Donald Trump wants the Navy to rip out an electromagnetic launch system and replace it with a steam one.
Once again, the dimwitted President has gone full Juggalo.
This mother fucker said magnets stop working in the water and are therefore a stupid thing to put on a boat.
This can’t be my original timeline. This is the demented rantings of an old man. But he happens to be the fucking president…
Fuck this.
The timeline split in 2000.
Man I wish I was in the other one and Bush wasn’t able to steal the election from Gore.
They must have it good over there.
FUUUCK
Still haunted by hanging chads. Fuck
Hanging, dimpled, pregnant…the chads of our undoing sported different looks. The Bush family found all of them attractive.
If a portal to a parallel universe opens up, I’m going through.
Jim Varney was holding back the darkness. When he died, everything went to shit.
I shudder to think what dimbulb donnie’s science-y thoughts would be on something like a railgun.
My guess is that Kegseth really wanted to see testosterone filled Seamen covered in hot, damp steam.
I was talking with a retired admiral this morning about this issue. He said it can’t be done without rebuilding half the ship. You would have to rip out and then relocate most of the engineering compartments.
Yeah, they are not going to do this. They will redefine electromagnetic launchers as steam launchers before they actually dismantle an aircraft carrier.
I’ve launched off the front of aircraft carriers hundreds of times, have a Master’s degree in aeronautical engineering, and am a test pilot and even I wouldn’t suggest to the Navy how to engineer specific systems on its ships,
Naval aviator, combat veteran, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, space shuttle pilot, space shuttle commander, captain Mark Kelly significantly understates his qualifications. People who know a lot of stuff usually know what they don’t know.
Its why I hate being the “smart one” at work and amongst friends and family. The smartest people I know don’t automatically answer every question they get asked or don’t take it upon themselves to find an answer. I have some fucking horrible compulsion to find the correct answer to everything.
The smartest people I know can stick to their domain. They seem far less stressed. And they are able to be content knowing there are things they don’t know.
To me, knowing a lot doesnt equate to intelligence in the slightest.
The more you learn, the more you realize just how much knowledge you lack. And it never stops getting worse. At some point I started realizing there were things I didn’t even understand how I knew them. I’m sure all of you are aware of how disturbing that feels. The inability to provide knowledge of the self.
I would NEVER give medical or legal, or safety advice outside of the realm of electronics and softwate. I can certainly tell you what I know but I will also tell you that a person with a license and malpractice insurance behind them is necessary to tell you want to do with that knowledge.
People don’t like that. People don’t like it when they think you are smart and state something “without confidence like that.” They like it even less when they find out your knowledge was sufficient and they “wasted money on a professional.”
Trump does this shit the same reasons mid level and higher level managers do all their stupid shit. Because people prefer it when you are strictly confident, especially when you are confident about something that would benefit them, completely detached from the reality if it will or won’t.
Naval aviator, combat veteran, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, space shuttle pilot, space shuttle commander, captain Mark Kelly significantly understates his qualifications. People who know a lot of stuff usually know what they don’t know.
This last part is something those that suffer from Dunning-Kruger like Donnie will never understand, especially since he has malignant narcissism and a life in which he was coddled by privilege.
It requires humility to really grapple with that last part. Donnie just thinks being a “genius” is in his blood.
That’s basically what he’s been doing his whole life, to everything. It’s getting to the point that everything he does is emblematic of American decline, while also directly causing it.
Here’s why the navy is switching to the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, over the reliability of steam catapults:
The system launches carrier-based aircraft by means of a catapult employing a linear induction motor rather than the conventional steam piston, providing greater precision and faster recharge compared to steam.
Its main advantage is that it accelerates aircraft more smoothly, putting less stress on their airframes. Compared to steam catapults, the EMALS also weighs less, is expected to cost less and require less maintenance, and can launch both heavier and lighter aircraft than a steam piston-driven system. It also reduces the carrier’s requirement of fresh water, thus reducing the demand for energy-intensive desalination.
Ummm, I wouldn’t normally defend ICP, but Violent J and the other members of ICP have come out as supportive of basically everyone in the last few years*, and have straight up said that their early songs are indictive of how uneducated they were at the time, and have since then disavowed, and stopped playing all those songs.
ICP, and Juggalos in general seem like a Hard Rock/ Rap version of The Rainbow Family at this point.
Juggalos are also getting news stories for doing the same thing that the punk scene did, and tossing fascists out of their gatherings, then showering them with faygo.
*I know they came out as supportive of LGBTQ, as well as furries, partially because of their kids. People learning to be better is a good thing.
Was this comment made on the correct post?
Yes.
O.P. used “Juggalo” as a derogatory term indicating a prejudiced and ill-informed person. The reply is in defence of ICP, and by extension Juggalos. Pointing out that they have made considerable strides in inclusivity.
I think it was a reference to their infamous “Fucking magnets, how do they work” line.
So they figured out how magnets work?
I don’t actually think they figured out how anything works. It seems their kids made them realize the messages they used to promote were hateful to either their own children, or the friends of their children.
I’m sure that getting morally upstaged by your own kid is both embarrassing and a very proud moment for many parents. I wouldn’t know.
I’ve seen some adorable videos of Violent J supporting his furry kid.
Back to the steam age we go! Forget microcontrollers and magnets, we want steam and coal!
Universal Healthcare? HOW WILL WE PAY FOR IT!!! billions on pointless horseshit that will also have to be fixed with billions more when he’s gone? FINE!!!
Ah yes, let’s get rid of actually good technology and go back to the fucking 1800s. What next, no more nuclear powered ships, only coal engines?
Hey, enough of that! Stop insulting the Juggalos!
He most certainly is not ‘down with the clown’ .
It’s not just inferior tech being redesigned, Steam production/reservoirs need extra space, and space taken away from existing design. Very unlikely that steam would be needed for anything else on the ship.
Good. Anything that diminishes American power is a positive.
EXPONENTIAL BALL KNOWLEDGE!!!
If he wasn’t a foreign Manchurian candidate, he would make an excellent one
Magnets don’t work when wet!
One class clown spills a glass of water during an electro magnet demonstration in 2nd grade and it leads to the death of a nation and a run at extinction.
This is consistent with all the other times the president ordered the government to spend billions of dollars to undo years of work.
