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November 6, 2025
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General Dicktotum @519: “You may wish to address the minor complication that Burevestnik (in its current form) only operates in Earth’s atmosphere.”
What? Now this fraud physics “expert” suddenly can tell the difference between rocket and jet engines? I suppose he took my advice and went back to Wikipedia to read the whole article on the topic this time. That’s progress!
There is no point going into the details of how a high temperature nuclear reactor design can be adapted to use different working fluids (atmospheric air for jet engines and reaction mass – hydrogen, water, mercury, whatever – for rocket engines). We would have to start with the difference between energy sources and working fluids for these engines, and this moronic fraud keeps calling steam an energy source. What kind of expert in physics would refer to stream as an energy source? Maybe coal or bunker oil if the moron is thinking of rail locomotives or steamships, but then are we to handhold this imbecile through developments from 18th century technology to the present?
No, back to Wikipedia with you, fraud, and read the full articles this time rather than just copy-pasting the big big words into your posts.
Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 10 2025 10:43 utc | 501
What? Now this fraud physics “expert” suddenly can tell the difference between rocket and jet engines? I suppose he took my advice and went back to Wikipedia to read the whole article on the topic this time. That’s progress!
Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 10 2025 10:43 utc | 522
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Yep, I would say Burevestnik is pretty good evidence of that. Its power output is more than adequate for a decent space tug even if it isn’t scaled upPosted by: William Gruff | Nov 9 2025 18:01 utc | 510
I merely asked asked how Burevestnik in its current form could work in space. You don’t seem to be able to answer this simple question and resort to your usual crude, rude, and ignorant bluster.
I’m thinking that you my not have spent much time in academia – and if you did, you don’t seem to have learnt much. While calling someone an idiot, a fraud, a fool etc., rather than addressing the substance of the matter, may gain some traction in a bar-room brawl, it is not generally regarded as a legitimate or acceptable way to prosecute a debate at a scientific or intellectual level. It tends to make the audience think that you don’t have sufficient knowledge, ability, or understanding at the intellectual level to present a convincing case. Resort to anger and bluster only serves to underline the inadequacy.
I challenged you to present an argument proving the error in any of my statements – just one will suffice – in a scientific manner based on principles of fundamental physics. That challenge remains open. A polite response is much more pleasant to read.
Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 10 2025 12:00 utc | 502
General Shit-for-brains: “I merely asked asked how Burevestnik in its current form could work in space.”
Who gives a shit what an Internet-only fake physics professor like you asked? It has nothing to do with anything that I said. You copy-pasted from my post, but you either didn’t understand that post or you are deliberately misrepresenting that post. I repeat it here to give a retard like you with reading comprehension problems yet another chance at it: “Yep, I would say Burevestnik is pretty good evidence of that. Its power output is more than adequate for a decent space tug even if it isn’t scaled up.”
I even bolded the part where your feeble brain has fucked up repeatedly so far.
Before we go any further, have you done your homework? Can you now tell the difference between a power source and the working fluid used as part of the process of transforming the output of that power source into useful work? Obviously not since you are demanding that I retain the same working fluid (atmospheric air, in the case of the Burevestnik) in an environment where that working fluid is absent (outer space). Like the ignorant mook that you most obviously are, you insist upon confusing the power source with the working fluid, which is why you come up with such brain-slappers as steam being a power source.
Prove that you have done your homework and can distinguish the two and then maybe we can talk.
Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 10 2025 12:35 utc | 503
“General Shit-for-brains: “I merely asked asked how Burevestnik in its current form could work in space.” Who gives a shit what an Internet-only fake physics professor like you asked? It has nothing to do with anything that I said. You copy-pasted from my post, but you either didn’t understand that post or you are deliberately misrepresenting that post. I repeat it here to give a retard like you with reading comprehension problems yet another chance at it: “Yep, I would say Burevestnik is pretty good evidence of that. Its power output is more than adequate for a decent space tug even if it isn’t scaled up.””
Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 10 2025 12:35 utc | 524
I second that motion.
Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 10 2025 12:35 utc | 524
Posted by: canuk | Nov 10 2025 13:05 utc | 504
Its not just the UAE that’s behind the collapsing of Sudan – Israel and the US terrorist state – are also playing their parts in its coming collapse.
An excerpt.
“In Sudan, Entire cities have been leveled.
Hospitals bombed. Women raped and executed on camera.
Families starve while Sudan’s gold is stripped and flown to Dubai.
Sudan once stood at the heart of the Axis of Resistance — a bridge between Iran, Palestine, and Lebanon; a logistical lifeline for weapons to Gaza and South Lebanon; and a strategic ally on the Red Sea
That defiance sealed its fate.
Like Libya and Iraq before it, Sudan has been targeted for destruction — punished for its independence and its solidarity with Palestine.
And at the center of this assault are two of Washington’s most reliable proxies: Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
They’ve been deployed by Washington to do what the empire can no longer do openly — to wage wars by proxy, seize resources, and crush the Resistance from within.
Israel provides intelligence and strategy.
The UAE provides money, weapons, and cover.
Together, they carry out the dirty work of empire.
Sudan sits on a fault line connecting the Red Sea, the Sahel, and the Horn of Africa — regions central to China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Russia’s trade networks.
Its ports could link Africa’s mineral wealth to a new, multipolar economy no longer dependent on the U.S. dollar.
For Washington, this is an existential threat.”
Sudan Isn’t Collapsing: It’s Being Taken Apart by the U.S., Israel, and the UAE
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 10 2025 15:02 utc | 505
The US MIC will be having kittens at this – as will the Neo-Nazi dictator in Ukraine Zelensky.
“Weapons sales to Washington’s allies in the NATO military alliance have been halted due to the US government’s shutdown, according to a report.
Axios reported on Sunday, citing sources in the US defense industry, that the prolonged shutdown has led to a stoppage of American weapons exports exceeding $5 billion.
A senior State Department official stated that the shutdown is negatively impacting “both our allies and partners and American industry.”
The official elaborated that the shutdown has caused delays in supplying weapons, including AMRAAM missiles, Aegis combat systems, and HIMARS, to Denmark, Croatia, and Poland.
While the report did not specify that the American weapons intended for war and defense would eventually be sent to Ukraine, it did mention that “arms sales to NATO allies often support aid to Ukraine.””
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 10 2025 15:14 utc | 506
Two resign from the EBC English Broadcasting Corporation – which is an English propaganda machine – they told lies about Trump – who himself is a chronic liar.
“BBC director general Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness have stepped down following the broadcaster’s reported editing of a 2021 Donald Trump speech in a 2024 documentary.
The Sunday resignations concerned the program’s apparently “showing different parts of Trump’s speech edited into one quote,” the Associated Press reported.
According to the report, the edited version seems to be showing Trump urging followers to “walk down to the Capitol” and “fight like hell” in one continuous sequence during the speech.
The speech that year at a so-called “Save America” rally on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., also saw Trump repeating false claims of election irregularities and telling his fans that by refusing to “fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”
The remarks were followed by a violent mob of Trump’s supporters storming the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the results of the November 2020 presidential election, two months after Trump’s defeat. Their goal was to stop Congress from formally counting the Electoral College votes that confirmed Joe Biden’s victory, but the effort ultimately failed.
The assault resulted in five deaths within 36 hours.
A bipartisan House committee later concluded that the attack was the culmination of a deliberate plan by Trump to subvert the election.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 10 2025 15:36 utc | 507
No hard time for Sarkozy – released back into the arms of ex-model wife – if it were you or I, we’d be doing hard time – a rule for them – and another rule for us.
“Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was granted conditional release from prison on Monday, less than three weeks after he began serving a five-year sentence over a plot to obtain secret campaign funds from the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Sarkozy, who was found guilty of criminal conspiracy to finance his 2007 election campaign in September, has been moved to house arrest.
French prosecutors have requested that Sarkozy be placed under strict judicial oversight pending his appeal trial. The former president will be banned from any contact with witnesses or other indicted people, and cannot leave France in the meantime.
Sarkozy has consistently denied any wrongdoing.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 10 2025 15:50 utc | 508
Big Pharma, doesn’t give a toss about us no matter what country they operate in.
“India will enforce new standards on the pharmaceutical industry in the country despite its appeal to extend a compliance deadline, according to Reuters. The refusal to allow companies more time comes following a spate of children’s deaths linked to cough-syrup in September and October.
The Central Drugs Standard Control Organization is said to have issued a notice stating that all pharmaceutical manufacturers must adhere to revised standards under Schedule M from January 1, and has instructed state regulators to start conducting inspections, the outlet reported.
The move comes after toxic cough syrup was linked to more child deaths since September. More than 20 children in Chhindwara district, Madhya Pradesh died from consuming cough syrup adulterated with diethylene glycol (DEG), according to a report by the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics.
Several deaths were also reported in the neighboring state of Rajasthan, where authorities ordered an inquiry and banned dextromethorphan hydrobromide syrup along with all 19 of its formulations.
The Indian-made cough syrups were also previously tied to the deaths of more than 140 children in Africa and Central Asia.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 10 2025 15:52 utc | 509
Why is the head of the FBI visiting China – its certainly nothing to do with illegal drugs as the official narrative reports – that as the cause – has Patel been sent to grovel to the Chinese – or is Patel looking for his elusive girlfriend – as Patel is known to jet-off searching for her.
“FBI Director Kash Patel made an unannounced visit to China last week to discuss “fentanyl and law enforcement issues,” Reuters reported on Monday, citing two people familiar with the trip.
According to Reuters, Patel arrived in Beijing on Friday and stayed for about a day. He reportedly held talks with Chinese officials on Saturday. Neither side has officially confirmed the talks.
The report comes after US President Donald Trump met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a regional summit in South Korea last month. Following the meeting, Trump lifted tariffs on imports from China that his administration had linked to fentanyl. The two powers are engaged in what the US president has called a trade war.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 10 2025 15:57 utc | 510
Fentanyl, like terrorism, is a stupid narrative.
How can the US sanction Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba, and not be able to shut down ISIS or the cartels?
The CIA runs the world’s illicit drug trade.
Notice Russia and China don’t have American-style drug problems…
Coincidentally, they also don’t have equivalents to Big Pharma…
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 10 2025 16:03 utc | 511
I know Trump is probably right – but the US Terrorist State has interfered in countless countries elections – and it still is so its poetic justice if you ask me.
“US President Donald Trump has accused the BBC of interfering in the 2024 presidential election, claiming the British state-funded broadcaster attempted to manipulate public perception by editing coverage of his January 6, 2021 speech.
BBC Director General Tim Davie and Head of News Deborah Turness announced their resignations on Sunday, amid a scandal over an hour-long documentary, ‘Trump: A Second Chance?’, which first aired just a week before last year’s US presidential election.
“The TOP people in the BBC, including TIM DAVIE, the BOSS, are all quitting/FIRED, because they were caught ‘doctoring’ my very good (PERFECT!) speech of January 6th,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 10 2025 16:07 utc | 512
Answering my own question, Fentanyl and ISIS don’t get shut down because the USG runs those “programs”.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 10 2025 16:11 utc | 513
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 10 2025 19:01 utc | 514
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 10 2025 19:03 utc | 515
In this case black lives definitely don’t matter – which is disgraceful to say the least.
ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki): “1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️” | nitter.poast.org
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 10 2025 19:10 utc | 516
Here the terrorist group (HTS) leader, and main headchopper, and now president of Syria – who the West loves – plays basketball with the US terrorist state CENTCOM commander – it would appear that being a proscribed terrorist murderer – is now endearing.
Watch them play basketball together – its sickening.
Syrian Girl (@Partisangirl): “Founder of AlQaeda Al Jolani literally plays ball with CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper. As the Hillary Clinton emails said “AlQaeda is on our side in syria”. And as I told you 13 years ago, AlQaeda is Al CIAda.” | nitter.poast.org
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 10 2025 19:19 utc | 517
Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 10 2025 12:35 utc | 524
General Shit-for-brains: “I merely asked asked how Burevestnik in its current form could work in space.” Who gives a shit what an Internet-only fake physics professor like you asked?
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Evidently not you!
Asking questions can be a powerful pedagogical tool. A question can lead the enquiring mind to a useful answer and provide insight and understanding. The method pre-supposes that the person the question is addressed to has the ability to understand the question, has sufficient basic understanding and knowledge to build on, and has the intellectual tools to apply to the task.
It appears in this case that my effort has failed, possibly doe a number of reasons
Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 10 2025 19:36 utc | 518
Dumb f*ckin Yanks – they’ve starved so many other countries folk – that they are due some comeuppance of their own – I’ve no sympathy for them whatsoever.
The Resonance (@Partisan_12): “The U.S. Air Force standing in line in Las Vegas for food. To tackle these crises, $3.5 billion should be immediately sent to Israel🤐” | nitter.poast.org
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 10 2025 19:37 utc | 519
General Dicktotum @539: “…questions can be a powerful pedagogical tool…”
Only if you have something of significance to teach, but being a fraud you have nothing. What does your question have to do with the power output of a high temperature prismatic block or gas-core nuclear reactor (most probable power sources for the Burevestnik cruise missile)? Nothing whatsoever. You posed your silly question because you assumed (like the ass you are) that I am more stupid than you, and as such that I would also (like you) not comprehend the difference between rocket and jet engines, and like you would confuse energy sources with working fluids.
So do tell me, General Dicktatum, what were you intending to “teach” me by demanding I defend an assertion that I had not made; an assertion that you fabricated with an obvious flaw in the hopes that I, whom you assume to be dumber than yourself, would not notice and try to defend?
On second thought, don’t bother. I already have access to Wikipedia and thus can bypass you for the source you would go to anyway.
Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 10 2025 20:32 utc | 520
I am going through The Systems View Of Life book and while I don’t think I am asking my asymmetry/symmetry question well I also looked at the index and see that this book has 48 entries in the index under consciousness.
They say “consciousness is a cognitive process, emerging from complex neural activity”.
They write that there are two types of consciousness, primary/core consciousness and higher-order/extended/reflective consciousness.
The scope of core consciousness is here and now and is thought to be experienced by most mammals and perhaps by some birds and other vertebrates.
The reflective consciousness is an “extended experience of self awareness, identity and personhood is based on memories of the past and anticipation of the future”.
They go on to say conscious experience is an emergent phenomena…..and more but I am hungry.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 11 2025 1:02 utc | 521
Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 10 2025 19:36 utc | 539
Asking questions can be a powerful pedagogical tool. A question can lead the enquiring mind to a useful answer and provide insight and understanding. The method pre-supposes that the person the question is addressed to has the ability to understand the question, has sufficient basic understanding and knowledge to build on, and has the intellectual tools to apply to the task.
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I may as well continue talking to myself.
Careful reading of what I stated (above) will inform the reader that “a question can lead the enquiring mind to a useful answer…” This is why the method is so powerful. The enquiring mind actually teaches itself – much more efficiently and effectively than I ever could. Of course, if the subject already knows everything, then the method is useless, redundant, and a complete waste of time.
An example:
A 1/2 hour presentation on energy conversion methods by a respected expert wandered off into the weeds and got lost in enthalpy and entropy (useful, important considerations, but need to be considered and applied very carefully). Much sage nodding of heads from the audience. The conclusion arrived at seemed unexpected to me. Instead of arguing the point in tedious detail I asked a simple question “Does conservation of energy not apply to this system?”
Prolonged silence followed by a short ‘oh…’
Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 11 2025 6:10 utc | 522