Brianna Wu / John Walker Flynt - "Biggest Victim of Gamergate," Failed Game Developer, Failed Congressional Candidate

[Peace and Harmony]

Maybe we should start chopping down our own trees and using them as firewood instead of having central heating too, and hunting our own bison as well.

Oh is this your newest car John? Tell us all about it so we can respect you even more.

 

[Grand Fucktard]

A note for those who never read it: In The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, the Lunar rebels take over the electromagnetic cannon used to ship wheat grown on the Moon back to Earth and repurpose it to fling rocks instead to force Earth to recognize their independence (though they deliberately aim for uninhabited areas). I'm nowhere near qualified to do the math on how much power this would take, but it would be a lot smarter than strapping rockets to chunks of lunar rock and launching them that way, which would take an exorbitant amount of fuel.

If you didn't already have a cannon like that set up but wanted to do a kinetic bombardment, it would make more sense to find an asteroid whose orbit comes close to Earth's, land a rocket on it, and use the engine to nudge it to an intersecting course. Even then, you're probably not going to be able to aim it at all, so the best you could hope for is wide-scale disaster. That would certainly do more harm than good, so this plan only works if you're insane, I guess.

Put simply, John is retarded and his moon rocks debacle should always be made fun of.

covered some of the problems with railgunning up earlier - and the problem is worth with hijacking commercial railgunning since the tracking infrastructure would be there to pick up your goods.

the problem with mass drivers (ships that move large space rocks) is it's telegraphing via powered flight on the rock itself (you you might be spitting a rooster tail as to move the big stuff, the processed rock itself could be the reaction mass)
and if you are at the point you are doing that, we're talking having impact avoidance tech anyway

 

[White Devil]

There is something to be said about distracting modern dashboard design. Newer shit has so many gizmos and shit like Tesla that completely eliminates tactile response, forcing you to take your eyes off the road, can be really dangerous. I'm personally not a fan of dashboards that look like the cockpit of the space shuttle.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

It's really crazy that people in the US South have to wake up every morning to the stench of corpses piling up outside their windows, John. Save yourself and move to Lesotho any time.

 

[Elbe]

Wonder what percentage of blue-collar-John's tweets amount to nothing more than 'I've got a Porsche!'? Must be pretty fucking high.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

covered some of the problems with railgunning up earlier - and the problem is worth with hijacking commercial railgunning since the tracking infrastructure would be there to pick up your goods.

the problem with mass drivers (ships that move large space rocks) is it's telegraphing via powered flight on the rock itself (you you might be spitting a rooster tail as to move the big stuff, the processed rock itself could be the reaction mass)
and if you are at the point you are doing that, we're talking having impact avoidance tech anyway

Why wouldn't all of the world just nuke that place of the moon to stop them from being twirling dervishes of destruction?

Maybe we should start chopping down our own trees and using them as firewood instead of having central heating too, and hunting our own bison as well.

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Oh is this your newest car John? Tell us all about it so we can respect you even more.

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All those tactile buttons and the little clicky jog-con wheel to slowly navigate the menus, trying to get bluetooth synching his iPhone contacts. I remember when I was a teen and my father taught me how to do that while on an incline.

 

[Grand Fucktard]

Wonder what percentage of blue-collar-John's tweets amount to nothing more than 'I've got a Porsche!'? Must be pretty fucking high.

practically 0% these days are him crowing he has a Porsche.
John brags he has multiple PorcheS

btw how many Porsches do you have little fuckboy?

 

[King Dead]

It's really crazy that people in the US South have to wake up every morning to the stench of corpses piling up outside their windows, John. Save yourself and move to Lesotho any time.

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As a reminder, if face muzzles actually did anything to stop the coof, then the red states that dropped their mandates earlier would be hellscapes of death and destruction. Instead, there's no statistical difference between areas with highly-enforced mandates and no mandates. Further, children remain the group least-affected by the coof, with the only deaths being from morbidly obese kids, so why Iowa school districts are "scrambling" is for little more than theater.

As a further reminder, if John truly felt that red states weren't safe, he wouldn't have taken a trip to fucking Disney World.

Why wouldn't all of the world just nuke that place of the moon to stop them from being twirling dervishes of destruction?

In the novel, Earth did in fact blow up the cannon, but the rebels (or rather, their supercomputer) had prepared for that eventuality and built a second cannon in secret to continue their bombardment, and that lasted long enough for them to get their independence.

So yes, the cannon itself would be a weak point in this strategy. Unless your first targets were specifically every spaceport on the planet, you would be vulnerable to a counterattack. That would have gone against their strategy to only hit uninhabited areas to minimize casualties, but in a different context, that would be the smartest opening move.

 

[Ghostse]

A note for those who never read it: In The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, the Lunar rebels take over the electromagnetic cannon used to ship wheat grown on the Moon back to Earth and repurpose it to fling rocks instead to force Earth to recognize their independence (though they deliberately aim for uninhabited areas). I'm nowhere near qualified to do the math on how much power this would take, but it would be a lot smarter than strapping rockets to chunks of lunar rock and launching them that way, which would take an exorbitant amount of fuel.

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Put simply, John is retarded and his moon rocks debacle should always be made fun of.

My autism has you, fam:

accelerating 11,000 of mass [estimated mass of the Chelyabinsk object] to the 2.3Km/s for lunar escape velocity would require 26,394 Terrajoules, or 7,332 megawatts. That's over double capacity of the largest nuclear plant in the US. You could use a ~5-mega ton blast to propel your space rock as well - so about 4 nuclear missles worth of warheads - provided your space rock survives the blast intact and your launch area doesn't absorb any of the energy.

MiaHM has a set up that bypasses some of the logic issues with using a rock gun and not just building nukes; the Rebels are not an educated state with a captured Mass-driver that built for non-destructive purposes. That is, they had access to a reactor they captured, but only the reactor, since they didn't have any nuclear scientists they couldn't build nukes. So they had to get creative.

 

[Sonichu-choo trainwreck]

In the novel, Earth did in fact blow up the cannon, but the rebels (or rather, their supercomputer) had prepared for that eventuality and built a second cannon in secret to continue their bombardment, and that lasted long enough for them to get their independence.

So yes, the cannon itself would be a weak point in this strategy. Unless your first targets were specifically every spaceport on the planet, you would be vulnerable to a counterattack. That would have gone against their strategy to only hit uninhabited areas to minimize casualties, but in a different context, that would be the smartest opening move.

I'd think building a rail launcher in secret on the moon would be a problem...rarefied environment with not the same kind of cover as earthbound operations.

but a lot of the practical problems in using the thing have been brought up already in the thread

there's the problem of 1 launch and you've given it away

and since it's ballistic flight, the firing solution can be RE'd -- which they've been doing b/c you are gun-mailing commercial payloads already

so the launch is vulernable to countermeasures like daedelus detonations (you dont have to destroy the thing, even altering its speed is throwing off its target)

and like there isn't going to be stuff stationed at L1? hell, that's probably where translunar flight control is for those packages luna is sending

The other big problem that already got covered is with a long-transit ballistic flight, your aiming precision is going to be pretty low-- someone brought up a good point - when we send probes etc, they go into orbit then de-orbit. it's not just flying at the target
I mean there were a few impact probes back in the 50s but the objective there was "hit the moon", they were more interested in if they could get the rocketry to work at all (and the failure rate was high high high)

So it's basically a WMD terror weapon is all you got.

I'm not sure Earth would even have to conter-attack in the foreseeable future. Tell em to have fun, there won't be resupply and when their bones turn to Jell-o dont come crying

 

[fuckidunno]

It's been decades since I read it
I can't recall if Earth went ahead and deorbited the LLO sats (oh if it's industrialized there are goonna be LLO sats) onto the lunies

even bunkered up they've got access point problems and it's not like the ambient environment is survivable

and an unscheduled launch with something rock sized...welp as guys are saying that's an indiscriminate WMD.
so it's to the other heinleinism -- nuke em into radioactive glass

 

[dex_]

It's straight from the Jim Crow era that girls who like to wear pants and baseball caps can go to school like everyone else.

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Equating sex segregation to racial segregation. Love it. These retards write the jokes themselves.

 

[Sonichu-choo trainwreck]

There is something to be said about distracting modern dashboard design. Newer shit has so many gizmos and shit like Tesla that completely eliminates tactile response, forcing you to take your eyes off the road, can be really dangerous. I'm personally not a fan of dashboards that look like the cockpit of the space shuttle.

Pilots call it "flying glass" (as in a glass screen)
Not a fan myself, but I can see an aux display for maintenance, etc -- OTOH if they'd make the damn thing configurable that'd be nice

I mean shit, Don Garlitz only used an oil pressure gauge - that's it

but John sort of shoots himself in the foot - you know why he installed that apple play system...as he says in his podcast he "instinctively" checks twitter alerts and that's why he installed it

guess what Johnnie boy, that's cognitive distraction
here's just a little taste

Cognitive Distraction: Something to Think About - AAA Foundation

A compendium of lessons learned from recent studies.

aaafoundation.org

so it John is a racer wanting to avoid idstraction in his classic car and is into classic racing instrumentation (like his timers) - why doesn't he go needles up?

 

[Grand Fucktard]

so it John is a racer wanting to avoid idstraction in his classic car and is into classic racing instrumentation (like his timers) - why doesn't he go needles up?

Because he doesn't know what that is you Porschless little fuckboy.
He though it was CombustIBLE engine until just a couple of years ago

 

[Particle Bored]

Maybe we should start chopping down our own trees and using them as firewood instead of having central heating too, and hunting our own bison as well.

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Oh is this your newest car John? Tell us all about it so we can respect you even more.

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There is something to be said about distracting modern dashboard design. Newer shit has so many gizmos and shit like Tesla that completely eliminates tactile response, forcing you to take your eyes off the road, can be really dangerous. I'm personally not a fan of dashboards that look like the cockpit of the space shuttle.

I love the spaceship dash look. Though I do prefer more physical buttons; too easy for software/digital shit to go wonky and youre replacing a $1000 screen instead of a $10 switch. Digital takes too much control/repair ability away from the owner. (Which is why i built my own car PC for media and nav in my old van instead of off the shelf in-dash unit)

 

[Peace and Harmony]

trump sucks dick LMAO

Exactly the chair that a working professional woman needs.

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

Maybe we should start chopping down our own trees and using them as firewood instead of having central heating too, and hunting our own bison as well.

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"Carplay if you need it."

You know who needs Carplay? Nobody.

But to John Flynt, need is indistinguishable from want.

 

[stupid moron]

"Carplay if you need it."

You know who needs Carplay? Nobody.

But to John Flynt, need is indistinguishable from want.

“Siri, tell all the poor idiots that follow me that I’m currently enjoying my 100k Porsche . Make sure to also tell them how I rewired the AC like the sexy badass I am”

“yes joh- I mean Brianna. Tweeting now.”

 

[Grand Fucktard]

“Siri, tell all the poor idiots that follow me that I’m currently enjoying my 100k Porsche . Make sure to also tell them how I rewired the AC like the sexy badass I am”

“yes joh- I mean Brianna. Tweeting now.”

Siri, do NOT turn on the headlights, the car will catch on fire and I will have no choice but to drive back to the Wu-cave in the dark on echolocation

 

[Peace and Harmony]

Frank is a fucking fat SHIT, John is a SLIM and MUSCULAR ATHLETE.