Not a single ICBM with a live warhead has ever been tested.
The ICBM is, substantially, a hoax. Scientifically unproven, a semi-imaginary technology.
Warheads have been tested, and ICBMs with warheads removed have been tested, but never together.
Imagine only ever testing a gun with powder and casing, but no projectile.
In 1961, the Armed Services Committee of the United States House of Representatives asked, "Who knows whether an intercontinental ballistic missile [ICBM] with a nuclear warhead will actually work?..."
On 6 May 1962, USS Ethan Allen successfully launched a Polaris A-1 with a live nuclear warhead toward Christmas Island. Codenamed FRIGATE BIRD, this was the only test the United States ever conducted of any nuclear ballistic missile from launch to detonation.
The Polaris A-2 was not an ICBM, it was a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) with a range of only 1,700 miles. The differences between the Polaris and an ICBM are extreme in every area: flight ceiling, maximum speed, range, computation, mass, etc.
The W 47 Polaris warhead had been modified following an earlier test showing it was prone to "inadvertent detonation". It was later estimated that half of W 47 warheads would have failed to detonate.
There was no experimental program on FRIGATE BIRD. Little in the way of "scientific rigor" was applied. The documentation is minimal.
"Documentary photography from a C-54 aircraft was planned, but there Is no evidence that this took place."
Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay stated in 1964: "We have only had one test, it was not under fully operational conditions, we fired one Polaris out in the Pacific with a warhead on it. It was not truly operational. It was modified to some extent for the test."
Barry Goldwater campaigned in 1964 warning that absent a full test "we are building a Maginot line of missiles," saying "the fact is that not one of our ICBMs has ever been subjected to a full test (of all component systems, including warheads) under simulated battle conditions."
Unfortunately, Goldwater was vilified by the communist media and painted by his opponents as "bomb happy." The entire discussion was swept away and forgotten. We now live in a fantasy realm, armed only with weapons of mass delusion.
If you believe in the beauty and majesty of thermonuclear weapons as I do, we must dispel this hideous senility, and return to our rightful timeline. When Trump wins in 2024, we must demand he break the chains of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and let Prometheus be unbound once more
To the doubters: the Joint Chiefs of Staff thought the need for proofing was such that they were willing to nuke southern California,
“Does a test conducted dead still at the bottom of a hole provide reliable assurance that the same weapon will work after traveling several thousand miles an hour in a reentry vehicle?"
A. L. Meyers, “Nuclear Testing,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 43 (1986)
Correction: it was the only test conducted by the United States where a live nuclear ballistic missile completed the entire flight sequence, including launch, flight, reentry, and detonation.
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Creatures that tried to make a bizarre eunuch class by castrating children think "deep down" conservatives doubt their own convictions, want approval of sick freaks
They have zero (0) theory of mind because of 'abstracted ipseity'. There is no 3D model because the modeler is 2D
Their "minimal presence" is subsumed into the screen (full immersion in the slop media abyss). They can't model anything in the real world because there is no point of contact. The world is observed *and felt* from within the screen (enchanted glass)
In other words, they aren't operating in their own bodies, including their own brains or nervous system. Total auto-amputation. Libs don't even know when they're broadcasting a miasma of fear and anxiety, let alone what other people think or feel "deep down" lmao
The 'For You' page is not an offer, it's a threat.
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'For You' page is not a "timeline", it's an algo-line where time is dis/re-ordered. Time is air, your curated timeline is an atmosphere, the first precondition for an online 'you'. It's a virtual superstructure that allows 'waking life' to exist here.
The algo-line is a dream under an evil star, a kind of screen-induced dissociative state, an abaissement du niveau mental, the first precondition for mediumship.
Whether we call them “goblinized,” or “slime mold,” “hive mind,” or simply “NPC," the one essential characteristic is that they’ve been fictionalized. They do not perceive the physical world directly. They are fiction-mediums.
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Reality, in its raw, non-fictionalized form is to them imperceptible, they can’t hold it in memory, and it is therefore unknowable. They are, in a sense, locked in a state where ‘conscious’ memory does not form.
Fiction and dreams affect epigenetic memory, in nonlinear ways. Dreams are personal morphogenetic fields, virtualities with no fixed time. There is no way to accurately determine the duration of a dream. It is an immeasurable continent, to which your mind *adapts*
All the bizarre things I've studied have faded to trivialities. Nothing has broken my belief in normal reality like learning, just now, that doctors didn't think babies felt pain until the late 1980s
The multiplier that, having studied "medical nemesis" in some detail, I had not heard this until today is really kicking my head in right now
You simply can't believe "doctors" are normal things after learning that
Verhoeven did *intend* to make a movie that said "war makes fascists of us all" but he failed on every level because he doesn't understand fascism, war or how propaganda works. 1/
First, his film *forces* the audience to side with the Aryan-vibey, attractive youths against the mindless, hideous, alien bugs. The morally unambiguous, gore-filled spectacle is guilt-free and even Verhoeven's portrayal of military propaganda is more slapstick than surreal.
The film doesn't subvert anything, at no point *during the watching* does one see the jingoism on display as excessive. No one feels bad for reveling in the slaughter of a genocidal, interplanetary swarm of vile insects. There's no moment where we see the bugs are "just like us"