Alex! Off topic question but one I’ve been curious about for a while. Are large data centers now something that could be considered a potential nuclear target?
Of course we can’t know for sure, but just wondering if it would be consistent with what you know of the targeting philosophy of our own country or what we know about other nations’? Would the answer depend on the purpose of the data center, eg AI or finance or military/government usage, or the size such as if they have a lot of power plants nearby?
I ask because I live in BFE now, except for the presence of several large data centers nearby! I know nuclear war isn’t the most pressing thing to be worried about (or maybe not, given the times?) but it’s definitely something I’m curious to know. :)
This reminds me of a story my father loved to tell. In the 1960s he was working on projects that tested electronic components using rocket sleds that ran at high speeds along a track at White Sands, New Mexico. One time, the rocket sled disintegrated, sending pieces of debris into the air. He saw a film of the incident afterwards and noticed that he, and all the other observers ducked--after the debris had already flown over their heads.
This program was quite interesting as well. Less than 2km from ground zero...
"Volunteer officer observer program placed specially trained observers extremely close to nuclear weapon test ground zero. They observed effects & judged 1st hand how troops would fair at close distances. They calculated & determined their trench distances ~1830 yards from GZ"
the irony of the post-apocalyptic toilet is that, as Freud pointed out, since money is evil and wealth is anal-retention (filthy lucre) it was Rome's use of shallow street sewers that polluted the drinking water (and thus required the aqueducts) that launched our lack of soil fertility and water crisis and disconnection with ecology. Try installing a composting toilet legally - the corporate-state does not acknowledge composting even if the EPA does. Rarely will a local government allow "year-round" composting toilets due to their fear of viruses and bacteria. Even the toilet you show would technically require a permit - why? It is a "container" that uses "treatment" as a "device." ONLY if you keep said "device" in a tent shelter does it not require a permit. But you can't live on your land in a tent unless it's permitted or tax assessed as "seasonal recreational" thereby requiring some permanent "facilities" to be owned somewhere else! hahaha. See the catch-22? It is quite difficult to be poor these days in a post-apocalyptic world without the corporate-state tracking you down on your own land to fine and arrest you or maybe kill you for your own safety.
Wow, Alex, you're right, this guy writes so well his countdown made me nervous. I was on a list of journalists scheduled to observe an underground test in the mid-1980s, but then the US stopped testing. An underground test would have been far less dramatic. You'd just feel the ground shake and see the dust bounce off the desert before a subsidence crater formed. But I still wish I could have witnessed it.
Alex! Off topic question but one I’ve been curious about for a while. Are large data centers now something that could be considered a potential nuclear target?
Of course we can’t know for sure, but just wondering if it would be consistent with what you know of the targeting philosophy of our own country or what we know about other nations’? Would the answer depend on the purpose of the data center, eg AI or finance or military/government usage, or the size such as if they have a lot of power plants nearby?
I ask because I live in BFE now, except for the presence of several large data centers nearby! I know nuclear war isn’t the most pressing thing to be worried about (or maybe not, given the times?) but it’s definitely something I’m curious to know. :)
This reminds me of a story my father loved to tell. In the 1960s he was working on projects that tested electronic components using rocket sleds that ran at high speeds along a track at White Sands, New Mexico. One time, the rocket sled disintegrated, sending pieces of debris into the air. He saw a film of the incident afterwards and noticed that he, and all the other observers ducked--after the debris had already flown over their heads.
This program was quite interesting as well. Less than 2km from ground zero...
"Volunteer officer observer program placed specially trained observers extremely close to nuclear weapon test ground zero. They observed effects & judged 1st hand how troops would fair at close distances. They calculated & determined their trench distances ~1830 yards from GZ"
See https://x.com/Casillic/status/1809769798949060659?s=20
Damn, must have been an experience! Shot Simon was 40 kilotons, so 1.7 km is extremely close.
the irony of the post-apocalyptic toilet is that, as Freud pointed out, since money is evil and wealth is anal-retention (filthy lucre) it was Rome's use of shallow street sewers that polluted the drinking water (and thus required the aqueducts) that launched our lack of soil fertility and water crisis and disconnection with ecology. Try installing a composting toilet legally - the corporate-state does not acknowledge composting even if the EPA does. Rarely will a local government allow "year-round" composting toilets due to their fear of viruses and bacteria. Even the toilet you show would technically require a permit - why? It is a "container" that uses "treatment" as a "device." ONLY if you keep said "device" in a tent shelter does it not require a permit. But you can't live on your land in a tent unless it's permitted or tax assessed as "seasonal recreational" thereby requiring some permanent "facilities" to be owned somewhere else! hahaha. See the catch-22? It is quite difficult to be poor these days in a post-apocalyptic world without the corporate-state tracking you down on your own land to fine and arrest you or maybe kill you for your own safety.
Wow, Alex, you're right, this guy writes so well his countdown made me nervous. I was on a list of journalists scheduled to observe an underground test in the mid-1980s, but then the US stopped testing. An underground test would have been far less dramatic. You'd just feel the ground shake and see the dust bounce off the desert before a subsidence crater formed. But I still wish I could have witnessed it.
Ok Alex, I saved you some time! Yes you are correct, this appears to be Tumbler-Snapper Dog. May 1, 1952. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tp74bb_2cA