Comments by "Her Royal Fluffiness Celestia, Princess of Cake" (@CakePrincessCelestia) on "Russia develops new doomsday weapons" video.

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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Stasi and KGB agents eavesdropping on every single friggen phone call you did pre-1990 was hot enough... Well, now it's Google, Amazon, Apple etc doing the same, and no one cares... bEcAuSe ThEy GiVe Us So MuCh UtTeRlY gReAt TeCh! :D
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@AeneasGemini Even if there wasn't that option, wouldn't it just be more interesting to begin with? I couldn't even imagine doing dull routine work nine to five... too boring, wouldn't even be worth my time :D
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@youdontknowwhereivebeenlou2703 I have a higher education entrance qualification (though never went to university since I couldn't afford it) and completed dual vocational education and training - all I get is "You haven't done anything yet since leaving school", "You're basically completely unqualified" or even "That qualification isn't worth anything two years after having done it without working in that job" in my country. And I do have an invitation rate of like sub-1%. Welcome to human resource capitalism.
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"In some games, the only winning move is not to play" isn't anything short of that... :)
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@天子-Arren Don't trust any source unless it's yourself ;)
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@williamzk9083 BTW, it's pointless anyway to have a max range figure given anywhere if the thing would be capable of establishing a LEO. It'd basically be "anywhere on the planet within less than 90 minutes". And that's not a new thing either. And most probably NORAD etc. would know the stuff a lot earlier before the average folks hear anything about it on either type of media.
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