inches is an every-summer occurrence. We live about two miles from
the Brazos River, but right here, it’s actually Lake Whitney. We’re fifty
feet above the highest possible level of the lake, and there are no
significant creeks or streams near here. But it’s easy to see, by the
bluffs along the lake, that heavy scouring floods have been a common
event since time immemorial. Down by Waco, there is a mammoth
graveyard that shows repeated inundations over many thousands of
years, so I guess time and weather marches on. We have seen Lake
Whitney some 28 feet above full in 2016. It is the last flood control
dam on this river, which flows from here through Waco and on down
to Houston and the Gulf.
Too bad all that excess rain flood water can’t be stored somewhere
(underground aquifer? reservoir?) for later use during a drought.
yeah,,, back in the 1700’s a guy named Franklin came up with that
idea for the nation (as it was at that time).! but was told no,.
as it was too expensive for something that would never get used
or pay for itself…
o.0
Depending on where the rain fell and the watercourse
it ran down, I suspect a good portion of it DID go into
an aquafer. That’s where we get our water around here.
The Edwards aquafer supposedly holds enough for San
Antonio to draw off it for 300 years at the highest draw
rate recorded before we got more water conscious. We
have mandatory water rationing because of some critters
and plants that somehow managed to survive droughts
before the White Man came along. Back in the 1920’s they
collected samples of those critters and plants and took
care of them during a bad drought. Then they reintroduced
them back to the springs where they had previously lived
EXCEPT nobody took notes of what critter/plant came from
which spring. Also the greenie weenies won a lawsuit to
ensure certain minimum flows from those springs. AT the
flow rate from AFTER the springs were dynamited to make
the springs more attractive to tourists. Funny thing. That
lawsuit was brought by some eco-warrior group but PAID
FOR by some generous chemical company (not Dow but
some company like Dow) who just happen to have a big
– water guzzling – chemical plant down stream of those
springs. It turns out that if the spring flows go below the
court mandated rate said chemical plant would have to
BUY water instead of getting it from the river. Imagine
that!