According to the always-reliable NewsMax, China is developing a ‘supersonic submarine’. Has someone been masochistic enough to bing-watch entire seasons of Seaquest DSV or something?
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Suffern ACE
@dmsilev: That would be cool, but it would be kind of difficult to hide. I’m assuming that this concern is somehow related to the proposed Nicaraguan canal. You know. If we let them build that, the chinese could have their subs off the coast of norfolk in 6 hours.
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Trollhattan
@dmsilev:
Considering the speed of sound in water, that fucker is going to be FAST!
ETA They’ll convert it to a container ship to get us our shit faster.
@dmsilev: @dmsilev: I like it! Things that go real fast are cool, and if they spend their military budget on stuff that goofy, we have less to worry about.
Plus I’m chuckling about a super-loud, unsteerable submarine.
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Suffern ACE
@dmsilev: O.K. I got out of the boat. The two problems with it is that it could only travel in a straight line and would have to be launched at speed or the bubble would pop.
I’m imagining an underwater cranked energizer for subs. Like the kind that used to launch evel knievel toy bikes.
I’m more impressed with China’s faster-than-light tanks.
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Suffern ACE
@Baud: They have transporter technology. Well, almost. They can make people appear where they want them to be, but haven’t figured out how to transmit them. So basically, they walk or drive cars. Sometimes, they use bicycles, too.
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Hal
Not only is my co-worker the slowest typist in the known universe, she is the loudest. All I hear from 3 to 11 is BAM BAM BAM. Glob forbid she needs to send out a department email. A straight half hour of bams and the email might be four sentences long. I think I have officially reached the point where I need a new job. When your coworkers bodily functions start grating on your nerves, you know it’s time to move on.
12.
Trollhattan
INDIANAPOLIS—Tired of being overlooked by everyone in his precinct, unpopular Indianapolis Police Department officer Kyle Norris told reporters Wednesday he was considering committing a racially motivated offense to generate a little support. “To be honest, I’m not the most well-known or looked-up-to guy around here, but I’m thinking that if I get caught up in a controversy after shooting a minority resident under questionable circumstances, things would really change for me,” said Norris, who added that having his coworkers immediately rally around him after the incident, watching consecutive nights of public demonstrations defending his actions, and finally receiving praise directly from the chief of police would be a nice change of pace from his day-to-day life as an ignored and unappreciated member of the force.
@dmsilev: I remember poor Bryan Lamb catching a call from an elderly wingnut who was pissed that a picture of President Colin Powell was shown on the show.
Never did figure out what C-SPAN was supposed to do about it…
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Baud
I’m reminded for some reason of that old commercial whose tag line was “ancient Chinese secret.” I can’t recall what the product was (some type of laundry detergent, I think).
Has someone been masochistic enough to bing-watch entire seasons of Seaquest DSV or something?
No. There’s been an idea of a “supercavitating” underwater transport, where it creates a bubble of gas around itself and moves in that. It’s been tested for extremely fast torpedoes but has not taken over there. It has a number of drastic problems: it’s incredibly energy intensive, the torpedo or sub can’t use sonar, and (according to the article) it can’t be steered.
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Hal
Romney on WH Run: ‘Circumstances Can Change’
Sure Jan, sure.
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MattF
@dmsilev: Some knowledge of hydrodynamics would be relevant here. I’ll just note that traveling underwater faster than the speed of sound in water would take a great deal of energy.
ETA: Looks like Mr. Moore has looked at the article. I’m not going to do that.
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Yatsuno
@Baud: Calgon. I don’t think they make it anymore. Tragically.
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Villago Delenda Est
@Baud: MR. SPARKLE! Awsom-a powah! Disrespectful of dirt!
Oh, wait, that’s Japanese.
Never mind!
20.
KG
@Trollhattan: not only that, I’m guessing it won’t exactly be easy to hide which is kinda the point of submarines, isn’t it? I mean, supersonic things in water tend to leave a nasty wake
Looks like Mr. Moore has looked at the article. I’m not going to do that.
But every time you click on a NoiseMax link, they give Cole money. Don’t you want Cole to get money?
23.
KG
@Hal: just because I am envisioning a complete shitshow of an election in 2016, I am fully on board with “Romney 2016: Told Ya So!”
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Villago Delenda Est
@MattF: If you think that mere things like facts schmacts (which have a lie-bral bias) are going to deter Noisemax from running a “oh, noes, the Chi-Coms are coming in supersonic subs to steal our daughters right off of California beaches” sort of story, you have another think coming.
25.
MattF
@Roger Moore: Yeah, I know. I’m torn. I think the thing to do is just drop some $$$ in the donation box. We’re talking internet infrastructure here.
We will make a DC meetup, even if it is just you and me and some surprise guests. (Redshift, eemom, snapdragon, anyone out there!!)
Sounds like early next week works best for Siubhan Duinne, so maybe we will do back to back meetups and let her pick the date next week.
You pick the date, ef, for your visit. Tomorrow? Friday? Even Saturday? We can meet at Murphy’s in Old Town, Alexandria, by default, or try another spot.
@KG: There’s always a speed vs. stealth tradeoff with subs, yah. The faster you go, the more noise you make. This is why the “caterpillar drive” of The Hunt for Red October was such a revolutionary development.
A really fast moving sub would be easy to track, but probably difficult to hit. Unless, of course, you project where it will be and prepare to detonate explosives at that place, because, you see, it can’t be steered. It would travel in a straight line. Which means…it’s hardly invulnerable.
So the tactical disadvantages probably outweigh the tactical advantages.
@Baud: the very same. I think they still make it. It’s a water softener that you add to hard water so the detergent can work better. Add it to your bath, and you’ll get more bubbles. Bubble baths in hard water are difficult.
@Roger Moore: From a slightly more reputable source (Business Week), here is an stealth attack boat a guy developed that rides on supercavitating–pontoons? Hydrofoils? Nacelles? Anyway, it goes 29 knots, and they hope to get it up to 50. Not supersonic, but it looks pretty cool.
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Schlemizel
@Villago Delenda Est:
I work for a place that built anti-sub torpedos many years ago. I am not sure how much I know or can say but the torpedos could travel more than 180 MPH for an extended period of time. A big sub will admit to about 35 MPH (both those numbers are for public consumption, as if the old Soviet or DIA folks didn’t know they were low.
A sub is not going to out run a torpedo (although Red October did a very good job of talking about what they could do instead). If they can make a sub run with cavitation effect then the torpedo would be easier. Assuming all other issues are overcome the sub is still very very dead as it is doubtful it could do any of the things a sub can do to not die when traveling that way.
@Mike in NC:
Between the big CA earthquakes & rising sea levels maybe that is exactly what NoixeMax expects! Chi-Coms storming the beaches of Norman OK!
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StringOnAStick
Today’s unfun news is that my BIL was diagnosed with cancer on/in both his feet, and currently can’t walk just from the biopsies. I’m the one with the medical knowledge to ask the right questions, but he won’t talk to anyone about it and he either doesn’t know or won’t tell my husband what the current diagnosis is (or if there even is one yet). My husband is flying out tomorrow to help since my BIL is the primary caretaker of their elderly, getting-more-senile-daily father. Don’t yet know if it is a simple, easy to treat skin cancer or something much worse, but I suspect our lives as a married couple are about to get a whole lot more complicated. I wish we had more facts to work with.
@Villago Delenda Est:
It would still be hard to hit a supersonic sub. By the time you had tracked it, it would have moved quite a long distance, and it would be moving fast enough you’d have a hard time catching up. You’d need very good coordination with somebody else who was along the projected line of travel. Of course it wouldn’t be terribly dangerous to anyone who wasn’t on that straight line it was traveling on, because it wouldn’t be able to use sonar to find out what was going on around it.
We used to have an employee who burped, howled, and yelped all day. It was like working in a zoo without the cute animals. I was never sure if she had been dropped on her head as a baby or just enjoyed being annoying.
@Roger Moore: There’s still the ‘a great deal of energy in a very small place’ situation. I don’t know, but I’d guess that deflecting a supersonic vehicle a small amount would generate forces large enough to damage the vehicle. The vehicle has a certain hydrodynamic performance envelope, the goal would be to nudge it into the unpleasant area outside the envelope.
nice. that lead picture is from the Wedge, 500 yards from where I lived when I was getting my BA. the biggest Wedge wave I ever rode was about 15 feet, and they are going off at 25+ feet today. monstrous
“Sons of Guns” star Will Hayden lost his reality show, his company and his freedom when he was arrested Wednesday on rape charges.
Hayden was booked on an aggravated rape charge at Louisiana’s East Baton Rouge Parish jail on Wednesday, pending $200,000 bail, according to jail records.
The arrest comes two weeks after Hayden was released on a $150,000 bond after his arrest on charges of child molestation and a crime against nature, according to Casey Rayborn Hicks, public information director of the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office.
Maybe the gun humpers can start up a pledge drive for him.
@Roger Moore: If you’ve got a solid track, and you know the speed it’s traveling at, you’ll be able to project where it will be, and have depth charges ready for when it reaches a given point on its trajectory.
This would indeed require a great deal of coordination, but if you know that such a threat exists before hand, you can plan for general contingencies.
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I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
Hey BGinCHI and All,
A certain book is being shipped by Amazon, finally. I got my copy (ordered on June 19) today. It looks good!
Cheers,
Scott.
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Villago Delenda Est
@Roger Moore: Oh, what nonsense. Everyone knows that Satan himself is moving those rocks in order to create the search for a “scientific” explanation to discredit the Bible.
@some guy: We might go down later. Coming up on low tide now. Were down there (not surfing) last friday with 6-8′. Always fun to watch everyone when surf is decent.
According to the always-reliable NewsMax, China is developing a ‘supersonic submarine’.
The submarine breakthrough happened only after the Chinese discovered one weird trick and miraculously the supersonic submarine is powered by just three common household spices.
We used to have an employee who burped, howled, and yelped all day. It was like working in a zoo without the cute animals. I was never sure if she had been dropped on her head as a baby or just enjoyed being annoying.
I work in a small office. Me and 8 women. One co-worker hiccups all day, another burps constantly, but don’t let that stop her from guzzling ginger ale like it was going out of style. My co-worker who types like her fingers were made out of concrete has pain issues, and I feel incredibly sorry for her, but there are days when it’s like working in a hospice. Lots of grunting, low moaning, ow ow ows like she stubbed her toes. Our office can only fit 3 people at a time, so there is just no personal space. I just think I’m tired of the job and it’s time to go, so everything they do is starting to grate on my nerves. Like breathing. Everyday, in and out, in and out! kidding. Kind of.
Your co-blogger has a correction to make — young men and a young lady. (At least, I assume Mo’Ne is the only girl on the team, but I didn’t watch the whole series.)
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Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Hal: I worked with someone who plucked her eyebrows and flossed at her desk in a shared office.
I had no idea that I talk to myself at work until my co-worker on the other side of the wall asked me to keep it down. Embarrassing!
60.
Pogonip
@Hal: We had one that grunted and moaned and sighed all the time; we weren’t sure if she was having a bad time or a good one. She was also meaner than a neo-con with nobody to bomb. Thank God she’s gone.
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Chickamin Slam
@Roger Moore: That’s what THEY want you to think. The rocks actually were moved by aliens visiting nearby. Their space craft broke down so the dad and mom equivalents told the kids to go play for a bit while they fix what’s wrong.
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Pogonip
P. S. the mean grunt-moan-sigher and the flaky burp-howl-yelper were two different critters. Both gone, thank God.
I want to say that SiubhanDuinne said next Tuesday was the best day for her, but since I’m out of town I will have to recuse myself from the wrangling planning.
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dmsilev
@Mnemosyne: Wrong Little League team. The team from Chicago, which won the US championship but lost to South Korea in the final, is all boys.
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Comrade Scrutinizer
The body count keeps climbing:
A crew member working on a taping of “Cops” was inadvertently shot and killed by a police officer during a robbery in Omaha, Nebraska, local officials said Wednesday.
Bryce Dion, an audio technician, is believed to be the first member of the “Cops” production staff killed in the 25-year history of the television show.
Good to know the cops are out there protecting us from nuts with guns.
@StringOnAStick: Hey there. My dad had skin cancer on his feet. Happy to offer any insight if it would be helpful.. Best of luck to your BIL. Hang in there.
It has a number of drastic problems: it’s incredibly energy intensive, the torpedo or sub can’t use sonar, and (according to the article) it can’t be steered.
What we used to dismiss in software development as “implementation details.” Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Have never heard of such a thing as cancer on one’s feet, but here’s hoping it’s curable and the treatment is well tolerated.
They can do a lot for (some) cancer now; it can be more a chronic condition.
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Bob In Portland
Yesterday I linked to a site that said there was a new rebel front moving to the south of Lugansk and Donetsk. Today first the BBC then the NY Times joined in reporting about this new southern front, with the Ukrainian army in flight at least back to Mariupol.
The Times (and the western press generally) is continuing its policy of not including photographs of what anonymous sources claim has happened. For example, the picture accompanying the story is not the invasion but a picture of some Ukrainian soldiers standing on the side of the road.
For about the fifth time in a week, Ukrainian military sources claim that the Russians are leading an attack, although again these Russians apparently were invisible to Ukrainian and New York Times cameras.
I note that Michael Gordon, who with Judith Miller cowrote those drumbeats leading up to our invasion of Iraq, cowrote the Times article.
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Jay C
Any BJers been affected by the Time Warner Cable outage today? I’m up at our summer place n the Scenic Berkshires ™ where TWC is scarce: we get our broadband from (I guess) antiquated DSL, so no probs: but it sounds like vast numbers of subscribers WERE hit. And the official “explanation”:
The company said the problems started around 4:30 a.m. EDT during overnight network maintenance. The company was managing its allocation of IP addresses—unique numbers that identify certain websites and devices–when “an erroneous configuration was propagated throughout our national backbone, resulting in a network outage,” a spokesman said.
sounds more like a coverup of “someone tripped over a plug“, or some similar doofery: can anyone here translate?
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I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Bob In Portland: You must be right. That can be the only explanation, I guess.
Last week, the Ukrainian military claimed to have captured two Russian armored personnel carriers. Both vehicles allegedly carried documents proving that they were based in Pskov, a city in northern Russia near Estonia. On Wednesday, The New York Times reported about a fresh invasion by Russian forces.
Journalists and bloggers spent the next few days tracking down the social media accounts of the soldiers identified in the recovered paperwork. They discovered several accounts on Vkontakte, a popular Russian social networking site, where updates suddenly ceased just before the APCs were destroyed in Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.
Then, Russian journalists discovered a series of fresh graves in Pskov this week belonging to soldiers who died under mysterious circumstances. On August 26, when more reporters tried to visit the cemetery where they were buried, anonymous men attacked them and told them never to return.
Those Russian graves are probably empty, also, too. Right?
The silence or mumbled commentary from official ministries has only increased the atmosphere of suspicion and forces us to recall unpleasant examples from Russian and Soviet history. The country didn’t know about the secret operations of the Red Army in Afghanistan in 1929 and in Xinjiang in the 1930s. Their participants were forbidden to write to relatives about their real location, letters were sent from the place of deployment after review by the censor. In the same way, the Kremlin was silent about the participation of Soviet soldiers in combat in Korea and Vietnam against the USA, and in Egypt and Syria against Israel.
Or how about the report in the Russian TVRain, that a reporter for the Russian Telegraf wire service was assaulted and his camera’s memory cards were seized when he went to the cemetery where the Russian paratroopers are reportedly buried.
Russian sources are starting to question the Russian version of events. That’s interesting, wouldn’t you say?
Russian sources are starting to question the Russian version of events. That’s interesting, wouldn’t you say?
Obviously some of Gehlen’s people went to Moscow. They have been waiting and waiting for their opportunity to strike, and, hallelujah, their day of glory is at hand. Or something.
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Gin & Tonic
@Jay C: That sounds like a very possible scenario. Network devices have configurations that need to be modified over time. Maintenance windows are usually pretty limited, so as careful as you might be, there is time pressure and a mistake can be made. This kind of stuff happens. You think you’re applying a new configuration and you apply an old one, stuff like that. Mistakes can and do propagate to many devices as they update each other, and it can take quite a bit of time and effort for things to get back to being stable.
It takes some stones to be publicly questioning the Kremlin’s version of events if you live and work in Moscow.
I posted earlier today that the Ukrainian military pilot who was captured by the Russians, Nadezhda Savchenko, is reportedly being committed to a psychiatric hospital and her lawyers will have no contact with her for a month. Everything old is new again.
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JCT
@? Martin: At least the gun humpers on a local gun forum are 100% sure the guy’s ex-wife fabricated the whole thing to screw him over. I kid you not. The fear/misogyny/racism among these assholes is a sight to behold. Loathsome “people” they are.
@Pogonip: She probably had a form of Tourette’s syndrome.
Any device that wants to access the internet has to have an IP address and it also has to know some other stuff about the network, including the IP address for the first box you get to, and that box knows how to get to other stuff on the internet. All of those boxes talk to other boxes to get the latest scoop on how to get to everything on the internet.
If you screw up the kind of stuff they were working with at Comcast, it’s like giving out bad directions, and then the other Comcast boxes start repeating your bad directions, and suddenly nobody can get anywhere.
Once you correct your original issue, then the new “directions” have to be sent to the next box, and then that box sends them to all the boxes it knows about, and so on.
Somebody at Comcast is having a very bad day. And depending on who their boss is, they might be having their last day at Comcast.
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Trollhattan
Does mean that you’re “auto-big footing?”
scav
@Trollhattan: There’s a combination of fetishes.
dmsilev
According to the always-reliable NewsMax, China is developing a ‘supersonic submarine’. Has someone been masochistic enough to bing-watch entire seasons of Seaquest DSV or something?
Suffern ACE
@dmsilev: That would be cool, but it would be kind of difficult to hide. I’m assuming that this concern is somehow related to the proposed Nicaraguan canal. You know. If we let them build that, the chinese could have their subs off the coast of norfolk in 6 hours.
Trollhattan
@dmsilev:
Considering the speed of sound in water, that fucker is going to be FAST!
ETA They’ll convert it to a container ship to get us our shit faster.
Villago Delenda Est
@Trollhattan: Seriously.
I think the “flying sub” from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is going to be with us sooner than a supersonic sub (in the water).
ETA: Yes, we need that cheap plastic shit from Wal Mart NOW, dammit!
Scamp Dog
@dmsilev: @dmsilev: I like it! Things that go real fast are cool, and if they spend their military budget on stuff that goofy, we have less to worry about.
Plus I’m chuckling about a super-loud, unsteerable submarine.
Suffern ACE
@dmsilev: O.K. I got out of the boat. The two problems with it is that it could only travel in a straight line and would have to be launched at speed or the bubble would pop.
I’m imagining an underwater cranked energizer for subs. Like the kind that used to launch evel knievel toy bikes.
Baud
@dmsilev:
I’m more impressed with China’s faster-than-light tanks.
Suffern ACE
@Baud: They have transporter technology. Well, almost. They can make people appear where they want them to be, but haven’t figured out how to transmit them. So basically, they walk or drive cars. Sometimes, they use bicycles, too.
Hal
Not only is my co-worker the slowest typist in the known universe, she is the loudest. All I hear from 3 to 11 is BAM BAM BAM. Glob forbid she needs to send out a department email. A straight half hour of bams and the email might be four sentences long. I think I have officially reached the point where I need a new job. When your coworkers bodily functions start grating on your nerves, you know it’s time to move on.
Trollhattan
Who can ever be sure whether it’s real?
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@dmsilev: I remember poor Bryan Lamb catching a call from an elderly wingnut who was pissed that a picture of President Colin Powell was shown on the show.
Never did figure out what C-SPAN was supposed to do about it…
Baud
I’m reminded for some reason of that old commercial whose tag line was “ancient Chinese secret.” I can’t recall what the product was (some type of laundry detergent, I think).
Roger Moore
@dmsilev:
No. There’s been an idea of a “supercavitating” underwater transport, where it creates a bubble of gas around itself and moves in that. It’s been tested for extremely fast torpedoes but has not taken over there. It has a number of drastic problems: it’s incredibly energy intensive, the torpedo or sub can’t use sonar, and (according to the article) it can’t be steered.
Hal
Sure Jan, sure.
MattF
@dmsilev: Some knowledge of hydrodynamics would be relevant here. I’ll just note that traveling underwater faster than the speed of sound in water would take a great deal of energy.
ETA: Looks like Mr. Moore has looked at the article. I’m not going to do that.
Yatsuno
@Baud: Calgon. I don’t think they make it anymore. Tragically.
Villago Delenda Est
@Baud: MR. SPARKLE! Awsom-a powah! Disrespectful of dirt!
Oh, wait, that’s Japanese.
Never mind!
KG
@Trollhattan: not only that, I’m guessing it won’t exactly be easy to hide which is kinda the point of submarines, isn’t it? I mean, supersonic things in water tend to leave a nasty wake
Baud
@Yatsuno:
I thought it might be Calgon, but then I thought Calgon was the product in the “Calgon, take me away!” ad.
Roger Moore
@MattF:
But every time you click on a NoiseMax link, they give Cole money. Don’t you want Cole to get money?
KG
@Hal: just because I am envisioning a complete shitshow of an election in 2016, I am fully on board with “Romney 2016: Told Ya So!”
Villago Delenda Est
@MattF: If you think that mere things like facts schmacts (which have a lie-bral bias) are going to deter Noisemax from running a “oh, noes, the Chi-Coms are coming in supersonic subs to steal our daughters right off of California beaches” sort of story, you have another think coming.
MattF
@Roger Moore: Yeah, I know. I’m torn. I think the thing to do is just drop some $$$ in the donation box. We’re talking internet infrastructure here.
Elizabelle
@efgoldman:
We will make a DC meetup, even if it is just you and me and some surprise guests. (Redshift, eemom, snapdragon, anyone out there!!)
Sounds like early next week works best for Siubhan Duinne, so maybe we will do back to back meetups and let her pick the date next week.
You pick the date, ef, for your visit. Tomorrow? Friday? Even Saturday? We can meet at Murphy’s in Old Town, Alexandria, by default, or try another spot.
Also: I plan to visit the National Portrait Gallery tomorrow (or Friday, second choice) to take in their
American Cool exhibit; photos of Marlon Brando, Miles Davis, Billie Holliday, Johnny Depp, Jimi Hendrix a trove of the cool. Free, free, free, and one of the best museums in DC.
American Cool closes Sunday, September 7, so time’s a wasting. Open daily, 11:30 to 7:00 p. Very near Metro Center, if memory serves.
Would you like to meet up there for a museum visit (too)? Going to highly recommend the Portrait Gallery to Siubhan too.
Howard Beale IV
@Baud: Calgon.
Villago Delenda Est
@KG: There’s always a speed vs. stealth tradeoff with subs, yah. The faster you go, the more noise you make. This is why the “caterpillar drive” of The Hunt for Red October was such a revolutionary development.
A really fast moving sub would be easy to track, but probably difficult to hit. Unless, of course, you project where it will be and prepare to detonate explosives at that place, because, you see, it can’t be steered. It would travel in a straight line. Which means…it’s hardly invulnerable.
So the tactical disadvantages probably outweigh the tactical advantages.
kindness
@Trollhattan:
Can I haz my i-Phone 6 now pleez?
raven
@Elizabelle: I’m cool like dat. . .
Suffern ACE
@Baud: the very same. I think they still make it. It’s a water softener that you add to hard water so the detergent can work better. Add it to your bath, and you’ll get more bubbles. Bubble baths in hard water are difficult.
Mike in NC
@Villago Delenda Est:
Nah, California beaches are full of hippie sluts and pinko surfers. They’d be more concerned at NoiseMax about the beaches in Kansas and Oklahoma.
Baud
@Suffern ACE:
Ah, thank you!
raven
@Mike in NC: Big ass south swell hitting the beaches right now.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-huge-waves-southern-california-coast-surfers-20140827-story.html
Citizen_X
@Roger Moore: From a slightly more reputable source (Business Week), here is an stealth attack boat a guy developed that rides on supercavitating–pontoons? Hydrofoils? Nacelles? Anyway, it goes 29 knots, and they hope to get it up to 50. Not supersonic, but it looks pretty cool.
Schlemizel
@Villago Delenda Est:
I work for a place that built anti-sub torpedos many years ago. I am not sure how much I know or can say but the torpedos could travel more than 180 MPH for an extended period of time. A big sub will admit to about 35 MPH (both those numbers are for public consumption, as if the old Soviet or DIA folks didn’t know they were low.
A sub is not going to out run a torpedo (although Red October did a very good job of talking about what they could do instead). If they can make a sub run with cavitation effect then the torpedo would be easier. Assuming all other issues are overcome the sub is still very very dead as it is doubtful it could do any of the things a sub can do to not die when traveling that way.
Elizabelle
@raven:
I wish you could come visit! One of these days.
Digable Planets, you say?
Schlemizel
@Mike in NC:
Between the big CA earthquakes & rising sea levels maybe that is exactly what NoixeMax expects! Chi-Coms storming the beaches of Norman OK!
StringOnAStick
Today’s unfun news is that my BIL was diagnosed with cancer on/in both his feet, and currently can’t walk just from the biopsies. I’m the one with the medical knowledge to ask the right questions, but he won’t talk to anyone about it and he either doesn’t know or won’t tell my husband what the current diagnosis is (or if there even is one yet). My husband is flying out tomorrow to help since my BIL is the primary caretaker of their elderly, getting-more-senile-daily father. Don’t yet know if it is a simple, easy to treat skin cancer or something much worse, but I suspect our lives as a married couple are about to get a whole lot more complicated. I wish we had more facts to work with.
Roger Moore
@Villago Delenda Est:
It would still be hard to hit a supersonic sub. By the time you had tracked it, it would have moved quite a long distance, and it would be moving fast enough you’d have a hard time catching up. You’d need very good coordination with somebody else who was along the projected line of travel. Of course it wouldn’t be terribly dangerous to anyone who wasn’t on that straight line it was traveling on, because it wouldn’t be able to use sonar to find out what was going on around it.
Pogonip
@Hal: Typing is a bodily function?
We used to have an employee who burped, howled, and yelped all day. It was like working in a zoo without the cute animals. I was never sure if she had been dropped on her head as a baby or just enjoyed being annoying.
Elizabelle
@efgoldman:
email me at my fake email addy on gmail, if you like, and I’ll answer back with the real one.
it is elizabethgraceotr and you know the rest of the deal.
You and anyone else interested in a meetup this week and next week, with next week’s guest Siubhan.
Choose the date for this week and we’ll ask Anne Laurie (or whomever) to put up an emergency blogpost on it.
I guess we could do DC, if there’s a lot of interest there, and it’s doable by Metro …
Roger Moore
Completely unrelated: scientists have solved the mystery of how rocks move on Racetrack Playa in Death Valley. It turns out that thin sheets of ice can act as sails, allowing low speed wind to push the rocks.
MattF
@Roger Moore: There’s still the ‘a great deal of energy in a very small place’ situation. I don’t know, but I’d guess that deflecting a supersonic vehicle a small amount would generate forces large enough to damage the vehicle. The vehicle has a certain hydrodynamic performance envelope, the goal would be to nudge it into the unpleasant area outside the envelope.
some guy
@raven:
nice. that lead picture is from the Wedge, 500 yards from where I lived when I was getting my BA. the biggest Wedge wave I ever rode was about 15 feet, and they are going off at 25+ feet today. monstrous
? Martin
More good guys with guns:
Maybe the gun humpers can start up a pledge drive for him.
rikyrah
UPDATED with pics from their homecoming and the city’s parade thrown in their honor
Chicago’s Jackie Robinson West Little League Wins US Championship World Series!
Posted on August 24, 2014 by Ametia
http://3chicspolitico.com/2014/08/24/chicagos-jackie-robinson-west-little-league-wins-us-championship-world-series/
Villago Delenda Est
@Roger Moore: If you’ve got a solid track, and you know the speed it’s traveling at, you’ll be able to project where it will be, and have depth charges ready for when it reaches a given point on its trajectory.
This would indeed require a great deal of coordination, but if you know that such a threat exists before hand, you can plan for general contingencies.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
Hey BGinCHI and All,
A certain book is being shipped by Amazon, finally. I got my copy (ordered on June 19) today. It looks good!
Cheers,
Scott.
Villago Delenda Est
@Roger Moore: Oh, what nonsense. Everyone knows that Satan himself is moving those rocks in order to create the search for a “scientific” explanation to discredit the Bible.
Roger Moore
@Villago Delenda Est:
Not gonna work. The people were actually there and watched them move.
? Martin
@some guy: We might go down later. Coming up on low tide now. Were down there (not surfing) last friday with 6-8′. Always fun to watch everyone when surf is decent.
MomSense
@dmsilev:
The submarine breakthrough happened only after the Chinese discovered one weird trick and miraculously the supersonic submarine is powered by just three common household spices.
grillo
@Baud: Calgon Detergent’s Ancient Chinese Secret
Villago Delenda Est
@Roger Moore: Satan has an invisibility cloak, obviously.
You are so gullible.
Hal
@Pogonip:
I work in a small office. Me and 8 women. One co-worker hiccups all day, another burps constantly, but don’t let that stop her from guzzling ginger ale like it was going out of style. My co-worker who types like her fingers were made out of concrete has pain issues, and I feel incredibly sorry for her, but there are days when it’s like working in a hospice. Lots of grunting, low moaning, ow ow ows like she stubbed her toes. Our office can only fit 3 people at a time, so there is just no personal space. I just think I’m tired of the job and it’s time to go, so everything they do is starting to grate on my nerves. Like breathing. Everyday, in and out, in and out! kidding. Kind of.
Mnemosyne
@rikyrah:
Your co-blogger has a correction to make — young men and a young lady. (At least, I assume Mo’Ne is the only girl on the team, but I didn’t watch the whole series.)
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Hal: I worked with someone who plucked her eyebrows and flossed at her desk in a shared office.
Mnemosyne
@Hal:
I had no idea that I talk to myself at work until my co-worker on the other side of the wall asked me to keep it down. Embarrassing!
Pogonip
@Hal: We had one that grunted and moaned and sighed all the time; we weren’t sure if she was having a bad time or a good one. She was also meaner than a neo-con with nobody to bomb. Thank God she’s gone.
Chickamin Slam
@Roger Moore: That’s what THEY want you to think. The rocks actually were moved by aliens visiting nearby. Their space craft broke down so the dad and mom equivalents told the kids to go play for a bit while they fix what’s wrong.
Pogonip
P. S. the mean grunt-moan-sigher and the flaky burp-howl-yelper were two different critters. Both gone, thank God.
grillo
@Chickamin Slam: That actually made good tv back in the day.
some guy
@? Martin:
yes, a surf voyeurs paradise. you are RIGHT there. how I miss Balboa
FourTen
Today I learned gamers (#notallgamers) are really really mad at Anita Sarkeesian.
And what is the deal with fedoras?
Steeplejack
@Trollhattan:
Phrasing!
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Mnemosyne: Mo’Ne Davis plays for the Taney Dragons in Philadelphia.
Steeplejack
@efgoldman:
I want to say that SiubhanDuinne said next Tuesday was the best day for her, but since I’m out of town I will have to recuse myself from the
wranglingplanning.dmsilev
@Mnemosyne: Wrong Little League team. The team from Chicago, which won the US championship but lost to South Korea in the final, is all boys.
Comrade Scrutinizer
The body count keeps climbing:
Good to know the cops are out there protecting us from nuts with guns.
Mnemosyne
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism:
@dmsilev:
Dang. And here I was hoping she was a Chicagoan.
Never mind, then.
Violet
@StringOnAStick: Hey there. My dad had skin cancer on his feet. Happy to offer any insight if it would be helpful.. Best of luck to your BIL. Hang in there.
Steeplejack
@Roger Moore:
What we used to dismiss in software development as “implementation details.” Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Elizabelle
@Violet:
@StringOnAStick:
Have never heard of such a thing as cancer on one’s feet, but here’s hoping it’s curable and the treatment is well tolerated.
They can do a lot for (some) cancer now; it can be more a chronic condition.
Bob In Portland
Yesterday I linked to a site that said there was a new rebel front moving to the south of Lugansk and Donetsk. Today first the BBC then the NY Times joined in reporting about this new southern front, with the Ukrainian army in flight at least back to Mariupol.
The Times (and the western press generally) is continuing its policy of not including photographs of what anonymous sources claim has happened. For example, the picture accompanying the story is not the invasion but a picture of some Ukrainian soldiers standing on the side of the road.
For about the fifth time in a week, Ukrainian military sources claim that the Russians are leading an attack, although again these Russians apparently were invisible to Ukrainian and New York Times cameras.
I note that Michael Gordon, who with Judith Miller cowrote those drumbeats leading up to our invasion of Iraq, cowrote the Times article.
Jay C
Any BJers been affected by the Time Warner Cable outage today? I’m up at our summer place n the Scenic Berkshires ™ where TWC is scarce: we get our broadband from (I guess) antiquated DSL, so no probs: but it sounds like vast numbers of subscribers WERE hit. And the official “explanation”:
sounds more like a coverup of “someone tripped over a plug“, or some similar doofery: can anyone here translate?
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Bob In Portland: You must be right. That can be the only explanation, I guess.
PRI:
Those Russian graves are probably empty, also, too. Right?
:-/
Cheers,
Scott.
Gin & Tonic
@Bob In Portland: So, the questions being asked by the Russian newspaper Vedomosti are probably made up as well, as in today’s lead editorial, “Are we at war?”
Or how about the report in the Russian TVRain, that a reporter for the Russian Telegraf wire service was assaulted and his camera’s memory cards were seized when he went to the cemetery where the Russian paratroopers are reportedly buried.
Russian sources are starting to question the Russian version of events. That’s interesting, wouldn’t you say?
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Gin & Tonic:
Obviously some of Gehlen’s people went to Moscow. They have been waiting and waiting for their opportunity to strike, and, hallelujah, their day of glory is at hand. Or something.
Gin & Tonic
@Jay C: That sounds like a very possible scenario. Network devices have configurations that need to be modified over time. Maintenance windows are usually pretty limited, so as careful as you might be, there is time pressure and a mistake can be made. This kind of stuff happens. You think you’re applying a new configuration and you apply an old one, stuff like that. Mistakes can and do propagate to many devices as they update each other, and it can take quite a bit of time and effort for things to get back to being stable.
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Or something.
It takes some stones to be publicly questioning the Kremlin’s version of events if you live and work in Moscow.
I posted earlier today that the Ukrainian military pilot who was captured by the Russians, Nadezhda Savchenko, is reportedly being committed to a psychiatric hospital and her lawyers will have no contact with her for a month. Everything old is new again.
JCT
@? Martin: At least the gun humpers on a local gun forum are 100% sure the guy’s ex-wife fabricated the whole thing to screw him over. I kid you not. The fear/misogyny/racism among these assholes is a sight to behold. Loathsome “people” they are.
@Pogonip: She probably had a form of Tourette’s syndrome.
WaterGirl
@Jay C: Gin & Tonic is right.
Any device that wants to access the internet has to have an IP address and it also has to know some other stuff about the network, including the IP address for the first box you get to, and that box knows how to get to other stuff on the internet. All of those boxes talk to other boxes to get the latest scoop on how to get to everything on the internet.
If you screw up the kind of stuff they were working with at Comcast, it’s like giving out bad directions, and then the other Comcast boxes start repeating your bad directions, and suddenly nobody can get anywhere.
Once you correct your original issue, then the new “directions” have to be sent to the next box, and then that box sends them to all the boxes it knows about, and so on.
Somebody at Comcast is having a very bad day. And depending on who their boss is, they might be having their last day at Comcast.