<DocScrutinizer05>
LOL @ the internet never forgets
<DocScrutinizer05>
I still recall the author wrote he met another guy for a drink and that other guy told him the truth about how zhey nuked a complete reactor in Russia when they started a rocket powered by red mercury
<DocScrutinizer05>
>>Amerikanische Experten vermuten, dass es beim Test eines neuartigen Marschflugkörpers mit Atomantrieb zu einer Explosion gekommen ist.<<
<DocScrutinizer05>
yes, the red mercury stuff is pure fiction
<DocScrutinizer05>
that's why I went [10 Aug 2019 10:34:18] <DocScrutinizer> hahaha >>Amerikanische Experten vermuten, dass es beim Test eines neuartigen Marschflugkörpers mit Atomantrieb zu einer Explosion gekommen ist.<< [10 Aug 2019 10:34:43] <DocScrutinizer> red mercury
<DocScrutinizer05>
watch the pictures of explosion at independent.co.uk
<DocScrutinizer05>
looks to me like whole armor depot blasting off, prolly with lots of depleted uranium shells, maybe even nuclear devices
<DocScrutinizer05>
I don't buy those speculations of american "experts" about a nuclear powered new propulsion engine test
<DocScrutinizer05>
for a cruise missile !!!
<whitequark>
ah, yeah
<whitequark>
actually there were prototypes of nuclear powered propulsion engines in the US in 50s but they were too insane to even try to build
<whitequark>
more schemes than prototypes
<whitequark>
they'd probably technically work
<whitequark>
wait, no
<whitequark>
they actually built several of them
<DocScrutinizer05>
but way too complicated and expensive and dangerous for sth you can easily achieve by conservative means
<whitequark>
oh it doesn't make sense other than in context of "cold war strategic bomber" and *even then* it doesn't make enough sense
<DocScrutinizer05>
>> The advantage of a nuclear-powered aircraft over a conventionally-powered aircraft is that it could remain airborne orders of magnitude longer<< yeah
<DocScrutinizer05>
rather pointless for a cruise missile
<DocScrutinizer05>
I'm mildly concerned though about si,ilarities in public announcements scheme between this incident and chernobyl
<DocScrutinizer05>
similarities*
<DocScrutinizer05>
aaalready checked wind direction on site, alas 2 days later
<DocScrutinizer05>
WOW; no idea which universe's google yiou got ;-) many many thanks
<DocScrutinizer05>
or which magic google fu you practice
<whitequark>
DocScrutinizer05: query: "red mercury short story"
<DocScrutinizer05>
"short story" is the magic I guess
<DocScrutinizer05>
didn't occur to me ;-)
<whitequark>
well i've seen you sya "novel" and it wasnt really novel length
<DocScrutinizer05>
indeed
<DocScrutinizer05>
"short story" isn't in my all-active vocabulary
<DocScrutinizer05>
I had to dig a while to come up with "novel"
<DocScrutinizer05>
the curse of a 100% technical english education
<DocScrutinizer05>
that's why I love readinfg short stories ;-)
<whitequark>
hehe
<whitequark>
yeah, i usually have the opposite problem
<whitequark>
translating english (technical and social) concepts into my first language
<whitequark>
"what the fuck do you call the difference between money and wealth?.."
<DocScrutinizer05>
>>Elemental fluorine may be the thuggish hit-man of the halide world, but if you torment it with chloride ions you can turn it into the chemical equivalent of Hannibal Lecter: chlorine trifluoride, an oxidizing agent so malignant that it will set fire to water and burn explosively on contact with sand, asbestos, or rocket scientists.<<
<DocScrutinizer05>
how I missed it, ROTFL
<DocScrutinizer05>
whitequark: I just a few days ago told somebody "each version of the site gets more precise and rich" and a native english speaker pulled my leg by "rich! yeah, lots of money"
<DocScrutinizer05>
I replied "RTF is wealthy Text Format then?"
<whitequark>
i mean, "rich content" is something you could use in idiomatic english*
<whitequark>
* if you're an ibm drone
<DocScrutinizer05>
I only know rich text format
<DocScrutinizer05>
and I think I've seen "rich flavor" a lot of times on food and cigs