Comments by "Her Royal Fluffiness Celestia, Princess of Cake" (@CakePrincessCelestia) on "CaspianReport"
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8:28 According to Wikipedia (sources listed there, as usual), its range is 18.000km. The technique used is called Fractional Orbital Bombardment System, which, basically instead of lobbing it up to come down at a specific target area through pure ballistics (in other words, what the V2 already did in WW2), it also includes a course correction once in space so it stays in a low earth orbit, just to shoot a retrograde burst once the destination is reached. And by entering a LEO, it's not suborbital anymore by definition. So basically it's got a flight profile just like a space shuttle with the only difference that it doesn't land safely, but goes boom-boom instead. With that, they could circumvent the NORAD defensive launch detection systems by just launching them in a southerly direction instead of taking a more direct route, but it won't go inbetween the continents like a snake as shown in the video, even though it would probably pass the south pole or at least get close to it. In case it would be suborbital, they'd do it with the "hypersonic" glide vehicle (everything that comes back from space is hypersonic, so it's just a nice buzzword here) and bounce off of the atmosphere several times. Eugen Sänger had that concept already in WW2 with the "Silbervogel", also known as antipodal bomber, with the thing even coming back for a landing after dropping stuff on the other side of the planet. In a nutshell, there's nothing groundbreakingly new here at all.
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"Everything began in Crimea, and everything will end in Crimea." - made me think of it... I started virtual flying in the Bay Area with F/A-18 Interceptor in the early 90s, but the first one I really binged hard was Jane's USNF with a Crimea map and campaign (the similarities to the current conflict are whopping BTW, there's a full playthough series on damsonn's channel). And around the same time, Eagle Dynamics dropped their first, Flanker - with a Crimea map that was part of the series until Lock On Flaming Cliffs. Only with DCS they moved further east, weirdly enough just at the time when Russia waged their war efforts there. People have been wanting the Crimea back in the sim since then, but all Eagle Dynamics was able to state was "We've actually been asked by the Russian gov't not to include Crimea, so we won't anytime soon" somewhere around the time frame of 2018-2020. Just piece things together these days, this has long been planned and there are subtle signs everywhere. I just hope that Ukraine will be able to end the conflict like that for real, but I would not want DCS to end by implementing that map at some point (the map may come, not the end of the sim)... ;)
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Me be like: Never had potential and I somehow do accept it after all those years...
Others be like: Don't accept it, you do!
Again, me: No I don't, prove me otherwise, let me do stuff!
Again, others: No, that's gonna cost us too much, we can't afford the insurance and on-costs, good luck living off of public assistance! Oh, by the way, we're gonna hate you for being such a fricken freeloader!
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@@talktothehat.3314 Well the thing is, I'm not exactly in an developed country in terms of internet and mobile coverage. Someone thought I was Aussie already, but I'm currently located in Germany, basically almost 3rd world in anything internet related. I got FTTC in my area in late 2015 and am still limited to 100/40MBit/s Annex-J vectoring to this day and the pings aren't that great (those actually have been a lot better with my previous 16/1 ADSL2 before that). Somewhere during next year, I'll be able to get FTTH finally. The ISPs have long been not increasing coverage because of costs and they'll be asking 800€ just for the FTTH line, but I ordered early enough so I don't have to pay that, luckily, as it's also subsidized by the country - finally. Will only be getting 500/100 though, but there's a 1000/200 option as well, but it would be 80 bucks a month. It's finally happening!
BTW I've been on a 500MB mobile data plan for 40 bucks a month a few years ago while in every single neighbouring country you already could get 40GB for half the price.
Here's some statistics BTW for FTTH coverage (replace the dots by actual ones, can't post working links as posts with such typically get removed):
https://www·netzoekonom·de/2014/03/20/deutschland-faellt-im-breitband-wettbewerb-zurueck/
https://de·statista·com/statistik/daten/studie/415799/umfrage/anteil-von-glasfaseranschluessen-an-allen-breitbandanschluessen-in-oecd-staaten/
https://de·statista·com/infografik/3553/anteil-von-glasfaseranschluessen-in-ausgewaehlten-laendern/
I still can remember some of those where we've been behind countries like Columbia and Bolivia not so long ago (literally right before Corona hit), but can't find them anymore.
Also, it happens to be that FTTH currently is most common in rural areas, because at some point they started placing that instead of upgrading the existing copper stuff for high bandwidth where no or just very slow DSL was available previously, so it's clearly affected by simple economic decisions. Urban areas are just beginning to slowly catch up finally, because they realize they have to pony up at some point. I'm writing this as an "end customer" - this has been an issue for companies, schools and institutions ever since.
PS: I like how all the comments explained how stuff works and how various factors and scale impact the whole thing. I knew most of that already and just wanted to drop that meme-y comment for being in "Neuland" here.
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