you know what else needs infinite energy? that’s right, datacentres

first you have to put it in the orbit

i need to see that bosnian ape society video

or caffeinated. couple of herbs like mint also fits

sounds suspiciously like something a mosquito would say

yeah it’s supposed to glow green

wiki says:

On 26 June 2025, it was reported that the USAF had canceled the E-7 program due to ballooning costs and concerns about survivability. The termination, announced as part of the fiscal 2026 budget rollout, came after months of rumors that the program was in danger as the Trump administration increasingly set its sights on instead using space-based capabilities to help warplanes find and track enemy aircraft, known as the air moving target indicator (AMTI) mission.[7]

because E-3s are aging out, whatever little of E-2 that remain are to be supplemented by satellites. it’s definitely a take, and it also seems like awacs is important part of air war these days. not sure what they’re cooking

shitcanning your own awacs production (E-7) even when it’s needed for replacement of older ones will do that

using vhf-uhf equals to lower resolution and means that you might miss the drone entirely. and it doesn’t fit on a fighter

they kinda do, it’s called forklift

you should also count cost of damage to whatever drone slams into

ofc it should if you know where it is. balloon and ropes are plastic and therefore non-reflective for microwaves. drone is also largerly plastic so the only metal bits are wiring, battery and warhead

but wait, it gets worse: you can shoot down balloon, but after release drone is still pretty high up but it’s now fast, and has just as small radar return as before

Fedorov named the scaling of competitive procurement for FPV, mid-strike, and deep-strike drones as the next step. “In the summer, we will transition to tender procedures in all possible defense procurements,” he stated.

wild that it didn’t happen before

so your solution to defeating a grenade is to dig explosive out of it?

While I have no evidence to support that claim I have seen someone putting live ammunition in a pot and making it cook off. That experiment clearly showed that cartridges are only really dangerous when used in a firearm. I expect the physics to be very much the same here.

then your expectations aren’t worth shit, because one is high explosive that does not require confinement to detonate, because reaction zone propagates through supersonic mechanical shock, and the other one is low explosive that has burn rate dependent on pressure, because it burns on surface, which forms foam, which slows down heat transfer, then foam collapses with pressure increase which makes heat transfer faster, but it’s all subsonic. some of the smallest fragments might be stopped by a pot wall, if grenade is in the center, but if it’s close to one wall, then the wall itself would just generate more fragments

but you probably won’t have pot on hand, or realize what is going on in time, and you don’t know how much time is left because of manufacturing tolerances, and you probably don’t have grenade sumps in your living room, so better way would be preventing this situation in the first place, for example using laminated windows or not being a probable mafia target in sweden, if it’s practical. not by trying to cover grenade with a pot, because you just spend more time closer to grenade this way

that would make the wall unsafe, i’m thinking more about the other ones. it’s not very typical to have cardboard wall, i’d like to make that point

but it’s even better to make sure that grenade doesn’t know where you are

I’d suggest having a “decorative” metal pot. If you could cover the grenade with it, that could potentially nullify its effect

this is just adding more metal to be thrown around

first, don’t be there, then don’t be detected, then don’t be hit

wall (brick or concrete, not cardboard) between you and grenade should stop fragments, anything less is heavily dependent on what kind of the thing it is and how lucky you are. ikea chair won’t save you, anything solid enough to be worth it would be so heavy that time spent moving it is just better spent moving away. if you live above ground floor, like on third floor or above, it’s likely that you’ll be fine because throwing grenades up is a really bad idea. grenades are round and roughly as heavy as rocks of similar size, perhaps you can get laminated glass windows that should crack but not let grenade through on impact

something is wrong, i can see new zealand on this map

when you dissolve salt in water, then salt splits into ions and each can hold up specific number of water molecules, which means that this water can’t do water things. so on top of salt’s physical presence, there’s a fraction of water that can’t water, or salt water is less watery in a sense than fresh water. now it turns out, if you put a membrane between these two that allows water through but not salt, water goes to higher salinity on its own, because it’s less watery there. how hard it happens is quantified as osmotic pressure and it can be in tens of atmospheres. reverse electrodialysis is just a clever arrangement that avoids energy recovery from low volume of high pressure liquid, like how reverse of reverse osmosis would work

Take a look at a modern supercritical steam turbine, this thing can run on 600C steam. there’s nothing archaic about it (it can be more efficient as a part of combined cycle)

Hydropower and windmills are older than steam