• @Kowowow@lemmy.ca
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    72 hours ago

    Mr richest man on earth with tesla and space x doesn’t even have an electric private jet

  • @whotookkarl@lemmy.world
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    173 hours ago

    “Théoden no longer recognizes friend from foe. Not even his own kin. Saruman has poisoned the mind of the king and claimed lordship over this land. My company are those loyal to Rohan. And for that, we are banished.” - Èomer, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

  • Tar_Alcaran
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    635 hours ago

    For those doing the maths at home:

    An F35 who obligingly flies top-towards-you (not exactly something you can do, but hey, maybe they’re turning) is all of 10m tall.

    An AIM-120C can very comfortably hit a target at 100km.

    At that range, the F-35 takes up 26 arcseconds, or 0.007 degrees. That’s roughly about the size of this period, at a distance of 3 meters away.

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    Good luck spotting that in a sky of roughly the same colour, full of other objects.

    • Miles O'Brien
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      203 hours ago

      Pffffffff

      I can see that bright white dot against the dark mode background on my maximum brightness screen with ease! Therefore your argument is invalid!

  • @DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    775 hours ago

    If a fighter jet is within visual range of a camera, it’s already too late. And that’s if there aren’t any clouds.

    • @Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world
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      355 hours ago

      your not thinking like a musk, not if the government pays the subscription and contract for his early warning camera drone balloon swarm thing or something something they could run on ketamine or something.

    • @SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works
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      Speaking of fire trucks has anyone here ever read the emergency response procedures for teslas in severe accidents? When I was a volunteer we gave it a look over.

      If I remember right, Depending on the model they recommend up to 8,000 gallons (~30k liters) to keep an overheating battery’s temp stable in case of fire or exposure to high heat. I’ll link the resource page here.

      Our engine holds 700 gallons (5.2k liters) and the typical tanker in our area holds 2,000 (7.5k liters)

      That’s a house fire level response for a single electric vehicle. Just getting that much water moved to a scene would be challenging. We have tankers, but how many city departments can move that much water? You don’t see hydrants on highways. And foam is not effective like it is for normal car fires. The future will be interesting for firefighters.

    • MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown
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      545 hours ago

      Someone died because one of those cars thought the broadside of a white semi trailer was the sky and drove under it

  • Diplomjodler
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    234 hours ago

    That fucker really thinks he’s so smart when all he does is constantly demonstrate what an idiot he is.

    • @1SimpleTailor@startrek.website
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      53 hours ago

      His rise really is symbolic of the rot that has taken hold of our society. Truly, our most degenerate moron has risen to the top of the shit pile.

  • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    Just use multiple nuclear power plants to power an AI that constantly scans the sky.

    Are we sure he’s not an NCD poster?

    Edit to add - Musk unlocked the achievement, personal enemy of the DoD and entire defense industry. I’m getting popcorn for this.

  • @DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    215 hours ago

    Looks like being rich and surrounding yourself with yes-people is the #1 cause of sitting confidently at the top of the Dunning-Krueger curve.

  • @wizzor@sopuli.xyz
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    336 hours ago

    Also… Fighters are fast, the point is you should fire the missile before you see it.

    • @Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world
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      275 hours ago

      The f-35 is built for engagements outside the horizon, like, the target is blocked by the curvature of the earth.

      Light sensitive cameras and rudimentary AI…

        • @frezik@midwest.social
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          So we use a black hole to bend space time and look into the past where it isn’t. We know where it isn’t in the past.

  • don
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    165 hours ago

    Dude’s brain is shit design and fucking sucks, actually

  • @ddplf
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    175 hours ago

    MUH AY-EI

    Did he replace his brain with AI already? Because it sure fucking looks like it.

      • skulblaka
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        64 hours ago

        His greatest achievement has been buying contracts that state he has invented things that he didn’t invent.