Brianna Wu / John Walker Flynt - "Biggest Victim of Gamergate," Failed Game Developer, Failed Congressional Candidate

[Stinkyboy]

I was hoping moon rock john would come back!!!

 

[Sonichu-choo trainwreck]

I was hoping moon rock john would come back!!!

Like his dick history...I think he's studiously trying to avoid that.

My favorite part of that is when he says people take that out of context...they took it in context. The context was John declaring it like a fact

out of context would be
"I had a nightmare where....moon rocks"
or
"I read this sci-fi story where...moon rocks"
or
"some dumbass thinks that...moon rocks"

where the context changes the meaning

but John just plain said it

 

[Peace and Harmony]

The walls are closing in!
Anyway, on the subject of fictitious reputations

 

[Ghostse]

The walls are closing in!
Anyway, on the subject of fictitious reputations

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Bitch its not alt-right trolls, its normies who refuse to play along with your lies.

also, lets make a deal. You queers can have twitter back as a hugbox, but then you need to pull your trannytrolls out of all nerd spaces.

 

[AnOminous]

The walls are closing in!

GAAAAAAAAMERGAAAAAAAAAAAATE!

Fuck you John.

 

[Mola Ram]

Bitch its not alt-right trolls, its normies who refuse to play along with your lies.

also, lets make a deal. You queers can have twitter back as a hugbox, but then you need to pull your trannytrolls out of all nerd spaces.

Fuck, man, I'd trade Twitter just to get tabletop roleplaying back to where it was in 2003 or so.

 

[BScCollateral]

out of context would be
...
or
"I read this sci-fi story where...moon rocks"

Ironically enough, I suspect this is true: Moon Rocks launched to Earth as WMDs are critical to the plot of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, which is contemporary with Project Horizon, a US Army study of how to militarize the Moon. The discussion of the military mission of that project is still classified, but it might have involved throwing moon rocks.

 

[Sonichu-choo trainwreck]

Ironically enough, I suspect this is true: Moon Rocks launched to Earth as WMDs are critical to the plot of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, which is contemporary with Project Horizon, a US Army study of how to militarize the Moon. The discussion of the military mission of that project is still classified, but it might have involved throwing moon rocks.

That's where he got it from. and the REAL reason why he just goes to that and snow crash are the 'strong female characters' ..Wyoh in Harsh mistress and Juanita in Snow Crash (that's why John was trying to pawn off his shit game on facial expressions...Juanita was about that)

I think we've had it on here before, kinetic bombardment from the moon has a lot of problems.
you still have a boost phase. the transit times are hella-long
the accuracy is going to be low and subject to deflection which could even plant that on your own soil.
In Harsh Mistres it's more of a terror weapon used by a moon colony.
which, in any sort of practice in the forseeable future has a big problem...the moon would have to be self-sustaining independent nation otherwise embargo those bitchez
I mean it shows up in stuff like Hemrey's Lost Fleet series (and he's an actual naval officer) but that's hitting enemy planets from a fleet, no friendlys planetside, and not from an orbiting moon

I think the funniest part is John said it was the most valuable tactical ground, but talks about big nuke level energies...that's strategic level bombardment putting you in MAD trritory

the practical kinetic bombardment weapons are deorbited from LEO.
the boost phase is abstracted/obscured (cld have been years prior, part of another project, etc etc), the transit time is tiny, etc

 

[AnOminous]

the practical kinetic bombardment weapons are deorbited from LEO.

It would make more sense to use any of the numerous hefty junk objects already in orbit around Earth. Just de-orbit them into the ground. Or do it with an actually valuable enemy asset already in orbit, you get a two-fer that way.

There's absolutely no reason to get an object out of one gravity well just to dump it into another.

 

[Sonichu-choo trainwreck]

"played with the idea'
Shit Heinlein played with the idea of a ship drive capable of going to Oz...So what is musk's anti-wicked witch policy hmmm?We can't have an army (air force?) of flying monkeys to be controlled by billionaires

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Ill give John this though. He's a big enough sci fi fan to near-plagiarize (or maybe just plagiarize) Snow crash




now where have I... Oh yeah, Snow Crash

 

[Peace and Harmony]

Accomplishments like this don't come easily, John. You're an inspiration to all women in tech.



It's sickening, right John, all those communists and Hamas sympathisers calling for Israel to be annihilated completely.

 

[King Dead]

It would make more sense to use any of the numerous hefty junk objects already in orbit around Earth. Just de-orbit them into the ground. Or do it with an actually valuable enemy asset already in orbit, you get a two-fer that way.

There's absolutely no reason to get an object out of one gravity well just to dump it into another.

Or hell, if you're married to the idea of dropping rocks, just send a small rocket out to any near-Earth asteroid and give it a little nudge. With a little math and a large enough rock, you should be able to get it to hit your target close enough to do what you want, and all at a fraction of the cost of lifting something off the Moon.

Note also that in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, the reason it was even remotely viable was due to the Loonies' repurposing of a mass driver for cargo into effectively a giant gun, so they didn't need to use rocketry to lift rocks from the surface. That said, they were making use of what they had available to them. If you really wanted to lob something heavy at Earth, it would still take considerably more energy to do that than to use any one of the literally billions of rocks floating through our Solar System.

 

[Sonichu-choo trainwreck]

Note also that in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, the reason it was even remotely viable was due to the Loonies' repurposing of a mass driver for cargo into effectively a giant gun, so they didn't need to use rocketry to lift rocks from the surface.

funny part is, that can actually be a bigger problem. Since you are having to concentrate all the impulse energy up front, it's going to be a huge launch signature...from a static location no less
with no burn correction
(but like you pointed out, in the book it was sort of run-what-you brung ghetto repurposing)

with a LEO system, there's going to be a smaler de-orbit 'burn' signature (and likely practical to decoy...not that it'd be needed b/c...) but the big deal there is time to target is single-digit minutes. (makes it so the launch data isn't all that useful in terms of any kind of response..esp for a one-and-done unit, not emplacement to rebutt to, subsequently track etc etc -- really not even enough time to kiss your ass goodbye)
I think the original Pournelle proposal (THe thor system) put it at, something like 15 mins response time (that's total response time, not post-launch time-to-target) anywhere on the planet with abt 8 sats

 

[King Dead]

That can actually be a bigger problem. Since you are having to concentrate all the impulse energy up front, it's going to be a huge launch signature...from a static location no less
with no burn correction

Which again, is part of the novel. It took a supercomputer's processing power to handle all of the calculations for the continued bombardment of Earth, but it was still all coming from a single location. Earth ships managed to destroy the catapult, which would have put an end to the rebellion had it not been for their construction of a second catapult in secret, enabling them to keep up the attack long enough for Earth to agree to their independence (as they didn't know how many other catapults the Loonies might have had and it was smarter to just cut their losses at that point).

Put another way, John is a fucking retard.

 

[Sonichu-choo trainwreck]

Which again, is part of the novel. It took a supercomputer's processing power to handle all of the calculations for the continued bombardment of Earth, but it was still all coming from a single location. Earth ships managed to destroy the catapult, which would have put an end to the rebellion had it not been for their construction of a second catapult in secret, enabling them to keep up the attack long enough for Earth to agree to their independence (as they didn't know how many other catapults the Loonies might have had and it was smarter to just cut their losses at that point).

Put another way, John is a fucking retard.

yep! just wanted to spell out the problem in detail because John doesnt seem to get the difference between fiction and reality - like you were saying, they were sort of doing the IDE/ bomb van boogie

Of course the problem with such a long-distance firing solution is, beyond trying to calc it (we typically orbit then de-orbit to deliver a payload to a surface, -- so as a terror weapon, OK but that means you have to not give a shit about anywhere on earth), earthside can run the same calcs and with such a long transit time you've got a lot of opportunity for interdiction (you don't even need a full intercept)
but yeah, building railguns "in secret" kinda reminds me of a crappy version of the MX program...esp on something like the moon where mteriel motions are probably going to be way more apparent

and of course, in the real world, there's the whole problem with the terror weapon and the loonies having to be an iindependent state...
"have fun in permanent 1/6G. Let me know how those bones work out for ya"

agreed - end analysis ,Bri Bri is full of shit

I just like how he's running from that now and trying to sweep it under the rug

 

[fuckidunno]

Speaking of John's dumbassery and sci-fi, he's pivoted to movies as proof-of-concept. Perhaps books have too much pesky detail
He is currently using the Alien film franchise as the dire warning of the evil of "Elno"

The response he's garnering is pretty fun and points out a critical flaw in John's evil corporation play

one could just as easily subsitute clandestine government project

1) There isn't anything inherent in the film that would indicate that an entity would have to be a monopoly to carry out the alien weapons research.
Actually, competition would be somewhat suggested as going to these extreme (murderous) lengths procuring this new technology imparts competitive advantage in a market (if one were monopoly, they wouldn't have to strive so hard for new, improved products)

2) The films just use "the company"as the driver so it's not particularly fleshed out. In the Alien extended universe however, there are, in fact rival companies

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[AnOminous]

I just like how he's running from that now and trying to sweep it under the rug

But people are mansplaining to him! He has to defend the absolutely imbecilic shit he said years ago, even if it makes him look like an absolute imbecile in the present!

 

[Sonichu-choo trainwreck]

Speaking of John's dumbassery and sci-fi, he's pivoted to movies as proof-of-concept. Perhaps books have too much pesky detail
He is currently using the Alien film franchise as the dire warning of the evil of "Elno"
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huh, I think Alien was a warning for guys like Frank about the dangers of letting a cracking egg monster insert its long reproductive member down your throat

 

[fuckidunno]

huh, I think Alien was a warning for guys like Frank about the dangers of letting a cracking egg monster insert its long reproductive member down your throat

Now was that really necessary?

[HINT : correct answer, Yes]

 

[Mola Ram]

huh, I think Alien was a warning for guys like Frank about the dangers of letting a cracking egg monster insert its long reproductive member down your throat

Thanks for sending me to the egg_IRL subreddit, which I did not know about before today but should have guessed existed, and which has me contemplating an entire statute book of hate crimes.