mapsontheweb:

Global antineutrinos emitted from nuclear power stations

Did we never build any in Greenland and just ship in fuel?

After all those Øs in Tom Clancy novels!

I’ve read all the Tom Clancy novels through the one where Jack Ryan becomes president (at which point it was clear he had gained advantage over his editors to his detriment). When we had to write to an author in 8th grade I picked him and he responded, drawing lines on a copy of my letter in red ballpoint ink to connect questions to responses

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

bowloflentils:

Various vehicle designs from Raita Honjou’s 2006 doujinshi called “Raita’s Militaria”. The tanks are very reminiscent of his work on the Valkyria Chronicles series and the blue battleship reminds me a lot of the Centurion from VC4. The airplanes also seem to be variations on the Tolmekian airships from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

why the fuck would you camouflage a submarine

Cornell made you do freshman writing seminars and I tested out of like 1 with AP English or something and ended up in the other with an International Relations grad student like Khartika Saskumikar I ended up weirdly impressing with a paper about how everyone always dreamed of submarines as capital ship counters but they were really commerce raiders

I really did not appreciate until the 2010s that the Soviet idea of naval warfare had been subs to launch short-range nuclear missiles to take out our power-projecting carrier groups

andmaybegayer:

garmbreak1:

andmaybegayer:

garmbreak1:

uni-daioh:

garmbreak1:

now’s a good time to remind everybody that Tom Clancy is long dead

and this is why Ubisoft should hire a necromancer?

no, but people are looking at the new Ubisoft game and going “Oh my god, Tom Clancy is a nazi” because it has his name on it

I mean you have to commend the ubisoft writers for maintaining the weird CIA obsession of his writing perfectly.

I thought the more recent ones focused on vague Fascist Power Fantasy No Rules Black Ops Organizations?

I mean I said the CIA didn’t I

When we were assigned to write to authors in 7th grade I picked Tom Clancy and he was one of the few to write back (mostly to say Submarine was just the start, but he annotated my whole letter)