You’ll need a slit or other small opening at the top aimed up and might want the hemispheres to have overlapping edges. The very small seam between the spheres is what projected the AoE kill zone in the original design. In this case that would mostly hit dirt.
Randall Moore (xkcd author) wants to remind everyone turning the missiles around for maneuvering to remove the warheads. Can’t link the xkcd because it’s in a physical book.
Friendly reminder that Marvin Heemeyer was a damn lunatic, in case there’s any killdozer enthusiasts here. If he didn’t kill anyone other than himself, it wasn’t for lack of trying. He had every reason to believe there were fucking children in that library, and he wanted them dead. Fuck Marvin Heemeyer, may be rot in hell forever.
Blue light in question No, not really. The memes are exaggerating a lot. The blue light would only apply if a particle would hit you in the eye and inside the eyeball emission of blue light would occur.
If you have a handful of tanks, your enemy has to spend a lot of effort on getting rocket launchers. Not just buying them, but also the logistics strain to get them to the frontline.
And if you notice the enemy forgot to bring their launchers, you can deploy your tanks, and exploit their mistake.
Mass tank assaults are over. But using them as an integrated part of a force still makes sense to me.
This is the advantage of everyone really, really not wanting a nuclear war. We assume its not really until the evidence it is is overwhelming. And maybe even then.
A friend of mine has (had? it was a while ago) an uncle who was one of the key turners in a midwest ICBM silo in the early 1970s. Having turned into a pacifist hippie (while still working for STRATCOM) he admitted during every psychiatric review he totally wasn’t going to turn that key, not now, not ever, even when staring down a Soviet first strike, because he was totally not going to be that guy that killed thirty million people.
And for reasons my buddy nor her uncle can fathom, they kept him at post.
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