This is a great little visualization amid all the hype around hypersonics and FOBS and other new steroids for military budgets. Never underestimate the power of some good old ICBMs fired in numbers the short way around. They get the job done before lunch.https://twitter.com/wslafoy/status/1450836014860316679 …
-
0:10Show this thread -
Let's not forget the main reason the Space Shuttle was such a shitshow was the design requirement that it launch into a single polar orbit to snatch a satellite, and land back where it started. Single-orbit anything is the great destroyer of budgets. https://idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm …
1 reply 1 retweet 17 likesShow this thread
I realize nothing I tweet can stop a multi-hundred-billion dollar program to make sure we can wage global thermonuclear war from a variety of geographic directions, but it saves me the cost of a stamp to write my congresswoman.
0 replies
1 retweet
15 likes
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.