Since i was a kid I wondered about this phenomenon. What are those vertical vapors?
Any cold war era questions related are welcome.
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John Clark
Charles Flores
they shoot up a bunch of little rockets near the nuclear bomb test site just before the bomb explodes in order to observe the blast wave on high speed video and timed photography.
Juan Lee
This
They're called Sounding Rockets
Jordan Hall
Which is to say, by watching it's effects on the smoke trails left by the rockets, if that wasn't clear. As far as I know, the rockets didn't have instrumentation, since they were getting nuked.
Brayden Reed
does EMP happen just when nuke goes off in space or all nukes all the time?
only fission nukes in low-mid kt yield cause this? or is it only thermonuclear weapons that cause this and if it does happen to some extent when detonated near the ground, what type of radius could be expected?
Levi Taylor
Thanks. That bothered me whole my life. Another question is if this is a white phosphorus? It look alike.
Aaron Watson
This is my understanding so I might be wrong. There is always some Electromagnetic white noise but the EMP is a blast wave on every level of the energy spectrum. How far it travels depends on what it runs into and what level you are messuring for. If you are close then the energy will burn electrical circuits by creating a charge across them that is way higher then they are designed for. How far this will effect things depends on the size of the blast, what it has to go through first, and the square root area law. There is a lot of military equipment that has been shielded from that energy, The mentally easiest way to protect something is to turn it off, and put it in a grounded lead box.
Adrian Nguyen
And your understanding is somewhat flawed. While nuclear weapons do emit along the entire EM spectrum, they do not create magnetic flux when they detonate. The reason that ones detonated in the upper atmosphere may generate flux (which is what induces current and breaks shit) is because they blast the ions in the upper atmosphere with intense radiation, which causes it to become a large quantity of plasma (due to the low density, not found lower in the atmosphere), which in turn can generate a massive flux.
Jacob Perry
What were the chances of Pact forces in the 80es to reach the Rhine in seven days? Would the front have reached a stalemate similar to WW1 at some point?
Gavin Nelson
Same user, this is only partly right, but it was good bullshit on my part. Read the wikipedia article on nuclear EMP if you actually are curious, I only covered part of the E1 pulse (which due to the short length of microelectronic circuits isn't usually very dangerous to properly designed electronics), but not the E3 pulse which could destroy infrastructure.
Jordan Thomas
right so some emp inside the primary blast zone? i've looked into this a little bit, and i've read dozens of primary source documents of above-ground nuclear testing and not found any indication of an EMP before Starfish Prime.
problem is I'm in History, not science, so ive read the articles and their mumbo jumbo, i understand E1 and E2, and i understand the shielding (anecdotally ive found these really only work on devices made exclusively to generate EMP, theoretically not on space-fairing warheads) but what i cant find anything that definitively says there is no EMP effect inside or outside the blast radius of a nuclear explosion at ground level. is this because the radius is well-within the blast zone? or it it because it doesn't happen?
Cooper Bennett
>Sounding Rockets
don't tell the faggots about those...
Ayden Ward
I believe the effect would be, like with the ionizing radiation, well within the "you die because 2000 PSI" zone. Magnetic flux does not travel through air very well, unless said air is ionized into plasma, and that only happens close to the bomb.
Hunter Cook
>sounding rocket
I always thought that was when somebody stuck a bottle rocket in their pee hole and lit it.
Anthony Wilson
what optic should I get for my 10/22 TB?
Reddot or light magnification okay.
Nolan Hernandez
How much money are you looking to spend?
Ian Sullivan
Jesus fucking Christ the other one isn't even at 100 yet.
Evan Ortiz
maybe up to 500 ideally less than the gun or same amount. so like 300? It's just a 10/22 after all.
Hunter Long
is there any point to owner body armor?
like is that a reasonable thing we should be allowed to own and if so what purpose does it serve
Jaxson Myers
>allowed
the fuck?
Lincoln Young
well, felons cant have it in some cases, so there is regulation on the books for some folks. why or why not? like whats the point? like officially what do you tell people about the armor you have/want?
Lincoln Allen
LARPing, extreme home defense scenario (e.g. you pissed off a gang and you know some guys are about to show up and attack your house) and apocalypse-level societal breakdown, in order of likelihood.
Josiah Robinson
nuclear bombs tear at the fabric of space and time
Xavier Sanders
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Ayden Wood
I'd say you probably don't need some $500 optics for your 10/22, I'd personally go with a fun little red dot like a Romeo5, maybe one with the circle dot, or a Vortex red dot (though it's a bigger dot).
Henry Campbell
Where the fuck do I find cheap 80% lowers? premade stripped lowers are about the same cost as an 80% what the fuck I just want to gift my buddy an 80% lower for under $50
Liam Hill
No. It looks nothing like WP either. It's just a standard smoke trail.
Christian White
>does EMP happen just when nuke goes off in space or all nukes all the time?
EMPs are only produced via interaction with the Earth's Ionosphere regardless of yield. However, larger the yield, the greater the effect.
When a nuclear detonation occurs on the ground, it creates a much more limited EMP-like effect called TREE (Transient Radiation Effects on Electronics) that is orders of magnitude less powerful and has a substantially smaller range.
>What were the chances of Pact forces in the 80es to reach the Rhine in seven days?
0. Read nsarchive2.gwu.edu
>Would the front have reached a stalemate similar to WW1 at some point?
Most likely somewhere near the Weser, either on the eastern or western side.
Jordan Davis
I'm quite new to shooting in general. Rented an AR and Glock 19 when I went to the range the other day, and while I could pretty reliably hit where I aim for with the AR with little issue, I have serious recoil anticipation/flinching problems with handguns to the point I was shooting almost a foot too low from where I'm aiming at from about 15ish yards away. Is this normal, and how do I fix it?
Eli Roberts
I really don't think it's a question about why own it, I don't see why wouldn't you wear it if you go to a shooting range or hunting?
Zachary Brooks
Dry fire practice, get a .22 pistol. Breathe, relax, go slow. 90% of flinching is purely psychological. You focus on breaking the shot rather than your fundamentals. Instead, you need to focus completely, both mentally and physically, on your sights and trigger. Focus completely on keeping the sights steady and moving that trigger directly backwards.
Logan Richardson
Righttobear has unanodized/unpainted ones on sale for 30-50 dollars. You should have got a 5 for $100 pack before the Parkland shooting and ghost gun scare.
Xavier Rodriguez
>Dry fire practice, get a .22 pistol
Do not some of them not like being dry fired?
Jacob Jones
What's the hottest cartridge you can get that's available at your LGS? 12 ga slug, 300 WM, .45-70 are what's available at my local stores. Is it worth buying a fun in .375 H&H if I can't find ammo for it and must handload every round?
Ryder Myers
buy it online and skip most the markup
Brody Barnes
On the topic of nuclear weapons:
When watching high-speed recordings of nuclear weapons, or even regular recordings, one can see many white dots appear within the fireball in the first fractions of a second of the detonation. Does anyone have any idea what these could be?
Also curious, what are the large spurs that protrude from the fireball? I always assumed they were parts of the tower and bomb/device casing that were propelled out of the blast at a higher speed than the fireball itself, although it seems strange that a pressure wave would propel an object outside the fireball and not catch the fireball itself.
The effect is pointed out in pic related, and can be observed in these videos:
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The last one I find interesting, as at 1:14 you can see the dots of light appear even in the real-time recording.
Daniel Gray
Halfway thinking about getting a suppressor. If i were to register it in my name and not as a trust, could I leave it locked in my safe while a roommate is there and I'm out of town? Is there some kind of time limit on that if so? Just a bit confused on the "possession" aspects.
Benjamin Taylor
quite similar for me
Anthony Jackson
In general you should avoid dryfiring 22s. That guy is telling you to dryfire the gun you have now or buy a 22 and live fire it since the ammo is cheaper.
Owen Miller
I do not know about the white spots. That's a good question.
As for the tentacles, the bombs on these pictures were detonated from atop towers and iirc the Spurs are the guy wires being heated into tendrils of plasma