Alzoc
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Well I'm under the impression that homeschooling is, like gun ownership, yet another of the US peculiarity for the rest of the world (in terms of proportion of the population that use it). So it would make sense that if the system is so well developed in the US it's general quality would be good. If it's more common I guess that it must be easier to find advices or associations to help parents as opposed to other country where it is less developed. And since AFAIK all Americans pass the same test when trying to get to college (either SAT or ACT right?), the way you were taught doesn't matter as long as there is a common exam to asses the knowledge of everybody in a fair manner.
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Regardless of what one think of his idea or of how much saying that is a political suicide in Texas, I think it's a rather good sign that politician stands to their ideas even if they are unpopular rather than let the ideas of his opponents run unopposed. It create a debate (the level of the debate is another issue) and elections are the perfect time to speak about societal issues. It's like Benoît Hamon (who was was the left candidate for the French presidential election) who proposed the idea of a basic income financed by a tax on robots work in order to tackle the issue of unqualified jobs bound to disappear at some point since robots and algorithms do it better. It's an issue that our societies will have to deal with in a not so distant future: What do we do with peoples who can't get a job anymore? How do we guarantee them a decent living standard? I didn't liked the solution he proposed (I prefer for the State to help those people to get the necessary qualification in the new job market) but I was grateful to him for bringing that important question to the debates of the presidential election, it was the perfect stage discuss about this on a national scale.
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Just google image Eitan IFV which led me there
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Maybe a sort of rioting device? Like protecting soldier who needs to peek out in crowd control operation against various projectiles (cans, rocks,...) In that case the boxes would be there simply for structural resistance.
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On this scale model it looks more like a protected (against what?) area around the rear trap for dismounts.
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For the CDG, I think the reason was mainly that we already had an existing reactor for our subs so we just took 2 and slapped them in the carrier. Guess it helped a lot with the maintenance and design cost plus having only one supply chain for the fuel (soon with the Barracuda SSN replacing the Rubis class)
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@Laviduce Don't we also have a Mk 1 at the Saumur museum? Though I guess the museum may have to ask the permission of Israel before letting someone do whatever he want's with it.
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Maybe they mean that there is provision for a bigger engine if needed and that the transmissions won't be the limiting factor? Mechanics isn't really my thing, but that's what I would say. Or that the new engine have only a nominal 675 HP and can peak at 800 HP depending on the conditions and RPM (seem to be quite a far stretch though)?
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That seem to defy the law of physics to me, there must be another power source. Maybe something akin to a capacitor which would be used when you need a boost?
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Since this thread got me to start reading Worm, and so far I'm enjoying it, I was wondering if some of you had read this one: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality The prompt being, what if HP had been raised by a scientist? Personally it's a kind of humour I like, so I though I might share (that if you didn't knew it already).
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The Space Exploration Achievements Thread
Alzoc replied to Sturgeon's topic in Elon Musk: Making Space Great Again
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Welcome! If you're interested in the technical part of modern armor I suggest that you start with those threads: Then you could have a look at those threads:
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Not going to make Brexit negotiations any easier. I guess that makes one more leverage point in the negotiation for the EU
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Well we knew that the layout was bad, but not by that much. And given the placement of the armour (composite block on the whole length of the turret side instead on focusing everything on the front) it should have been obvious retrospectively, I just didn't expected it to be to that point. I guess that the initial goal was crew survivability since those armor modules are RPG-7 proof at 90°. Something the Leopard 2, even up-armored, is bad at since there is almost no special armor on the turret side. It's a good armour layout in urban environment, not so much in a long range frontal engagement. The leo 2 with A5 wedge armor get the job done by putting a huge slab of armor in front of everything and there is no denying that the Leopard 2 was the best armoured competitor during the Swedish trial. The M1A2 get it done with an unusually wide turret which mean that when you see it from an angle, you see a bigger surface of turret front compared to a narrower turret. Another interesting point is that both the Leclerc and the M1A2 seem to cap at 600 mm KE (the drop from 600 to 700 mm is quite significant). It may indicate that the array composition and layout might have been similar. Regardless this is indeed a significant find.
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Do you know on what principles those organs works? The question being, is it something we can take inspiration from to improve the desalination of sea water (energetically and environmentally wise)?
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I'll do the stats sheet: General characteristic of the AMX 40 Crew: 4 Total length with the gun at 12 O'clok: 10,04 m Hull length: 6,8m Width with appliqué (front side armor): 3,36 m Width hull only: 3,18 m Total height: 3,10 m Height (turret roof): 2,38 Mass with combat load: 43,7 t Ground pressure: 0,83 bar Fuel reserve: 1300 L Fuel consumption: between 180 and 220 L/100 km on road Autonomy: 550 km on road Top speed (road): 70 km/h Acceleration: 0 to 32 km/h in 6s Max obstacle height: 1,1 m Trench: 3,2 m wide Slope: 60% Cant: 30% Fording without preparation: 1,3 m Fording with 5 min preparation: 2,3 m Engine: V12X 24,69 L diesel with a 1100 hp output ; water cooled 2 stage overfeed ; power can reach 1300 hp with adjustment Transmission: Automatic ZF LSG 3000 ; 4 forward gear ; 2 reverse gear Suspension: Torsion bar and rotary dampener Tracks: 570 mm width with dry axis Main gun: Smoothbore 120 mm L52 NATO Secondary armament: 20mm M693 (coax) and 7,62 mm (RCWS on the commander cupola) FCS: Digitalized COTAC allowing to fire on the move on moving targets Gun elevation: -7°/+20° 20 mm coax elevation: -7°/+40° (independent from the main gun) RCWS elevation: -10°/+40° Commander sight: M527 Stabilized panoramic sight ; x2 and x8 day ; light intensification night ; linked to the FCS allowing to fire on the move (apparently by using the commander sight as a reference that the gun try to follow) Gunner sight: M581 scope with a x10 unitary zoom ; linked to gun Thermal camera: Castor Self defense: 6 Galix tubes Ballistic protection: Composite block providing a protection against 76 mm AP and RPG-7 in the frontal arc ; 23 mm AP on the sides.
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Well I expected as much^^
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Talking about nukes, I don't think I ever saw this on the forum: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ Have fun blowing up the world^^
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Unlikely, 106Ru being a fission product (hence if it came directly from used fissile fuel, it would have been mixed with other RN) it comes either from a facility handling it separately (either a fuel cycle facility designed to separate it or a radioactive source production plant) or a satellite using this RN as a heat source. The satellite hypothesis have been excluded so it most likely comes from a facility handling 106Ru. They just screwed up at some point liberating it in the air. http://www.irsn.fr/FR/Actualites_presse/Actualites/Documents/IRSN_NI_Ruthenium-106-en-Europe_20171109.pdf
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Yeah basically we have regulations on everything^^ We are an extremely jacobinist country: In France, Jacobin now generally indicates a supporter of a centralized republican state and strong central government powers[3] and/or supporters of extensive government intervention to transform society. Just for the fun of it here are the official journals (where all of the various new applicable regulations, laws, decree and official reports are published) for the past few days: 02/03 (today) 01/03 28/02 27/02 25/02
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And we are thankful for it. But IMO armed resistance didn't helped much, in the sense that even if it didn't existed, the allies would have liberated the country on more or less the same schedule. Armed resistance didn't drained much military resources from the German. I think that the true added value of resistance movement was in providing intelligence and punctual sabotage actions prior to major operations. Providing intelligence and delaying enemy re enforcement by targeting enemy communication network, roads, railways. Those thing may have saved the lives of a number of allied soldiers (But how to quantify it?). Finally there is also the moral value of resisting fascism and not accept it, which is at least as important than the military gains if not more. For example hiding Jews or allied pilots, running an opposition press clandestinely or any kind of political opposition.
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Ouch ^^ Though to be fair, while overconfidence was one of the reason we lost they were number of other factors, prime reason being that nobody (among the top brass at least) had seen the movement warfare coming (or didn't though hard enough about how to do it properly) , British and American only being safe thanks to large body of waters in the path and Russia being saved by it's strategical depth and it's weather once again.
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Our collective will to stay true to our value (I know it's very vague^^) and in last resort by our Army (which also happen to be made up of citizens willing to give up their lives for said values). And I'm rather confident that in case of crisis, the army will see a massive influx of citizen willing to help in any way possible. Like I said before I don't think that a mob of peoples with guns will stand up to a regular combat unit, especially when you throw force multiplier like AFV and air support into the mix. The middle ground probably, being country like Switzerland or Sweden where military service is still a thing, which allow to have a vast portion of the population with military training. In France the service is only suspended and the draft could come back at any time if the need arise (but you could argue that if the crisis hits us too fast we won't have enough time to train citizens properly, which may be true). On that note, thank you for the talk and good night/evening, having to wake up in 5 hours I'll go try get some rest^^
