Things of Your Day

That’s basically the Internet in a classroom.

This is an awesome cover

https://youtu.be/niW2N0QSS1A

What worries me about this story is that while its the childish antics of kids, it looks like the seeds of online harassment of women. Notice how the boys felt the need to call out every girl who disagreed, to tell them that what they do like is crap without even knowing what those things are, how their ire was targeted at the ones who dared speak up and how their opinions were dismissed out of hand. I find this story rather frightening to be honest.

While you see it as frightening, all it does is show me that tantrum-throwing children and stupid internet nerds are one and the same.

That, and that the girls knew that they could so easily wreck these boys’ days by saying their favorite video game is bad.

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https://youtu.be/xM3Y6qlW8b8

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https://twitter.com/maobaby/status/1000469543691616256

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Hey remember these videos?

https://youtu.be/6Gr1LM-t_Ew

I just learned he is back doing these kinds of videos.

https://youtu.be/sfal2DbZcjs

https://streamable.com/z8i4t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exVKd-x5QVc

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Long story short, in the 60s, 3 fresh phd kids developed something between a gun-bomb and a thermonuke design (something called an implosion style design), using just public info. It’s probably easier today to do the same. Though I’m gonna guess the thermonuke still lives in the realm of really really challenging. Interesting story though.

The basic mechanism of mashing two subcritical masses of fissile material together into a critical mass is well known. The only real challenge is obtaining fissile material of sufficient purity and the engineering challenges of reliably fusing the masses, miniaturization and creating a delivery system. If North Korea can somewhat reliably create functional devices despite crushing sanctions and lack of access to first world expertise, almost any state could conceivably create nuclear weapons.

It’s mentioned in the article that generally the bigger challenge with ‘gun-bombs’ is procurement. That wasn’t the challenge. The challenge here was an engineering challenge to make designs for something more powerful than just smashing two subcritical masses together.

More than that I’m not prepared to state with confidence.

That kind of nuke is trivial to engineer with publicly available knowledge. Also relatively easy to get the materials and build if you have facilities and a budget. South Africa even made a bunch of them.

It’s a lot harder to boost it or miniaturize it. So congrats, you’ve made an unwieldy gravity bomb or mine that has a yield of at most 5-15kt.

The design is utterly alien to how thermonukes work. It’s not even a step torward a thermonuke. At best, you’ve designed the precursor to the first (non-thermonuclear) phase of a thermonoke.

The thermonuke part of a modern nuclear weapon (the second stage) may not be able to be derived from research alone. It required direct experimentation, the likes of which is beyond the capabilities of almost any nation on Earth.

One for the blacks and one for the whites!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gUQA7jUNoo

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9WRwCiSr0

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Is anyone hungry for some WacDonald’s?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcoLlB411So

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