The first plant of marijuana was planted on earth by aliens who wanted to save humanity. Instead of caffeine and amphetamine(for "ADHD") everyone including little kids should be force-fed marijuana all day. Marijuana must be legalized.
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Anonymous2025-12-24 0:27
The enemies of marijuana will never win, their defeat is written by the stars.
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Anonymous2025-12-27 22:58
Libertarians must be obsessed about liberty now.
Talk to people everywhere. Pass out flyers. Print out business cards. Make a website. Start a newspaper. Rent a billboard. Make songs and movies about freedom.
You might be the last one defending freedom, but you must live with your conscience.
@Khumry 7 years ago you can not belive the history told to us in school you have do your own research. the british language is welsh the alphabet is bardic when you put two together then you can read the anicent texts like the black sea scrolls that tell you where the native british are from then you can understand who we are. every raise of humans has its own language and alphabet thats where you start then you look to where the alphabet is found and follow it read it understand it and the truth will set you free
And using RIPPLE, they seem to think they could get a very large bomb in the weight of 18,000 lbs (12 kt/kg if 100 Mt), but the dimensions would be wonky (80" diameter).
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Anonymous2026-06-14 20:50
[–]kyletsenior[s] 13 points 3 years ago
I had been thinking about putting diagrams of a few different devices together for a while, and Ripple was first on my list.
I assumed here that modulation is done with alternating high/low-Z layers. The alternative would be to modulate the x-rays in the interstage area, such as through metal foils of different thicknesses that burn through.
I hadn't realised how far apart the primary and secondary were until I started. Though that assumes the device had that length for a reason, and primary and secondary were as far apart as possible.
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[–]Aggressive_Aspect862 3 points 2 years ago
I believe the problem was size. I'm not sure if it was a deliverable weapon or just a series of tests.
I've read the biography of Ted Taylor who worked exclusively on nuclear rather than thermonuclear weapon design with the emphasis on size. He went from a 280mm shell down to a 155mm shell and even mentioned that 105mm was possible using 'bare cores' and other scary ideas.
But he noted that lower yield devices are very inefficient requiring large amounts of fissile material for the yield.
I'm a chemist by training and I sat down to dry to draw mercury pyroantimonate (purported to be 'red mercury' and what I noted was that if the mercury is in it's +2 oxidation-state, the only way I could make it balance was for it to be a macromolecule i.e. a long chain of a repeating pattern of atoms.
Wigner energy has now been studied in materials other than graphite so I do wonder it displacement could occur in such a material. In fact such displacement could result in a 3D macromolecule.
Pure conjecture on my part and the energies I've read of do not suggest that a ballotechnic is feasible.
Still, I suppose someone smarter than me has looked at the problem and will know for sure.
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[–]kyletsenior[s] 1 point 2 years ago
I hope you are not suggesting red mercury is real.
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[–]Aggressive_Aspect862 1 point 1 year ago
I used the term 'purportedly' because although many sources CLAIM mercury pyroantimonate is the chemical in question, nobody knows.
I also stated that I did not believe that it was a ballotechnic. I mean, I think that was supposed to be WHY 'red mercury' was some huge proliferation risk.
So I was more asking someone with a better grounding in physics to show that while Wigner energy has been stored in compounds other than graphite (maybe even in the stuff I mentioned), the amounts would be MANY orders of magnitude smaller.
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[–]kyletsenior[s] 1 point 1 year ago
I don't recall mentioning ballotechnics or Wigner energy.
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[–]Aggressive_Aspect862 2 points 1 year ago
You asked me if I was suggesting 'red mercury' is real.
I had kind of assumed you at least knew what it was SUPPOSED to be, A ballotechnic that stored a large proportion of it's potential energy in the form of Wigner energy.
So forgive me for presuming you might appreciate my efforts to take apart the MULTIPLE reasons that I don't believe the myth.
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[–]kyletsenior[s] 3 points 1 year ago
You did not say you thought it was a myth, and instead gave some wishy-washy BS about it, which reeks of a nut know knows other people aren't interested.
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[–]Aggressive_Aspect862 2 points 1 year ago
You do know what the word 'purportedly' means, do you?
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[–][deleted] 1 point 1 year ago
You are bordering on speaking of, and/or discussing aspects of fogbank. I advise this conversation go no further. Thank you.
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Anonymous2026-06-14 20:55
[–]Gemman_Aster 14 points 2 years ago
Do we even know what Sundial was? Or Gnomon for that matter. What their implementation might be? Was it just a massively staged, but otherwise orthodox thermonuclear weapon or was there something novel about it?
Carey Sublette suggested something last year that has really stayed with me. He said for a truly vast nuclear explosive 'all' (a rather over-subscribed word in this case!) you needed to do was dig a network of adits and interconnect them. Run a steel pipe down the centre of each and fill it with heavy water. Set off a fusion bomb at the mouth of each tunnel and the resulting explosion would be colossal--probably equal to a cometary strike I expect.
Obviously you couldn't drop that on an enemy. However it would work very nicely for a doomsday device if it were big enough. You could even salt it with cobalt granules if you wanted, although how much activated metal would escape the adits might be difficult to rely on. In my perception of the world that is what 'Dead Hand' really is!
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[–]careysub 8 points 2 years ago*
More precisely the idea is to line the tunnels to make a proper radiation case and let the detonation of a single igniter bomb propagate through the whole network.
To couple a nuclear explosion with a yield similar to the KT Killer (Chicxulub) to the biosphere to have a similarly devastating effect it would need to be deeply buried so that the explosion energy could be distributed across a very large mass of crust otherwise the energy would escape into space (with some local atmosphere).
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Anonymous2026-06-14 21:06
Low-Z - fully ionises at low temperatures (say 0.1 to 1 million Kelvin)
High Z - fully ionises at high temperatures (say 100+ million Kelvin).
Fully ionised plasma is transparent to radiation, therefore energy transport is radiation dominated. Meanwhile high-Z plasma is "conduction" dominated (this is a relative definition) and therefore transport is delayed through these materials.
Because of this, the first low-Z layer ablates off, applying a small inwards pulse. The next layer of high-Z material then delays the ablation of the low-Z material below it until it heats through and blows off. Then the next low-Z layer blows off, applying a larger impulse than the last and this process repeats, with the ablator and modulator layer thicknesses carefully calculated so that the individual impulses closely match the required impulse curve for adiabatic compression.
The advantage of this over burn-through barriers is that you don't need to constrict the radiation channel with multiple adjacent barriers. I imagine barrier aperture size is an issue with lots of them next to each other.
