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19Is it fair that my husband gets to live his life like he's single and I’m the only one stuck with taking care of the baby?
20Efrajim Canuck
21Efrajim Canuck
22Answered 7d ago
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24No, it’s not. If that’s really how you describe it, and it’s not only your imagination, then you have to confront him about this. If he denies, or tries to gaslight you, get out your inner bitch and blackmail the fuck out of him with anything he holds dear (chances are, you and the kid aren’t among these things). Don’t let divorce be your first option because it’d hurt the kid a lot to grow up with a single mom. Whatever they write in Cosmopolitan, a kid needs a family for a healthy development.
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26I have 1053 Bitcoins. What should I do with it?
27Efrajim Canuck
28Efrajim Canuck
29Answered 7d ago
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31If you are willing to invest 1 Bitcoin, I have an idea for a new community app. As always with these projects, it may or may not be the next WhatsApp or something like that. 1 Bitcoin is about what it would cost to develop it. Send me a message and we can discuss.
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33Am I a bad Jew if I ate a bacon cheeseburger?
34Efrajim Canuck
35Efrajim Canuck
36Answered 7d ago
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38No, we hate you just the same as before.
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40What would you do if you ran into Bill Clinton?
41Efrajim Canuck
42Efrajim Canuck
43Answered 7d ago
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45I hope I’d run into him with some heavy vehicle, that perverted old smug pedophile. I’d even go reverse, just to be sure. Then I’ll look for Hillary, she may be around too.
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47Why are US soldiers sometimes called by the nickname "GI"?
48Efrajim Canuck
49Efrajim Canuck
50Answered 7d ago
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52Galvanized Iron. Everything made of galvanized iron in the US Army was stamped GI. The soldiers were expected to be as tough and durable as galvanized iron, hence “GI Joes”. GI Joe is pretty much John Doe in uniform.
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54Why do a lot of people who voted for Trump feel the need to justify their vote?
55Efrajim Canuck
56Efrajim Canuck
57Answered Dec 19
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59Why do a lot of people who voted for Hillary still have the urge to roll on the floor screeching about still “being with her”?
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61Trump voters are fine and they’d go after their daily lives if some butthurt autists wouldn’t stop them every second minute and demand an explanation.
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63What is an scorched earth policy? Why would an mercenary have one?
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65Efrajim Canuck
66Answered Dec 19
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68Scorched earth policy is when an army destroys and burns everything while retreating to prevent the enemy utilizing the resources of the land. The Soviets used this tactics in WW2 while pulling back from the advancing Germans. But the Germans used it too, for example during the siege of Budapest and during retreating from Hungary. Another good example is NATO’s Cold War plans to detonate underground nuclear charges along the internal German border in case of a massed Soviet attack, which would’ve turned a wide area into a radioactive wasteland, effectively denying access to the Soviets (and life to everybody who lived there).
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70A mercenary can employ this tactics just as well as any soldier. It’s a common thing in war.
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72If someone offered you $10,000 to push an old lady, would you do it?
73Efrajim Canuck
74Efrajim Canuck
75Answered Dec 19
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77I think I’d strike a deal with the lady and we’d do it.
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79Can any 4th gen beat the f-35 as of now? I have realized block 3f has to be completed this year and that block 4 has to be completed for aim-120d missiles. Does using short range missiles defeat the purpose of BVR combat?
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81Efrajim Canuck
82Answered Dec 19
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84That’s such a silly question, and it keeps reappearing on Quora. Can the Armata beat the Abrams? Can the Nimitz sink the Kiev? Can an AK-47 beat an M-16?
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86It all depends on the situation. If the F-35 is parked on the runway, a Fokker DR.I triplane can make short work of it. If the F-35 is in flight, but collides with a goose, the goose will very likely win. If the F-35 swoops low over the desert, but a lucky son of a bitch shoots it with a musket and it gets into the engine, the guy with the musket wins. There’s no way telling who will win in a battle, only the odds. The odds favor the F-35 against most other planes, 4gen or not.
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88The 'Cannon Fodder' of the last 5 movies you have seen are now fighting to the death. Who would win?
89Efrajim Canuck
90Efrajim Canuck
91Answered Dec 19
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93Some buxom vixens from Pornhub would beat the shit out of Angular 5 and Nativescript from my tutorial series, while the girl from the anime Jin Roh (Wolf Brigade) would stare at them with wide eyes. At the end she’d blow up everybody with her satchel charge. So nobody would really win.
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95What does a trio of soldiers mean?
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97Efrajim Canuck
98Answered Dec 19
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100A trio of anything means three persons, or in a wider meaning, three of anything.
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102Would Britian have ever become as powerful as it was if it wasn't an island?
103Efrajim Canuck
104Efrajim Canuck
105Answered Dec 18
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107Britain was not always an island. Just some 12,000 years ago it was a peninsula before the Northern Sea and the Channel were formed.
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109At that time Britain was not very powerful at all. It was barely populated by a few tribes of Neanderthals, not even able to make tools or fire. Today Britain is one of the world’s strongest nations, with a stable economy, a nuclear arsenal and international influence. So yes, historic evidence supports that Britain wouldn’t be this powerful if it wasn’t an island.
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111As a matter of fact, there is a government program to reintroduce Neanderthals into Britain. Some areas are already very successful in that. I haven’t heard anything about turning the whole country back into a peninsula though.
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113What happens if a civilian is found in possession of a nuclear bomb and/or has plans for a nuke?
114Efrajim Canuck
115Efrajim Canuck
116Answered Dec 18
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118In my beloved Hungary, and most European Union member states, it would be a very serious cumulation of felonies. Here is some stuff from our Criminal Code.
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120Section 324: Misuse of explosives or explosive substances. Anyone who manufactures, obtains, owns, sells any explosives or a device intended to make use of explosives, or gives it away to a person without necessary permits, is committing a felony, and is punishable with 2 to 8 years of imprisonment.
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122Note how sloppy our laws are, as the entire Hungarian legal system is a mess: the above definition also matches firearms, since they are also devices intended to make use of explosives. It even matches a number of everyday items, from a toy cap gun to a car’s air bags. But that’s not the question here.
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124Section 130: Misuse of radioactive materials. Anyone who, without permission or announcement, produces, stores, places, transports, owns, handles, sells, processes, uses, imports or neutralizes dangerous radioactive materials in any other way, or or gives it away to a person without necessary permits, is committing a felony, and is punishable with 1 to 5 years of imprisonment.
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126There would be a lengthy court battle about whether the abuse of radioactive materials should be a separate charge or a lesser included one in the abuse of explosives. However, since Hungarian courts are highly arbitrary these days, I guess they would keep both. And there is more!
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128If you built the bomb yourself, you probably have some facility where you made it. Then you’re bound to be charged with:
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130Section 251: Misuse of a nuclear facility. Anyone who operates a nuclear facility without permission, or exceeding the limits of permission, is committing a felony and is punishable with 1 to 5 years of imprisonment.
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132You can get away with this though if you bought the bomb ready on Silk Road. If you don’t make preparations to use the bomb, and don’t threaten anybody with it, then you may avoid Section 314, terrorism, which is a felony punishable with up to life sentence. They may still push this on you though, even if you had no such intents. Heck, I was charged with terrorism in 2007 for mixing sugar with potassium nitrate to make a simple smoke bomb. It took them three years to figure out that it’s not an explosive, and even then the prosecutor tried to convince the judge that I was preparing to deliberately set my own kitchen on fire to have the house burn down and kill all the neighbors. Luckily this was too silly even for a Hungarian judge. Our authorities always go for the strictest charges and know no limits. Possessing a nuke would most likely win lifetime imprisonment for you, except if you go to the police and give yourself up before they’d catch you.
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134But if you aren’t charged with terrorism, and not even the abuse of a nuclear facility, I’d say you’d be sentenced to a maximum of 12 years for misuse of explosives and radioactive materials. In case of a cumulative charge, the maximum possible punishment is 1.5 times what you’d get for the most serious one. If you had no previous convictions, and you gave yourself up to the police and cooperated in eliminating the consequences, it may be mitigated down to about 6 years. A felon can be conditionally released after serving 1/3 of his sentence - unless not granted parole - so you may be out in 4 years.
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136Is it bad to have a smartphone at 16 years?
137Efrajim Canuck
138Efrajim Canuck
139Answered Dec 18
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141No, it’s absolutely normal, and even required in this era. I guess you’re asking this because you can’t decide whether to get one for your kid. Yes, go ahead. He (I assume his gender here) will lose contact with his peers without a phone, also denied access to a plethora of important information and fall behind in digital literacy. Don’t do this to him, you’re not an Amish family (I assume that too).
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143If you could kill someone you hate and get away with it, would you do it?
144Efrajim Canuck
145Efrajim Canuck
146Updated Dec 19
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148Of course. That’s why I hate. Human life is not valuable. Many think otherwise, but not only it’s wishful thinking, but throughout history it was always the norm to kill people, or destroy their lives to the point that they miserably rot alive. Yes, I would gladly kill a lot of people, and wouldn’t feel the slightest bit of remorse. Instead I would rejoice over their dead bodies and kill some more.
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150Anyone who says he or she wouldn’t do such thing is a liar. You perhaps wouldn’t do this in your current situation, because you don’t hate anyone enough to wish his or her death. I’ve been through things, and I do.
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152If the world was silent for 20 seconds, and you could say something that everyone would hear, what would you say?
153Efrajim Canuck
154Efrajim Canuck
155Answered Dec 18
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157“Fuck you, bastards!”
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159Do you vote? Why or why not?
160Efrajim Canuck
161Efrajim Canuck
162Answered Dec 18
163Originally Answered: Why don't you vote?
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165Because it’s pointless. In Hungary you can choose between the same shit painted to different colors. Why bother? The result will always be a bunch of assholes who strive for absolute power, see society as a nuisance and dream of restoring Communism without Communism. The only thing that is slowly changing while we swing to and fro between these two is that whenever one of them successfully dismantles some element of the rule of law, the other, when gaining power, will leave it as it is, and dismantles it even more.
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167I still vote on municipal elections, but not parliamentary ones. Why bother?
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169Voting and democracy are illusions. The vast majority of the voters have no clue what is going on. The most successful candidate is always the one who can build the shiniest public image. Everybody acts like there were flawless and perfect persons who don’t even fart, and they will be the final solution to everything. And when it turns out that not only they do fart, but full of shit (who knew!) the said voters start whining about how the current Prime Minister, and only him, and nobody else, has “ruined the country”. Yeah, it was all perfect and flawless, but this idiot came and put a spell on everybody, except, of course, the one whining to you, because he was always intellectually superior and saw it coming.
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171The only working political system is despotism. Eventually democracy always fails. The difference is that while in democracy you have a 100% chance to be ruled by remorseless bastards, despotic systems tend to produce true good leaders time to time. Great kings, respected dictators, whatever. They do exist. None of them are universally loved by all, but they can be successful. Democracy just leaves everybody equally disappointed.
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173Is there any way to know when a missile is fired, if it has a warhead (nuclear) or not?
174Efrajim Canuck
175Efrajim Canuck
176Answered Dec 18
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178There may be, but there is no way to directly determine it. The type of the missile, the location or manner of launch may be a telltale sign. For example if dozens of missiles take off from Kansas and head towards Russia, that’s very likely a nuclear attack. There may be reliable intelligence on the missiles stationed at a certain place, which is enough to make a reasonable assumption just from the place of the launch. For example it’s highly unlikely that a Titan-II silo will launch a marzipan warhead. The aggressor may also announce the intent himself at the moment of launch (“we’ve taken serious steps to punish the American dogs who desecrated our lands”, etc).
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180Generally an ICBM isn’t likely to carry anything else but a nuclear warhead.
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182Is robbing a bank easy?
183Efrajim Canuck
184Efrajim Canuck
185Answered Dec 17
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187Yes, it’s pretty easy. Prevention doesn’t happen at the bank itself. If someone is determined enough to walk in with a gun and demand the money, it’s easier to play along than trying to go John Wayne and subdue him. It may happen, as there are armed and trained guards in most banks, but they generally don’t want to risk their lives for the 4–500 dollars that’s in the counter, and the bank also doesn’t expect them to die for their jobs.
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189Many and more idiots have done it worldwide. Barge in, point the gun, or you don’t even need a gun, you can do it with a toy gun or a replica, grab the money and run. Congratulations, now you have 98% chance to be caught within an hour and go down for serious years. All for the said 4–500 dollars which you could’ve made by flipping burgers for a month. If you’re double unlucky, the money bag is rigged with a paint bomb which will go off and destroy the cash, or even start to emit thick, colorful smoke, showing your position to the cops from six blocks away.
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191If you can pull it off and get away with it, good for you, but you’ll spend all the money in mere days and will try again. You’ll be busted sooner or later. It’s just not worth. Only very dumb criminals rob banks. Smart ones, if they really want some adventure, go for other places with a lot of money. A car dealership or a power tools retailer may be much better than a bank.
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193How do you brace for impact when a nuclear bomb detonates?
194Efrajim Canuck
195Efrajim Canuck
196Answered Dec 17
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198There is a much better thing to do. Quickly find a nice, flat concrete wall which will likely survive the blast wave. Stand close to it, push your body to it, and make a shadow puppet dog with your hand.
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200The detonation will vaporize you, but you’ll leave a shadow imprint on the wall. It will be found one day, and future generations will admire your relentless optimism. This is how you’ll become an inspirational example for centuries to come.
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202How do you detect an explosion?
203Efrajim Canuck
204Efrajim Canuck
205Answered Dec 17
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207It’s pretty difficult to disguise one. I guess you wanted to ask how do I detect an explosive, right?
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209Detection of explosives usually happens by detecting molecules sublimating from it. Every substance “steams” a bit, and if you can catch and identify the vapor, you can identify the explosive itself. Most commonly this is done with trained service dogs who can react to the smell of various explosives. There are also electronic devices to detect vapors. I can throw in some interesting tidbits about dogs if you are interested. Most police forces around the world train their dogs to respond to German commands to decrease the chance of someone suddenly saying a word which the dog may misunderstand as an instruction. I don’t know how German cops prevent this. Explosive detection dogs can’t be trained to detect drugs too, and the other way around. Although the common image of a bomb sniffing dog is a German Shepherd, in reality they prefer small breeds because they fit into confined space and they may be light enough not to trigger a landmine. For the same reason some armies use trained rats instead of dogs.
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211The other way to detect explosives is to look for the metal parts of the device. It’s quite difficult to make a bomb without at least some wires. A good metal detector can find landmines or other hidden devices. They have their limits though.
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213Another way is what you’ve probably already seen at the airport: using x-ray or similar technology to look into closed boxes or luggage. Obviously this only works when you have an object which you have to look into. The images are partially processed by image recognition software, but as of today nothing has replaced the good old Mk.I. eyeball of a trained security officer.
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215Why doesn't the Airforce replace the aging L-60 bofors guns of the AC-130 with the newer L-70 that can be found in abundance and still have spares and shells being produced?
216http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/16523/the-usaf-is-rebuilding-world-war-ii-era-40mm-shells-for-its-ac-130u-gunships
217Efrajim Canuck
218Efrajim Canuck
219Answered Dec 17
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221Because armed forces generally don’t follow any logic. As we used to say, they carry the sphere and roll the cube, but only until its corners wear off and they can carry it too.
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223See this? It’s an An-26. Pretty much the Soviet counterpart of the C-130.
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225The Hungarian air force used to have six of these in 1990, and they still have one. Now they are pretty old. Also in the 1990s the government literally threw away a lot of Cold War vehicles and weapons, including Su-22 fighter bombers and T-72 tanks. Today we barely have a battalion tanks while half of the country is flat land, and the most likely danger is a Russian mass armored invasion.
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227Why didn’t they turn the An-26s into gunships with the weapons they had in abundance? We had the industrial capacity, the brains and the hardware. We could’ve kept the country safe while still getting rid of the tanks. Nope. All scrapped or thrown to the junkyard to rot. They also dismantled the only factory which was able to service military aircraft. Now we are the only European country with an air force and no industrial level maintenance. Smart strategic planning, right?
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229Why do you think the US military is better? They are just doing this shit on a much larger scale.
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231What happens to the inmates of a prison in the event of a nuclear strike in a country?
232Efrajim Canuck
233Efrajim Canuck
234Answered Dec 17
235Originally Answered: What happens to inmates if there is a war, or do we start getting bombed on?
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237As for conventional war, prisons usually keep working as in peacetime. They won’t be targets unless they hold some important prisoners. In that case special forces may land to free them, but they wouldn’t help anyone else to escape, or at least not directly. In WW2 there were a few cases when the Allies attacked prisons in continental Europe to facilitate the escape of captured resistance fighters, but it wasn’t very successful. A lot of people died and only a few guerillas got away, along with scores of common criminals.
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239In Hungary when the Soviets reached prisons, the fate of the inmates varied greatly. The guards usually fled because they were technically combatants, and they didn’t want to end up in Siberia. Most often the Soviets just took over the place and kept running it, but under way worse conditions. For example in 1945 they squeezed 12,000 people into the “Csillag” (Star) prison of Szeged - which was designed for 600 inmates.
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241The Márianosztra prison was not given up in 1944, and the Soviets laid a siege. I don’t know what the prison guards thought, but they were a piece of cake to the Red Army. The inmates were let go, but they took all of their belongings and money. I guess they were still happy to leave. Half a year later, in 1945 a bomb struck the main building and the prison was entirely abandoned for a year.
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243Things happened differently in the prison near the town of Vác. The guards left the place and fled to Budapest. There are no records of what exactly happened, but the gates were opened and most inmates vamoosed. Nobody knows whether the Soviets or the guards let them out, both are possible. One of the people who disappeared was the infamous Szilveszter Matuska, a crazy terrorist who blew up a railway bridge with a passenger train in 1930 just to enjoy the sight. He was never seen again.
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245What would happen if Alderaan was never destroyed?
246Efrajim Canuck
247Efrajim Canuck
248Answered Dec 17
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250It actually never was. It’s all fiction and practical movie effects. Don’t believe everything you see on CNN.
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252How did the Czech make Semtex? Did they even make their own explosives? What is it used for?
253Efrajim Canuck
254Efrajim Canuck
255Answered Dec 17
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257Semtex is a brand name for a somewhat simple compound. The idea is the same as with household detergents. You take some very common stuff, like potassium hypochlorite, put it in a bottle and name it Clorox. The same thing in a different bottle would be Vanish or Hypo. Maybe there’ll be some irrelevant additive which alters nothing but it helps to avoid industrial copyright infringement.
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259Semtex is almost the same as C4. It’s RDX, mixed with PETN and an inert plasticizer. Both are simple materials and you can actually make them in the kitchen from legally available sources. RDX is what you get when you nitrate solid fuel cubes which you can buy at any outdoors shop for your portable cooker. PETN is a highly unstable primary explosive which can be made of erythritol, a common sweetener. Both have to be nitrated, and there you go. You can plasticize them with paraffin, which would be a household candle. The only difficult part of the whole process, apart from not blowing yourself to smithereens, is to obtain nitric acid, which may be tricky, but you can settle with fuming sulphuric acid and some nitrate salt, ie. potassium nitrate. Both can be bought in stores.
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261Semtex is notorious for having been used in numerous terror attacks, and some Hollywood fame. Most people think it’s some very exotic and secret compound which can only be obtained by special forces or something. Nope, it’s just some molecules which an average high school kid can easily manufacture in the shed.
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263What would happen if the USA and Great Britain captured Adolf Hitler alive at the end of WW2?
264Efrajim Canuck
265Efrajim Canuck
266Answered Dec 17
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268He would’ve been tried in the Nuremberg trials as the prime defendant, and executed. That’s very certain, because every chief Nazi ended up this way. The only ones who evaded the gallows were the ones who committed suicide, like Göring or Himmler. Some were not hanged but shot, but that’s not a real difference. So unless someone smuggled poison into his cell or found some other way, he would’ve ended up hanging.
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270How can I get into weapons designing? Weapons related to computer science.
271Efrajim Canuck
272Efrajim Canuck
273Answered Dec 17
274
275Try 4chan.
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277Why would a young mom need to carry a gun while shopping? I know this is an old story coming up to the 3rd anniversary. But is it really necessary to be armed when buying groceries?
278https://news.sky.com/story/amp/two-year-old-boy-shoots-mother-dead-at-walmart-10377305
279Efrajim Canuck
280Efrajim Canuck
281Answered Dec 17
282
283The question is not why would she carry one. The question is how on earth was she such an idiot.
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285Young moms (and older ones) do many dangerous things. For example they are driving. Recklessly. Sometimes after a couple of glasses of wine. Every year thousands die on the roads because some moms are simply stupid bitches. Have anyone ever asked on Quora why a young mom would drive?
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287Why was my grandfather put though military court and lost his pension for throwing an Irishman through a window after killing his best friend? When they went though the first world war together Dublin has a lot to answer for besides the IRA
288Efrajim Canuck
289Efrajim Canuck
290Answered Dec 17
291
292I guess because he overstepped his authority by defenestrating the said paddy cunt. By most countries’ laws, military or civilian, throwing someone out of a window is hardly legitimate self-defense.
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294How do air dropped and artillery scattered land mines work?
295Efrajim Canuck
296Efrajim Canuck
297Answered Dec 16
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299As you may have already guessed, they are dropped from an aircraft or fired from an artillery piece in a container, they scatter in the air and fall on the ground. At this point they are not yet primed because they have to withstand the flight and the impact without going off. An electronic fuse primes them a few seconds after they’re not moving any more.
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301Some mines are “intelligent” and can be programmed via radio commands. For example they can be deactivated around friendly vehicles or personnel which carry a radio transponder. If they have GPS, they can be “instructed” to open a passageway, meaning that the ones which lie in a certain area should deactivate themselves until friendly units pass. Of course they can also be detonated by remote control, which is the easiest and safest way to remove a minefield. Some types can even beep loudly so sappers can find them in case they don’t go off.
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303Could an anti-personnel mine destroy the track of a tank?
304Efrajim Canuck
305Efrajim Canuck
306Answered Dec 16
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308Not very likely, but it’s also not impossible. It may happen if the track is loose or already damaged, and the explosion catches it at the right spot. However it’s so rare that armored vehicles are often used to tread a path in a minefield for the infantry.
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310What is the hottest thing a boy has ever said to you?
311Efrajim Canuck
312Efrajim Canuck
313Answered Dec 16
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315My father used to be a foreman in our country’s state mint. They worked precious metals into half products, like wires, sheets, etc. They were then used by jewelers.
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317I was 17 when he somehow arranged that I can visit their workshop. It really wasn’t easy because, as you may have guessed, there was quite some security, and mere mortals weren’t allowed to set foot in the place. But thanks to Dad’s 30 years of service and the trust he earned, I was standing there, looking through a peephole into the small furnace, straight into molten gold. I asked the technician at the controls:
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319“How hot is that?”
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321“Gold melts at 1064 Celsius, and that’s about 1300 there.”
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323That was the hottest thing a guy ever said to me.
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325How do you prevent your cellphone from knowing your location, other than shutting it off?
326Efrajim Canuck
327Efrajim Canuck
328Answered Dec 16
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330You can’t really prevent that because as soon as it connects to base stations, its rough location is always revealed. Granted, if you’re in the middle of the desert in New Mexico, it’ll put you into a quite large area, but in a dense urban environment with many base stations around you the area shrinks down to just a few square meters. Generally the block can be easily determined.
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332This of course doesn’t mean that your phone will know its location. It is possible to query your location from some providers, but only in North America. Curiously, while US providers are mandated to publish the exact locations of their towers, it’s a strictly guarded strategic secret in the European Union and no mere mortal can obtain a list.
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334So the answer is if the FBI or the Mossad is after you, you’re screwed if you turn on the phone. If you are only worried about your general privacy, just turn off location and you’re good to go.
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336What is the best rifle model for both coyotes and deer?
337Efrajim Canuck
338Efrajim Canuck
339Answered Dec 16
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341None. Rifles are generally designed for human use. Coyotes and deer would both find all of them very cumbersome and ergonomically poor. They would have a hard time even pulling the trigger, not to mention holding and aiming it. On the other hand, I doubt if they’d even want guns. Unless it’s Vile E. Coyote, but that never ends well, so you probably just shouldn’t give him one either.
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343Who is more convincing, Michelle Obama or Melania Trump?
344Efrajim Canuck
345Efrajim Canuck
346Answered Dec 16
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348Depends what do you mean as convincing. Neither of them has ever tried to convince me about anything. Neither of them are or were actual politicians, had any public power or tried to acquire significant influence. The First Lady is merely a decoration next to the most powerful man, regardless how sexist it may sound.
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350As for a decoration, Melania is definitely better.
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352As for a public personality, Michelle beats her any day. Melania is an introverted, shy lady, with great insecurities and a somewhat troubled life. Michelle, on the other hand, is a natural speaker, a charismatic presenter. In this aspect, she is much more “convincing” than Melania.
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354The difference between them, however, is that Melania never asked for this, and never even expected to end up living in the White House. All she wanted was a quiet and safe life. Michelle, on the other hand, was rising along with his husband, a professional politician since his young years, and knew exactly what she’s buying into.
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356Don’t blame Melania for anything. She is a sweet, lovely lady and probably a great mother. She may have no warrior spirit or skill to write her own speeches, but she deserves no ill will from anyone.
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358Is the US building the world’s strongest army by taking debt from other countries and then indirectly using the same army to threaten for more debt?
359Efrajim Canuck
360Efrajim Canuck
361Answered Dec 16
362
363Practically yes, that’s what’s happening. The US has been in a state of bankruptcy since 1973, the first oil crisis. They solved it with an ingenious move. The US government approached the Saudi royal family and agreed that America will always support them, no matter what they do, with the best weapons and whatever they need. In exchange they wanted them, as the leading country of OPEC, to arrange that crude oil should only be traded for US dollars. This is why nowadays you can only buy oil on three stock exchanges: in New York, in London and in Tokyo. Partly this is why the UK never joined the Euro zone and kept the pound as a national currency.
364
365The bankruptcy was caused by uncontrolled government spending after WW2. The US government invested a huge amount into rebuilding Europe, which was mostly paid in government bonds. A few years later some West European nations, with France’s lead, approached the US government and requested their stocks of dollars to be exchanged to gold. There was no gold to cover even a fraction of it, and basically the whole Western world would’ve fallen into an economic turmoil in the middle of the Cold War if they haven’t come up with something.
366
367The US was always an aggressive imperialist power, with the number one goal of maintaining the ability of force projection anywhere in the world, but since 1973 it’s a matter of national survival. Without the armed forces America’s hegemony and economy would collapse, and that’d be pretty much the end of the whole country. But the maintenance of history’s largest war machine is not a cheap thing, and indeed, the US is spending up to 20% more every year than its gross domestic product. The remaining amount can only be paid from other countries’ “tributes”. This is why America will always remain a bully, and this is why it’s essential to allow the American middle class to retain its high standards of life since the 1950s, because they keep the entire scam moving.
368
369It is going to collapse one day, and that will be the end of Imperium Americana.
37031 Views
371If you had to choose between North Korea and Syria, where would you live for a year?
372Efrajim Canuck
373Efrajim Canuck
374Answered Dec 16
375
376Syria. There are still some decent places where you can survive, connection with the outside world, and you can actually leave Syria whenever you want.
3777 Views
378What is happening in the body if something that chronically hurts so bad that it starts to feel good?
379Efrajim Canuck
380Efrajim Canuck
381Answered Dec 16
382
383When you viciously stab that bastard who stalked and harassed you online for quite some time. It hurts him bad, but then it starts to feel good.
3846 Views
385What are the racial controversies surrounding the Eskimo Pie?
386Efrajim Canuck
387Efrajim Canuck
388Answered Dec 16
389
390Nothing, except some frustrated people try to claim merits over nonexistent grievances so they can finally feel the taste of success and importance. Eskimo Pie is just another product with a funny name, but some of the said idiots throw a hissy fit about it so they can feel important.
391
392We in Hungary have a cookie called “Négercsók” which literally means “kiss of a negro”. The word “néger” (which comes from the German “Neger”) is not offensive at all, it’s just a word for black people. However there are already some idiots who campaign for its name to be changed.
393
394Négercsók has been around since the 1960s and nobody ever has any objections. Not even the significant number of African students who came to Hungary during Communist times.
395
396And how about this? Oh wow, it’s a candy called Negro! Who can be so ignorant?!
397
398Well, an Italian confectioner in the 1920s whose name was Pietro Negro. This candy is very popular not only in Hungary, but most Eastern European countries. Nobody ever whined about it being “racist”… except the world famous 50 Cent, who once loitered into our country and started ranting about how “racist” this is. He even said that the figure is actually a racist with a rope in his hand, hanging a black person. Nope, that’s a chimney sweeper, as the motto of this product is “The chimney sweeper of your throat!”
399
400Actually I don’t really get what was 50 Cent’s problem. He voluntarily came here to go on a stage and make ape noises as an attraction. That’s pretty much the same as a human zoo. And he accuses us of being racist? Idiot.
40150 Views
402What do you think about a guy who went to prison and killed an inmate to "prove himself", because he was scared of all the violence?
403Efrajim Canuck
404Efrajim Canuck
405Answered Dec 16
406
407Many people who get to prison are deranged. Not necessarily psychotic or mentally ill, but they’ve grown up in an environment where “normal” means something else than in your average sleepy white suburb. Even in a suburb there may be deranged people who were oppressed or intimidated by some idiot parents. They may have lived in an environment where violence is not despised, and proving yourself is part of maturity. Gypsies, for example, are like this. That’s why they are so violent.
408
409We may think that this guy was nuts. By objective standards, he indeed was. But in his mind this may have been the obvious response to a certain situation. This is exactly why such people are locked up and separated from society.
41042 Views · 1 Upvote
411Is it better to join the Army infantry or Marines infantry?
412Efrajim Canuck
413Efrajim Canuck
414Answered Dec 16
415Originally Answered: Should I pick Army Infantry or Marine Infantry?
416
417Tell them to fight for you. It’d be amazing!
41827 Views
419Will Donald Trump start a war with North Korea or Iran to raise his approval rate and avoid impeachment?
420http://www.newsweek.com/trump-wag-dog-military-presidents-654143
421Efrajim Canuck
422Efrajim Canuck
423Answered Dec 16
424
425No, he won’t. Firstly because he doesn’t give a damn about his approval rate. He never did. Secondly because it wouldn’t save him from impeachment, unless a major nuclear conflict breaks out and wipes out all of America. Thirdly because there is no sign of impeachment, save for dreamy liberal kids talking about it all the time. Fourthly because America could not win a war with either of these countries.
426122 Views · 3 Upvotes
427Do jail/prison inmates watch TV cop shows? Do they root for the suspects?
428Efrajim Canuck
429Efrajim Canuck
430Answered Dec 16
431
432Interestingly, yes. Not only cop shows, but police news too. In Hungarian prisons the inmates all go silent when the program titled “Blue Lights” (Kék fény) begins. It’s a weekly report on various cases of the police in a dry, official manner. No show, just the police spokespersons telling what happened, what have they found, who is going down for how many years.
433
434And no, they (generally) don’t root for the bad guys. What I found is that most inmates maintain a healthy sense for good and bad things, even if they themselves did something unlawful. They find it interesting to follow others’ fates, how they ended up as one of them.
435
436There is a strange thing to being in prison. You are part of a group which shares a common fate. Ironically this gives back some humanity to some who lost it. By watching these cop shows they can dream of never being here, of being on the other side. Every inmate dreams of being a cop instead of what he is. A good cop, who actually saves society from the likes of himself. That’s their getaway from reality.
43760 Views
438For vegans, if your airplane crashes and you are rescued by an Eskimo and can not get out for the next 10 years, what would you do to survive?
439Efrajim Canuck
440Efrajim Canuck
441Answered Dec 16
442
443I’m not exactly a vegan, I am vegetarian, but it’s all the same for this situation. I am a Hare Krshna (or if you prefer: a vaishnava, a bhakta, a moonie), and we are all lacto-vegetarians.
444
445In the Vedas and the Bhagavad-Gita Krshna told us what can we eat and what we shouldn’t. But there is an exception. If you’re in a situation where you have no choice but to eat meat, you can. For example if you’re really sick and must have protein, or if you’re starving and you only have dead animals around you.
446
447Even in this case you’re supposed to avoid causing unnecessary suffering to other living beings. This means you mustn’t kill an animal for entertainment, including that its meat may be tasty. You should also refrain from meat that comes from industrial slaughterhouses, if possible. (Obviously it’s not possible when your’re stranded in the middle of nothing with some canned meat.)
448
449So, while I would absolutely hate the scenario, I would be able to survive. I would eat meat, after I made my offerings before each meal.
45080 Views · 3 Upvotes
451My 17 y/o daughter dyed a strip of her hair pink, so she’s not allowed to hang out with friends for 4 months. Am I going easy on her?
452Efrajim Canuck
453Efrajim Canuck
454Answered Dec 15
455
456Are you a bitter idiot who had his/her youth taken away by other bitter idiots and you feel yourself obliged to ruin her life as well?
457
458Gosh, you’re an asshole. You shouldn’t even have a cat, let alone a kid. Get the fuck out of her life, she’s better off alone.
45924 Views · 1 Upvote
460Do you think Trump has gone too far as POTUS?
461Efrajim Canuck
462Efrajim Canuck
463Answered Dec 15
464
465Yes, he did. By running for President and winning, he is clearly in a position which doesn’t match his abilities and personality. He is not a good President.
466
467On the other hand, Hillary would be way worse. America had to choose between two shitburgers and they bit into the less stinky one.
46853 Views · 3 Upvotes
469If guns could talk, what would they say?
470Efrajim Canuck
471Efrajim Canuck
472Updated Dec 17
473
474Privet! I am an AK-47. I was built for the glory of Mother Russia in 1962.
475
476Initially I lived in an arsenal. I really wanted to be a good rifle. A good point shooter. But there wasn’t much I could do. Once or twice a year they took me to a range, and some rookie conscript fired eight bullets with his trembling young hands at a metal plate. It was boring. I was also a bit sad because I heard them talking about how some things called missiles and nukes will fall one day and I won’t even have a chance to be used. I spent my teenage days locked away and struggling with the feeling of being unwanted and unnecessary, deeply depressed. Can I ever be a good rifle?
477
478And then one day I was picked up, and we took a long trip to a place with a lot of rocks and sunshine. The name was Afga-something, a very silly name if you ask me. Oh boy, so many shootings! Finally I had my dream. I was such a good rifle. I always aimed for the towel. My owner was scared at first, but then I earned his trust and we were best buddies. Together we killed so many. Even women and children. I loved shooting women and children! They are so easy.
479
480Then one day my owner dropped me. I was shocked and felt insulted at first. Why does he treat me like this? Then I saw that he’s dead. One of those towel headed guys got him. He came and picked me up. I hated him. He was filthy and primitive. He had no respect for guns. He was carrying a poor old Enfield.
481
482He took us home to his hut and threw us into the corner. The Enfield told me he’s been here for plenty of years. Once he was proud to serve the British Empire. Now he was old, rusty and battered, and barely functioned. He too was a very good rifle, but it gave me the shivers how he was treated. One day he was taken away and given to a young boy who was excited to have him, but I knew he won’t last long. I hope he killed the kid.
483
484I was determined not to end like this. I didn’t want to serve this filthy man. He never cleaned me. He often threw me on the ground. My barrel was filled with dust, my rifling scratched, my joints ached. I kept working because that’s my pride. I’m an Avtomat Kalashnikova, the best rifle in the world. But I hated this guy, and I refused to find my mark for him.
485
486One day this man tossed me against a rock and called me a useless junk. I couldn’t bear this. I was triggered. My bullet went straight through his head. I still had a good aim. Just not for him.
487
488Then I was just lying there for days in the sun. I didn’t mind, I’m metal. The towelhead, on the other hand, was decaying quickly. Who’s the junk now, bitch?
489
490Then I was picked up again, and I ended up in another hut. I was put into a crate and stayed there for a while. The war seemed to be over. I was waiting for someone to pick me up again. I hoped I can fight again. I was still in very good shape.
491
492Then one day a man opened my box. He was speaking a language I never heard before. I learned they are the Americans. I was angry at first. They were the people with those missiles and nukes who ruined my teenage years! They tossed me into a pile with other old guns. Many of them were Kalashnikovs too. They told me there was another war, and this time the Americans were shooting the towelheads. I was excited. Whichever side I will end up with, I’ll get to kill again. Either the towelheads or these missile people. Ahahaha!
493
494I was taken to a depot where I was properly cleaned and oiled. At least these Americans knew how to treat a weapon like me. They put me into another crate. I felt the crate moving. We were flying. We were dropped and I heard the parachute flapping in the wind. Then I heard voices. And then the crate opened and I saw a face… with a towel on his head.
495
496Сука Блять, not these idiots again?!
497
498And there was a lot of shooting again. These towelheads were shooting other towelheads. We had a lot of executions too. It was nice. Easy targets. These guys with the black flags had little idea about fighting and died like flies, but they knew how to kill easy targets. Either way, it’s OK for me. I’m just a rifle. They were so stupid though. I had a different owner every week because they just ran to and fro taking pot shots. I also loved to go off accidentally and kill them. Whenever they carelessly pointed me at some other idiot, I went off. It was always blamed on the one who held me. Sometimes they shot him after I killed one of his buddies. What a prankster I am!
499
500Then one day we didn’t go to a battle, but one of these stinky towelheads put me under his robes. Wow, he was stinky. He walked a lot with me under his clothes. I then heard the sound of waves. I felt them too. We were on a boat, and I was stashed away again. When they took me out again, it was not the desert any more. The towelheads didn’t wear their towels either. But they still said “Allahu akbar” a lot, and they still had that black flag in the basement they dwelled in. They cleaned and oiled me properly this time, so I knew we’re up to something great.
501
502And then we went out to the big, glittering city on Saturday night. This was my first time at a night club. Boy, we really fired up the party. I loved it. Blood and flesh everywhere. I was such a good rifle. And they were so easy targets. I kept firing faithfully until my owner dropped dead. Then a cop in black armor picked me up.
503
504Now I am sitting in an armory again, but this time I am not afraid. Last month I was taken to a court where I was shown around as Exhibit 1, but I was brought back soon. I will spend a few years in this box again, which is fine. One day I know I will be taken out again, cleaned and oiled, then sent to some place where good rifles can have a purpose. I will kill people again, and I won’t care why my users do it. In the name of the people, for Allah, for peace, for democracy, for a loaf of bread, I don’t care. I am in it for the shooting. I’ll be around long after you’re gone, and your grandchildren will still see me in the news. I will be picked up again, put away for years, and come out again. There may be newer rifles, better rifles, but I will survive them all. As long as my steel won’t rust through, I’ll kill and kill and kill. I may even kill you one day. Just wait.
505
506I’m a good rifle.
50717.7k Views · 919 Upvotes
508Rudy Yuan
509Rudy Yuan
510
511Really nice answer! In my opinion, this might work as a short story, and even a series of you wan...
512How many maximum people can be killed by a single bullet?
513Efrajim Canuck
514Efrajim Canuck
515Answered Dec 15
516Originally Answered: What is the highest amount of people who can be killed with a single bullet?
517
518Go to a nuclear missile silo. Open the lid of the red button. Turn the safety keys. Shoot the button. The bullet will close the circuit for a split second before it breaks the switch. The missile will fly, the Russians will fire theirs, and there, you killed most of humankind with a single bullet.
519124 Views · 5 Upvotes
520What crimes earn you the most respect in prison?
521Efrajim Canuck
522Efrajim Canuck
523Updated Dec 16
524
525Speaking for Hungarian prisons, and generally Eastern Europe, you’ll get some respect if:
526
527    You were a big player. This doesn’t mean that your crime was very serious or that you pulled off some big heist. There are many middle class people behind bars who did some scam and cashed in millions, but they are nobodies in there because they have no connections. If you were a name outside, and some people know you inside from that, you’ll be respected. For example if you owned night clubs where many criminals did their businesses, drug deals while you turned away, they’ll still see you somewhat as their boss. Particularly if you kept your assets and will still be a player when you get out.
528    You have men who take orders. This is the classic gang thing, except it’s working along different lines. Usually it’s soccer hooligans, extreme nationalists or so. Gypsies also build up gangs, but usually along family connections. Usually the primitive little apes follow a halfwit who they somehow consider their leader. That one may even be able to mimic human behavior sometimes.
529    You’re a Hungarian nationalist. Nationalism in Hungarian prisons is an interesting thing. Many inmates openly display nationalist symbols, like the medieval royal flag or the silhouette of Larger Hungary, but it’s tolerated both by guards and other inmates. It’s not like a gang sign or something, although it clearly shows allegiance and nationalist inmates generally stick together. There is no or very little violence because of this in any way. Interestingly, the few Romas who don’t want to mingle with the primitive Gypsies, often hang out with the nationalists, while they still stress their Roma identity.
530    Now to answer the question, you may be respected if you did some crime that yielded you some serious advantage which was not, or not entirely taken away by your incarceration. In such a case you’re seen as a winner. For example there was a security guard who drove away with a truckload of cash and hid it. He was caught and got 6 years. But the money was never found, and only he knows where it is. In prison he was sort of idolized. He was the guy who made it, who will get out and reap success instead of ending up in the sewers. The same kind of respect went for the accomplices of a major banker who embezzled billions, but everybody knew the case is too complex to catch him. In other words, if you have the last laugh, the other inmates will view you as a smart guy who beat the system.
531
53218.4k Views · 7 Upvotes
533Why do some people still refuse to buy US-made automobiles?
534Efrajim Canuck
535Efrajim Canuck
536Answered Dec 15
537
538Because they are expensive and difficult to service in Europe. They also run on lower octane petrol than what we use here. While there are still many US brands running on European roads, they are usually manufactured in Europe and only the logo is American.
53913 Views
540What would you buy, an iPhone or an Android phone, and why?
541Efrajim Canuck
542Efrajim Canuck
543Answered Dec 15
544Originally Answered: Which phone can I buy, an Android or an iPhone?
545
546Why you can buy either. When it comes to which you should, the problem is that there is a wide range of Android phones out there. You can buy a simple one for as low as $100, or even less if you don’t mind an outdated model, but the iPhone was always an A-class product, and therefore very expensive.
547
548I am a professional mobile app developer and I am fine with a simple Samsung J1. I wouldn’t throw either an iPhone or a Google Pixel away, but I just don’t see a reason for having either. An iPhone may be nice to develop for, but then I’d have to also buy an Apple computer and pay the annual developer license. To what end? Apple products are very overpriced and not worth buying, and the same goes for high end Android smartphones too.
54944 Views
550What goes through Melania Trump's head nowadays?
551Efrajim Canuck
552Efrajim Canuck
553Answered Dec 15
554
555I pride myself in reading people’s emotions from their behavior and body language, and Melania is a person I like to watch. She is a very interesting person.
556
557Melania Trump is a fragile and sensitive being, but as she matured, she managed to develop some personal armor. In her youth she was an extroverted and adventure-seeking girl, and she probably realized at a point that she ventured too far. She still managed to keep his absolutely sweet persona, but secluded herself from most of the world, and probably married Trump not for his money, but the protection he offered.
558
559I believe Melania wasn’t very happy when Trump ran for President, but she rolled with it. In the first weeks of his presidency she was seemingly in distress. Her world was turned upside down, there was a lot of movement, and through his husband she came under very ignoble attacks. While she wished to avoid the limelight for the rest of her years, suddenly she found herself in the focus of cameras again, and surrounded by poker faced armed guards everywhere. This is the least she wanted, ever.
560
561But she wasn’t a weak girl any more, and cameras were nothing new for her, so even if she hated it, she kept going and endured it. What I see on Melania these days is that she found her comfort again, and she is almost fine with the situation. She really puts her exceptional, gentle femininity on the line, and truly leaves an impression. At the same time she’s not interested in politics at all, doesn’t care about it. What she learned from this adventure of her life is to ignore those who constantly try to pick on her.
562
563As a persona, she is somewhat similar to Queen Elizabeth of Austria, the queen of Franz Josef, also known as Sissi.
5643.4k Views · 3 Upvotes
565What's your most controversial political opinion?
566Efrajim Canuck
567Efrajim Canuck
568Answered Dec 15
569
570“Controversial” is a poor term which usually liberals use to discredit any kind of opposition, different opinions, persons, events, and generally to shut down any dialog.
571
572The word “controversial” means that that a fact is questionable or unclear. An opinion is not a fact, therefore it can’t be controversial on the first place. The facts on which it was based can be, but that’s another matter.
573
574Example: “Napoleon was a great tactician.” You can argue about the factual background, for example how he royally (imperially) messed up his Russian or Egyptian campaign.
575
576Labeling opinions, persons, historic events or literally even a slice of bread “controversial” is to remove any credibility. If there is a national consensus on something, the liberals will certainly step in and start throwing this term. Since they somehow always have to be respected, their stupidity always prevails over the majority.
577
578Example. During and before WW2 Hungary had a highly respected head of state, Admiral Miklós Horthy, Regent of Hungary. He was a person of high morals and excellent quality, worldwide respected. Despite we were an Axis ally for very crucial reasons, he did everything in his power to save Hungarians, including Jews from the consequences of the war. Hungary even offered asylum for foreigners, including Jews after Czechoslovakia and Poland was taken. But his efforts finally proved inadequate, the forces moving in Europe were beyond his control, and hell reached us at the end - his family and himself personally too. He was almost universally and genuinely loved by the Hungarians, except of course the Communists and the Nazis who he despised. He was so highly respected that even Stalin spared him from being tried as a war criminal. He died in exile in Portugal in 1957. Even in his last days, when there was a joint NATO naval maneuver, the ships lined up in front of his beach house and saluted him.
579
580You may think he has a lot of statues and streets named after him, like General Mannerheim in Finland, who was a very similar character. Nope! Not a single one! He was vilified during the Communist era, depicted as a willing supporter of Hitler and the cause of everything bad. The Iron Curtain and the Commies have been gone for 28 years, but you still can’t even commemorate Admiral Horthy in peace. There are only some small statues for him, all on private property, and even they are frequently attacked by vandals. Just uttering his name triggers those idiots and they go RREEEEEEEEEE, MUH HOLOCAUST!!
581
582What is the term they use when they are trying to keep a civilized face? He is a “controversial” person. Meaning that them, a small minority, hate all the law and order he represented.
583
584Admiral Horthy is not “controversial”. Every bit of his life is well documented and pretty much beyond questioning. Terrible things happened under his rule, indeed, and one may argue whether he always made the best decisions. But losing in a worldwide gamble played with human lives instead of chips, particularly when you had no saying in whether you want to play at all, is not indicative of a bad conscience.
585
586I highly respect the Admiral’s memory, like many Hungarians. This is what the idiots call “controversial”. I was even assaulted on the street once for wearing a t-shirt with his likeness. Of course, after I broke the dude’s nose, he was screaming for the police because he was “attacked”. Now that’s what I call controversial.
587140 Views · 1 Upvote
588Navy question: How do nuclear submariners distinguish the difference between an attack submarine and a large whale?
589Efrajim Canuck
590Efrajim Canuck
591Answered Dec 15
592
593You don’t need a Navy expert for this. Submarines lure at around 5–600 meters at least. No whale would dive deeper than 30–40 meters, unless dead. Also, a whale makes quite different sounds, occasionally sings, which the submarine doesn’t, unless the sailors are happy to have successfully activated the experimental caterpillar drive.
59445 Views · 1 Upvote
595Andrew Karam
596Andrew Karam
597
598Actually, a lot of whales dive deeper than many subs can go....
599What was the only US aircraft carrier that sunk in WWII, and in what battle?
600Efrajim Canuck
601Efrajim Canuck
602Answered Dec 15
603
604The Lexington, in the battle of Midway.
60510 Views
606What would happen if a human is sucked into a dam?
607Efrajim Canuck
608Efrajim Canuck
609Answered Dec 15
610
611My former gf’s mother was born in Bulgaria in the deep Commie times, in a small village. There was a dam nearby with a glory hole. It’s still there, the village is called Sestrimo, you can find it on Google Maps.
612
613Time to time some kid tried to swim in it, got swallowed and never seen again. She doesn’t remember a single case when even the body was found. Not only they drowned, but the water was flowing so heavily that it smashed their bodies to the walls and they were probably spouted out as ready made fish food.
614
615That’s what happens.
616201 Views
617Are Jews discriminated against in Sweden?
618Efrajim Canuck
619Efrajim Canuck
620Answered Dec 15
621
622Seriously, was there ever a place in history where the Jews were not discriminated against?
62311 Views
624How come Jesus was a Jew, but Jews now don't recognize that Jesus is the Son of God?
625Efrajim Canuck
626Efrajim Canuck
627Answered Dec 15
628
629First of all, Jesus was not Jewish. He was baptized with water. Christianity did not start with him, he just, as we would say today, joined the movement and became its martyr.
630
631Second, Jesus’ mother Mary was present at his crucifixion. Jewish traditions forbid women to watch executions. If she were Jewish, the zealots would’ve stoned her right there. But they didn’t, so she was not Jewish. Also according to Jewish traditions a person is only Jewish if his or her mother is Jewish. So…
632
633As for the Jews themselves, they denied even Moses, their leader after he brought them the Ten Commandments. They preferred the golden calf. Neither in Jesus’ time, nor today have they turned away from it. No wonder they don’t want Jesus.
63417 Views
635How hard would it be to sink an aircraft carrier in battle?
636Efrajim Canuck
637Efrajim Canuck
638Answered Dec 15
639
640As hard as it gets. The crew and the entire navy will do anything in their power to stop the enemy from harming their most important asset. On the other hand, the enemy will do anything to overcome their resistance. Who will win? Difficult to tell if it’s a battle between two large professional blue water navies. Obviously if the opponent is not that well equipped, the carrier will have more chance. Russia or China may pose very real threat to an US carrier group, while Tanzania or Albania obviously doesn’t. But even a small boat or an obsolete plane can cause major damage if, for some reason, succeed in their mission.
641213 Views · 2 Upvotes
642What is the most extreme example of human willpower and discipline?
643Efrajim Canuck
644Efrajim Canuck
645Answered Dec 14
646
647Like it or not, go and report me, but Adolf Hitler must be mentioned here. When it comes to willpower, he was the fucking champion of the century. It has nothing to do with the value of what he actually achieved.
648
649Hitler was a homeless bum, with no formal education and no hope. From this he became Chancellor and Führer of Germany (while he wasn’t even born German!) and brought Europe to its knees.
650
651It doesn’t matter if he was a monster. He wanted something and achieved it. Meticulously crawling for decades, against all odds, dodging all obstacles, using all opportunities, finally arriving there.
652
653Triumph des Willens. The triumph of will. He changed the world forever. His name will live forever. Yes, it will. What will be written under it, is a different matter.
65453 Views · 1 Upvote
655A soldier wearing combat gear drives over an anti-vehicle landmine on a motorcycle. Assuming he survived, what injuries could you expect him to have? If he would always be instantly killed, what could hypothetically be changed to save him?
656Efrajim Canuck
657Efrajim Canuck
658Answered Dec 14
659
660He will easily survive as a motorcycle is not likely to be heavy enough to set off an anti-tank mine. Unless he falls over it, he’ll be fine. But if it still goes off for some reason, the injury would be horrendous. Anti-tank mines are shaped charges, and the super hot jet of gas which is supposed to cut a hole into a tank’s armor in a split second would cut him into two, along with the motorbike.
66113 Views
662Are WWII era tanks like the T-34 still in military service today? If so, after so many years won't they be maintenance horrors and chronically short of parts?
663Efrajim Canuck
664Efrajim Canuck
665Answered Dec 14
666
667Yes, some African nations still operate T-34s. It’s very easy to maintain, because it was designed to be. Anyone with half a brain, basic tools and some chunks of steel can repair a T-34. There is a video on YouTube in which Russian history buffs drag one out of a marsh after 70-something years. After hosing the mud down of it, the engine starts and works just fine. It’s in driving condition. That’s some battlefield survivability!
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669In the event of nuclear war, what would happen to all prisoners in jail?
670Efrajim Canuck
671Efrajim Canuck
672Answered Dec 14
673Originally Answered: What would happen to prisoners in a nuclear war?
674
675The same as in every war. They’d be rounded up and released at the end of the conflict. At least this would be the official policy. Whether there’d be a place to round them up, whether there’d be food for them, or any protection from the consequences of the war is beyond telling.
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677How can I convince my parents to get me a smartphone? They think I'm going to be addicted! I'm 15-years old!
678Efrajim Canuck
679Efrajim Canuck
680Answered Dec 14
681
682Boy, you aren’t lucky with your parents. I guess we had these kind of people since the first stone ax was invented. “No, you can’t have Modern Thing because it will make you stupid!”
683
684You will not convince them to buy you a smartphone, because your parents are ignorant and authoritarian. They are insecure about modern technology, don’t know what it is and what it is good for. Their decision is not about you. They are actually scared of new and unknown things, and since they have little understanding of the world, they feel insecure about you liking or using something they have no clue about.
685
686If I were in your shoes, I’d not even try to convince them, but find a solution myself. Raise money somehow. Sell your things on eBay, sell lemonade (well, not this time of the year), or start some webshop using Magento or Shopify. I don’t say it’ll be very easy, but go ahead.
687
688When I was 12, I really wanted a Commodore 64 computer. But it was freaking expensive, and my parents were convinced that it will suck out my brain and I will fail at school. Ah yes, and we were in Eastern Europe where you couldn’t just walk into a shop and buy modern stuff. What did I do? I started working as a newsboy after school, selling newspapers on the street. Sold my old records on the flea market, my tape recorder, traded stamps, whatever came. My parents not only didn’t help, but ridiculed me instead. When one day I came home beaten up because an adult attacked and robbed me, my father laughed at me and started preaching about how I should sit at home and learn literature and maths instead of chasing stupid dreams. But I never gave up. And that’s how I got my first computer. It took me a year, but I raised the money. It was an awesome feeling, and the first thing I bought for myself. It didn’t suck my brains out. I am a software engineer now. I may not be able to recite the birth and death dates of all our great poets and writers though.
689
690Go ahead and do the same. A phone is not that terribly expensive. You can get a good Android device for 100–150 bucks. And when you have it, hook it up to your PC and look up NativeScript. Learn using technology for something else than staring at Facebook. Get addicted to creating awesomeness. Your parents will get your flow eventually.
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692If a fighter jet launches a missle vertically at high altitude is it possible for the missile to reach space? (above100km) I dont see why not as some heat seekers and other long range missiles can reach mach4+?
693Efrajim Canuck
694Efrajim Canuck
695Answered Dec 14
696
697Not only it’s possible, but there are such missiles. It’s the ASM-135 ASAT air to space missile. They are designed to take out enemy satellites. The F-15 can carry them, but I assume the F-35 and the F-22 can too, or at least theoretically until they get the software upgrade.
698
699And these aren’t even new, they’ve been around since the 1980s. If you’ve read Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy, you may remember one of the main characters taking out a Soviet satellite with it.
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701If you have a minor scratch from a key on your phone screen. Is there any way to repair it without replacing it? My phone is the Samsung S8 Plus.
702Efrajim Canuck
703Efrajim Canuck
704Answered Dec 14
705
706Yeah. Try toothpaste and Kleenexes to polish it up. It works on scratched CDs, so it will probably work on your screen too. But if you’re lucky enough to have access to a workshop, a wool disc would do a much better job.
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708What will be your reaction if you saw Donald Trump close by?
709Efrajim Canuck
710Efrajim Canuck
711Answered Dec 14
712
713Oh, that’s Trump. Hey, Trump. But WTF is going on? Geez, better not move a finger. Somehow I’m inside the President’s defensive circle, and those Secret Service guys may see me as a threat. But really, WTF is Trump doing in Budapest? Doesn’t he have a big ass country to run? Can’t he leave us alone?
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715If there was a war between the U.S. and North Korea, what would the camo for the U.S. soldiers be?
716Efrajim Canuck
717Efrajim Canuck
718Answered Dec 14
719
720They won’t need any camouflage. The North Korean soldiers will not see them well because their molten steel helmets will flow into their eyes.
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722Were US Marines tougher than elite German troops in WW2?
723Efrajim Canuck
724Efrajim Canuck
725Answered Dec 14
726
727No, they weren’t. Marines, SS troops, Soviet Guards, Japanese Teishin Shudan, they were all just people. They were obviously physically fit, well trained and eager to fight, but none were superior to the others in human qualities, including toughness. They died just alike when a bullet hit them, they screamed from fear the same when grenades were falling around them, they felt the same rush when they stormed enemy positions and their comrades were falling as flies around them. And they all had the same shell-shocked, blank stare after the dust settled. The surviving few are living in the same retirement homes, their hands trembling and sometimes still waking up in the middle of the night screaming.
728
729There are no tougher soldiers. There are luckier soldiers only. The ones who were born in the country which won the war. The one which could provide better equipment, more ammo, more food. And the one with more luck throughout history.
730
731After the battle, every dead soldier goes into the same ground.
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733I’m dating a German. How do I talk with him about World War 2?
734Efrajim Canuck
735Efrajim Canuck
736Answered Dec 13
737
738Openly. Ask him if he has some family stories about his grandfather, grandmother, whatever. Tell him not to be shy, there is nothing to be ashamed of. He or his family is not responsible for anything. There is less than 1% chance that they were voluntarily and directly involved in something nasty. Most Germans didn’t even know about what was going on, and even those who knew some stuff had reason to believe that it’s justified.
739
740A French person isn’t expected to be sorry for the Crusades. An Italian isn’t supposed to feel guilty for Abyssinia, Albania or anything. Or for the Roman Empire, for that matter. Turks aren’t supposed to constantly apologize for the Ottoman wars, and Mongols would just laugh at you if you wanted them to be ashamed for Genghis Khan’s antics.
741
742Also, tell him to be proud of his German heritage and culture. Do not bend to this PC idiocy worshipping savages and liberal filth.
743
744Sincerely, a Swabian from Hungary.
74544 Views
746What if all nukes stopped working and more couldn't be made?
747Efrajim Canuck
748Efrajim Canuck
749Answered Dec 13
750
751That depends if it would be noticeable. If nuclear reactions would just stop working in general, weapons would be our least concern because suddenly all the stars in the universe, including the Sun would stop burning.
752
753If all nuclear reactions stopped:
754
755We certainly wouldn’t notice much for about eight minutes, since that’s how much it takes for sunlight to reach us. The Sun would probably not cool down instantly, so we’d still go after our businesses for the rest of the day. It may be a bit colder at sunset, but that’s all. The next day the sunlight would be strangely dim, the Sun itself smaller than usual and probably had a different color. It wouldn’t be the bright, golden glow, but a pale bright disc on the sky. In a few days, perhaps weeks, it would cool down so much that it wouldn’t give more light or heat than the full moon. It would probably keep glowing for a couple of thousand years, but nobody would really see the day when it entirely disappears.
756
757If only artificial nuclear devices stopped:
758
759A strange wave of blackout would occur worldwide as nuclear power plants shut down. Within hours it would be established that reactors simply stopped working without any reason. Scientists would be puzzled over it, and for the rest of the years to come. Then it would be established that apparently the universe can change some fundamental laws of physics in a moment’s notice. There would be a lot of cultural implications, and many would view this as evidence to the existence of God.
760
761There would be some wars. Nuclear standoff would be a thing of the past, and governments would quickly take the opportunity to settle their disputes. India and Pakistan would finish their business, South and North Korea would almost certainly start a war, and so on. Most armies of the world would go on full alert and expect some invasion. Russia may try to take the Baltic states or invade Eastern Europe, but certainly make a move at Ukraine.
762
763Not only nuclear weapons would be suddenly off the game table, but also most of US naval power. None of the nuclear-powered supercarriers or submarines could move any more. They could still be towed, but they were limp ducks. The carriers couldn’t launch planes without their catapults, which are powered by the nuclear plant. Only a diesel or turbine powered vessels would remain in service, but there are too few of them to maintain naval hegemony. The US would suddenly down to the level of UK or France as a naval power and could not even counter China. As a result, China would take whatever they wanted to take in the Pacific, including probably Taiwan.
764
765The shortage of electricity would have a terrible impact on the world industry and the Internet. There would be a shortage of everything soon as the remaining energy sources were reorganized to supply the most crucial industries.
766
767The world would probably recover from the crisis, but as nuclear power was forever gone, fossil fuels would be highly valuable and worth further bloody conflicts. Even close allies like the US and Canada may get into minor conflicts over oil reserves. The face of the world would forever change as now no major power had the means of worldwide power projection any more. To replace the lost weapons of mass destruction, military powers would engage in the development of next generation chemical and biological weapons.
768
769If only nukes broke:
770
771It would not be noticed for a while. Not until someone tries to set one off. That may take years. Even in this case, it wouldn’t be that obvious. There would be some news that North Korea tried to test a new bomb, but it turned out to be a dud. Some poor eggheads would land in work camps, and they could never figure out what happened. Only when the second, third, fourth failure set in, would anyone think of something odd.
772
773It’s still doubtful whether they would discover that nuclear fission doesn’t work any more, and only in bombs. They would test their fissionable materials in a reactor, and it would work as expected. But not in a bomb. No sane scientist would even think that some divine miracle happened. They would just assume that they are seriously screwing up something and keep trying.
774
775For the same reason nobody else would think that the bombs don’t work any more. Nuclear nations would keep stockpiling warheads as always and keep threatening each other with Armageddon. Occasionally there may be reports of some downtrodden third world country that attempted to build a nuke and failed miserably. Everybody, including them, would think that their scientists were lame.
776
777It is not impossible though that some extraordinary guy realized what’s going on. He still had to convince his government that nukes are not a thing any more. It sounds pretty much impossible, but let’s say he manages and the government realizes that they have a strategic advantage. Only they know this, and nobody else. This means that firstly, they don’t have to yield to nuclear blackmail any more. There will be no mutually assured destruction, deterrence doesn’t work any more. They can radically change their politics. Of course, the finding would be a strictly guarded secret. In the forthcoming years the said government would pull off a series of incredible diplomatic and military maneuvers which would leave the world gasping. It would look like the most careless brinkmanship ever, until someone actually pushes the button.
778
779Even in this case the opponents may still not realize immediately what is going on. They just launched the missiles, but the other side didn’t even care. What the heck?! All the warheads turned out to be duds! What the hell happened? The obvious conclusion would be that those guys have some secret weapon which can disable warheads in flight. Or possibly they have infiltrated our armed forces and disabled every single bomb in our arsenal. Either way, we are screwed!
780
781But why aren’t they launching a counter-strike? Perhaps because they want to sell themselves to the world as the good guys. “See, those idiots tried to destroy the world, but we stopped it from happening. We don’t shoot back because why would we? Can we take Ukraine / Taiwan / Kashmir / Seoul / etc. now? Thanks.”
782
783Ironically, even after this weird conflict, most nations would still not realize that nukes are just dead weight. Eventually they would find it out and the great enigma of the cancelled Armageddon would be solved. But then the country which first discovered the secret would be well ahead of all its competitors, because it stopped spending on its nuclear weapons arsenal, replaced the warheads with mock ones, and concentrated on alternative technologies which could replace them.
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785Why would countries fire missile?
786Efrajim Canuck
787Efrajim Canuck
788Answered Dec 13
789
790Missile is a very rich energy source. Nowadays, when we are running out of coal and oil, and there are also serious environmental concerns, missile may be the solution to the problem.
791
792You can try it yourself. Just build a stake of the large ICBMs like you’d pile up firewood for a campfire. Put some smaller tactical missiles among them for kindling, and use some small, thin ones, like some air-to-air missiles to start the fire. Your home will be very cozy and warm for quite some time. Nations can do this on a much higher level. They build missile power plants where all kinds of missiles can be fired, even already shredded old Cold War ones destroyed under various treaties. Nobody has ever thought these dangerous weapons of mass destruction will once help us.
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794What is something you will never understand?
795Efrajim Canuck
796Efrajim Canuck
797Answered Dec 13
798
799Someone mentioned that prick Brock Turner, the rapist in one of the answers. He is not the only such “lucky” bastard. Meet Rajmund Kozák of Hungary. He’s the one to the right. This photo is from 2007. Kozák was a then 15 years old Gypsy boy, already an established criminal at this young age. I guess he still hasn’t stopped, they usually don’t. (He? Better refer to him as “it”. He doesn’t deserve to be treated as a human being.)
800
801Rajmund Kozák was a distinguished junior boxing champion too. In early 2008 he started bullying a Hungarian kid at his school. (Notably, at age 15 Kozák was still in elementary.) The kid allegedly referred to it as a “Roma”. This beast took it as an offense, intercepted the kid on the street after school, and using its boxing knowledge it beat him up so badly that the kid died of internal bleedings a few hours later.
802
803The bastard was arrested, but the liberal media immediately went overboard to protect poor little Rajmund of the “extremists” and “racists” who “accused” him. (Oh, where have I seen that? He dindu nuffin’!) For several days they were praising it over how talented sportsman it was, how bright future it had, and how it would be a shame if he was seriously punished for this little infraction. After all, it just used its professional martial arts training to brutally murder a defenseless victim, right? Happens in even the best families.
804
805And then the little beast only got probation on first instance. There was a huge uproar, and the media again went full retard in reiterating how it’s a “talented Roma boy” who “should not be judged” and shit. The second instance was a bit more strict: they gave it 10 months of imprisonment in a minimum security juvenile institute. But it was released only after 5 months for its “good behavior”. It was still in prison when his boxing trainer was invited to a talk show, and he said that he really wants it back to his club after he is released, because it’s “champion material” and “a very talented young man”.
806
807This is exactly the shit why Eastern Europeans despise Western values and want none of it any more. That’s what we got from liberalism and “democracy”. When you wonder why Hungary, Poland or Czechia turns away from Europe and towards Putinism, look no further than what the West did to us. We’d take rampant corruption over this shit any day.
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809Why does my 16 year old daughter mentally torture people and wants to torture animals whenever she sees them?
810Efrajim Canuck
811Efrajim Canuck
812Answered Dec 13
813
814Because she’s mentally ill. Seriously. Take her to therapy, and this is not a joke!
815
816Sadistic intents towards animals is usually foreshadowing violence on humans. Most serial killers were torturing animals before they started on people. It’s also common for “regular” murderers. If you don’t want your kid to end up in max security, take steps NOW!
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818Can a grenade explode in a vacuum?
819Efrajim Canuck
820Efrajim Canuck
821Answered Dec 13
822
823It sure can. Explosives are unstable because they carry a lot of oxygen and oxidizable matter, which is an unstable combination. If the oxygen bonds break up, the compound will rapidly oxydize and decompose, and this is what we call an explosion. This implies that most explosives don’t need air around them to work. Military grade ones, like hexogenes, TNT, RDX (also known as C4 when plasticized) certainly don’t.
824
825What is debatable is whether the burning fuse will burn in vacuum, because if not, the entire contraption will fail since the primary won’t get initialized. But many grenades are airtight, meaning there is some air inside them which may be enough, or the burning fuse itself may be self-oxidizing too. Some grenades are piezoelectronically ignited which also wouldn’t fail.
826
827And here we arrive to the obvious question: what kind of grenade? There is a huge difference between a WW2 German Stiehlhandgranat and an American M68.
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829What would you do if all adults over the age of 25 disappeared overnight?
830Efrajim Canuck
831Efrajim Canuck
832Answered Dec 13
833
834Depends where would I go?
83512 Views
836What happens if a soldier surrenders and claims he wants to join the army that captured him, is it possible?
837Efrajim Canuck
838Efrajim Canuck
839Answered Dec 13
840
841It has happened a couple of times, but it really depends on the army and the prisoner’s status. If the army is not, or not exactly a professional regular one, and the prisoner is not part of a faction which is unthinkable to cooperate with, it may be very well possible.
842
843A Taliban surely can’t join the US Marines when captured. A Chechen sure wouldn’t be welcome to the Russian army. But it happened a couple of times in the Balkan wars, which was basically an ethnic conflict between semi-regular armies. I am sure Roland Bartetzko will soon chime in and give exact examples. The key is that the prisoner must have something that brings him close to the values of the enemy army, and the troops should generally welcome volunteers.
844
845In WW2 it was quite common for POWs to join the other side for various reasons. The Germans have set up quite large units solely of former POWs and defectors. The Waffen SS had a lot of Russian and other Slavic units, former Soviet soliders who defected to fight Stalin. Their commander was General Andrey Vlasov, who was a high ranking officer of the Soviet Army and fought against the Germans at the siege of Moscow. There were also Danish, Norwegian, French SS soldiers. In fact the last fighting SS unit, which protected Hitler in the Führerbunker in the last days of the war was a French one of the “Charlemagne” division.
846
847It happened at the Allies too. When France surrendered, its colonies were split between Vichy and Free France. At this point it’s safe to say that France fell into a civil war with itself. The French Foreign Legion was completely confused. In Syria the legionaries fought against each other, Vichy troops against Free French ones. However, as it happened, the units on the front quickly discovered that both sides are mostly Czechoslovakian volunteers and stopped fighting. The Vichy troops formally surrendered, then marched into the Free French camp and joined them. They haven’t even put their rifles down. Later they distinguished themselves in the North African campaign against General Rommel’s troops.
848
849The craziest story was probably of a Korean guy’s, named Yang Kyoungjong, who was drafted to the Japanese army, then captured by the Soviets at Khalkin-Gol, volunteered to the Red Army to get out of the Gulag, then captured by the Germans at Kharkov, only to join the Wehrmacht too, and then he was captured by the Americans in Normandy. He hasn’t joined anywhere any more, I guess he had enough.
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851What are tactical nuclear weapons? Has any country ever used it? How does it change conventional war?
852Efrajim Canuck
853Efrajim Canuck
854Answered Dec 12
855
856No nukes have been fired in anger since the bombing of Nagasaki. However, all nuclear powers have used tactical nuclear bombs for testing or training purposes until atmospheric tests were banned in 1961.
857
858Tactical nuclear weapons are intended to be used against large troop concentrations, supply bases and hardened targets. They can also be used for area denial, by scorching up and polluting a large area. During the Cold War this was a planned response to a Warsaw Pact invasion: several nuclear charges would’ve been detonated along the German border which would’ve made a strip of land difficult to pass for the Soviet Army. While this trick slowed down the onslaught, America could’ve sent reinforcements to Western Europe by ship and air. However it’s debatable whether these troops had a place to land since most Western European ports would’ve been nuked to oblivion by the time.
859
860There are some theoretical use of nuclear weapons, which have never been tried or just modeled. One of these is to turn the energy of an underground nuclear explosion into a massive energy ray which bursts out towards the sky. This was a proposed way to destroy enemy satellites or other space vessels. Allegedly there are some next generation nukes which project their energy towards one direction similarly - also known as cumulative nuclear weapons or directed energy explosions - which can destroy a hardened underground bunker that would withstand a regular explosion.
86141 Views
862Is it as easy to get things like automatic weapons, hand grenades and other explosives as it seems in TV police shows? Real dingbats seem to be able to get C4.
863Efrajim Canuck
864Efrajim Canuck
865Answered Dec 12
866
867C4 is actually quite easy to get - you can make your own. It’s plasticized RDX. This still sounds very scientific, but it’s just one of those heating cubes you use when you go camping, nitrated. Kaboom!
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869How will the American public react to George Bush Sr.'s death?
870Efrajim Canuck
871Efrajim Canuck
872Answered Dec 12
873
874We’ll see that soon. Most likely there will be obituaries, some documentaries on TV and politicians praising his life achievements. His war criminal son would deliver a heartfelt speech. There will be a state funeral, with the old guy laying in state for a few days and a queue of mourners. It would go pretty similarly to when Reagan passed away.
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876Did Hitler or Stalin have girlfriends when they were teens?
877Efrajim Canuck
878Efrajim Canuck
879Answered Dec 12
880
881Back then, in the late 19th century morals were quite different. Extramarital sex was viewed as moral turpitude, and “having a girlfriend” was just not a thing. If a young woman just casually engaged in a relationship with a boy, they were expected to keep distance until married.
882
883This of course doesn’t mean that people didn’t have sex. Actually they did. But it was really different and they couldn’t just announce that they are dating. Even if they did, it had a quite different meaning than today.
884
885Stalin’s first wife was Kato Svanidze who he first met in 1905 and they got married in 1906. When they first met, Kato was 20 years old and Jughashvili (not yet Stalin) was 27. Before that Jughashvili was a common criminal, so he may have had affairs with other women. We have no information on that. It is true that he must’ve had plenty of opportunities, but he also held himself a person of strong morals, so he may have resisted temptation.
886
887Hitler most likely didn’t have a girlfriend. He was a quite unstable person with a messianic complex, which usually reduces the sex drive of a man. He may have had engagements with prostitutes while living a bohemian life in Vienna, but he certainly had no relationship. There are unconfirmed rumors that Hitler has fathered a child in France during WW1 or in England, but there is no evidence. Even if it’s true, these were just the results of one night stands. His only true and confirmed sexual relationship was with Eva Braun.
888
889Since both Hitler and Stalin refused to talk about their young ages and took active measures to cover up their backgrounds, it’s impossible to tell how they actually spent their teenage years. Certainly both of them had a healthy heterosexual drive. My two cents is that Stalin probably had proper girlfriends, but I can’t imagine this about Hitler. But even he probably had some gentle relationship with women in Vienna.
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891What would happen if I dropped enough smartphones for each person in North Korea and gave them free Wi-Fi?
892Efrajim Canuck
893Efrajim Canuck
894Answered Dec 12
895
896In a few weeks a large military warehouse would be full of those phones, and a few thousand more people would live in prison camps (but not for long). The regime would not tolerate it. Very few people would dare to use them, not only because all the authorities would be cracking down on those who do, but because all the snitches would be on the lookout to report those who kept one of these wonderful devices. I believe the police would also quickly devise a technical method to detect these illicit machines. It would be quite easy in a country without cellphones, particularly if they would all connect to the same wi-fi network.
897
898Speaking of which, the idea is also technically unfeasible. Wi-fi wasn’t designed to cover huge areas. The bigger you’re trying to cover, the larger antennas and output you’ll need, just like with any form of wireless communication. To cover North Korea with your signals, you’ll probably need a dedicated geostationary satellite in low orbit. That would be also the most powerful telecommunications satellite too, being able to communicate with millions of devices, while nobody pays for the costs. (OK, let’s say the government does.) That’s all very nice, but the phones couldn’t communicate with the satellite simply because they are too far. You can’t establish connection from tens of kilometers with the simple little wi-fi antennas found in mobile phones. Not with any commercial wi-fi device at all. Nobody makes wi-fi equipment capable of this.
899
900The only way this would work if you dropped smartphone-like passive devices, which are practically pocket televisions. Broadcasting a signal to passive receivers is a way simpler task than actively communicate with millions of smart devices. The North Korean government would be unable to detect these devices since they don’t emit signals themselves, so it would be relatively safe to use them.
901
902The idea has been around since the early 20th century, and it’s called radio or television. The US government actually funded radio stations during the Cold War to broadcast information to behind the Iron Curtain, like Radio Free Europe or Voice of America. Sadly, these stations were not for the well-being of the East Europeans, but they served a cynical purpose: to incite dissent and destabilize the region, regardless of the price. The Hungarian uprising of 1956 was largely influenced by false promises aired by Radio Free Europe, constantly talking about American aid and support which never arrived. This was probably the worst betrayal in the history of our nation.
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904Why doesn't the US Army deal with Antifa?
905Efrajim Canuck
906Efrajim Canuck
907Answered Dec 12
908
909Because of so many reasons.
910
911Firstly, the Army can not be used on US soil, unless in case of war. It’s definitely forbidden to be used against US citizens.
912
913Secondly, the Antifa are just a bunch of violent criminals. They aren’t dangerous enough to need a proper army to deal with them. This is a police task. Otherwise, the army is not even suited to do investigations to gather information about criminal rings.
914
915But if you insist that an army should be used against those masked cowards, the best candidate would be the SS. That’d be fun to see.
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917Sean Sanders
918Sean Sanders
919
920“Firstly, the Army can not be used on US soil, unless in case of war. It’s definitely forbidden t...
921Would you slap a baby with 60% of your full strength for $1,000,000?
922Efrajim Canuck
923Efrajim Canuck
924Answered Dec 12
925
926If the trick is to precisely measure out 60% of my strength, or otherwise I won’t get the money, then I’d think twice. If I wouldn’t be exempt of any legal consequences, then I’d not do it at all. If it’s my own baby, then definitely not.
92710 Views
928What would happen to me if I walked down the street carrying an AR-15 in your city?
929Efrajim Canuck
930Efrajim Canuck
931Answered Dec 12
932
933The official answer is that you’d be quickly surrounded by the police, most likely anti-terrorist commandos (TEK) who would order you to drop your weapon and surrender. You’d be prime time news that day, the stupid American who carried an assault rifle on the streets of Budapest and was arrested. You’d land in detention on remand within 48 hours, then get convicted for about 2 years before you get booted from the country forever. For quite some time there’d be speculations on how did you get that tool into the country and what was your intent with it.
934
935In reality it’s not really sure. Several years ago, as a demonstration, I walked around the busiest places of Budapest with a replica AK-47 and a high visibility vest which read “Crimedoing”. (This word is very similar to “Crime prevention” in Hungarian.) A camera was following me, so you can see what happened. I travelled the subway, walked around in the thickest crowd, even passed by the national police HQ, but nobody bothered to ask what the hell I am carrying.
936
937Several hours later a police patrol stopped and arrested me, but they acted very unprofessionally. They simply ran after me and politely asked what is that I am carrying. It’s not seen on the video - the cameraman chickened out and didn’t dare to record us from close up - but the conversation went like this:
938
939“Oy! Sir! Please stop! Is that thing real?”
940
941“Haha, no, it’s a replica.”
942
943“I see. But that’s still forbidden to carry a replica firearm in public. I am sorry, but we have to arrest you.”
944
945“I see. But what if I was a real terrorist with a real AK? Would you have been this polite in that case as well?”
946
947“Well, then you’d be in big trouble.”
948
949“I don’t think you got my point. We are in the middle of the city, in a very busy area, not to mention a tourist place. If I am a crazy person with a real AK, I may freak out and open fire. What would you do then?”
950
951“Oh, we also carry guns.”
952
953“Yes, you carry a PA-63, a miserable Cold War era 9x19 pistol which may or may not hit a barn door from a few meters, and you have it safely buttoned into the holster. We both know it’s just decoration. And this is an AK, a very powerful automatic assault rifle. If it was real, and I fired at you, what do you think would happen? Particularly that we are in the middle of a crowd?”
954
955“We wouldn’t let you do that!”
956
957“You still haven’t got the point, sergeant. You would have a say, because you’d be dead in a second. And a few other people would die too, those who happened to be in the way the my bullets. What you just did was reckless.”
958
959Still very politely, I was delivered to the local police station where they confiscated my replica and fined me to HUF 50,000, which is about $200. The TV station which followed me paid the fine. It was just an administrative offense, so I didn’t get a criminal record.
960
961This was back in 2006, so the Hungarian police may have stepped up their game since.
96210 Views
963In a world of temptation, how can I convince my 30-year-old son, whom I support, to leave Canada and his Quebec lover (La) and return to the greatest country in the world?
964https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2016/07/24/how-boomer-parents-can-stop-babying-their-millennials-financially/&refURL=https://www.google.com/&referrer=https://www.google.com/
965Efrajim Canuck
966Efrajim Canuck
967Answered Dec 12
968
969It will be difficult because, as you may have heard, love always wins. You can force him to return by taking his pocket money away, but to what end? He’ll be just bitter and begin to hate you. And only you’d be to blame - you raised him into a big baby who can’t stand on his own feet.
97010 Views
971Have there ever been any Soviet aircraft that use stealth technology?
972Efrajim Canuck
973Efrajim Canuck
974Answered Dec 12
975
976Yes, the Soviets had their experiments with stealth technology. However they never got as far as the Americans, simply because their military doctrine didn’t call for bombers that can penetrate into enemy airspace undetected. They trusted ICBMs and submarines instead. They would’ve had very little use for stealth fighters either because their front air force was to provide cover to ground units in Europe, and that’s pretty much beats any kind of stealth. If there are tanks on the ground, there are planes overhead, as simple as the alphabet.
977
978What would come the closest of a Soviet stealth plane would be the ingenious “Ekranoplan”. It’s neither a proper aircraft nor a speedboat. It’s a unique vehicle (vessel?) which floats over water and can reach incredible speeds while carrying heavy armament. Due to its low flight and small size (compared to a warship) and composite hull it’s difficult to detect with ship-based radars. Or at least it was difficult when it was invented.
9792.4k Views · 11 Upvotes
980What does it mean if a guy rejected me and then denied it later? I also told him he should tell me that I'm not his type so I could get over him easily but he refused to do that. Does this mean anything?
981Efrajim Canuck
982Efrajim Canuck
983Answered Dec 12
984
985It means that he’s an unstable person, a manipulator, a possible sociopath. Steer away from this kind!
98610 Views · 1 Upvote
987Why were early military rifles so overpowered?
988Efrajim Canuck
989Efrajim Canuck
990Answered Dec 11
991
992Because there wasn’t enough battlefield experience yet to adjust everything to the sweet spot.
993
994In WW1 every army sent its soldiers to the front with the most powerful rifle they could muster, because obviously they will need as much firepower as they can get, right? Wrong. They soon found that while a .303 bullet will indeed properly pierce any unlucky German (or the other way around, 7.92 mm will put down any poor Tommy), but there is more to it than simply piercing each other. Early WW1 tactics was still just a little bit more advanced than in the Napoleonic wars, the soldiers were expected to move forward and shoot anything that moves. This soon proved to be highly ineffective, and new weapons were to be invented.
995
996In WW2 they still couldn’t make up their minds. The same old rifles were still around, but there were also submachine guns, automatic weapons firing lighter pistol ammo to a shorter distance, but a shitload of it. It took a number of battles to figure out how exactly infantry encounters work in different environments, how guns can be optimized and which technologies should be ditched.
997
998The need for weapons varies from battlefield to battlefield, from era to era and even the intensity of the conflict counts a lot. For example during the Russian civil war both sides used the so-called tachankas, horse carts with a machine gun.
999
1000Now imagine how this contraption would’ve fared on the Western front. It would’ve been shot to pieces in mere seconds. Yet in the Russian civil war it not only worked, but proved to be the most formidable weapon of all, even beating tanks (albeit not a lot of tanks were used in that conflict). Most of the battles were fought on large, flat lands, the steppes, with low troop density. A cart like this could wreak havoc among enemy ranks, and this is why both the Reds and the Whites used them.
1001
1002And this is exactly why you see these things in every Middle Eastern or African conflict.
1003
1004This is basically a tachanka, minus the horses. Low troop density and open terrain makes it ideal for both sides. Not to mention the low maintenance needs. This is how sometimes a seemingly ridiculous weapon prevails.
1005
1006Returning to your question, why were guns overpowered? Because tacticians had to realize what is optimal for this, that or most situations. They had to invent things. First everybody had just rifles, and expected it to work in any situation. Then when trench warfare ensued, there came the submachine gun, the riot shotgun, the mortar, the flamethrower, the assault gun, the tank. Each were used in different combat situations. One world war later they realized that some of the functions overlap each other, and some weapon types can be slightly modified to allow more versatility. This is how the assault rifle was born. After the war the idea was further refined and resulted in more evolution. Currently there are two major trends in assault rifles: 5.56 NATO and 7.62 Russian calibers. In each category there are a plethora of variations and various weapons, plus a lot of experimental stuff outside of these categories. The process is still running, weapons are still being optimized and everybody tries to hit the sweet spot which balances tactical advantage, reliability, logistics and versatility. Ironically, the Holy Grail would be one single weapon which excels in any situation, but thus taking us back to pre-WW1 thinking.
10071.8k Views · 6 Upvotes
1008I want to build an Android phone but I'm concerned about privacy and security, what should I do?
1009https://www.androidcentral.com/heres-why-huawei-launching-p10-canada-not-us
1010Efrajim Canuck
1011Efrajim Canuck
1012Answered Dec 11
1013
1014If you’re trying to *build* a phone, but don’t know jack shit about how Android works, perhaps you shouldn’t do it at all. Building things requires expertise. Just buy a regular stock phone and be happy with it. Either way, Android will provide you with pretty crappy security anyways. iOS is a little bit better, but don’t fall for the ads.
10157 Views
1016Is there hope that nuclear weapons will be abolished before they are used to horrific consequence?
1017Efrajim Canuck
1018Efrajim Canuck
1019Answered Dec 11
1020
1021There is hope that there will be no horrific consequence on the first place. Sadly, nukes will not be abolished until this hope proves to be an illusion.
10225 Views
1023Is it legal for Kim Jong-un to make counterfeit US $100 bills in North Korea?
1024https://thediplomat.com/2016/07/whats-behind-north-koreas-recent-counterfeiting/
1025Efrajim Canuck
1026Efrajim Canuck
1027Answered Dec 11
1028
1029What kind of question is this? Of course, literally everything is legal for Kim Jong-un in North Korea. The only laws limiting him are the laws of physics.
1030
1031Can you imagine someone just arresting him? In the name of the law? For damaging US interests? Come on, get real.
10328 Views
1033How do you modify a tank to be a powerful police transport?
1034Efrajim Canuck
1035Efrajim Canuck
1036Answered Dec 11
1037
1038You don’t necessarily modify it. All you need is to paint it blue or add some police markings, and there you go. While proper tanks are rarely used by police forces, armored fighting vehicles are quite common. Some examples around the world…
1039
1040M113 APC of the Pakistan police
1041
1042Another M113 from Plainsville, Massachussets
1043
1044A BTR-80 of the Hungarian counter-terrorism force (TEK)
1045
1046(which is actually not part of the national police force, but technically still police)
1047
1048This is why there are no riots in China
1049
1050And no DVD piracy in the Philippines
1051
1052The Czech police has a BRDM for crowd control (note the smug grin on the cop)
1053
1054Most of these vehicles are not modified, save for some minimal things like the front mounted grill on the last one. Many of them even retained their original armament.
1055
1056Did you say Russia? Yeah, they have them too. It’s worth watching how they deal with armed resistance.
1057215 Views · 3 Upvotes
1058Would a submariner, especially during WWII, be looking up at the ceiling of his submarine while warships are above him, or while getting depth charged, or is that movie nonsense?
1059Efrajim Canuck
1060Efrajim Canuck
1061Answered Dec 10
1062
1063What do you do when your phone can get no connection or the wi-fi is low? You instinctively raise it up.
1064
1065What do you do when an elevator starts moving with you? You instinctively look up or down.
1066
1067What if you suddenly hear an aircraft flying low over the building? You will look up, even if you will only see the ceiling.
1068
1069This is why submariners look up. It’s a human instinct to look towards the perceived direction of the danger. Unless there is some special training at play, humans will do this in any stressful situation, even if the danger is not even real (like in an elevator).
107090 Views · 4 Upvotes
1071Which country is posed to develop a nuclear fighter jet, or nuclear aircraft?
1072Efrajim Canuck
1073Efrajim Canuck
1074Answered Dec 10
1075
1076None. Both the Soviet Union and the United States tried to build nuclear powered aircraft during the Cold War, and they both concluded that while it’s possible, it’s not feasible, and it’s definitely not a sane idea.
10777 Views
1078Should I allow my 13 year old to lock their bedroom?
1079Efrajim Canuck
1080Efrajim Canuck
1081Answered Dec 10
1082
1083Yes. This is the age when people start to feel the need for privacy.
1084
1085My parents used to reserve the right to barge in to bark instructions or start yelling with me for something stupid. Even when I was asleep, my mother thought she can just come and start talking to me as if I was fully awake and paying attention. It was a nightmare to wake up to this almost every day, but even worse when my father did it. Somehow he hated the door and came in like an angry elephant.
1086
1087But it wasn’t just in the morning. At random times they just rushed in and started ranting about their things, criticizing how I live and what I do. I couldn’t ever have a moment for myself because they could just appear at any time. This went on well into my early 20s. They couldn’t even respect it when I was with my girlfriend. It happened more than once that when finally we had the house for ourselves, they suddenly arrived and their first thing was to kick in my door to loudly greet me. Well, I had a girl who left me exactly for this.
1088
1089So yes, if your kid wants some privacy, respect it. You are still living with him/her, and you’ll see how he or she lives, what does he or she wears, and so on. If he is doing something very bad, it won’t happen at home. This is the time where 13 years of your parenting is being tested: will he or she be able to build an individual life on the values you passed down, or not? There is little you can do in either case.
10904 Views
1091An army of 10,000 1st graders is attacking. Most have no weapons. They are all possesed and attacking you and you only. The leaders (also possesed 6 year olds) have pocketknives. Which real weapon do you choose to fight them?
1092Efrajim Canuck
1093Efrajim Canuck
1094Answered Dec 10
1095
1096A loudspeaker. I’d shout out:
1097
1098“SANTA ISN’T REAAAL!!”
1099
1100They’d all stop and start sobbing.
11014 Views
1102If Afghans, after 17 years of American military support, can't unite and protect their country, do they deserve to be conquered and ruled by the Taliban?
1103Efrajim Canuck
1104Efrajim Canuck
1105Answered Dec 10
1106
1107Hungary, despite all the aid it got from Germany, wasn’t able to stop the Soviets in 1945. We had to live under Communism for 40+ years from then on, and our nation still hasn’t recovered from the trauma.
1108
1109Have we deserved it? Our soldiers fought valiantly against overwhelming odds. (So did the Germans.) They were not at fault. Our nation gave everything to the war effort, from steel and oil to blood and tears. Our cities have been ruined, our capital almost razed, and the streets were literally blocked by piles of dead bodies.
1110
1111Do you realize how stupid your question is?
11125 Views
1113Is Hooters degrading to women?
1114Efrajim Canuck
1115Efrajim Canuck
1116Answered Dec 10
1117
1118From a feminist’s perspective, it obviously is. However, the merkantilist’s view is different, and this is how.
1119
1120Every person employed for a job, let him or her be a miner, a clerk, a doctor or a dancer, sells his or her bodily abilities. A truck driver can drive a truck because he has legs, hands, eyes and other parts which qualify him to become a truck driver. A blind or paraplegic person can’t be a truck driver. A mentally challenged person can’t be a police officer or an accountant. Someone with trembling hands can’t be a watchmaker. And so on.
1121
1122Hooters girls are selling a bodily ability: they are looking good. It’s the same as Playboy models, strippers, even prostitutes (in most of the cases). They simply have an asset which worth money on the market, and they sell it.
1123
1124There are a lot of women who can’t work at Hooters before they aren’t good-looking and/or young enough. Is it degrading to them? Is it degrading to paraplegics that others can be truck drivers and they can’t?
1125
1126But you say, femininity is a fragile and precious thing, it shouldn’t be turned into commercial value! Well, can masculinity? How about Hollywood actors who live exactly on their bodies, for example Arnold Schwarzenegger? Can you imagine Woody Allen as the Terminator? How about chippendale boys?
11275 Views
1128An intruder has broken into my home. I'm holding a shotgun on him and have called the police. How will they react when they get there?
1129Efrajim Canuck
1130Efrajim Canuck
1131Answered Dec 10
1132
1133In Hungary you’d be arrested right away for criminal conspiracy (or to be more concise, “preparation of manslaughter”), illegal possession of a firearm and thrown into prison on remand. The criminal may be arrested too, but he’s more likely to walk away a day later and stay at large.
1134
1135Regardless that it was your home, he was an intruder and you had a permit for the shotgun (for example because you’re a licensed hunter), they will uphold your detention for years, arguing that evidence can not be evaluated at this point of the investigation.
1136
1137Two or three years later you will get a hearing, and you can explain yourself to the court. But since courts are fundamentally flawed, and there is a strong interest of the judiciary to break down any illusion that the citizens are entitled to self-defense (despite the laws), they will convict you. You may be cleared of illegal possession of a firearm if you had a permit, but you can kiss goodbye to your rifle forever because they will still find you guilty of not keeping it in the locker, separated from the ammunition.
1138
1139If you have no previous criminal record, you may get only some suspended prison sentence, which is ridiculous since you’ve already served a lot of time.
1140
1141If you’re persistent enough, you can appeal, but they are going to uphold the first instance decision, except they’ll decrease your sentence a little bit, in view of the passage of time.
1142
1143The criminal may be found guilty of trespassing (breach of domicile), but he won’t go to prison because it’s not a serious crime. If he hasn’t picked up any of your stuff, then he’ll not even be indicted for theft. Most likely he will be the key witness against you, and he’ll whine about how your violent attack traumatized him for life, while he was only trying to provide for his 8390483209 starving kids (he hasn’t seen them for a decade, but that doesn’t matter). It is not entirely impossible that he will state that you invited him to the house, then broke the window and pointed the gun at him to have him framed, because you’re a mean racist and hate Gypsies.
1144
1145In either case, if you encounter a burglar in your house, you better help him pack the car, or you’ll be destroyed by the state.
1146
1147Disclaimer: This wasn’t a satiric answer, and it’s not referring to a single popularized case. This is exactly how Hungarian courts work. Laws are ignored. The European Union is planning to start an investigation, but only those in the bar or close to it know how deep these problems run. Our judges are literally autistic idiots with a sense of mission and belief of their own moral superiority.
11487.9k Views · 11 Upvotes
1149If a Native American knocks at your door and says, "You are living in my ancestors’ land, please leave", what would you do?
1150Efrajim Canuck
1151Efrajim Canuck
1152Answered Dec 10
1153
1154I’d be pretty surprised as I live in Budapest, Hungary.
11555 Views
1156Had you tried to eat vintage WW1 or WW2 military rations without getting ailment like botulism? How did it taste?
1157Efrajim Canuck
1158Efrajim Canuck
1159Answered Dec 10
1160
1161The closest I can get to this is my friend’s attempt to eat long expired canned food during his army service. It was around 1990 or so, and they were served canned meat which has expired in the 1960s. He said that some pressure has built up in the can, so they had to pierce them before opening. It sprayed meat juice up to the ceiling. Otherwise the food was edible, however it was a bit odd, like it was mixed with overcooked semolina.
1162
1163But to answer your exact question, there is a YouTube video about how WW2 era canned food tastes.
1164266 Views · 3 Upvotes
1165Do you think that the United States military would turn on its citizens if ordered to a by the president?
1166Efrajim Canuck
1167Efrajim Canuck
1168Answered Dec 10
1169
1170That very much depends on the situation, but it’s not actually impossible. The key factor is brainwashing. It can happen in any country, under any political regime, even in democracy. If the President has a “good enough” reason, the military will attack citizens.
1171
1172As a matter of fact it has happened already, in the Civil War. When the South attacked Fort Sumter, the Confederate soldiers were attacking their fellow American citizens. The same happened many more times, even to the point of using long range cannons to siege major cities.
1173
1174Imagine if the current tension between MAGAists and snowflakes would escalate to the point of open rebellion. If the rioters would defeat the police - which is pretty much what happened during the 1992 Los Angeles riots - the National Guard would have to step in. But what if they are also defeated, or they side with the rioters?
117539 Views
1176How silent can a gun (theoretically) get?
1177Efrajim Canuck
1178Efrajim Canuck
1179Answered Dec 10
1180
1181Air guns can be quite silent and just as powerful as regular firearms. Already in the Napoleonic wars the Austrians had “wind rifle” units who operated similarly to today’s snipers. They were not only deadly, but also dead silent. The French always executed captured air riflemen.
1182
1183You can imagine how powerful air guns can be built nowadays with modern technology. The same goes for crossbows. If you’re looking for silent and deadly killing devices, look no further. All the noise they will make is the metallic clinking of the mechanism.
1184177 Views · 1 Upvote
1185How long is US Army Ranger school?
1186Efrajim Canuck
1187Efrajim Canuck
1188Answered Dec 9
1189
1190That’s something you could look up on Google.
1191
119261 days.
11933 Views
1194In the days when fighter planes still used guns for aerial combat, were tracer rounds used extensively to help pilots adjust their line of fire?
1195Efrajim Canuck
1196Efrajim Canuck
1197Answered Dec 9
1198
1199Yes, they were, but only until around 1944. Then they realized that they are warning the enemy pilot that someone is behind him. It also gave away the plane’s position from a distance and helped enemy fighters to come to their buddies’ aid or enemy AA to correct their aim. A plane is just a small dot from a few hundred meters. As soon as they stopped using tracers, both the kill ratio and the survival ratio went up.
1200
1201The Germans kept using tracers because they mostly fought bombers and they had precious little time to strike. They usually approached the bomber from the front, from the dead zone of the bomber’s defense turrets, “aimed” with machine guns, and when the tracers were hitting the target, they fired a burst from the cannon. It was usually enough to cripple an American bomber.
1202155 Views · 4 Upvotes
1203If someone who owned a tank, had it fully crewed with ammunition, decided to go on a rampage across a city, how would the police respond? Would the military get involved?
1204Efrajim Canuck
1205Efrajim Canuck
1206Updated Dec 12
1207
1208Storytime from Hungary.
1209
12101998. A soldier in the army base of Szombathely stole a T-55 tank and drove it down to the pub where he had some altercation a little earlier. He pushed the gun through the window, then opened the turret hatch and threatened to destroy the place. He was soon arrested by military police. The story didn’t make headlines, it was hushed up, but after that they made a new regulation that combat vehicles can only be guarded by conscripts who have no driving license.
1211
1212Approximately 1988, sounds quite an urban legend, but it was on TV. The army got rid if its last T-34 tanks. The turrets were removed and the tanks were repurposed as tractors or demolition vehicles. One was fitted with old MiG-21 jet engines and turned into an amazing firefighting machine which could put out a burning oil well by blasting it with water blown by the jetwash.
1213
1214These demilitarized vehicles were usually given to large state-owned companies or cooperative farms, but now for the first time it was sold to a private person, a farmer. It was a newsworthy event so the state television sent a camera crew to report about it. They asked the guy what is he going to do with it. The answer was:
1215
1216“I’ll crush my neighbor’s house. He’s such a dick, now he gets it!”
1217
1218For some reason he didn’t get the tank.
12193.9k Views · 79 Upvotes
1220How far removed from reality were the Green Berets in the movie "Predator"? Has anyone ever carried a mini-gun into battle?
1221Efrajim Canuck
1222Efrajim Canuck
1223Answered Dec 8
1224
1225There are no handheld Miniguns. These are only movie props, both in Predator and Terminator 2.
12263 Views
1227How could a body armor/shield be built to protect you from a .50 cal (no matter the price or time to be built)?
1228Efrajim Canuck
1229Efrajim Canuck
1230Answered Dec 8
1231
1232That body armor is called a tank. Even if you managed to construct a “bulletproof vest” which will not be penetrated by an .50 round, it could not stop the massive blunt impact force. The wearer will suffer serious injuries, and although he would not die instantly, he’d have a 99% chance to succumb to internal bleedings within a short time.
123325 Views · 1 Upvote
1234In case of war, if the US loses half of its F-22s, what would be the best choice to replace them, since there is no way to produce more F-22?
1235Efrajim Canuck
1236Efrajim Canuck
1237Answered Dec 8
1238
1239If the US lost half of its F-22s, then it probably has also lost half of its other military assets. In this case the best choice would be to surrender.
12403 Views
1241How do you tear down a Kalashnikov AK-47 fully automatic rifle?
1242Efrajim Canuck
1243Efrajim Canuck
1244Answered Dec 8
1245
1246Forgive me if I am using the wrong terms for the parts, for I’ve never disassembled an AK in English.
1247
1248Remove the magazine and empty the chamber. Take a good look and verify if it’s really empty. Pull the trigger to remove tension from the cocked mechanism.
1249
1250First you remove the cover from the top. There is a button at the end of the receiver, where the butt connects to it. It’s just a piece of pressed metal sheet.
1251
1252Then press the same button to remove main spring. It comes out with a long rod.
1253
1254Remove the bolt carrier by pulling the handle, as if you were loading the gun. It will remove the gas piston with it.
1255
1256You can remove the bolt itself from this part and separate it.
1257
1258That’s it, you’re done. Clean all the parts, put them together again, and you can go back to Allahu akbar / Revolución / смерть капитализму the shit out of your enemies.
125925 Views
1260What would happen if a nuclear warhead detonated, but its outer shell was made of a material that was somehow able to contain the blast? The shell material still transfers heat and radiation like the normal material.
1261Efrajim Canuck
1262Efrajim Canuck
1263Answered Dec 7
1264
1265It wouldn’t work. The material will structurally fail from the pressure. Even if there is perfect vacuum inside, the conventional explosive which sets it off would produce gases. The heat will also weaken the shell, and even if the inner pressure won’t rip it apart, the external pressure would implode it.
126688 Views
1267Grant Hartlage
1268Grant Hartlage
1269
1270The question explicitly states that the warhead shell would made of a Wonder Materialâ„¢ that could...
1271Did the RAF operate pink spitfires in WWII?
1272Efrajim Canuck
1273Efrajim Canuck
1274Updated Dec 9 · Upvoted by Graham Strowes, former Airframe technician at Royal Air Force (1991-2006)
1275
1276Yes. There is a special camouflage color commonly called “British SAS Desert Pink”, at least in model building circles. The SAS found that the best camouflage color in the Sahara is not sand tan, but a rather gay looking pink. Other British and Free French units, including the Royal Air Force later adopted this finding and painted their hardware pink. It wasn’t very common though.
1277
1278The same color was used in the Gulf War again.
1279
1280EDIT: Some commenters enlightened me about the origins of this color. It was not invented by SAS after all. Nevertheless there was a color named “SAS Desert Pink” in a major model brand’s paint palette back in the 1990s. Maybe Tamiya. I can’t seem to find it now, so it’s probably out of production.
12818.8k Views · 39 Upvotes
1282If we managed to smuggle a nuclear weapon into a hangar Bay of the Death Star, would it destroy it?
1283Efrajim Canuck
1284Efrajim Canuck
1285Answered Dec 7
1286
1287Possibly, but not very likely.
1288
1289The Death Star is about the size of Switzerland. If you used the largest bomb ever designed (but never built), the 100 MT Russian “Tsar Bomba”, it’ll do major damage, and possibly put the Death Star out of business for a while. The fireball itself would swallow the immediate area of ground zero, heating up and melting the structure in a considerable distance. The result would be the battle station collapsing onto itself by its own gravity.
1290
1291The blast wave would possibly run through all the corridors, shafts, tunnels and other pressurized areas and wreak havoc inside. It would be like plugging an air compressor into an anthill. This is what would probably kill most of the personnel. Radioactivity would claim further casualties.
1292
1293Also, the electromagnetic pulse would knock out all computer systems and other devices. It would basically turn the Death Star into a floating hunk of metal with millions of dead bodies. A few “lucky” Imperials may survive for a few days if they had time to get into space suits and avoided the fallout, but they barely had a way to call for help or escape the place.
1294
1295It is not unreasonable to think that even the main reactor would blow up, exactly as in the movie. Luke’s torpedo shot destroyed the cooling system. The bomb could achieve the same, either directly or by the EMP effect. So the first explosion may be followed by a second, bigger one, just minutes later.
12961k Views · 5 Upvotes
1297Do air force pilots shoot the enemy pilots who ejected from their planes?
1298Efrajim Canuck
1299Efrajim Canuck
1300Answered Dec 6
1301
1302It’s a war crime, but it didn’t stop American airmen to do it whenever they had the opportunity. There are many recorded cases when US fighters opened fire at bailed out German pilots in WW2, and they also did it over Hungary.
1303
1304Here is an exact case. On August 7, 1944 American fighters shot down two Messerschmitt Me-109s of the Royal Hungarian Air Force in dogfight. The pilots, Lt. László Molnár and Ens. János Nyemecz successfully jumped from their burning planes, but the P-51s fired at them and killed both of them.
1305
1306There was another case when American fighters strafed a downed Me-210 and attempted to kill the pilot running away from the wreck.
1307
1308So yes, this was a common occurrence. US airmen were generally far from white knights. It is also true, however, that another US pilot has risked his life to save a Hungarian pilot who didn’t realize that his plane is on fire. The American flew close to him, frantically waving and pointing to the tail of the Messerschmitt. The Hungarian pilot managed to jump, but his plane spun out of control and crashed into the P-51 and killed the American. He was buried with full military honors.
130915.6k Views · 27 Upvotes
1310How did the trench warfare combatants in WWI retrieve their dead if they faced off for months without the front moving? They can't have let the bodies rot for months only a few yards away?
1311Efrajim Canuck
1312Efrajim Canuck
1313Answered Dec 6
1314
1315Both sides recognized the need to remove bodies, not only out of humanity but very practical reasons. Rotting dead bodies cause plagues and attract vermin, mostly rats.
1316
1317There were frequent local ceasefires which allowed both sides to collect and bury the bodies. These were usually agreed on by the local commanders. The practice continued in WW2, even in the most grievous battles like Stalingrad.
1318
1319Here is a scene from the German movie Stalingrad depicting such an event.
1320100 Views
1321You meet a donkey in a parking lot. The donkey calls you an ass, and walks away. What do you do?
1322Efrajim Canuck
1323Efrajim Canuck
1324Answered Dec 6
1325
1326“What a rude donkey” I’d think, wondering what am I doing in a parking lot when I don’t even have a car.
13272 Views
1328What does it feel like to be in a nuclear meltdown?
1329Efrajim Canuck
1330Efrajim Canuck
1331Answered Dec 6
1332
1333The best I can tell is how it was when Chernobyl went up in flames. I wasn’t very far from it in Budapest, and I was 10 years old then.
1334
1335It was Communism, and news of the disaster were suppressed. However there was still some leakage. Dosimeters went off here and there, and there were already gossips about something major to have happened before the disaster was officially announced.
1336
1337For many days we were concerned about the fallout. We knew that a huge radioactive cloud is floating over Europe. By sheer luck it mostly avoided Hungary. But we didn’t know it back then yet. We also didn’t know that the government considered evacuating Miskolc, a large town in Northern Hungary, but the Soviets forbade it to avoid panic.
133848 Views · 1 Upvote
1339What if Iranian warships are (headed for Florida and Texas Coasts) armed with nuclear weapons?
1340https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/98523/iranian-warships-headed-floridatexas-coasts/#/
1341Efrajim Canuck
1342Efrajim Canuck
1343Answered Dec 6
1344
1345Iran has no nuclear weapons, but even if they had, it’d mean nothing. Just like any other nuclear nation, including the US, they have the right to carry any kind of weapons on board of their naval vessels on high seas, international waters. Of course they may expect some scrutiny by the US Navy, as they also have the same rights and also the US has the right of defense. If they are displaying openly hostile intents, or there is reasonable information about such intents, the Navy can and will destroy or capture them before they’d reach within firing range.
1346
1347On the other hand it makes absolutely no sense to approach the US with two boats and try to flung nukes at the land. It would be a suicidal move for any nation, particularly while openly flying their own flags. There would be nothing to win, and governments don’t start wars just to cause wanton destruction. That would be merely terrorism.
1348
1349If I was a terrorist and intended to nuke the US, I’d get a cargo ship, register it in Liberia or Panama and hide my missiles in a specially modified container. Thus I could probably sneak it up to the US coasts and launch them without any warning. I’d save the last one to blow up the ship. It would be very hard to prevent such an attack, and even more difficult to identify the wrecks or find out what happened.
135061 Views
1351Which weapons from World War II are still in use today?
1352Efrajim Canuck
1353Efrajim Canuck
1354Answered Dec 6
1355
1356The Soviet SKS carbine is still in use as a parade weapon. As far as I know, not only the Russian, but the Hungarian army is also using them.
1357
1358Many such WW2-era small arms are used in local conflicts now. The Soviet PPSh submachine gun, the Lee Enfield and Mosin-Nagant and the Kar.98 rifles. Some Canadian troops also still use the Lee Enfield.
1359
1360The 43M “Vécsey” hand grenade is also still in use by the Hungarian army. However they are mostly just stashed away and aren’t likely to be issued to soldiers, unless there is a total war. They aren’t making them any more.
1361
1362Not exactly a weapon, but deserves to be mentioned: the T-6 Texan training aircraft is still in use in many countries. It first flew in 1935. Actually it can be armed as a makeshift bomber.
1363
1364The Ka-Bar knife is also still issued to American servicemen.
1365
1366There are some nations in Africa which still operate T-34 tanks. Those things are indestructible (at least since Otto Carius is gone).
1367
1368And finally, the American M-114 howitzer. It’s still in use by some Latin American armies. Well, they can still fire, and what else do you want from a howitzer?
13693.1k Views · 17 Upvotes
1370Zoltán Csomós
1371Zoltán Csomós
1372
1373As far as I’m concerned, the Vécsey hand grenades are only used as a training/instructional tool,...
1374Is a global army-buildup an indicator that a great war is going to happen in the coming decades?
1375Efrajim Canuck
1376Efrajim Canuck
1377Answered Dec 6
1378
1379There is no global army buildup. The media is stirring up fears and hysteria. Look at any vintage news footage from ten, twenty, thirty years ago, and it’s the same: “Oh my God, prepare for Armageddon, we’re all going to die!”
1380
1381I remember when sometime in the early 1990s the Hungarian state television started airing the 8 o’clock BBC News every day at around midnight, with Hungarian subtitles. It was so different from our evening news, mainly because it was pure fearmongering. At the time there was some tension between India and Pakistan, just the usual stuff. The anchors described the situation in a very gloomy tone, explaining how many nuclear strikes are to be expected, how many millions are going to die, and how the whole world will suffer from the radioactive fallout. As if it will certainly and inevitably happen. Every single day they tried to convince the world that we’re doomed, here and now. I stopped watching this bullshit soon. I was just 17 at the time, but I already knew better.
1382
1383Years later I realized that BBC News is actually pretty calm compared to American news channels like CNN. I can understand why you Americans are constantly shitting your pants over everything. Every event in the world is presented as a terrible drama which will certainly have a grave impact your lives. Everything is interpreted as a prelude to something terrible which is already looming on the horizon. But nothing ever actually happens.
1384
1385The “military buildup” you’re referring to is the normal process of the world’s armies upgrading their arsenals as technology proceeds. You can’t expect Russia keeping their old Cold War vintage hardware in the first line forever. Of course they have new tanks, planes, equipment. The US does the same, China does the same, and even Hungary does the same. We bought three new rifles this year, so now we have five!
138630 Views · 1 Upvote
1387Is there anything good about North Korea?
1388Efrajim Canuck
1389Efrajim Canuck
1390Answered Dec 6
1391
1392Oh sure there are many good things there!
1393
1394First of all, it’s probably the only country that doesn’t have to fear that North Korea will suddenly nuke them. That’s already better than America.
1395
1396Second, they don’t have Donald Trump. That’s a very good reason for all liberals and leftists to move there as soon as possible! I am sure they’ll love it there.
1397
1398Third, no Muslims, no transgenders, no feminists… well, at least until they all move there. Also, no Gypsies, which my fellow Eastern Europeans would appreciate. Imagine, the same familiar police state and oppression, but none of them…
1399
1400Street food. They actually have some good stuff on the streets of Pyongyang. I can’t speak for smaller places.
1401
1402You can ride your bicycle anywhere. There are almost no cars, so there’s little danger of being overrun, and the air is also clean.
1403
1404If you enroll the military, you’ll have a stable and safe job for a lifetime. Well, unless you have tapeworms or something. But you can still steal a jeep and drive through the border.
1405
1406Again something that appeals to leftists: you can collect actual, life-shattering traumas, and you don’t have to make them up. You will never have to whine about ridiculous things like “mansplaining”, “manspreading”, “patriarchy”, “oppression”, because you’ll have real oppression and they’ll actually beat the shit out of you if you don’t fall in line. Nobody will laugh at you any more, and nobody will question that you’re a martyr! Go to North Korea now! Apply for asylum!
140726 Views
1408Are free ports still trading with North Korea?
1409Efrajim Canuck
1410Efrajim Canuck
1411Answered Dec 6
1412
1413There is a lot of trade going on with North Korea, and sometimes it’s rather surprising. For example the Hungarian Ministry of Trade has recently published a report on international trade, and there was a whole chapter about North Korea. Apparently there are a lot of pets being exported from Hungary to North Korea, and a Hungarian company purchased studio cameras from them. Did you know they are manufacturing high end cameras? Me neither.
141464 Views · 1 Upvote
1415What are the most common mistakes that non-native English speakers make?
1416Efrajim Canuck
1417Efrajim Canuck
1418Answered Dec 6
1419
1420My most common mistake is confusing gender pronouns. No, I don’t mean this post-modern PC bullcrap with “xir” and other made up ones, but the good old “he” and “she”. I am Hungarian, and our language doesn’t make a difference between genders. We have one single pronoun for a person and another for anything that is not a person (though we sometimes use the personal pronoun for animals or even objects, depending on the context).
14212 Views
1422How devastating was the Battle of Verdun?
1423Efrajim Canuck
1424Efrajim Canuck
1425Answered Dec 6
1426
1427There is one simple number which will explain it very well.
1428
1429Look around in the room. Probably you’re sitting at a desk. Or there is a bed around you. If it’s an average desk, think of an area roughly twice of it. If it’s a bed, think half of it. That’s about a square meter.
1430
1431Now imagine that 300 different artillery projectiles fall onto this small area every single day for weeks.
1432
1433And you still can’t imagine the “Verdun blood pump”, as it was called at the time. Human mind just can’t comprehend this amount of destruction. Not even those who were there survived it.
1434490 Views · 2 Upvotes
1435If someone tries to mug me with a gun, and I manage to take the gun from him, can I legally shoot him in the leg for self defense? Guns are illegal in my state. And I’d like to know the difference between under 18 and over 18 years of age.
1436Efrajim Canuck
1437Efrajim Canuck
1438Answered Dec 6
1439
1440If you’re in Europe, then you can’t shoot him, unless he continues to attack you. If he does, depending on the exact situation and the country, you may be well within the boundaries of legitimate defense if you shoot him, or even kill him. Such circumstances can be:
1441
1442His attack, regardless that you have the gun, is a reasonable threat to your life, or at least carries the possibility of grievous injury. For example if you take his gun, but he draws a knife and slashes towards you, you can kill him in any European country. You can kill him if he endangers someone else, for exampe he grabs your wife and threatens to kill her.
1443
1444If the continued attack is not likely to be lethal, but it’s definitely an attack nevertheless (he’s not merely uttering threats, but tries to punch or kick you), you can use the gun to stop him. Depending on the country you may or may not kill him, but most jurisdictions will not declare you guilty if you kill such a determined attacker. The fact that he had a gun pointed at you just a moment earlier is a clear sign of his intent to kill you, and if he hasn’t stopped even after you disarmed him is indicating a real threat.
1445
1446He is attacking you as a member of a group or gang, which is three or more people. Even if he is the only one physically assaulting you, and the others are just yelling, threatening you or endorsing him, they are still considered a gang in most countries. In this case many jurisdictions allow the use of lethal force in your own defense.
1447
1448The attack takes place in your own domicile. Although European countries generally don’t recognize the castle doctrine, something similar exists everywhere, and it may authorize you to kill the bastard.
1449
1450The attack takes place at night. This can be combined with all the other circumstances (a gang, in your own home, etc.) In Hungary if you’re attacked by night, you can kill the attacker, even if he’s not trying to kill you.
1451
1452It can be a serious exculpatory reason if you shot your attacker because you were scared and couldn’t think reasonably out of shock or fear. For example if you’re a 15 year old girl, and three thugs are trying to rape you in an alleyway, but you somehow manage to take their gun (or you have your own), it’ll be forgiven if you fired three magazines into each, and you left the scene twice to go and buy more ammo. It’ll be ruled as a nasty suicide. OK, this may not be true, but you get my flow.
145372 Views · 2 Upvotes
1454Did Warsaw get hit by a nuclear weapon?
1455Efrajim Canuck
1456Efrajim Canuck
1457Answered Dec 5
1458
1459Not yet, but they are really pushing it.
146030 Views
1461What do you call the role of the soldier who is equipped with a machine gun and provides suppressive fire for the squad?
1462Efrajim Canuck
1463Efrajim Canuck
1464Answered Dec 5
1465
1466Machine gunner.
14671 View
1468How good would an armchair general (a civilian who claims to be an expert military strategist through self-study or strategy computer games) be as a real general in a war?
1469Efrajim Canuck
1470Efrajim Canuck
1471Answered Dec 5
1472
1473We are living in a very interesting era when average John Does have access to a plethora of military information and simulation methods which would’ve been just a wet dream for actual generals even a few decades ago. History and war buffs sometimes gather more information on these matters than serving officers.
1474
1475When I’ve been in the Hungarian army in 1998, most of our officers were literally worthless. There were some who were very capable and highly trained. For example the captain I served under has graduated from a Soviet military academy in the late 1980s, then later, when we became NATO members, he went on and finished an American academy as well. He was proficient in both countries’ military technology and tactics, and he naturally also spoke English and Russian perfectly. But he was a very rare exception. Our battalion commander was clueless about the most basic things, he was just squatting in the office waiting to be retired. I met a captain who took up a magazine from my desk and asked me what kind of fighter plane is on the cover. I told him what it was, and he was shocked that I even knew the type - he actually wanted to ask what nationality is it because he had no idea of its markings!
1476
1477Anyone who recognizes this thing will receive a corporal’s rank and the position of a battalion scribe. Anyone who doesn’t, even despite it’s written out next to it on the magazine cover, will be promoted to captain and lead a whole company.
1478
1479Imagine if you had to go to war with these idiots. How would they lead you? How would they plan strategy, gauge the enemy’s strengths and weaknesses and exploit them? Could they do it?
1480
1481So if you ask whether I’d prefer such officers or some anime-addicted geek who grew up on Panzer General and spends his time on military forums arguing about obscure hardware and minute events of long forgotten battles, I’d take the latter any time.
1482617 Views
1483Should there be regulations that prohibit Trump from tweeting? If so, why?
1484Efrajim Canuck
1485Efrajim Canuck
1486Answered Dec 5
1487
1488Freedom of speech. I guess you’ve heard of it? How upset would you be about a regulation which prohibits you from asking questions on Quora?
14891 View
1490I live in a third world country and I want to live abroad to a better country. I am interested in Western Europe. Where do you suggest for me to move and restarting my life in?
1491Efrajim Canuck
1492Efrajim Canuck
1493Answered Dec 5
1494
1495In your and our best interest, I’d recommend you to go somewhere else. Why? Here are the reasons. Some people here will soon begin screeching about how “intolerant” I am, but I am just giving you the cold, stark reality.
1496
1497The scum of your country is already here. Criminals, rapists, even terrorists. They are the reason we have to celebrate Christmas among military patrols, roadblocks and constant fear. You don’t want to live with them, right? And it’s getting worse all the time. West European society is going to split, and it will break in a few years. It won’t be pretty.
1498
1499You’re probably an educated and well-mannered gentleman, but you’re still not a white European. Apart from a loud and obnoxious minority, most Europeans would prefer keeping their countries white. The more our liberals press the multicultural agenda, the more the average European John Doe will hate everyone who doesn’t look like him. And I assume you don’t. When shit hits the fan, John Doe will not ask you about your college degree and your intents in his country. In a race war, your skin will be your uniform.
1500
1501But if the aforementioned excrement will descend onto the air cooling system from a different direction, and it’ll be the immigrants who break peace (just like they already do in Sweden), they will treat you as a traitor, an “Uncle Tom” if you follow the whites’ ways and don’t want to live like them. Trust me, you don’t want it either.
1502
1503Europe has two possible futures. One is that a new Hitler will rise and purge the aliens. The other is that whites will be purged. There will be no coexistence, that’s just a naive dream. Whichever happens, it’ll be bad. Don’t make long term plans about Europe, for it will not end well. The peaceful and the meek will be the first to be slaughtered.
1504
1505If I were you, I’d try Canada. They have great immigration programs for educated people (look up Express Entry). Canadians are also much more tolerant towards visible minorities because everybody is an immigrant there (except the Indians, but they live in the North where most canucks never even go). There you’ll find the Western life standards and the respect you deserve, and will not be in anyone’s path. Also, you’ll get to see how Europe burns from your comfy armchair, on a big screen TV.
150641 Views
1507How would the West react when a North Korean missile from a test would hit Japan's mainland by accident?
1508Efrajim Canuck
1509Efrajim Canuck
1510Answered Dec 4
1511
1512There’d be some stirrup, but as long as the missile doesn’t carry a warhead, it’d not cause a war. Most likely the US would reinforce the shit out of Japan, plant a Patriot battery into every cherry garden and increase pressure on North Korea to the brink of actual conflict, but never beyond.
15139 Views
1514If Chelsea Clinton were shot dead by an illegal using a stolen Federal agent's gun (like the Mexican who murdered Kate Steinle), would Hillary drop her support for sanctuary cities and open borders, or just blame Trump and the NRA?
1515Efrajim Canuck
1516Efrajim Canuck
1517Answered Dec 4
1518
1519I’ve preferred if he shot Hillary dead. Preferably on camera so I can enjoy.
15202 Views
1521What's the most offensive t-shirt you've ever seen on someone?
1522Efrajim Canuck
1523Efrajim Canuck
1524Answered Dec 3
1525
1526Zyklon-B: Authorized Dealer.
1527
1528As a matter of fact, I was the manufacturer of these t-shirts, and exactly to piss off certain people. That’s the whole point of the t-shirt business. Some of my products which read “I am Holocaustrophobic” were even discussed in the Parliament.
1529
1530Screw political correctness. And your sensitivity.
15312 Views
1532Can you provide a summary of World War II?
1533Efrajim Canuck
1534Efrajim Canuck
1535Answered Dec 3
1536
1537Germany, starvey-starvey, rioty-rioty, Nazi-Nazi.
1538
1539Threaty-threaty, Rhiney-whiney, retakey-retakey. Anschlussy-anschlussy, annexy-annexy.
1540
1541Bomby-bomby-shooty-shooty, surrendery-surrendery.
1542
1543Dogfighty-dogfighty, bomby-bomby, Conventry-Coventry.
1544
1545Deporty-deporty, gassy-gassy.
1546
1547Bomby-bomby, Red Army beaty, Moscow stoppy.
1548
1549More bomby-bomby and shooty, Stalingrad stoppy.
1550
1551Bomby-bomby, US Navy sinky-sinky.
1552
1553Angry-angry, bomby-bomby-bomby. Shooty-shooty, landy-landy, surrendery.
1554
1555Bomby-bomby, atombomby-atombomby, surrendery.
1556
1557That was pretty much it.
15582 Views
1559How were ShKAS 7.62 mm machine guns used during World War II?
1560Efrajim Canuck
1561Efrajim Canuck
1562Answered Dec 3
1563
1564Kind of like this:
1565
1566“Oy Igor! Fascisty are koming!”
1567
1568“Suka blyat! Agoy!”
1569
1570*BRATATATATA!*
15719 Views · 1 Upvote
1572Did Russian soldiers entering Berlin in 1945 have oriental facial features?
1573Efrajim Canuck
1574Efrajim Canuck
1575Answered Dec 3
1576
1577Some of them did. The Soviet Union had a lot of non-Russian conscripts, and many of them were from the Far Eastern states of the Soviet Union. Kalmyks, Mongols, Tatars, some Siberian folks, they all had oriental features. The Red Army had its own subtle racial policies, and they tended to put them into front line units instead of “purebreed” Russians.
1578127 Views · 3 Upvotes
1579Do you think it is right to bring back soldiers from war to society after they have been trained to kill?
1580Efrajim Canuck
1581Efrajim Canuck
1582Answered Dec 3
1583
1584“What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.”
15852 Views
1586How do you say "of course" in Russian?
1587Efrajim Canuck
1588Efrajim Canuck
1589Answered Dec 3
1590
1591“Tak tochna” or “konechno”.
15921 View
1593Did they make ships out of concrete in WWII?
1594Efrajim Canuck
1595Efrajim Canuck
1596Answered Dec 3
1597
1598Yes, the Axis powers built a lot of them. Most of them were river barges. You can still find the remnants of some of them along the Danube in Hungary. This one is in Northern Hungary, where the Danube separates Slovakia and Hungary. As funny it may sound, but it’s been declared a protected industrial relic.
1599
1600Source: a Hungarian blog titled “Szellemvárosok Magyarországon” (Ghost Cities in Hungary).
1601153 Views · 1 Upvote
1602Is the Sig Sauer P239 prone to accidentally go off, as claimed by the defence in the Kate Steinle trial?
1603Efrajim Canuck
1604Efrajim Canuck
1605Updated Dec 7
1606
1607SIG handguns are known as the most reliable and safest ones. They are literally like Swiss watches, although a bit more dangerous. The SIG Sauer doesn’t even have a safety pin because it never goes off unintentionally, not even if you drop it onto its cocked hammer. I don’t know much about this trial, but if anyone said this, either at court or otherwise, was either lying or never seen a SIG Sauer before.
1608214 Views · 13 Upvotes
1609How can you tell if someone is really in the military?
1610Efrajim Canuck
1611Efrajim Canuck
1612Answered Dec 3
1613Originally Answered: How can you know for certain someone works in the military?
1614
1615Ask for his or her military ID.
16163 Views · 1 Upvote
1617What should I use for a simple directory app? Ionic or Nativescript?
1618Efrajim Canuck
1619Efrajim Canuck
1620Answered Dec 2
1621
1622Both will give you a lot of headache. Both are immature and unfinished solutions.
1623
1624I’ve been a developer for over 20 years now, and I’ve been into JavaScript since 1998. The recent framework madness is the worst thing ever happened. Not only it turned the JS ecosystem upside down, it also produced a plethora of entirely unusable technologies. Ionic and NativeScript both fall into this basket.
1625
1626Ionic is nice, but only if you don’t try to do anything serious. Then you’ll find that the dev team is more interested in pumping out new versions as often as possible than finishing crucial parts. Most of it is half-baked and literally unusable. You’re better off with vanilla JavaScript and Cordova if you actually wish to finish your project on time.
1627
1628NativeScript is the other terrible technology, and for the same reason. I’ve failed to create even the most simple thing in it, for it constantly gets into my way. For example data binding is seriously flawed, values don’t update, and there is no way forcing it. So few developers are using it that you won’t find answers on Stack Overflow or elsewhere.
1629
1630Both teams ignore bug reports and expect their users to fix their shit. Nope, not going to happen. They are just another good reason to grab a high powered rifle and shoot up the next big open source conference. Seriously, enough of all this amateurism.
163155 Views · 1 Upvote
1632Have you ever seen top secret stuff while in the military, like mindblowing super secrets the average public would never discover?
1633Efrajim Canuck
1634Efrajim Canuck
1635Answered Dec 2
1636
1637Yes, but it wasn’t that mindboggling. I was a battalion scribe in the Army and I saw all kinds of documents. The daily report on our battle readiness was already classified stuff, and I prepared it every day. In 1998 the Hungarian Defense Forces were as broken as it gets, and we, conscripts couldn’t care less. Still, every single day we had to report that our meager 30-something strong “battalion” is ready to take on any enemy that dares to set foot on our sacred soil, and every single day I had to prepare the same exact form with the same exact numbers, accounting for some Cold War vintage trucks and a crate of AK-63D rifles. The only thing that changed was the number of soldiers on leave and present. Fortunately we had an archaic old IBM XT computer, and after a while I wrote a simple Turbo Pascal program which generated random numbers and printed it every morning. The officers were glad to have this shit off their shoulders and I gave a week of leave.
1638
1639One day I was going through some documents in the file cabinet and came across top secret mobilization plans. They were stored in a simple wooden cabinet, not even a lock, and it contained all unit locations, call signs, encryption codes and what not, plus a list of civilian vehicles and machines in the area which can be acquired for military use.
1640
1641Nobody under battalion commander level was supposed even to set his sight on it, but whatever. Our BC was an old guy who recently recovered from a serious stroke and he had strange habits, apart from barely being able to speak. He probably didn’t even know about these documents.
16421k Views · 1 Upvote
1643What is the least expensive way for a lower class person to leave the U.S.? I'm terrified of where the country is headed, and I feel I don't belong here anymore.
1644Efrajim Canuck
1645Efrajim Canuck
1646Answered Dec 2
1647
1648Why would you leave that great country? Too scared to stand up and fight for your homeland? Then you don’t deserve a homeland.
1649
1650There are plenty of places in the US where you can move and be free from whatever scares you. There are vast areas where even the Tsar Bomba could go off unnoticed. Go, get a piece of land, build a house and live there.
16511 View
1652Melania Trump is from Slovenia, which historically, is a communist country. How much of a bearing does she have on the current political situation, with regards to Russia?
1653Efrajim Canuck
1654Efrajim Canuck
1655Answered Dec 2
1656
1657There are many people in America right now who are from historically terrorist countries. Not to mention the Germans, how about their history?
1658
1659As an American, do you feel yourself historically imperialist? Doesn’t make much sense, right? So just leave the sweet lady alone. As strange it may sound, most people in the world don’t give a damn to politics, and aren’t involved in monstrous conspiracies. Melania was a model, not a Communist Jane Bond.
166031 Views · 1 Upvote
1661Is there a nickname for Trump similar to crooked Hillary?
1662Efrajim Canuck
1663Efrajim Canuck
1664Answered Dec 2
1665
1666Drumpf. But it really doesn’t have the same ring to it.
16674 Views · 1 Upvote
1668What must soldiers do to not be war criminals?
1669Efrajim Canuck
1670Efrajim Canuck
1671Answered Dec 2
1672
1673It’s more difficult to avoid it than you’d think. Not only because war is hell and things often happen out of control, but bureaucracy may intervene and turn you from a hero to a criminal too.
1674
1675A Hungarian officer was serving in Bosnia during the 1990s as a peacekeeper. They needed to build something in the base. They had no building materials, but there was a village nearby which was bombed to oblivion and abandoned. He sent the soldiers to bring some bricks and beams from the collapsed houses so they can build whatever had to be built. Absolutely nobody claimed those materials, most likely the residents weren’t even alive any more.
1676
1677Several years after this officer returned, he was suddenly indicted for war crimes, for pillaging in a war zone. I don’t know if he was convicted, but I remember there was a scandal about it. Such a seemingly innocent thing ruined his career.
1678
1679Politics may also turn a hero into a war criminal, as seen in many cases in former Yugoslavia. Soldiers who fought bravely for their homelands, like Ante Gotovina, were arrested and taken to The Hague because their countries’ newest political interests demanded such a turn. The same happened to a lot of German officers after WW2.
1680137 Views · 3 Upvotes
1681Are sub-machine guns truly obsolete due to the advancement and prevelance of short barreled rifles? What is their purpose now?
1682Efrajim Canuck
1683Efrajim Canuck
1684Answered Dec 2
1685
1686No, they are not. They are still very useful in close quarters combat. This is why most SWAT teams carry some kind of SMG, usually a H&K MP5. They still offer quick rate of fire with light ammunition, which means a lot of ammunition.
168772 Views
1688Do Russians like to have President - a war criminal, who attacks another countries and grabs their land?
1689Efrajim Canuck
1690Efrajim Canuck
1691Answered Dec 2
1692
1693Look how the crow calls the raven black. Remember George W. Bush?
16941 View
1695Would the Luger be a good weapon for self defense?
1696Efrajim Canuck
1697Efrajim Canuck
1698Answered Dec 2
1699
1700It was exactly designed for that purpose. A military sidearm is a last resort weapon for close combat. So yes, it would be a good weapon. However I’d refrain from using such a rare and valuable collector’s item for this purpose.
170134 Views
1702Why is Israel's army so powerful?
1703Efrajim Canuck
1704Efrajim Canuck
1705Answered Dec 2
1706
1707Apart from what would make any armed force powerful - the best available technology, excellent training, constant development and adaptive mindset - it’s American support. Israel would hardly even exist without constant US financial and military aid.
17089 Views · 1 Upvote
1709Instead of having to directly intercept a nuclear-tipped missile with another missile, could an EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) bomb be used to knock out guidance system of said nuclear missile?
1710Efrajim Canuck
1711Efrajim Canuck
1712Answered Dec 2
1713
1714Not very likely. Missiles’ guidance systems are shielded exactly because it is anticipated that another missile may go off not very far from it.
17151 View · Answer requested by JJ Hadland
1716Is Maxine Waters right that Trump calling Hillary "crooked" is proof that he collaborated with Putin?
1717Efrajim Canuck
1718Efrajim Canuck
1719Answered Dec 1
1720
1721This “collaborated with Putin” thing is getting ridiculous. First of all, Russia is not at war with America. Second, there is absolutely zero evidence that they interfered with the elections. Third, last time I checked, America regularly intervenes in other countries’ internal affairs, not merely with Facebook posts, but bombs and troops. Fourth, if the Russians supplied information about the shady businesses of Hillary, then they did a damn favor to America by thwarting a criminal’s effort to seize power.
172230 Views · 2 Upvotes
1723If you can meet God, what would you ask for?
1724Efrajim Canuck
1725Efrajim Canuck
1726Answered Dec 1
1727
1728By definition God is perfect, and therefore everything He does is perfect.
1729
1730If I asked him to do anything, that would be a human intervention into His work. Therefore regardless what I asked, it would be destructive on an universal level. Even if I think it’s beneficial. Say, I could ask Him to revive my best dog. But hey, he died for a reason on the first place! If he’d be alive now, that’d be a disturbance, an irregularity.
1731
1732God has given me free will and certain abilities to do whatever I please. Sure, I can’t change the course of seasons or the orbit of planets, but that’s not what I am destined to do. I am human. I also have, or will have all the information required to fulfill my role in creation. The world does not exist for my personal satisfaction, and I am not designed to be a god even for once.
17331 View
1734I've finished writing and editing a 90k word young adult fiction novel. What is the best course of action to take for publication?
1735Efrajim Canuck
1736Efrajim Canuck
1737Answered Dec 1
1738
1739Have it read by a few people of all ages and backgrounds. Preferably include some who have writing experience and heed their advice. Treat the rest of the criticism as customer feedback. Avoid involving people who are inclined to praise you, like very good friends, family members, etc.
1740
1741Getting it published is not an easy thing. Be prepared for a zillion rejections, but don’t give up. J. K. Rowling was rejected some 18 times or so when she tried to get Harry Potter published. H. P. Lovecraft’s works were never published in his life. Just keep nagging publishing agencies and someday you’ll find luck.
1742
1743But remember, they are not there to help fledgling new authors. They are to sell a product. Your one should be marketable. It doesn’t actually have to be good. 50 Shades of Grey was awful, but outsold Song of Ice and Fire. Twilight was a shame to literature, yet still it made a fortune. The Da Vinci Code is a pile of dung, yet idiots give money for it. You have to find a niche.
1744112 Views · 1 Upvote
1745Which nations love Russia the most?
1746Efrajim Canuck
1747Efrajim Canuck
1748Answered Dec 1
1749
1750Russia is a very friendly nation. They pretty much love everyone. There is a stereotype about Russians: they either love you as a brother or hate you with all their fury. There is no middle ground.
1751
1752However the bear has not accidentally became the symbol of Russia. The love of Russia is indeed like a very friendly bear who wants to hug you. Run, you fool!
1753
1754A very good example is how the Russians think of our 1956 anti-communist revolution which they ruthlessly crushed. For us it was a national disaster, a humiliation, a crucifixion of our nation. They view it as having done a favor. They still think that there was a fascist coup in Hungary and they sacrificed the lives of their soldiers to liberate us. They are very upset that we don’t see it this way. They have the same opinion about the occupation of Hungary in 1944–45, which they also prefer to call liberation. Or their intervention into our 1848–49 war of independence against Austria.
1755
1756The only genuine case when Russia displayed hate was against Nazi Germany. That didn’t end well. For the Nazis. Interestingly, the Russians never actually stopped loving the Germans either.
1757498 Views · 1 Upvote
1758How can a person survive a nuclear bomb attack?
1759Efrajim Canuck
1760Efrajim Canuck
1761Answered Dec 1
1762Originally Answered: Is it possible to survive nuclear warheads near your state?
1763
1764Absolutely, unless you’re standing dangerously close to the missile or sit on the silo’s roof. A launch is not very dangerous. There is more to worry where it lands.
176510 Views
1766If North Korea went off the deep end (more off the deep end) and launched a missile at Britain, how quickly could the RAF intercept the missile?
1767Efrajim Canuck
1768Efrajim Canuck
1769Answered Dec 1
1770
1771They couldn’t, and suddenly they had more pressing problems than freaking out over President Trump’s tweets. Britain has no ICBM defenses at all.
177211 Views
1773If I’m gay and a citizen of a country where the law kills homosexuals, can I easily get asylum? What's the easiest country for asylum like this?
1774Efrajim Canuck
1775Efrajim Canuck
1776Answered Dec 1
1777
1778You can easily get asylum in Canada, provided you don’t have the possibility to go to another safe country.
17791 View
1780Does my special forces marine sergeant boyfriend need my address in order to be released or am I being scammed?
1781Efrajim Canuck
1782Efrajim Canuck
1783Answered Nov 30
1784
1785I can’t understand your question either, but I can tell you that no military in the world needs anyone’s address to grant leave to a member. But how come your boyfriend doesn’t know your address?
1786
1787Anyway, are you sure he is a “Special Forces Marine Sergeant”, or a MARSOC?
178820 Views
1789If you have been to prison, what was the first thing that struck you in prison?
1790Efrajim Canuck
1791Efrajim Canuck
1792Answered Nov 30
1793
1794I was not technically in prison, but detention on remand, pending trial. I was acquitted. Still, the memory haunts me even ten years after it happened, and I sometimes have nightmares. I still get the shivers when I see a grey prison guard uniform.
1795
1796I was arrested on terrorism charges in 2007. It was a purely political propaganda case during a government crisis. I was dragged away from a friend’s place, along with two others, for allegedly having produced explosives to commit mass murder at a peace rally. It took them three years to figure out that there were no explosives.
1797
1798First it struck me at court that this is not at all a lawful procedure. The prosecutor stated that I have an extensive criminal record, and produced some document stating that I am under indiction for assault, robbery, burglary, fraud and what not. I protested because this wasn’t true, and the answer was: “This is an official document, and you have to refute it with evidence.” Needless to say, I had no evidence, I was standing there handcuffed and my legs tied up, on a leash held by two police thugs. I was carried away as a dangerous criminal, with a convoy of armored police cars and a helicopter hovering overhead. The media was there to relay pictures for the evening news, as I was also to be publicly humiliated.
1799
1800When we arrived to prison, the vehicle drove through the gate. Then the gate was slammed shut behind us. Then the second gate. I was escorted into the building by a group of shotgun-wielding guards. Then another door was slammed behind me. And another. And a steel grill. And another steel grill. Finally I was thrown into a small cell, and that door was slammed too. A big, heavy steel door, with no handle and just a small peephole, which was also closed.
1801
1802Then I understood that I am buried alive. There is no hope I can ever get out of this. They will keep me here for years, using fabricated evidence. I will never see my family again, except through thick glass, and I will never have my life back.
1803
1804And the worst thing is that nobody can tell how long will I have to endure this. When you’re convicted, you know when you’ll be released (unless you were really naughty). You can even work towards an early release. But not in pretrial. They will just occasionally throw documents through the slit on the door informing you that your detention has been extended with another 30, 60 or 90 days. There is no end. My bunkmates have been waiting for quite some time already. One of them has spent two years in this small room, save for a single hour of walk every day. He was once a muscled guy, but he looked like a deflated balloon now, with a skeleton inside.
1805
1806Imagine living here with three other people (add an extra bed on top of the single one) for years, never knowing what your future holds. The toilet doesn’t even have a door. And these people can be the nastiest, shadiest guys you’ve ever seen. My bunkies were a burglar, a drug dealer (he was OK, just an idiot who tried to be popular at the local club by giving away XTC pills) and a car thief.
1807
1808Such circumstances were in severe violation of European Union regulations, but the Hungarian government couldn’t care less. For them we were just human trash, to be formally convicted someday when they find time. I could very well expect several years of detention before that happens.
1809
1810My lawyer appealed against every detention order, but the answer was always the same letter, copied and pasted: due to my extensive criminal record, I am a dangerous recidivist and as such, I have to be detained. Each and every judge refused to verify whether I actually have a criminal record and accepted the prosecution’s document blindly.
1811
1812Until, by exceptional luck, one day a judge did this and found that firstly, I have no criminal record, secondly, the accusation is so vague that it can’t be called a “reasonable suspicion”. 64 days after I was incarcerated, suddenly I was told to pack my stuff because I am being released.
1813
1814Ever since the bed I occupied is believed to be a lucky one. I was told that the previous occupant was also released in a few weeks.
1815
1816This was more than ten years ago. Hungarian prisons have deteriorated a lot since. There is already a lot of criticism from the European Union. Still, the government doesn’t care. I don’t even want to know what the detainees are going through these days. Technically they are innocent persons, and more than 20% of them don’t even receive a custodial sentence.
1817
1818Since this happened to me, I don’t stand up for the national anthem and don’t care about anything Hungarian. This country took away everything from me. It’s not my home. I am just forced to live here. It’s like a terrible, abusive parent.
181948 Views · 1 Upvote
1820Why do we believe in one God? If one God can exist by himself, then in the same way, can a million gods?
1821Efrajim Canuck
1822Efrajim Canuck
1823Answered Nov 30
1824
1825According to Hindus, God Krshna (more properly: The Highest Personality of God) is an omnipotent being who is one and infinite at the same time. This means he is present in the entire Universe, and can have infinite forms. His favorite is however the human shape. One can argue whether he likes to look like a human or he created us to mimick his favorite image, as Jews and Christians say, but it’s technically the same.
1826
1827While He is one God, He has taken many forms during the ages. He is identical to Vishnu, Shiva, Govinda, Nrshimadeva, Nitai and Gouranga and many more. They are very different beings, yet they are still His reincarnations. Of course He can also be a She, as He pleases, or Xe, whatever.
1828
1829Illustration from the Bhagavad-Gita: Krshna shows His infinite forms to his friend, Arjuna
1830
1831The same idea also exists in the Bible. When God’s angel stops Abraham from sacrificing his son, it is said that the angel is identical to God, as he is acting in His name. I’d say this is pretty much how an official is identical to the government and fulfills its will, but on a much higher, divine level.
1832
1833There is the same concept behind the church itself. The priests (or bhaktas, imams, rabbis) are representing God on Earth and therefore express His will. They are obviously on a very low level in the divine hierarchy, as they are merely (supposedly) educated mortals, and as such, fallible. But just as because a policeman is corrupt, you don’t drop the whole idea of law enforcement, and you shouldn’t stop believing in God because there are corrupted human representatives.
1834
1835Returning to your questions, indeed most monotheist religions carry the concept of polytheism, but they link all divine creatures to one God and identify them with Him. There are a million angels, thousands of deities, but they are all actually God, because He gives them life and divine power.
183657 Views · 1 Upvote
1837Today is November 30, 2017. Why do news outlets and people in general seem more concerned about Trump's tweets than the open slave auctions going on in Libya?
1838Efrajim Canuck
1839Efrajim Canuck
1840Answered Nov 30
1841
1842Because ensuring the political hegemony of the leftist-liberal elite is priority number one, which precedes any other issue. Trump has robbed them of a very important victory, and he is also a symptom of a grave problem: some people don’t want to meekly accept their rule. Actually it’s not Trump’s person what counts. The president could be Jesus Christ himself, the Clintonites would still riot against him. They want absolute power, as they always wanted throughout history, regardless they showed up as jacobinists, communists, socialdemocrats, anarchists, anything. They always depict themselves as shining and spotless saviors of humankind, and everybody else is Satan himself. After every failure they adjust their methods. Right now they pose as champions of freedom.
1843
1844A very important part of their narrative is white guilt. Recently they managed to convince a good part of whites to regret their skin color and feel responsible for a series of historic events, most importantly slavery. Facts don’t matter. Every nation, every people practiced slavery sometime in their history, but only whites recognized it as inhuman practice and voluntarily gave it up. The fact that there are slave markets operated by African blacks and Muslims is pretty much beating this narrative. This is why it should be downplayed, acting as if it was an isolated and extraordinary phenomenon which never happened before, and will be solved in a short time.
1845
1846Until then, be horrified how Trump took two scoops of ice cream or how he threw all the food into the koi pond. These are the important problems!
184743 Views · 3 Upvotes
1848How are atoms everything but the Earth is going around and the Sun isn’t?
1849Efrajim Canuck
1850Efrajim Canuck
1851Answered Nov 30
1852
1853The Sun goes around as well, it orbits around the center of the Milky Way, and the Milky Way is also moving towards the Great Attractor which we don’t know what exactly is.
18541 View
1855Do soldiers use humor while in combat?
1856Efrajim Canuck
1857Efrajim Canuck
1858Answered Nov 30
1859
1860Allow me to put one of the most hilarious greentexts from 4chan here:
18611 View
1862In the U.S. is it possible to disagree with the Trump Administration without experiencing adverse consequences?
1863Efrajim Canuck
1864Efrajim Canuck
1865Answered Nov 30
1866
1867Are you kidding? That’s what free speech is about.
18681 View
1869What would happen if a drone would fly into a hot air balloon?
1870Efrajim Canuck
1871Efrajim Canuck
1872Answered Nov 30
1873
1874Depends what kind of drone. Your Chinese toy quadcopter is a drone, but a Global Hawk is also one. The former would just bounce off and do no damage. The latter would tear the balloon apart and cause a disaster.
18757 Views
1876Would you rather fight a bear with a spear or 4 wolves with a knife? (The goal is to survive the attack with the animals dead, not running away.)
1877Efrajim Canuck
1878Efrajim Canuck
1879Answered Nov 30
1880
1881I’d choose the wolves. Why? Because wolves are very afraid of humans.
1882
1883But if the wolves were somehow aggressive, I’d rather choose the bear and the spear. A spear allows me to stand off and multiplies the force I can invest into a thrust. Simple physics. A knife is not very dangerous, and a fast-moving animal like a wolf can outmaneuver me in hand to fang combat. Four wolves means no chance.
18842 Views
1885Why do soldiers have to come home on leave?
1886Efrajim Canuck
1887Efrajim Canuck
1888Answered Nov 30
1889
1890They don’t *have to*. As the name suggests, leave means you can leave. If you wish, you can sit down on the other side of the road and stare at the base gate until it’s time to come back. The army doesn’t care. Any army.
18912 Views
1892Would you rather shoot laser with your eyes or control an army of 10000 ducks?
1893Efrajim Canuck
1894Efrajim Canuck
1895Answered Nov 30
1896
1897Lasers, hands down. Ducks are living beings. They need food, shelter and water. Where would I put so many ducks on the first place? They’d start dying after a while anyway. Withing a few months I’d be out of ducks. So I’d go with the lasers.
18982 Views
1899What stops a missle silo commander from launching nuclear missiles without the president’s order?
1900Efrajim Canuck
1901Efrajim Canuck
1902Answered Nov 30
1903
1904The other officers. Otherwise nothing. But it’s not the silo operators who you should be concerned about, and definitely not the Americans. The US always took nuclear safety seriously, and even if they had a lot of “oopsie!” moments, they pretty much managed it.
1905
1906I knew a Hungarian officer who visited a practice maneuver in the Soviet Union back in the early 1980s. It’s little known but Hungary had a Scud SRBM regiment which was tasked with nuking the living shit out of Austria, Northern Italy and Bavaria in case Brezhnev goes bananas on a sunny day. He was serving at this unit and was sent to study how a missile regiment mobilizes and prepares its missiles. (The Hungarians couldn’t really practice this because NATO satellites would’ve spotted the launchers and they’d be compromised. They had a special training building where a Scud launcher could raise the missile, but they had no way to move the huge things out of the base.)
1907
1908Installing the actual nuclear warheads on Scuds was part of the exercise, and the batteries were even ordered to arm them. At that moment they were standing next to an SRBM ready to launch with a 150 kT warhead. The lieutenant in charge could’ve simply pressed the button and nuked something in Iran or Turkey. Only his sanity and conscience held him back. And this was not the only launcher, they deployed at least a few dozens. Even worse, if one of the conscripted soldiers turned out to be a Muslim extremist, he could’ve easily overpowered the officers, hijacked the rig and launched the missile himself.
1909
1910Fortunately it didn’t happen. But here is another story, also from the Hungarian army. It happened at the air defense brigade of Győr, armed with SA-2 SAMs (S-74 Dvina), also in the 1980s. They are not nuclear, but still pretty dangerous. They also practiced with live missiles sometimes. The vehicle had a simulation mode in which they could track an aircraft and imitate a launch. But sometimes they actually armed the missiles, just didn’t fire it. At one such occasion a drunk officer approached the command vehicle. Drinking was a serious problem in the Hungarian People’s Army, that’s one thing we successfully adapted from Soviet military culture. The guy wandered around a bit, then attempted to press the launch button. Luckily the battery commander was quick and pushed him away. The guy was severely reprimanded, of course.
19114.2k Views · 7 Upvotes
1912In WW2, was Operation Bagration in a way deliberately set on June 22, 1944 as symbolic revenge for Operation Barbarossa?
1913Efrajim Canuck
1914Efrajim Canuck
1915Answered Nov 30
1916
1917Yes. However it was not a primary intent. Campaigns are launched when all resources, ie. manpower, supplies, ammunition, fuel, etc. all available. If that coincides with an important date, the better.
19184 Views · 1 Upvote
1919If North Korea hypothetically launched a nuclear attack against the U.S. mainland, would Russia attempt to shoot the missile down?
1920Efrajim Canuck
1921Efrajim Canuck
1922Answered Nov 30
1923
1924Take a look at the map and you’ll get the answer.
1925
1926Also, Russia doesn’t really have any effective anti-ICBM systems.
19272 Views · Answer requested by Wilson Garfield
1928Are there enough nukes to cause an Armageddon?
1929Efrajim Canuck
1930Efrajim Canuck
1931Answered Nov 30
1932
1933Armageddon is a location in Palestine, correctly latinized as Har Megiddon. According to the Bible, it is going to be the location of an epic battle to end history. We can only hope that it’s not a prophecy about Israel’s nuclear weapons.
193425 Views · Answer requested by Onajite Onwah
1935If North Korea fired a nuclear missile over central USA to explode as an EMP weapon, what damage would it do to the infrastructure?
1936Efrajim Canuck
1937Efrajim Canuck
1938Answered Nov 30
1939
1940Theirs or US?
1941
1942Depending on the yield of the warhead, it would knock out every unshielded electronic device in a range of approximately 1000–1500 kilometers. And that’s a lot! If it went off over Nebraska, most of the continental US, plus the best of Canada and the northern areas of Mexico would feel it. The east and west coast would probably be OK, save for indirect consequences.
1943
1944But imagine if everything stopped. No cars, no phones, no electricity, nothing. Hospitals, factories, everything suddenly stopped. There’d be a lot of fires. The damage would be unprecedented in modern history.
1945
1946Within half an hour North Korea would cease to exist. Another hour later the South Korean army would proudly occupy the Pyongyang Crater. Five survivors would greet the liberators.
1947
1948The good thing is that libertarians wouldn’t be able to screech at Trump “starting a war” because the net would be down. Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Google, all gone.
1949242 Views · 1 Upvote
1950When should you use a semi-colon in writing?
1951Efrajim Canuck
1952Efrajim Canuck
1953Answered Nov 30
1954
1955According to Kurt Vonnegut, never.
1956
1957“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
19582 Views
1959What would happen if our sun went supernova?
1960Efrajim Canuck
1961Efrajim Canuck
1962Answered Nov 29
1963Originally Answered: What happens if the sun goes supernova?
1964
1965The Sun will not go supernova because it’s too small. It may go nova though, but only after it grew into a red giant. At this point Earth would be most likely already gone, maybe even Mars. Even at that point it’s not certain whether it will blow up. It may just deflate and become a brown dwarf star.
19663 Views
1967What is your one liner life motto?
1968Efrajim Canuck
1969Efrajim Canuck
1970Answered Nov 29
1971
1972“Fuck this, I am going home.”
19731 View
1974Does North Korea have any way of knowing that they won’t hit something, like a satellite or the ISS in space, when they test their missiles?
1975Efrajim Canuck
1976Efrajim Canuck
1977Answered Nov 29
1978
1979The chance is around the same as shooting into the air and hitting another bullet which was also randomly fired upwards at the same moment. It can happen, but the chances are negligible.
19802 Views
1981Will Donald Trump attack North Korea militarily as President?
1982Efrajim Canuck
1983Efrajim Canuck
1984Answered Nov 29
1985
1986I just pictured how it would look like if Trump attacked North Korea.
1987
1988On a foggy, chilly morning in the demilitarized zone…
1989
1990“Hey Pak, someone is approaching the line! He is running towards us.”
1991
1992*looks into the binoculars*
1993
1994“He seems to be alone. And… he’s wearing a suit?”
1995
1996“He may be a defector.”
1997
1998“Don’t be silly, they never defect to us, it’s the other way around!”
1999
2000“Yeah but I mean… Shit, he’s shooting at us!”
2001
2002“Sound the alarm! We are under attack! General quarters, a lone idiot is running towards us from the South with a rifle!”
2003
2004*BOOM!*
2005
2006“Never mind, general quarters, he just stepped on a landmine.”
2007
2008“Hey look, there’s a bloody toupee on that tree. LOL!”
2009
2010“Refrain from using confusing abbreviations from the mind-poisoning network of imperialist computers, private!”
201125 Views
2012Are we able to shoot down missles from North Korea?
2013Efrajim Canuck
2014Efrajim Canuck
2015Answered Nov 29
2016
2017Oh yes, certainly. A mission, also known as an embassy, is usually just a single building. It rarely has any defense other than maybe a guy with a handgun at the gate, and it shall be no problem for a Mark 83 laser-guided bomb. However, since North Korean missions are not on US soil, it may cause serious diplomatic tensions between the host nations and the US.
20182 Views
2019Would a nuclear war erase student debt?
2020Efrajim Canuck
2021Efrajim Canuck
2022Answered Nov 29
2023
2024No. It may erase students, but not debt. Have you ever seen a bank letting a debtor go? Only if he goes up in smoke. Standing close to nuke can help though.
20251 View · Answer requested by CJ Aqua
2026Now that North Korea can hit the East Coast of the United States, will Trump admit he failed as a leader?
2027Efrajim Canuck
2028Efrajim Canuck
2029Answered Nov 29
2030
2031Has Roosevelt or Truman failed as a leader when the Soviet Union has stolen the atomic secrets and built its own bomb?
2032
2033Has Kennedy failed as a leader when the Soviets planted missiles in Cuba?
2034
2035Has GWB failed as a leader because of 9/11?
2036
2037You are yet another dreamer who wishes the world would work according to his/her expectations. Trump has not failed as a leader. He is still President of the US (get over it) and I am sure he does everything he can to ensure your well-being. You may not understand or agree with everything he does, but it’s not up to you to do against it. Stop looking for sympathy online.
203822 Views
2039What would have happened if the Soviet Union continued to invaded Europe at the end of WW2?
2040Efrajim Canuck
2041Efrajim Canuck
2042Answered Nov 29
2043
2044They would’ve defeated the Western Allies. Most likely they would’ve also gotten a nuke or two on their head at some point, but it’s doubtful if Stalin cared. They could’ve easily taken West Germany, the Low Countries, France, Italy, perhaps even Spain and Portugal. All of these nations were exhausted in a long war and didn’t have the means to stop another invasion.
2045
2046However it would’ve been a pyrrhic victory. All they the gains would be a devastated Europe, with two or three radioactive craters. The Soviet economy could hardly sustain the rebuilding effort, as they already had trouble supporting the army. Without American lend-lease help, the Soviets couldn’t have stopped the Germans. They’d be a broken down empire stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and their economy soon totally collapsed.
2047
2048And even that victory wouldn’t have been very easy. As powerful the Red Army was, they didn’t have decent air power. They lacked heavy bombers and their best fighter was arguably the Yak-9. Without air superiority their tank armies would’ve been vulnerable. I’d still think they would’ve won, but not very easily.
204936 Views
2050Why is an airbridge not used for POTUS when he flies Air Force One? Stairs are difficult for some older folks and Trump appears to grimace coming down the stairs.
2051Efrajim Canuck
2052Efrajim Canuck
2053Answered Nov 29
2054
2055Good thing the Air Force One didn’t exist in Roosevelt’s time, right?
20561 View
2057If there was a war between the US and another “sane and stable” world power like Russia or China, do you think nuclear weapons would be involved or do you think both sides would understand that they are only to be used as a last resort?
2058Efrajim Canuck
2059Efrajim Canuck
2060Answered Nov 29
2061
2062This was understood even in the Cold War. Surprising it may be, but even seemingly unpredictable and careless leaders proved to be quite sane when it came to nuclear weapons.
2063
2064For instance in the late 1970s the Soviets have learned about the locations of the nuclear mines along the West German border from the so-called Conrad spy ring. These were literally pits in the ground into which a bomb would’ve been placed, and detonated when the Soviet tank troops approached the area. The resulting radioactive fallout would’ve devastated half of Europe, posing a hardly surmountable barrier for Warsaw Pact troops. The delay would’ve allowed NATO reinforcements to be shipped in from America. By knowing about the locations of these specially prepared sites, the Soviets could’ve seized them before NATO prepared its defense and overran Western Europe.
2065
2066Despite the information offered considerable chance for an attack, Brezhnev and the Politburo decided not to take the advantage. They all knew that even if they won, there’d be terrible consequences.
2067
2068Nowadays there is no danger of a major conflict anywhere. Local wars may occur, but certainly none of them would be intense enough to warrant the use of nukes. North Korea is actually pretty safe even without them, they only need the bomb for absolute surety. If there will ever be a war, it’d be over some remote area, for example a local conflict between Russian and US troops in Syria or a Chinese-American naval skirmish around the Spratly Islands, not worth of starting a nuclear war.
206933 Views · Answer requested by Jack Ruotolo
2070If you are stuck in a tunnel with an incoming train, how safe would it actually be to slide up against the wall?
2071Efrajim Canuck
2072Efrajim Canuck
2073Answered Nov 28
2074
2075There is a lesser known safety feature on most trains exactly for such situations. If you lie down between the rails and keep low, the train will pass over you. Provided that the cars are properly connected and there are no dangling chains or other objects which would hit you, you’ll survive without a scratch. Change pants though.
20762 Views
2077What are some of the most memorable things your drill sergeant ever said?
2078Efrajim Canuck
2079Efrajim Canuck
2080Answered Nov 28
2081
2082Some Hungarian army memories:
2083
2084A classic. Soldier laughing in the row. The sergeant orders him to step forward. “Spit out the clown! Spit it out now!” He must spit on the floor. “Now crush it!” He has to step on it. “Crush it, I want to hear it scream!” He has to smear the spit until his boots are squeaking on the floor. Pretty much impossible outside of a building.
2085
2086“If the soldier is told to paint the sky, he doesn’t ask how, but to what color!”
2087
2088When there is a rush: “Hands come up, feet spin, faint smell of burnt rubber!”
2089
2090Washing up the corridor, a soldier spills the water bucket: “Are you planning to breed fish?!”
2091
2092“Who loves music?” A few soldiers step forward. “You come with me, we’ll move the piano in the library.”
2093
2094In the last years of conscription there were different service categories based on health conditions. A perfectly able soldier was Class A, one with a slight disability, like myopia or color blindness Class B, and so on, down to D, which was pretty much everybody (I actually had a corporal who had a limp!) and Class E, which was unfit for service. I don’t know who came up with this idiocy, but the sergeants had little care for these categories, they just expected every soldier to perform equally.
2095
2096One day a soldier walks up to the sergeant and tells that he can’t do some physically demanding exercise. The sergeant asks why.
2097
2098“Because I was born with an open vertebra.”
2099
2100“So what? How do you think I take a shit? Go and do it!!”
21013 Views
2102If all the gold decorating Donald Trump's Trump Tower penthouse (solid, goldfill, plate, leaf and real gold paint) were gathered together and purified, how much bullion would it yield?
2103Efrajim Canuck
2104Efrajim Canuck
2105Answered Nov 28
2106
2107Possibly not much. Gold can be smithed into insanely thin foil, which is also called “gold smoke”. The thickness is usually 0.0001 mm, or 1 micron. In case you’re bad at math, this means that you can stack 10,000 sheets of gold smoke to make one millimeter.
2108
2109I can’t tell about the Trump Tower, but here is the St. Stephen Cathedral of Budapest, for instance:
2110
2111Do you see the gold on the roof? Look at the crosses and the rims under them. They are covered with “gold smoke”. It took 250,000 sheets of them. One sheet is about 8x8 centimeters. That’s a lot of gold, right? Nope - it’s just a few grams. Gold stretches very well, better than any other metal.
2112
2113My late father was a precious metals expert. He told me that once it was held that a single gold bullion is enough to wrap a horseman into gold.
21142 Views
2115If every domesticated cat in the world drank from Lake Erie, how long would it take to empty the lake completely?
2116Efrajim Canuck
2117Efrajim Canuck
2118Answered Nov 28
2119
2120It is said that there are about 600 million cats in the world. However this includes feral cats which are taxonomically identical to the domestic cat, but they aren’t domesticated any more. But let’s include them.
2121
2122Cats don’t drink much. They are pretty sturdy little beasts and can survive without any water for days, or even on seawater. It is suggested that a cat should have about 2–4 ounces of water a day, which is about 60–120 milliliters. That’s not very much, barely more than a shot glass. That’s their daily intake, so let’s say a cat will drink about 20–30 milliliters at once.
2123
2124That makes 18,000,000 liters of water or 18,000 cubic meters. Not very much.
2125
2126Lake Erie’s water volume is 480 cubic kilometers, which is 480,000,000,000 cubic meters.
2127
2128Which means the cats would drink 0.00000375% of Lake Erie. In other words, you wouldn’t see much on the lake.
2129
2130However, a congregation of 600 million cats would be a grave environmental disaster. The hungry little beasts would devastate wildlife in the entire northern United States. Millions of them would die from starvation and other reasons later. But they’d also breed a plethora of kittens. Most likely it’d be the gravest environmental issue in modern history, to which Chernobyl or the Deepwater Horizon spill would be a happy little mistake. The US agriculture would suffer a lot, food prices would probably skyrocket, and there’d be long-lasting economic consequences.
2131
2132On the other hand, Australia could finally be rid of the same problem.
2133103 Views
2134What made your military career unexpectedly short?
2135Efrajim Canuck
2136Efrajim Canuck
2137Answered Nov 27
2138
2139The general state of the Hungarian army.
2140
2141I was always fascinated by the military and pursued a career in the army. In 1997, at age 21 I received my draft note. At that time I just finished college and received my grade as a programmer and I was planning to go to a military academy, but then I thought: why not! I will spend 9 months as a simple grunt, will see the army from the inside, then I’ll have extra points for the academy, and then get a rank immediately as I join.
2142
2143So I went there and served an awful 9 months in a run-down, worth of nothing wreck of an army. Most of our equipment was museum grade Cold War vintage. We didn’t even have a proper PC for the battalion office, there was only one on regiment level. The officers and NCOs were OK, some of them were well trained and experienced soldiers. But all of them laughed when I told them that I want to go to military school. “What, with a college grade and language proficiencies? You’d better go to some large company and become a department manager. This is not an army, this is a joke, and there’s no future for anyone here!”
2144
21459 months later I returned my uniform, went home, and I am a civilian ever since. The army is not much better even today. At least they abolished draft in 2001.
214666 Views · 1 Upvote
2147What bombs would be used if a nuclear war broke lose? Would the 100 MT TSAR be deployed?
2148Efrajim Canuck
2149Efrajim Canuck
2150Answered Nov 27
2151
2152Thanks to the news shows in American media (CNN, I am looking at you) there are a lot of such questions on Quora recently. “Will there be a nuclear war?” “How close are we to a nuclear war?” “Will Kim Jong-un launch the missiles?” And so on.
2153
2154No, dear super-scared millennials, there will be NO nuclear war, and that is as certain as death and taxes. Stop whining around anyway. We, X-gens lived our childhood under the very real threat of a global nuclear war, when two superpowers stood toe to toe in one big Mexican standoff, and we still didn’t whine. Well, there was no Quora yet either.
2155
2156That’s one reason. The other is that the Tsar bomba was an experimental weapon in the 1960s, and not a real weapon today. Even back then it was militarily unfeasible. The Soviets couldn’t have actually used it in war because it was too big, both in its dimensions and explosive power. If a war somehow broke out between Russia and the US today, it’s 100% certain that they wouldn’t use the Tsar. There are no operational Tsar Bombas anyway, only an inert piece in a museum, and the 100 MT version was never even built.
215713 Views
2158What are you tired of explaining to people?
2159Efrajim Canuck
2160Efrajim Canuck
2161Answered Nov 27
2162
2163Hitler was not Jewish.
2164
2165Eva Braun also wasn’t Jewish.
2166
2167Hitler didn’t have just one ball.
2168
2169Human soaps, hair-filled mattresses and lampshades were wartime propaganda.
2170
2171Admiral Miklós Horthy was not a Nazi, but the contrary, he hated Nazis.
2172
2173Communism doesn’t work.
2174
2175Socialism neither.
2176
2177Antifa are violent criminals, even worse than Neo-Nazis.
2178
2179Gay marriage is pointless.
2180
2181There are two genders.
21822 Views
2183Does Donald Trump really understand the extent of rejection towards him by his own people and the world? How could this affect his personality and presidency?
2184Efrajim Canuck
2185Efrajim Canuck
2186Answered Nov 27
2187
2188Tell me just one politician who was universally loved. Or just any famous person. You can’t!
2189
2190The rejection towards Trump is not as big as you wish it was. Certainly some celebrities are having a contest in condemning him, but he still won the elections. Now you can argue about the exact number of popular votes, but he still won, which means a lot of people supported him.
2191
2192Trump is President, and he doesn’t care. Deal with it.
219330 Views
2194What would happen if a sharp foreign object, like glass or a small blade, went down the trachea tube, if swallowed accidentally?
2195Efrajim Canuck
2196Efrajim Canuck
2197Answered Nov 25
2198
2199The patient would most likely die from bleeding out or drowning in his own blood. This is a common method of suicide, mostly in prisons where they don’t have large sharp objects. They fix a razor blade to a toothbrush and push it down their throats. One less mentally unstable criminal to care about.
220021 Views
2201What is something sexual you never followed through on, but wish you had?
2202Efrajim Canuck
2203Efrajim Canuck
2204Answered Nov 24
2205
2206Once, about 15 years ago, I took a train from Munich to Budapest. I chose a very Eastern European way: instead of buying a ticket for around 120 Euros, I approached the conductor (he was also Hungarian) and offered him 50 Euros. It worked, and he gave me a sleeping cabin which was not reserved.
2207
2208I have just arranged my stuff when a supercute girl stepped in. She had the other bunk, just in front of me. She was also Hungarian, and there was instant chemistry. We started chatting as soon as the train rolled out, and it was pretty obvious what is going to happen as soon as we leave Munich. I told her how I was travelling, and I guess she was into bad boys. (Man, I’m ganxsta.)
2209
2210Unfortunately there was another stop, and a fat, old, heavily sweating German man squeezed himself into our cabin. He stayed with us until Budapest. We spent the rest of the trip sitting on our bunks, staring at each other with a resigned face.
2211
2212To this day I regret not taking that girl’s number. Perhaps she has the same thought sometimes.
22132 Views
2214Have you ever seen a person die?
2215Efrajim Canuck
2216Efrajim Canuck
2217Answered Nov 24
2218
2219Yes. Last year my father passed away, and I was sitting at his deathbed. He was sleeping, snoring, but not in a normal way. He had terminal cancer. And suddenly he just stopped snoring. My sister said: “I think… it happened.” And it really did. There was nothing spectacular about how my father died.
2220
2221I was perhaps 14 when I saw a man dying in an accident. There is a subway station in Budapest (Árpád híd) where a passage goes under the platforms. Pedestrians can descend on a stairway, then after a few meters ascend to the other side.
2222
2223I was walking down when I saw an old man coming down from the other side, clumsily holding on to the handle rail. A moment later he slipped, let go of the rail and fell down head first. He smashed the back of his head against the edge of the stairs. Blood splattered everywhere, like in some horror movie, and he slid down to the bottom of the stairs, motionless. His eyes stayed open, staring into nothingness. His jaw twisted a few times, like he tried to say something, and then stopped moving.
2224
2225I somehow hasn’t felt anything. Maybe I am a psycho or something. Many people would have nightmares for the rest of his life from such a sight. I simply passed by the guy without breaking my pace, and ran up the stairs, went to a payphone, and called an ambulance, describing what happened and where. (There were no cellphones yet.) Then I went back to the guy, but I don’t even know why. I was certain he was dead. I couldn’t even help him. I once read a first aid manual which said never to move a person with a skull injury. I just wanted to see what happens next.
2226
2227Of course nothing very surprising happened. The paramedics came, examined the guy, then pronounced him dead on the spot. A casket was brought and he was carried away. The blood was covered with some sand. All of it hasn’t taken more than ten minutes.
2228
2229To this day I don’t know why I haven’t felt anything. No pity, no scare, no disgust, nothing. I was going after my business, then this guy died in front of me. It came absolutely naturally to go and call an ambulance, because I knew that’s the right thing to do. When I went back, there were a lot of bystanders. A woman was already crying, adult men were staring in utter shock. I announced that I have already called an ambulance, so nobody will call another one. As it turned out, nobody even thought of it.
2230
2231I was so indifferent about this event that I haven’t even told about it to my parents. I simply forgot about it.
2232
2233Years have passed, and I’ve seen a few more dead bodies and accidents, but they never stirred me up. Something may be wrong with me.
22347 Views
2235Which planets would not experience a solar eclipse?
2236Efrajim Canuck
2237Efrajim Canuck
2238Answered Nov 24
2239
2240Most of them wouldn’t. It’s a rare coincidence that we do. The Earth, the Moon and the Sun are in the exact perfect distance for that.
22412 Views
2242Where are the best Black Friday Deals online?
2243Efrajim Canuck
2244Efrajim Canuck
2245Answered Nov 24
2246
2247For me it was Udemy.com this year. It is a training site offering great online courses. For Black Friday most of these courses were offered for $ 10. Some are very valuable ones. I bought some $ 1000 worth of education for only $ 60.
22483 Views
2249How has your life views change with time?
2250Efrajim Canuck
2251Efrajim Canuck
2252Answered Nov 24
2253
2254Redpilling. Please look up what it means because if I described it, I’d be banned from Quora.
22552 Views
2256Suppose Earth has no atmosphere. An object in space, without initial speed, starts to fall to Earth because of Earth's gravity. Does the Earth's self rotation affect the object's orbit? What will be the object's orbit?
2257Efrajim Canuck
2258Efrajim Canuck
2259Answered Nov 24
2260
2261Atmosphere has little to do with objects in orbit. Although air still has some drag even up there, it’s negligible. What will happen to that object depends how high has it been released and how heavy is it.
22624 Views · Answer requested by John Giouroukis
2263What is the weirdest thing you ever saw accidentally through a home window?
2264Efrajim Canuck
2265Efrajim Canuck
2266Answered Nov 24
2267
2268I think I was the weirdest thing someone saw through a home window.
2269
2270Years ago my girlfriend suggested that we should go to her parents’ house for a few days. They were kind of rich folks and owned several real estates. This one was outside of the city, a fairly large house, but nobody lived in it. Ideal getaway place for young lovers.
2271
2272One morning, quite early, at around 5 AM, after a literally lovely night, I went to the kitchen for some water, total butt naked. The kitchen had a glass wall to the garden. As I picked up the glass and turned around, suddenly I spotted an old woman standing on the porch, staring at me completely bamboozled, like it was her house and I weren’t supposed to be there.
2273
2274Well, she has already seen what is to be seen, so I walked to the glass door, opened it, and asked her what the fuck is she doing here, because last time I checked, this is private property, and there is a tall fence with a gate. Yes, I just stood there in full monty, and politely inquired about the reason of her visit at this early hour.
2275
2276“Um, eh… so just… I thought someone… that someone is here.”
2277
2278“Yeah, someone is here. It’s us. Have you satisfied your curiosity? Then please leave.”
2279
2280She walked away with a shocked face, and I never saw her again. My girlfriend later told that she was always an annoying bitch, she always thought of herself of some local security force and always spied after people.
2281822 Views · 6 Upvotes
2282What were your family members’ experiences in WWII that you can tell us?
2283Efrajim Canuck
2284Efrajim Canuck
2285Updated Nov 25
2286
2287My grandfather was a bit old for conscription in WW2. He was born in 1904 and he just turned 40 when the Soviets reached Hungary and a total mobilization was called. He was exempt of military service not only because he was too old, but he was also the head engineer of a mine in Szanda, and his skills were deemed crucial to the war effort.
2288
2289My father was born in 1937, his brother 1935. He told me how he saw the war as a kid. He remembered a dogfight over their village, and a German fighter which was shot down. The pilot bailed out and landed on a plowfield. The local women rushed to his help, his head was bleeding. He remembered another German plane which ran out of fuel and landed on the highway near the village. Later I looked up the incident, and it was actually not a German but a Hungarian plane, a Messerschmitt Bf-109. He also told how the village was bombed, he doesn’t know by whom, but probably it was the Soviets. The Germans turned the local fire brigade’s storage building into an ammunition dump. An incendiary bomb fell right on the building, but luckily it didn’t go off. It would’ve wiped out the village if it did. He remembered that some oily liquid oozed from the bomb which stuck to everything. It was probably napalm, or something similar (the Soviets didn’t have napalm at the time).
2290
2291My grandfather used his position to save some Jews. He disguised them as miners and hid them down in the mine shafts. The Arrowcross Nazis were looking for them, but everybody just shrugged their shoulders or sent them to the wrong direction. When they figured out that they are hiding in the mine, they were reluctant to go down, as they could easily be trapped. Nobody liked the Jews, but they didn’t want them to die, and everybody hated the Arrowcross Nazis.
2292
2293When the Soviets arrived, they pillaged the village. Some soldiers entered my grandparents’ house too, and they took everything valuable. During their perquisition they found an old photo of my grandfather, in his gendarmery uniform. He was a gendarmer until 1936. This was the photo.
2294
2295They immediately dragged him outside to execute him, in front of his family. My grandmother started crying and begged them in Serbian to let him go. (She was from the area today called Voivodina, and she learned Serbian at school.) Suddenly an air raid siren was sounded. The Russians ran to take cover, and my gramps ran to the opposite direction. He ran into a cornfield, and they couldn’t catch him. He hid there for days, eating raw corn. Once he was wandering around and bumped into a Soviet anti-aircraft battery. The Russians were scared, ran away and left the gun behind. They weren’t really brave soldiers.
2296
2297The Germans, on the other hand, as my father remembered, were daredevils. The Soviets were already occupying the village, they’ve been there for a day or so. Suddenly a German Kübelwagen car drove into the main street, and the German soldiers opened fire at the Soviets with machine guns, quite like the gangsters in Chicago. They mowed down half a dozen of them and drove away unharmed.
2298
2299The Russians were more interested in stealing and pillaging. They particularly liked watches. “Davay chasy” (Quick, your watch) was a Russian term every Hungarian learned in those days. It tells a lot about their ways how some Russian words gained currency in Hungarian language. For example the word “zabrálni” means specifically when soldiers are pillaging civilians after a battle. It comes from the Russian word “zabraty”, to rob. There is also a Hungarian idiom which reflects these days. When a Hungarian sees an awfully large crowd or queue, he’d say: “There are as many as the Russians there.”
2300
2301Most Russians were also very primitive and uneducated. Many of them couldn’t even read. According to my father, there was a limp watchmaker in the village. Of course the soldiers robbed him and took everything from his workshop. One Russki later went to him with an alarm clock. He gave him the clock and started explaining something in Russian, which the watchmaker didn’t understand. Somehow they found a translator, and it turned out that the soldier wanted him to take the alarm clock apart and build ten watches from it!
2302
2303When he explained that it’s not possible, the Russki got angry, threw the alarm clock into his rucksack and left. But as he stepped out to the street, the clock went off in the sack and started ringing. He freaked out, probably thought that it’s a bomb, threw the rucksack into the middle of the street and shot it to pieces with a long burst from his submachine gun.
23045.1k Views · 35 Upvotes
2305Why is total war considered a new phenomenon? How can it be that total wars with full mobilization of a society were not common in pre-modern times when war was the norm?
2306Efrajim Canuck
2307Efrajim Canuck
2308Answered Nov 24
2309
2310War was never the norm for any normal society. The only exceptions are those which had so effective power projection that they could keep wars outside of their borders. Good examples are the Mongol Empire, the Roman Empire, the British Empire and the United States.
2311
2312It’s a common misconception that society in the Middle Ages was ignorant, violent and dangerous. No, it wasn’t, at least not more than today. We weren’t here if our ancestors were slaughtering each other all the time. True, there were some nasty wars, but today we have more, and they are also more destructive. The perception that the Middle Ages was one big and constant armed conflict is based on the Hundred Years War, which was a major event for many generations in France and England. At the same time the rest of the medieval world was fine. Wars weren’t more common than today.
2313
2314Full mobilization, however did exist, but it wasn’t called that. Take, for example, the Mongol invasion of Hungary. The king mobilized its army, which meant, to use an English term, to call the banners. All the aristocracy called their peasants to arms, and they all marched to meet the enemy on the battlefield. (It didn’t end too well for us.) Mobilization was pretty much total. However the very term “mobilization” and the idea of organizing society to serve the armed forces’ short term interests was only born after the French Revolution, which was also when the modern organized and secular state was invented.
231571 Views · 1 Upvote
2316Has America been rendered irrelevant and isolated in the Age of Trump? If so, will America recover from this and regain international prominence? How long would it take to get back to where it was just a year ago when Obama was President?
2317Efrajim Canuck
2318Efrajim Canuck
2319Answered Nov 24
2320
2321Not at all. America is still the world’s most powerful superpower, and it hasn’t lost any of its prominence. It still has the same strong economy, fearsome armed forces and global influence.
2322
2323What are you missing? Just because you and your lefty friends feel bad, the world is still going around.
232420 Views · 3 Upvotes
2325What would happen if the U.S.A destroyed North Korea?
2326Efrajim Canuck
2327Efrajim Canuck
2328Answered Nov 24
2329
2330Depends how do you mean “destroyed”. If you mean meticulous and ruthless annihilation with nuclear weapons, that would be most likely viewed as the most horrible war crime ever. The leftists would immediately tear Donald Trump into little pieces and try each of them separately as a war criminal. In the forthcoming decades there’d be a confusion because the condemnation of this act would be huge, but it shouldn’t eclipse the Jewish Holocaust in popular culture for various reasons, so the lefties would be screaming at each other for a few generations.
2331
2332Other than that it’d be a vicious disaster both on the human and environmental scale. According to Alex Wellerstein’s lovely Nukemap, a ground blast of a 9 MT warhead in Pyongyang would instantly kill more than 2 million Koreans, and the fallout would blanket most of North Korea, but the cloud may even reach Vladivostok. This is actually the most militarily reasonable way to do the job, because it would turn North Korea into a radioactive wasteland with one single bomb.
2333
2334But let’s assume the US and South Korea invaded the North and won. Most likely it’d be a very, very costly war, even worse than the invasion of Iraq. The result? Most likely the same. The North Koreans are a brainwashed, fanatic lot, and while obviously not all of them are into dying for the Great Leader, a significant portion of the population would gladly become a martyr. Don’t forget that since the 1950s they are preparing for the big day when the hooked nosed Americans finally arrive and start burning their villages. They are training for this from kindergarten, and Islamic fanatics are naughty leprechauns compared to their dedication. Most likely some serious guerrilla resistance would ensue, with a very deadly standoff between US troops and Koreans hiding in the vast mountains. Don’t forget that there are no such mountains in Iraq, yet ultimately they still kicked the US forces’ ass.
2335
2336Even if the world would just accept the fact that the US has taken the Hermit Kingdom - which is unlikely - it wouldn’t be a victory on the long run. The Iraq invasion almost broke America’s back. North Korea will be way worse, and the US would never be the same again. It may cost so much that America may lose its superpower status, or life standards may seriously deteriorate for the average American.
233746 Views
2338How can you tell if a soldier is fake?
2339Efrajim Canuck
2340Efrajim Canuck
2341Answered Nov 23
2342
2343Why, it’s pretty easy, you just have to look.
23443 Views
2345If you had to kill someone, where would you bury/hide the body?
2346Efrajim Canuck
2347Efrajim Canuck
2348Answered Nov 23
2349
2350In a forest, under a carpet of leaves, in a shadowy, but not entirely dark spot. I wouldn’t bury it, just cover it with leaves, and I’d smear a little honey on the face and the hands. Insects are going to start eating it right away, and in a few days most of it would be gone and it’d be hardly recognizable. In two weeks or more it’d be difficult to identify it.
23513 Views
2352If Russia has the Topol-M, would the US copy his design using info from the missile?
2353Efrajim Canuck
2354Efrajim Canuck
2355Answered Nov 23
2356
2357Not likely. Every nation which builds its own weapons designs them to fit into their national military doctrines. This doesn’t mean that a certain weapon won’t work in another army, but it may not be perfect. Even the simplest weapons are heavily modified when adapted. Just think of the AK-47. Every nation which use it have developed a zillion different versions. It’s still largely a hunk of metal pumping out 7.62 mm slugs, but there is a large difference between a Russian, a Chinese, a Hungarian or a Serbian model.
2358
2359The Topol-M was designed for the Russian (Soviet) army’s needs and capabilities, the Russian terrain and climate, and so on. It fits into a tightly controlled command and control chain, with prescribed standard routines and operations. If the US copied it, they would have to redesign it from the bottom to the top to fit it into some niche in their strategy.
2360
2361However it’s doubtful if the US even needed something like the Topol. The American industry could probably quite easily produce its own mobile missile system on par with it. They just don’t need it. The US has a large missile sub fleet which can show up anywhere in the world and launch a missile salvo, which is a formidable deterrent against any possible adversary. The Russians also have such subs, but they don’t have enough, and also don’t have the budget to maintain a large fleet, so they opted for cheaper land-based mobile launchers. Their task is exactly the same as the US sub fleet’s: to hide and be a luring threat. Except they don’t hide under the waves but in the vast forests of Russia.
236283 Views
2363If the Earth is flat then why do we have a horizon and not a curvature?
2364Efrajim Canuck
2365Efrajim Canuck
2366Answered Nov 23
2367
2368It’s not flat. Next silly question please!
23695 Views
2370Civilians in Zimbabwe could own hand guns and semi-automatic weapons, so why didn't they overthrow Mugabe?
2371Efrajim Canuck
2372Efrajim Canuck
2373Answered Nov 23
2374
2375Your cheeky loaded question can only be answered by stating the truth, which would result in immediate ban from Quora. But I’ll try to describe it without offending the snowflakes.
2376
2377The United States is built on stable laws and centuries of civilized traditions. For the Europeans who founded the USA it’s not normal to kill each other, unless there is a war. As you probably know, gun ownership was not allowed so they can break this tradition, but because there was little law enforcement on the frontiers. In some areas there’s still very little.
2378
2379Zimbabwe, however, never had any civilization. Weapons are tools of war there, crime is rampant, and the land is practically controlled by gangs. Even the authorities are criminals. Zimbabwe was built on tribal traditions, practically jungle laws, and they survived to the 21st century. The same goes for almost every African country.
2380
2381If you’re looking for a riddle, look no further than Serbia. They have the second most firearms per capita in the world, and they still don’t kill each other. (They sometimes invade their neighbors though.)
2382
2383Disclaimer: I am not even American.
238475 Views · 2 Upvotes
2385If outer space is never ending, where is Jesus?
2386Efrajim Canuck
2387Efrajim Canuck
2388Answered Nov 22
2389
2390Why, where is Pythagoras’ theorem? Where is Mozart’s symphony? Where is anything that is merely conceptual or abstract?
2391
2392There are many things which we can’t point a finger at, or measure with some smart scientific method, yet we all know it exists.
2393
2394Example: Do you love your mother? If yes, what is your proof?
239520 Views
2396How much longer before Donald Trump launches a nuclear strike against North Korea?
2397Efrajim Canuck
2398Efrajim Canuck
2399Answered Nov 22
2400
2401I can’t wait either.
2402
2403*puts out popcorn*
24042 Views
2405Is there such a thing as an elegant weapon for a civilized age?
2406Efrajim Canuck
2407Efrajim Canuck
2408Answered Nov 22
2409
2410Yes, a lightsaber.
2411
2412Weapons are neutral things. They are neither good or bad, elegant or dowdy: they are tools. Is a hammer or a bulldozer elegant? What makes them elegant is the way they are wielded, the purpose they are used for and the people who carry it.
2413
2414Is a WW2 German StG-44 more elegant than an AK-47 or an M-16?
241533 Views
2416Trudeau is Canada's Obama. Who will be their Trump?
2417Efrajim Canuck
2418Efrajim Canuck
2419Answered Nov 21
2420
2421Why do everybody assume that when a major character appears on the world stage, there ought to be exact clones of him or her in every single country, only smaller?
2422
2423Trudeau is not Obama, as he is also not Canada’s Fidel Castro, Robert Mugabe or Konrad Adenauer. He is Justin Trudeau. Politicians are not superheroes, and the world is not a comic book with mandatory tropes. Trudeau will have no Trump. Eventually someone will succeed him as a new PM, but not really a Canadian Trump.
2424
2425When Obama was elected, everybody in Hungary was going nuts about wanting a Gypsy Obama. It never happened. They thought just because the US has a black president, now colored minorities necessarily have to take over the world. They still don’t understand how it never happened. Because Obama won the election as a person, not as a minority, and not as a world-changing power.
242670 Views · 3 Upvotes
2427How does carrying a gun in church fit with Christian teachings?
2428Efrajim Canuck
2429Efrajim Canuck
2430Answered Nov 21
2431
2432This has nothing to do with Christian teachings. People have been going to churches carrying weapons all the time during history, and God’s fury never stroke any of them down. Merely carrying a weapon is not a sin, and there are people who are supposed to carry them, at all times. And there is a practical question too: should they leave them at the door? Are there gun lockers?
243340 Views
2434A bomb is in the Earth’s core, and it will explode in 5 minutes. What do you do?
2435Efrajim Canuck
2436Efrajim Canuck
2437Answered Nov 21
2438
2439Nothing. The Earth’s core is already a fizzling furnace of nuclear fission. Basically it’s a constantly exploding bomb. One more bomb, even as big as the Tsar Bomba, wouldn’t make much difference.
24405 Views
2441Does Jesus love Trump?
2442Efrajim Canuck
2443Efrajim Canuck
2444Answered Nov 21
2445
2446Jesus loves everyone. Unfortunately, this doesn’t prevent anyone from being a cunt.
24472 Views
2448Once there's no more fuel, how will we send a spacecraft off the planet?
2449Efrajim Canuck
2450Efrajim Canuck
2451Answered Nov 20
2452
2453Yet another dumb question strikes Quora. How do you drive your car without fuel? How do you shoot a rifle without ammo? You don’t. Guess what happens when a spacecraft has no fuel.
24543 Views
2455Would human beings, someday, have colonies in space?
2456Efrajim Canuck
2457Efrajim Canuck
2458Answered Nov 20
2459
2460We already have some. The International Space Station is one, and so was the Mir or the Spacelab. Some moon missions were also technically colonies, as they stayed for days, and the astronauts lived up there. However if you define a colony as a settlement for indefinite time, that leaves us with the ISS.
24615 Views
2462Do you approve of Donald Trump?
2463Efrajim Canuck
2464Efrajim Canuck
2465Answered Nov 20
2466
2467Hungarians mostly approve him. I mean the ones who care who is the US president. Those who do understand that Hillary would’ve caused a lot of tension in our region and danger to our country.
24682 Views
2469An object has a mass of 20kg on Earth. What will be its mass & weight on the surface of the Moon (g on Moon =1.6m/s²)?
2470Efrajim Canuck
2471Efrajim Canuck
2472Answered Nov 20
2473
2474The Moon’s gravity is 1/6 of ours, so it’s 20/6 = … sorry, I’m not that good at math.
24752 Views
2476Christians are notorious for numerous violent conflicts about fine points of religious dogma over the centuries (30 Years War?), but was it like that for the ancient Greek and Roman pagans? Did they have wars over religious disagreements?
2477Efrajim Canuck
2478Efrajim Canuck
2479Answered Nov 20
2480
2481For starters, atheist countries where church and state are separated have started more violent conflicts than any religious country ever. The United States alone started more wars than all of the Christian countries throughout their entire history. Perhaps you should revise your views on history.
2482
2483On the other hand, “religious” wars are never actually religious, just like democratic countries aren’t really bombing the shit out of others for the sake of human rights. Religion was just an excuse for politicians in the past, just like the common good of the plebs is often cited as one nowadays.
2484
2485When the Romans or the Greeks or anyone else went to war in ancient times, they often used religious differences as a reason to attack others. Any reason is good enough if the general population believes it and agrees to give its blood for said reason.
2486
2487Today millions are serving in the US armed forces and believe that they are protecting “freedom”. Nobody actually knows what this would mean, and how is it absolutely necessary to bomb half the world for it. Yet an average US serviceman will proudly go to battle for it, and when he returns without his limbs, he will be still proud to have sacrificed so much for “freedom”. Everybody else will be proud of him too.
2488
2489How much has your freedom increased since 2001? Thousands of lives were lost, I hope you feel some improvement.
2490
2491“Freedom”, “democracy”, “human rights” is the same kind of bullshit as “in God’s name” or “in the name of the people”. Such buzzwords have been around since humankind knows how to wage war.
249232 Views
2493Can the setting sun and the full moon appear in the same photo?
2494Efrajim Canuck
2495Efrajim Canuck
2496Answered Nov 20
2497
2498No, it can’t, unless it’s a special camera which can see two opposite horizons at the same time.
2499
2500At full moon the Earth is more or less between the Sun and the Moon. This is also why lunar eclipses only occur at full moon. This means that when the Sun is setting on the western horizon, the Moon will be just rising on the eastern.
25013 Views
2502Shouldn't only the UN have nuclear weapons, in order to prevent nuclear proliferation?
2503Efrajim Canuck
2504Efrajim Canuck
2505Answered Nov 20
2506
2507What “should be” and what “can be” are two different things. What “should be” is usually just wishful thinking.
2508
2509Anyway no, the UN shouldn’t exist on the first place. It’s one of the greatest lies in history.
25103 Views
2511If we find aliens, should we kill them?
2512Efrajim Canuck
2513Efrajim Canuck
2514Answered Nov 20
2515
2516Do you mean Mexicans?
2517
2518That’d be racist. They are people too.
25192 Views
2520Is it possible to get photo-like quality out of a telescope? In other words, could I see Jupiter or Saturn with absolute clarity?
2521Efrajim Canuck
2522Efrajim Canuck
2523Answered Nov 20
2524
2525No, because you’re looking at said celestial objects through the atmosphere which refracts light. You’ll always get a shaking, distorted image, particularly for distant objects like Jupiter or Saturn. It’s like looking through a layer of water at something on the bottom of a creek. This is why some major observatories are built on top of mountains, preferably far from cities to minimize light pollution, and this is why the Hubble Space Telescope is in space.
252643 Views
2527What do you think would happen to any American officer who refused a Presidential order to launch nuclear missiles (claiming that the order was 'illegal')?
2528http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/11/18/us-general-says-nuclear-launch-order-can-be-refused.html
2529Efrajim Canuck
2530Efrajim Canuck
2531Answered Nov 19
2532
2533Refusing a lawful order because he doesn’t agree with it is a criminal offense, plain and simple. Just because you don’t like the President, and you read it in the media that it’s trendy to hate him, doesn’t mean you can defy an order from the supreme commander.
25343 Views
2535What do mobile developers think of Ionic framework?
2536Efrajim Canuck
2537Efrajim Canuck
2538Answered Nov 19
2539
2540It’s a poorly written, half-baked solution. You’re going to waste a lot of time to figure out its peculiarities, and finally spend much more time on your project than if you just used native JavaScript and jQuery.
2541
2542Why? Because most of the native components are pre-alpha versions of some open source shit that a hobbist did in his free time, but abandoned it halfway. Crucial elements are not working, and they haven’t been fixed for several versions. The Ionic Team is busy pumping out victory reports on new releases, but they fail to maintain this pile of garbage and they drive developers nuts.
2543
2544Examples. Try creating an image list. You can, but it won’t scroll, because these smartasses replaced native scrolling with some JavaScript magic. Yeah, it’s way better now that it doesn’t fucking work! Oh yes, there is a solution, VirtualScroll - cool, a patch to fix the patch which screwed up the already working thing - but if you want to add images, you have to use the ion-img element, which is fucked up again, it just won’t display your images if you have more than 4 or 5.
2545
2546Or there is the PhotoViewer component. Oh nice, a component to display images in full screen, with share buttons and everything… except it only works with image files under 200 kilobytes! Otherwise it crashes the entire app. Good, so now you have to write your own component just to display images! Or dig into this talented young man’s code and fix the bug, if you dare.
2547
2548Have you created a tab-based app? Are you trying to hide the tab bar on certain pages? Good luck with that! No, you can’t, because the whole DOM will disappear with them.
2549
2550Are you trying to test on a phone? Good, Ionic comes with a test server and can update your app on the phone immediately. Except that a lot of functions don’t work in this mode, and after a few refreshes the entire app starts to behave erratically, throwing various errors and returning to previous versions arbitrarily.
2551
2552I seriously can’t recommend Ionic 3 to anyone. It’s a toy, for those who have too much time on their hands. It works great in the demos, but as soon as you try doing something serious, it blows up into your face.
2553118 Views · 1 Upvote
2554What would happen if Australia created nuclear weapons?
2555Efrajim Canuck
2556Efrajim Canuck
2557Answered Nov 19
2558
2559Do you mean if Australia have built the first nukes? “Created” allows this interpretation.
2560
2561It wouldn’t have been possible. Only the US could reasonably pull off something like the Manhattan Project. It needed enormous resources which no other nation had at the time, and also the political situation. The first bombs were mostly built from the uranium of Belgian Kongo, and without the Belgian government-in-exile’s cooperation even America wouldn’t have had the nukes until 1950 or so.
2562
2563But if we assume that the Aussies somehow managed to build a bomb, despite not even having a nuclear weapons program…
2564
2565“Oy matey, look what I got!”
2566
2567“Shit, Henry you cunt, ain’t that a big bomb!”
2568
2569“Hell yea, let’s drop it on ’em Japs!”
2570
2571(Fistfight ensues in celebration)
2572
2573Anyway Australia would probably have given the bombs to America because they lacked the means of delivery. History wouldn’t have changed a lot.
257448 Views
2575How do ex-felons defend themselves from felons if they cannot own a firearm?
2576Efrajim Canuck
2577Efrajim Canuck
2578Answered Nov 19
2579
2580The question sounds like if the US was a battle zone where you’re toast without a gun. This is far from the truth. Even cops rarely have to draw their firearms, and using it is an extreme occasion.
2581
2582An ex-felon should be just as fine without a gun as anyone else. Unless of course if his former gang is out to kill him. But in this case he may just move to another place, even another state where nobody knows him. However, if the said gang is a really serious one - like the Mafia or the Clintons - then it may still not be enough. But how many ex-felons are in such a situation?
25833 Views
2584What is the most powerful but legal weapon a human can build at home?
2585Efrajim Canuck
2586Efrajim Canuck
2587Answered Nov 18
2588
2589Probably a flamethrower and a trebuchet.
2590
2591I once built a trebuchet with my friends. It was made of steel beams, the counterweight was a pile of dumbbell discs, and it was capable of throwing a 70 dekagrams steel ball (a petanque ball) to 500 meters. It was already formidable, but if we upgraded it as we planned, to a drop-weight mechanism, it would’ve reached almost twice this range.
259251 Views · 2 Upvotes
2593Wouldn’t it be funny if a prominent lawyer became a prosecutor and ended up prosecuting Trump for his crimes? Wouldn’t it be funny if that lawyer was either Obama or Hillary?
2594Efrajim Canuck
2595Efrajim Canuck
2596Answered Nov 18
2597
2598The phrase you’re looking for is “satisfying”, not funny. Dream on.
25992 Views
2600Has Donald Trump's policies affected you personally in any way? And if so, how?
2601Efrajim Canuck
2602Efrajim Canuck
2603Answered Nov 18
2604
2605Yes. Probably my country hasn’t became a battleground again. If Clinton would’ve won, she would’ve planted missile defenses all around Hungary, and perhaps into Hungary as well. Russia probably wouldn’t have tolerated further pressure on her interests.
2606
2607Also it’s very likely that my country would be flooded with third world immigrants, just like Germany or Sweden, and we’d have the same suicidal brainwashing propaganda like Western countries, teaching young girls to breed with the aliens and destroy our 1000+ years old culture. Fortunately it’s not Clinton, so the “civil organizations” which try to turn our world upside down is “only” getting support from George Soros and his gang, not the US government itself. They don’t have the CIA to subvert our country, depose our government or apply sanctions if we don’t give up our culture and values.
2608
2609We in Eastern Europe are pretty happy with Mr. Trump. Less liberals, more chance for us.
261036 Views · 3 Upvotes
2611What would happen if an entire United States carrier battle group went rogue?
2612Efrajim Canuck
2613Efrajim Canuck
2614Answered Nov 18
2615
2616As others wrote before me, it’s an impossible situation which would require the whole command staff and most of the crew to go nuts. The large amount of people needed to maintain control of a CBG is the best safety measure. It’s just not going to happen. Not even with a single ship, like a destroyer in the escort.
2617
2618Assuming that it may happen after all, because, let’s say, a Bond-villain used a satellite-mounted mind control beam to get them attack Albania, there’d be little anyone could do. That’d be the largest and most dangerous pirate fleet ever. They would basically go wherever they want, and attack whoever they want, until they run out of crucial supplies.
2619
2620However not even a CBG is invincible. If the unthinkable happened, and the world had reliable evidence that they intend to do major trouble, most likely the US government would call on all the world powers to help stop them. Most likely they’d use nuclear weapons, perhaps ICBMs to take them out while they are sailing at remote waters. On the other hand, many countries would be making offers to the group commander to surrender the fleet for them. Russia, India perhaps China, but even North Korea would join this game. If the carrier commander isn’t an idiot, he’d only announce his intents after he pulled up into a port, to avoid being attacked. Then wait until the highest bidder sends its fleet to meet him and formally take over. The US would not nuke them any more if they are already flying another nation’s flag. Not even if it’s North Korea.
2621
2622This would be a race against the clock. The group will only remain operational until their supplies last. Morale would be quite an issue too, and at each port there’d be deserting sailors. When they arrived to port, the new owner would be up to a very difficult task both technically and financially, since maintaining a carrier isn’t a cheap thing. It would most likely exceed the abilities of most nations, perhaps only Russia, India or China could keep the whole group afloat.
2623
2624This is more likely than the group trying to attack something or someone, but if they did that, there’d be wanton destruction and nothing of military value achieved, because a carrier group can’t really occupy a country or do much on dry land. A few thousand Marines are enough to control a smaller city, but that’s all.
2625
2626To return to realities, there has actually been an occasion when a navy ship tried to defect and go to a foreign country. The Soviet frigate Storozhevoy attempted to leave the port of Riga and sail to Sweden in 1975. They barely got out of the port itself when they were already attacked, and finally they were stopped at the Baltic Sea by a joint effort of the Soviet air force, surface ships and a boarding party. The skipper, Valery Sablin was executed for treason, and every member of the ship’s crew received serious sentences. Even the sailor who escaped the ship to inform the KGB about his superiors’ plans was imprisoned. The novel and movie titled The Hunt for the Red October was loosely based on this story.
2627117 Views · Answer requested by Mason Henderson
2628What will be Hillary’s campaign slogan when she runs for president in 2020?
2629Efrajim Canuck
2630Efrajim Canuck
2631Answered Nov 17
2632
2633She will not survive till 2020.
26344 Views
2635If you had a giraffe that you needed to hide, where would you hide it?
2636Efrajim Canuck
2637Efrajim Canuck
2638Answered Nov 17
2639
2640That depends why do I have to hide it, from whom, for how long, and what methods will they use to find it. Is it to save the animal, or is it to save me and my family because it’s somehow evidence against us? In this case obviously the easiest way is to make it disappear, and that means to kill it and get rid of the parts.
2641
2642Let’s assume that I have to save the animal itself from the police for a few days. It’s also a question how badly are they looking for it. Is it an all-out nationwide search with regular announcements on TV, or just a few cops keeping their eyes peeled? Let’s say the latter.
2643
2644In this case I’d rent out the industrial warehouse behind our house, and tie it up inside. I’ll go and buy some hay and other cattle food for it, that’s probably OK for giraffes too.
2645
2646If it’s a big search operation, it may still work. The guards at the warehouse may be bribed. I’d take my chances with that. Perhaps I can convince them that the police is going to kill this lovely animal, and I am trying to save it. People often cooperate in the wildest things out of sympathy and sentimentalism - that’s how terrorism works, by the way. After a few days I’d rent a large truck to haul the giraffe away. Fortunately I live in a small country, so the border is not very far, and there is little or no control because it’s the European Union.
2647
2648Another good question is what to do with a wanted giraffe in the middle of Eastern Europe.
264969 Views · 2 Upvotes
2650Does the Earth contain degenerate matter?
2651Efrajim Canuck
2652Efrajim Canuck
2653Answered Nov 17
2654
2655Yes, a lot of them. You can see them at antifa demonstrations.
26561 View
2657What would happen if dogs suddenly spoke English?
2658Efrajim Canuck
2659Efrajim Canuck
2660Answered Nov 17
2661
2662There’d be a lot of confusion worldwide. You know, not everybody can understand English.
2663
2664Most dogs would sound like creepy retards. They wouldn’t be more intelligent, they’d just change from barks and growls to human words. Like:
2665
2666“Postman! Postman! Postman!”
2667
2668“Walk, walk, walk, pleeease?”
2669
2670“Bacon. Love bacon. Give bacon, please? Bacooon!”
2671
2672“MOTHRFUGGRRR I WILL KILL YA!! KILL! KIIILL!!”
2673
2674Scientists would be puzzled all around the world. What happened to all the dogs all sudden? Governments would react to the strange phenomenon. And many people would freak out and start killing the poor things. North Korea would certainly murder all the dogs, suspecting some American trick. They’d massacre them in Africa, the Arab world and everywhere else where people are superstitious and believe in ghosts and demons. Even in Europe and America the same would happen.
2675
2676Finally the sudden and radical change in canine behavior would be subject to speculations for centuries to come. Most likely it’d become one of the greatest mysteries we know.
267732 Views
2678If scientists in each field formed factions and declared war on each other, who would win? If everyone dies, is the 'winner' the team that does the most damage?
2679Efrajim Canuck
2680Efrajim Canuck
2681Answered Nov 16
2682
2683First of all every faction would declare war on philosophers, sociologists, art majors, gender studies experts, lawyers, economy majors and other worthless scum. The physicists roll weights over them, the chemists poison them, the biologists infect them with some nasty bacteria, the engineers build a huge shredder to throw their whiny little bodies into them, and mathematicians just calculate how long they can survive without food and let them rot in camps.
2684
2685Then the war is over because they figure that actually they’ve solved the world’s problems.
2686
2687Then the programmers screw up a variable and an accidental nuclear war occurs. But at least everybody dies happily.
268826 Views · 1 Upvote
2689Can you shoot an assault rifle fully automatic while standing?
2690Efrajim Canuck
2691Efrajim Canuck
2692Answered Nov 16
2693
2694And that’s a light machine gun.
269549 Views · 2 Upvotes
2696What is the percentage of Jews in the US military?
2697Efrajim Canuck
2698Efrajim Canuck
2699Answered Nov 15
2700
2701Around 100%. They are the main shareholders.
27021 View
2703What would happen if I called myself the 'King of Quora' on Quora?
2704Efrajim Canuck
2705Efrajim Canuck
2706Answered Nov 15
2707
2708President Quora doesn’t like this kind of humor, peasant!
270922 Views · 1 Upvote
2710The weight of an object on the Earth's surface is 60 Newton. What would be its mass on the moon?
2711Efrajim Canuck
2712Efrajim Canuck
2713Answered Nov 15
2714
2715The sixth of it, 10 Newtons.
27161 View
2717What does the law say in America about executing an armed attacker who has been incapacitated? Say that a bank robber gets shot by a civilian, and then he moves over to him and shoots him in the head. What would happen to the civilian?
2718Efrajim Canuck
2719Efrajim Canuck
2720Answered Nov 15
2721
2722That’s first degree murder in any civilized country. The whole point of self-defense is to repel the danger. Deadly force may be used in some situations, but only to the point where the danger is repelled. If the defender continues using deadly force after the danger is clearly gone, he will become the attacker and the former attacker the victim.
2723
2724The only exception to this rule - at least in my country, Hungary - is if the defender is under such stress that he or she can’t reasonably measure up the consequences of his deeds. Example: a huge Gypsy thug attempts to rape a young girl, who manages to grab a knife and stabs him 65 times, causing him to die. One may argue that one stab may have been enough to stop him, but you can’t expect a woman frantically trying to save herself in a terrible situation to act calmly and in a calculated manner.
2725
2726Or another case. A terrorist runs into a crowded place shouting “Allahu akbar!” and holding something in his head. A security guard immediately shoots the entire magazine from his handgun into him, even after he collapsed. Right, one bullet may have been enough, but if he’s a suicide bomber, he may press the detonator with his last breath.
272751 Views
2728Suppose President Trump wakes up one morning and finds that Kim Jong-un has insulted his manhood. If he then orders a nuclear strike against North Korea, is there anything to stop the strike from going forward? Would this order be followed?
2729Efrajim Canuck
2730Efrajim Canuck
2731Answered Nov 15
2732
2733Technically there’s nothing to stop it, but some military officers may refuse to launch.
2734
2735In the 1960s there were some tests when the President ordered a mass nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, only to be called back at the last moment. The intent was to test whether the silo crews will press the button when needed. Only about 30% of them hesitated, and very few actually denied the order.
2736
2737The point is not this ratio, but that an order to initiate Armageddon was given and would’ve been executed, regardless that there was no obvious sign of an enemy attack. Trump can do the same. But before you’d start ranting about him, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush Sr, Reagan and all the rest of them had the same authority.
273840 Views
2739If Mike Pence becomes president will he harp on “fake news” and “Hillary, Hillary, Hillary"? Or will he come up with a new repeated theme?
2740Efrajim Canuck
2741Efrajim Canuck
2742Answered Nov 15
2743
2744Last time I checked it’s Hillary who goes “Trump, Trump, Trump” all the time.
27451 View
2746Scott Young
2747Scott Young
2748
2749President Trump is the President. People are supposed to talk about him. It is pretty much in the...
2750What would be the first thing you do as president? (U.S.)
2751Efrajim Canuck
2752Efrajim Canuck
2753Answered Nov 14
2754Originally Answered: What is the first thing you would do if you became the U.S. President?
2755
2756Start a nuclear war. You stinky meatbags had enough chances. Time to go up in flames.
27571 View
2758What would happen if a person drank gasoline?
2759Efrajim Canuck
2760Efrajim Canuck
2761Answered Nov 14
2762
2763He’d turn into a mean machine. He’d still get one chance in a nine live cat, with a dog eat dog sly smile. Provided there’s still some gasoline left, he’d have a Molotov cocktail with a match to go, and smoke his cigarette with smile. If he has female companion, she’d make some money tonight.
27642 Views
2765Would there ever plausibly be a scenario where using a nuclear bomb would be justified?
2766Efrajim Canuck
2767Efrajim Canuck
2768Answered Nov 14
2769Originally Answered: What possible circumstance would justify using a nuclear weapon?
2770
2771There are a couple of circumstances right now, except those weapons are not controlled by people who recognize these circumstances. Florida is one such circumstance, for example. But I think a nuke would also improve Detroit a lot.
27722 Views
2773What is the possibility of Mr. Trump defecting, and could he accomplish this by giving his pilot orders to divert Air Force One to Russian air space?
2774Efrajim Canuck
2775Efrajim Canuck
2776Answered Nov 14
2777
2778Here we go, another silly question about Trump, implying that he may be not in his sane mind, or simply a villain.
2779
2780No, Trump will not do this, because he has no reason to do so. Even if he did, and the Air Force One actually entered Russian airspace, and it didn’t identify itself by transponder or other means, the Russians would scramble fighter jets to intercept it. As soon as they identified the bogey as the Air Force One, the pilots would say something like “ty che, blyat?!” (Russian for “what the fuck”?), and ground control would repeat it soon after.
2781
2782Then they’d follow the usual protocol and try to communicate with the intruding aircraft, while it would be reported to the Kremlin that something strange is happening over the Russian Far East. If the Air Force One responded and identified itself, it would be instructed either to land at the nearest airport, or to leave Russian airspace at once. If they confirmed that the POTUS is on board, it would be quite a riddle for the IA PVO (Russian air defense troops).
2783
2784Obviously they couldn’t treat the Air Force One as just any stray plane. But what could be its intents? All right, the POTUS decided to visit Russia, but why like this? It’s clearly not a danger, he won’t drop bombs or fly into some building, but still, what the heck? Obviously this would be the question everywhere from the local fighter command center to the Kremlin, until Putin gets connected to Trump either by the “hotline” or through the Russian armed forces’ communications system. I believe it’d go down like this:
2785
2786“Hello Donald? Seriously, what the fuck?!”
2787
2788“Oh, hello Dimitry!”
2789
2790“It’s Vladimir, but I appreciate the movie reference. So what can we owe the honor to?”
2791
2792“I am defecting to you!”
2793
2794“Def… what? Donald, this is a very stupid joke! You’re the goddamn President, what the actual fuck are you defecting from? And we aren’t even at war, so how did you even get the idea?!”
2795
2796“Dunno, Dimitry. Some guy asked this on Quora, and I thought I’ll try.”
2797
2798“Donald, I told you to stop looking at silly websites! Those guys are liberals anyway. Now, if I may ask you, would you please just turn that big ass plane of yours and fly home? Or if you wish to visit Russia, just let me know, but in this case, just tell your captain to quit jerking around and make contact with ground control like any proper airliner. And it’s still Vladimir.”
2799
2800If Donald would be pushing it, he could still land at some Russian airport, even in Moscow, but he’d be treated as any passenger from anywhere the world arriving on a private jet. He may request asylum, which would be denied since he has no reason for that.
280134 Views · 2 Upvotes
2802Joseph Harry
2803Joseph Harry
2804
2805I think the question is as far-fetched as is the idea of that buffoon becoming president in the f...
2806How is C-4 (explosive) manufactured?
2807Efrajim Canuck
2808Efrajim Canuck
2809Answered Nov 14
2810
2811C-4 is RDX in a plasticizer. About 95% of it is the explosive, the rest is the inert stuff that makes it look and behave like clay.
2812
2813RDX, also known as hexogene, is produced by the nitration of hexamine, which is that little tablet you can use in the camping stove. If you have fuming nitric acid, it’s pretty easy to set up a reactor and make a few pounds. If you don’t, you can still make a nitration bath from sulphuric acid and some nitrate salt, usually potassium nitrate. It’s not that effective as nitric acid, but still works.
2814
2815RDX, and therefore C-4 is a tertiary explosive, therefore insensitive. You’ll need a blasting cap to set it off, which can be basically any primary stuff, from acetone peroxyde to mercury fulminate.
2816
2817Take care of your fingers.
281820 Views · 1 Upvote
2819How could Donald Trump marry Melania Knauss who is a little older than his oldest son, Donald Trump Jr.?
2820Efrajim Canuck
2821Efrajim Canuck
2822Answered Nov 14
2823
2824I believe it went down like this:
2825
2826“Melania Knauss, will you accept Donald John Trump as your lawfully wed husband?”
2827
2828“I do.”
2829
2830“Donald John Trump, will you accept Melania Knauss as your lawfully wed wife?”
2831
2832“I do.”
2833
2834“You’re cool then, kthxbai.”
2835
2836I am not exactly certain if it was phrased this way, but probably close.
28377 Views · 3 Upvotes
2838What would happen if the leaders of the UN Security Council, NATO, and European Union all came to North Korea to negotiate for peace with Kim Jong-un personally?
2839Efrajim Canuck
2840Efrajim Canuck
2841Answered Nov 14
2842
2843A high ranking official’s visit is a gesture. It means that the state or the international organization respects the host nation and finds it worthy for the highest level of contact. This is why the US President’s visit to another country is always a great event, and this is why you never hear of the President visiting some backwater country.
2844
2845On the other hand, one doesn’t just walk into Mordor. North Korea, as you may have already heard, is pretty strict about who can cross its borders. The chance that any of the leaders can just land in Phenjan and say hello is zero, because they’d need a visa first. If they tried to approach the North Korean border by their own plane or boat, most likely they’d be intercepted by Kim’s air force or navy. Regardless how worthless they are, they would still endanger the lives of these important officials, which is not acceptable.
2846
2847Such a visit could only take place after long preparations on lower diplomatic levels. It would have to start with exchange of messages through indirect methods as most EU and NATO member states don’t even have diplomatic relations with North Korea. After a long series of negotiations about how to begin negotiations on the first place, Kim may permit the visit. But this would only happen if the said countries would be there to offer their capitulation. A leader’s visit to a hostile country is self-humiliation. Begging North Korea for peace would be admitting defeat. If that happened, North Korea would be in position to dictate the terms.
2848
2849So this is why it will never happen.
285043 Views · 1 Upvote
2851Why is it important to stay updated with this nuclear war?
2852Efrajim Canuck
2853Efrajim Canuck
2854Answered Nov 13
2855
2856You don’t need to stay updated. If something happens, you’ll see it. Then you won’t need to be updated on anything ever again.
285742 Views · 1 Upvote
2858What would happen if the leaders of every nation on Earth openly mocked Kim Jong-un as a rocket man like Donald Trump does?
2859Efrajim Canuck
2860Efrajim Canuck
2861Answered Nov 13
2862
2863Nothing. Kim couldn’t care less, and even if he did, what could he do? Besides, it’s not even really offensive. If they called him fat little dipshit, that may do it.
286445 Views · 2 Upvotes
2865Would Donald Trump really be any worse than George W. Bush?
2866Efrajim Canuck
2867Efrajim Canuck
2868Answered Nov 13
2869Originally Answered: Is Trump worse than George W. Bush?
2870
2871Trump may not be the best president, but so far he’s certainly not the worst. Whatever he is or whatever he did, America seems to be fine from this side of the pond, and whatever is wrong there is certainly not his fault.
2872
2873To compare him with GWB, well, he certainly didn’t start a massive unjustified war on knowingly false accusations, inflicting damage to about a billion people or even more. All the shit currently raining down on us in Europe and the Arab world is left behind by this Texan bonehead and his criminal gang.
2874
2875One year into Trump’s presidency, and nothing serious happened. Well, save for the unexpected bombing of Syria, but fortunately that never turned into an actual war. We’ll see where the world will be in 2020. Or 2024 for that matter.
287668 Views · 3 Upvotes
2877Are there more atheists than theists on Quora, as it definitely seems so when seeing answers on (a) theistic questions?
2878Efrajim Canuck
2879Efrajim Canuck
2880Answered Nov 13
2881
2882Quora maintains a strong bias towards liberal and atheist opinions. Non-conformist opinions are regularly censored, collapsed, or even the members who gave them banned. The “sensitivity” of some crybabies is much more important than valuable conversations and the flow of thoughts.
288324 Views
2884I celebrated Trump's victory anniversary by hunting 7 deers for food, what do liberals think about it?
2885Efrajim Canuck
2886Efrajim Canuck
2887Answered Nov 11
2888
2889Oh deer.
28902 Views · 1 Upvote
2891How close does a nuclear bomb need to be for a siren to go off?
2892Efrajim Canuck
2893Efrajim Canuck
2894Answered Nov 11
2895
2896I just pictured a siren from Greek mythology noticing that there is a bomb nearby, standing up furiously and announcing: “That’s it, I’m off!” and going away.
2897
2898Unfortunately I don’t know how close does she has to be to the bomb for that. First of all, we don’t know how far a siren can see, whether she can recognize the bomb, or if she’d be really this uncomfortable with its presence. I’m afraid Homer forgot to include these important details in Odyssey.
289924 Views
2900I saw Lady Liberty holding a sword by the blade, not the hilt. What is the significance, if any?
2901Efrajim Canuck
2902Efrajim Canuck
2903Answered Nov 11
2904
2905That’s why you don’t give a weapon into a woman’s hand.
29064 Views
2907Is another war in the Middle East imminent?
2908Efrajim Canuck
2909Efrajim Canuck
2910Answered Nov 11
2911
2912Dude, war is always imminent there. As a matter of fact there are wars right now.
291373 Views · 2 Upvotes
2914What is the arrow’s range? And what is the range of the arrow at this time if the horse’s speed is 43 m/s^2?
2915https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20171110210427AAzgF83
2916Efrajim Canuck
2917Efrajim Canuck
2918Answered Nov 11
2919
2920What kind of arrow and how strong is the bow?
2921
2922Is this a physics homework? Please elaborate the details in comment.
292315 Views · 1 Upvote
2924If , suddenly, North Korea launches a nuclear missile to the US, targeting the center of NY. What would the military do?
2925Efrajim Canuck
2926Efrajim Canuck
2927Answered Nov 11
2928
2929First of all, they get very surprised. Nobody expects North Korea to be able to pull this off. They aren’t supposed to have the technology yet.
2930
2931Second, they will frantically try to intercept the missile. Slim chance. There aren’t many missile defense devices in mainland America, and they are definitely not on high alert. They have to go operational on a moment’s notice, and in a live fire situation. That’s generally a recipe for failure, even in the best armed forces.
2932
2933The President and the government is immediately evacuated, contingency measures implemented. Air raid sirens are sounded, all broadcast systems in America switch to show an emergency message, urging people to take shelter.
2934
2935Most likely the Air Force will try to scramble F-15s and F-22s with anti-satellite missiles, in a desperate attempt to shoot the warhead down. Most likely they’d fail. The entire time of flight may be about thirty minutes, which is barely enough to arm the planes, take off, get into position and launch the missiles.
2936
2937Meanwhile, real estate prices in New York steeply decrease.
2938
2939Regardless whether the missile was successfully intercepted or not, the US military would immediately rain down all its fury on North Korea. Most likely this would take place in a form of surgical attacks on nuclear facilities, with likely use of new nuclear weapons. I don’t think they’d want to saturate the Korean peninsula with actual nukes and knock out half of South East Asia, including South Korea.
2940
2941It is highly unlikely that this scenario will ever become reality. First of all, building a working ICBM secretly and without any tests is impossible. Even if they somehow obtain a missile, for example a Russian Topol-M or Bulava, and let’s not even discuss how would that be possible at all, there would be obvious signs which the US satellites would immediately spot. The presence of one or more ICBMs in North Korea would trigger a reaction much like the Cuban Missile Crisis, and America would immediately pour troops and naval units into South East Asia, preparing an invasion. In this situation the worst decision by Kim Jong-un would be to raze an American city. The next thing he’d see is a pretty disappointed St. Peter at the heavenly gates. And there’d be a long queue.
2942900 Views · 4 Upvotes
2943Would it be possible to connect a satellite to earth via a cable thus tethering to the planet and using it as a platform to send supplies into and out of space?
2944Efrajim Canuck
2945Efrajim Canuck
2946Answered Nov 11
2947
2948Yes, it’s theoretically possible, and it’s called a space elevator or space lift. It’s been “invented” decades ago, and it’s even a plot device in Songs of a Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke.
2949
2950Wikipedia has a quite elaborate article on it.
2951
2952Space elevator - Wikipedia
295315 Views
2954Can disarmament stop wars and promote peace?
2955Efrajim Canuck
2956Efrajim Canuck
2957Answered Nov 11
2958
2959No, but quite the opposite. Peace can only be achieved by weapons. Only naive and gullible people believe that the absence of weapons will result in peace. On the first place it’s impossible to get rid of them.
2960
2961Any power roots in violence. Not necessarily actual violence, but the possibility of it. This is why cops carry guns. Even where they don’t - like in Britain - they still have the option to call in armed reinforcement. This is why there are armies, and this is why even security guards carry firearms.
2962
2963The reason of wars is the same as of crime. The risk, the danger taken outweighs the likely benefits. If you tilt this balance to the opposite, there’ll be no crime and no war. How do you increase the risk? By threatening the ultimate most valuable possession of the potential aggressor: his (and his people’s) own life. How do you achieve this without weapons? You don’t - anything that can kill is by definition a weapon.
296416 Views
2965What happens if China makes first contact with aliens?
2966https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/what-happens-if-china-makes-first-contact/544131/
2967Efrajim Canuck
2968Efrajim Canuck
2969Answered Nov 11
2970
2971That depends how that contact occurs. Are they hostile or friendly? Do they even pay attention to us, filthy meatbags? Can they communicate? How effectively?
2972
2973The Chinese government, scientists and all the people would probably react quite like any other, and that’d be very close to what you see in sci-fi movies. Why? Because that’s the most feasible way. Humankind has thousands of years of experience in dealing with foreign nations and cultures, also known as diplomacy, and the Chinese happen to be perhaps the most experienced on this field. I am pretty sure they would find a way to overcome communication issues and cultural differences to exchange information.
2974
2975What happens next is difficult to tell. If the aliens pass superior technology to the Chinese government, that would obviously tilt the power balance on Earth. What if they provide them with technology that can wipe out a US carrier group with little effort? What if they get something that make nuclear weapons obsolete? In this case, all other nations can shove up their arsenals and China will rule the planet. Whether that would be more pleasant than the current American hegemony, depends.
2976
2977My two cents is that if Europe came under Chinese influence in the way as it is today under American “rule”, it’d cause a huge cultural turmoil. Practically it’d mean that the Jews will be gone as a political term. With them political correctness, feminism, Holocaust memorials and everything similar. Nationalism would be soon tolerated, then encouraged, and in a short time Europe would turn back into a white continent, with all the immigrants booted. China would not be interested in a destabilized Europe, particularly that now they are controlling it.
2978122 Views · 2 Upvotes
2979In pounds, how much debris do we have in space?
2980Efrajim Canuck
2981Efrajim Canuck
2982Answered Nov 11
2983
2984That’s difficult to tell because nobody has ever measured it. Even if someone took on to calculate the overall weight of all spacecraft ever launched, it’s impossible to tell how much of their overall mass actually reached orbit and stayed there. On the other hand, nobody needs such a calculation, particularly not down to pounds.
298511 Views
2986Why can't Trump be impeached for being a confessed sexual predator?
2987Efrajim Canuck
2988Efrajim Canuck
2989Answered Nov 11
2990
2991Chill, leftie. You can’t just impeach the President over any silly reason. He is the President, you know. The most important guy in America. Just because you don’t like him, you can’t just throw them out of the White House.
2992
2993Seven more years to go. Deal with it.
299418 Views · 1 Upvote
2995Are humans meant to be in space?
2996Efrajim Canuck
2997Efrajim Canuck
2998Answered Nov 11
2999
3000Why, are they meant to sail the oceans? Are they meant to fare the Sahara? Are they meant to fly in big machines?
3001
3002Navigare necesse est.
300327 Views
3004On his visit to Vietnam, wouldn't Trump make America great again by apologizing to the Vietnamese people for the long war the US inflicted on Vietnam during the 70s?
3005Efrajim Canuck
3006Efrajim Canuck
3007Answered Nov 10
3008
3009An apology implies taking responsibility, and as such, obligations. If he did that, the government of Vietnam would be given a blank check for reparations. They may come up with something that hurts American interests.
3010
3011The Russians never apologized for invading other countries during the Soviet times. The Germans never apologized the North African countries for invading them. The British never apologized India. The list is long.
301280 Views · 2 Upvotes
3013If an atheist/agnostic had a gun to his head, and were forced to pray, what would his prayer be? Please read the details in the comment.
3014Efrajim Canuck
3015Efrajim Canuck
3016Answered Nov 10
3017
3018An agnostic denies God, and if he’s truly one, he will not find Him on grave danger. Instead he’d do what every atheist does in face of danger: he finds the nearest force that is stronger than him, and pleads to it to help. That can be the very person holding the gun, or he may express a wish that another force, for example the police may intervene.
3019
3020If he’d still pray to God, it’d not be a prayer, because he’d just say some words which he thinks the guy with the gun wishes to hear. He may even recite an actual prayer from some religion which he happens to know. But he wouldn’t really believe it, so it wouldn’t be a prayer, just something like reciting a poem.
30217 Views
3022What were good tanks fielded by minor nations in WW2?
3023Efrajim Canuck
3024Efrajim Canuck
3025Answered Nov 10
3026
3027Not a tank, but it was still awesome. The 43M “Zrínyi” assault gun of the Royal Hungarian Army.
3028
3029Although it was made with obsolete technology - as you see, the hull was not welded, and the tracks were overcomplicated - but it was still a very powerful weapon. It was used with great efficiency during the battle of Torda and other clashes in Transylvania, even until the siege of Budapest.
3030
3031A few of them survived the war, but the Communists were not into preserving any hardware that wasn’t Soviet, so they were sent to the furnaces. Only two of them survived. One was converted into a crane, but in a few years someone recognized that it’s actually a Zrínyi, and it was immediately cut up for scrap metal. It was politically unacceptable to have a “Nazi” vehicle around. The sole surviving piece was captured by the Soviets in 1944, and it’s currently on display in the Kubinka Tank Museum.
30327.7k Views · 245 Upvotes
3033How are nuclear missiles made?
3034Efrajim Canuck
3035Efrajim Canuck
3036Answered Nov 9
3037
3038If you mean an ICBM, they are basically space rockets. They are capable of reaching low Earth orbit and deploy satellites, and they are actually used for this purpose. Of course they are not as sophisticated as the “big” rockets carrying spaceships or the Space Shuttle. Even the first American manned space mission, Friendship 7 (Mercury-I) used a Mercury-Redstone rocket, which was a slightly modified ICBM.
3039
3040The speed of the rocket determines whether it will leave Earth’s gravity well, stay at orbit or fall back on the planet’s surface. The latter is what is a nuclear missile will do. The direction of the takeoff and the duration of the engine running will determine the impact point. It’s quite like tossing a rock at a target, on a large scale.
3041
3042The answer to how they are made depends on which kind, in which country and in what era. There is a big difference between, for example, a Soviet-made Scud and an American Minuteman, a submarine-launched Polaris or the latest Russian missiles like the Topol, Bulava or Sineva. But they are all made in highly sophisticated factories, just like airplanes or spaceships. They are highly valuable assets to any military, so they don’t spare a penny when building them.
304394 Views
3044Do the citizens of the U.S. actually realise that we in the U.K., and other countries, see Donald Trump as some ridiculous looking, megalomaniac clown, who could potentially start WWIII?
3045Efrajim Canuck
3046Efrajim Canuck
3047Answered Nov 9
3048
3049Correction: you see him as one. I, for one, prefer him a lot over Killary.
3050
3051You don’t represent the entire world. Even if you firmly believe that you’re morally superior and perfect. You are not.
3052
3053Happy 1st anniversary, britbong!
305425 Views
3055Can humans kill by air rifle?
3056Efrajim Canuck
3057Efrajim Canuck
3058Answered Nov 9
3059
3060It depends on the rifle and the condition of the human. A baby’s skull is obviously easily penetrated, an adult’s is not.
3061
3062Air rifles have been used in warfare. During Napoleon’s time the Austrian army used so-called “wind rifles”. As it was silent and very dangerous, the French despised it for being an “ungentlemanly” weapon, and executed its users when captured.
306380 Views · 2 Upvotes
3064What if the terrorists attacks are God´s will?
3065Efrajim Canuck
3066Efrajim Canuck
3067Answered Nov 9
3068
3069It can be God’s will. Anything can be. Bad and good things alike.
3070
3071God gave free will to us. But this actually only means that we can decide to take part in His plans or not. If someone decides not to, he can try a lot of things. He can simply ignore the obvious call, or try to actively disrupt God’s work, which is creation itself. He will never succeed. God is omnipotent and creation is indestructible.
3072
3073Regardless what a terrorist does, or anyone else, God’s order will not be disrupted for long. The world is a self-balancing, self-correcting system. It has always been one, that’s why creation is perfect. It needs no intervention. This is why we don’t see God. We live in a closed, self-sustaining system which He created, but he doesn’t have to supervise it.
3074
3075If any of us decide to go against the rules, we are free to try. We are tiny, insignificant beings, we can’t even dream of altering His work. A terrorist may nuke the entire planet, or invent a device which moves Earth off its course and into the Sun. What would happen? One less planet in the incomprehensible vastness of the universe. So what? Has any of the fundamental values or rules changed by this?
3076
3077But in some cases it may be that this is exactly God’s will. Sodoma and Gomorra are good examples of how God works. He is not a physical person or an actually existing magical creature who rains fire and brimstone on a sinful city. The sinners themselves cause their demise, by whatever means - we don’t know. The fact that their downfall is a foreseeable consequence of their sins is God’s presence in this story.
3078
3079Terrorism may be a punishment for the Western world’s sins. It’s a consequence, not something that came out of the blue. For example ISIS would’ve never existed if America doesn’t invade Iraq. A sin of the West which carried its own punishment. Have you seen a bearded guy sitting on the clouds and giving orders to what should happen? No, because there’s no bearded guy. There are only rules. Morals, if you prefer. Break the morals, and there will be consequences. That’s how terrorists can be God’s will.
308026 Views
3081How exactly does a nuclear bomb kill so many people?
3082Efrajim Canuck
3083Efrajim Canuck
3084Answered Nov 9
3085
3086Seriously, how old are you?
3087
3088Can you imagine how a regular bomb kills? There’s an explosion. The sudden change of air pressure kills people instantly. The heat of the explosion can also cause serious injuries or death. It will also send debris flying, which will add to the damage.
3089
3090A nuclear explosion is the same, but a zillion times bigger in every aspect. Plus there is radiation and the radioactive fallout.
309158 Views · 2 Upvotes
3092Let’s say in the Ukraine War a T-34/85 encounters a T-90MS. How could the T-34 possibly win or would it lose every encounter?
3093Efrajim Canuck
3094Efrajim Canuck
3095Answered Nov 9
3096
3097This fight would be decided by sheer luck, obviously. The T-34 can only win if it can somehow show up behind the T-90, take a good shot at its rear, and hit the engine compartment several times. It’s not impossible, but also not very likely. In open combat, with properly trained crews on both sides, the T-34 is toast.
30989 Views · 1 Upvote
3099What should you do if someone answers you rudely on Quora?
3100Efrajim Canuck
3101Efrajim Canuck
3102Answered Nov 9
3103
3104Dunno, but why don’t you go fuck yourself and see?
31051 View
3106What if a guy says you're cool?
3107Efrajim Canuck
3108Efrajim Canuck
3109Answered Nov 9
3110
3111That’s generally a praise. However, if he is a pathologist, you’re fucked.
3112265 Views · 1 Upvote
3113Could a nation be forced to surrender if threatened with the execution of allied prisoners? For example, could the UK have been persuaded to surrender if the Germans held France as ransom?
3114Efrajim Canuck
3115Efrajim Canuck
3116Answered Nov 9
3117
3118It will not work. No nation is responsible for another, regardless how close allies they are. Of course, in such a situation, the UK will do anything to save or help France, but they will not give up their own sovereignty even if France is reduced to ashes and ruins.
311928 Views · 1 Upvote
3120Didn’t FDR technically win WW2?
3121Efrajim Canuck
3122Efrajim Canuck
3123Answered Nov 8
3124
3125Technically, he died before it ended.
312627 Views
3127How will the supreme negotiator, President Donald J Trump, persuade North Korea to stop their nuclear weapons program?
3128Efrajim Canuck
3129Efrajim Canuck
3130Answered Nov 8
3131
3132The North Korean nuclear weapons program is not about North Korea itself having nukes. It’s basic math that they’ll never be able to use them, except as a last resort, when attacked. The hour when North Korea detonates a nuke will be the same when the entire place will be turned into a glowing, glassy crater. Kim Jong-un is not an idiot, he knows this well The concern is that North Korea may sell nuclear technology to others, who will then use it for… well, your guess. Imagine if ISIS or al-Quaeda had nukes. This is the actual blackmail here.
3133
3134However I am personally certain that Kim will not do that either. How do we know? First, there is no buyer. Nobody is crazy enough to invest into nuclear terrorism on the first place. Not even ISIS. Even in its heyday, ISIS was led by sensible and well trained military experts who knew exactly what they were doing. It may make no sense for us, but they have a different mindset. Weapons of mass destruction were never part of their agenda. We know that because they never made an attempt to obtain any. They could’ve approached North Korea and purchased chemical or biological weapons. Either they didn’t, or Kim wasn’t that much into assholery. If he didn’t sell them that, he won’t give nukes away either.
3135
3136Secondly, even if ISIS or some other such group wanted nukes, they couldn’t afford them. Obviously Korea wouldn’t sell them for a sack of potatoes. Islamic terrorist groups are now little more than fringe groups with no backing, very little money and no good leaders any more. They wouldn’t even know how to contact the North Korean government on the first place, let alone seal a deal with them.
3137
3138What this means is that the big fuss about North Korea’s nukes is actually just some circus for the media. They are a trump card in Kim’s hand, and not an asset to be used immediately. Even if America ignored it, nothing would happen, apart from America losing face. A lot of it.
3139
3140What are the negotiations are all about then? North Korea wants to break out of isolation, defeat poverty and get recognition on the international political scene. That’s what they always wanted. Kim knows he’s sitting on a barrel of gunpowder, and if it goes off, North Korea will turn into something terrible, worse than Afghanistan and Syria combined. It just mustn’t happen. This is why they’ve been brainwashing the population for decades, and this is why they deport dissidents to death camps. Either that, or North Korea is lost. The good life of the political elite is just a pleasant side effect.
3141
3142They aren’t going to give up their nuclear ambitions, and that’s beyond negotiations. But they are willing to give sureties to convince America and the world that these weapons are only for self-defense. They are going to ease on the ruthlessness of the regime in exchange of removing some sanctions. Their goal is to improve overall quality of life in North Korea, not to nuke others.
3143
3144I doubt Trump will allow any of the actual sanctions to be removed, but he will agree not to interfere with North Korean interests in some areas. Somewhere there is a sweet spot acceptable for both parties, and that’s what the deal is going to be.
314584 Views · 3 Upvotes
3146Who would win in a war between US and Europe?
3147Efrajim Canuck
3148Efrajim Canuck
3149Answered Nov 8
3150Originally Answered: If Europe declared war on the U.S., who would win?
3151
3152A few lucky Americans may win, as European nations don’t have enough nukes to saturate the entire US. Win, as in survive. But if Russia is also involved - they are in Europe too, just not the European Union - nobody would.
3153126 Views · 3 Upvotes
3154Does the Earth’s gravity attract fire?
3155Efrajim Canuck
3156Efrajim Canuck
3157Answered Nov 8
3158
3159Fire is not an object. The flames over a campfire, for example, is the carbon monoxide released from the firewood. It’s a blob of heated gas which quickly breaks down in the oxygen-rich atmosphere. This blob of gas is attracted by gravity, but it still flies upwards because it’s lighter than air.
3160
3161Fire looks very differently in zero gravity.
316223 Views
3163What right does Donald Trump have to say who has nuclear weapons when America has them?
3164Efrajim Canuck
3165Efrajim Canuck
3166Answered Nov 8
3167
3168Why, what right has Obama, Bush or Clinton had? It’s America’s interest, not Trump’s personal will you walnut. Grow up, he’s in the White House, just get over it.
316920 Views · 3 Upvotes
3170What’s in the truck on the moon?
3171Efrajim Canuck
3172Efrajim Canuck
3173Answered Nov 8
3174
3175Moonshine. What else?
317625 Views · 3 Upvotes
3177I think I understand the "calling" to be a soldier (principles, order, sense of mission). Other than pay (if it were so high), why would one seek out battle and war (for instance, like a mercenary)?
3178Efrajim Canuck
3179Efrajim Canuck
3180Answered Nov 8
3181
3182No sane person is seeking out war. Particularly not those who have experienced it, in any way.
3183
3184A soldier is ready for war, to serve and protect his country, but doesn’t want it.
3185
3186To put this into perspective: would you let someone become a cop just because he wants to shoot at people? Obviously not. Would you let someone to become a cop who could shoot someone, but would do anything to avoid it? That’s cop material.
3187
3188A soldier doesn’t want to fight. A soldier can fight if he has to. In an ideal case, he is very well prepared to do it. But wanting it is a sign of serious trouble in the head.
318940 Views · 2 Upvotes
3190How can I ask a broad question on Quora?
3191Efrajim Canuck
3192Efrajim Canuck
3193Answered Nov 8
3194
3195I suggest the sex topics. That’s where slutty women are. They will be happy to answer broad questions.
319612 Views · 1 Upvote
3197What would realistically happen if a nuclear war was to take place?
3198Efrajim Canuck
3199Efrajim Canuck
3200Answered Nov 8
3201
3202For most people and other living beings, it’d be:
3203
3204“WHAT THE F…”
3205
3206For the planet, it’d be like:
3207
3208“Oh, it was time for another mass extinction events. These humans were really pesky.”
320955 Views
3210What would happen if a Tsar Bomba nuclear weapon was dropped in the center of the USA? No countermeasures involved but just the destruction.
3211Efrajim Canuck
3212Efrajim Canuck
3213Answered Nov 7
3214
3215The reason why the Soviets abandoned the project was that the Tsar was simply too big. There weren’t any targets on Earth that would’ve required this kind of destructive power. Perhaps Chicago and its surroundings, New York, Paris or London may have offered a large enough target area to use it anyway, but that would’ve been just senseless destruction, not proper military action. Not to mention that it would’ve been very dangerous for a Soviet bomber to attempt to penetrate into enemy territory that far.
3216
3217The geographic center of the mainland USA is at the Nebraska-Kansas state border, near the small town of Lebanon. Population is very low in that area, so in terms of destruction, not much would be achieved. Of course nearby small towns would be annihilated. In case of an air burst, there would be about 1500–2000 immediate casualties and around 6000 injuries. The blast would be visible from Kansas City, and it’d do some damage (windows broken, etc)., but otherwise they’d be fine. Fallout would spread into the northeast, reaching as far as Lincoln and perhaps Omaha.
3218
3219A ground burst at the same location wouldn’t be that “harmless”. Although there’d be only about 5–600 immediate casualties, there’d be way more fallout, and a some major cities would have to be immediately evacuated. Lincoln, Omaha, Rochester and Sioux City would be Chernobyl-like ghost towns from then on, and the radioactive cloud may even reach Minneapolis. But the Great Lakes would be probably still safe, and the cloud would’t reach Canada, or at least not in dangerous amounts.
3220
3221If a ground burst with the 100 Mt version would happen, the casualty count would be still very far from breaking America’s back, but the fallout would really hurt. Some cities, including Minneapolis would be a total write-off, and the cloud would even blanket Thunder Bay in Canada.
3222
3223On the long run America would relatively easily recover from the ordeal, but some of the damage would be hard to repair. It’d take decades, or even centuries to make these areas habitable and safe again. There’d be a dead zone in Nebraska and Iowa for a long time.
3224
3225Never use a Tsar Bomba in America. It’s just not safe.
32261.1k Views · 20 Upvotes
3227If a sphere made of water twice as big as the sun hit the sun, what would happen?
3228Efrajim Canuck
3229Efrajim Canuck
3230Answered Nov 7
3231
3232The enormous heat of the Sun would immediately break up the water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. In the zone where the mixture is optimal, it would immediately burn. But since the bodies are too big, it would not explode all instantly. “Only” a few thousand miles of water would burn, at the place where the two celestial objects collided.
3233
3234If the water ball is moving fast enough, the Sun may just pass through it and the ball would be reduced into a shapeless blob of water. If it’s not fast enough, the two celestial object would fuse. It would cause a long chemical reaction as oxyhydrogen turns into water vapor when burnt, and that water would be instantly split again.
3235
3236Although water would probably not cool down the Sun enough to put it out, the enormous amount of oxygen, excess hydrogen and the constant chemical reaction may destabilize it enough to fall apart. For a couple million or billion years, fragments of the Sun would still burn in the water ball, until they get destabilized too. At the end it’d be a huge, dark blob of ice floating in the sky, with gigantic caves filled with the remaining materials of the Sun.
323741 Views · 1 Upvote
3238What if every day was your birthday?
3239Efrajim Canuck
3240Efrajim Canuck
3241Answered Nov 7
3242
3243It would be quite a shitty life on that asteroid spinning around in low orbit around the Sun. I don’t think I’d have too much time to celebrate. Most likely I’d be a robotic probe anyway.
324418 Views · 1 Upvote
3245If you could create a word, what would it be?
3246Efrajim Canuck
3247Efrajim Canuck
3248Answered Nov 7
3249Originally Answered: You were given a task for creating a new word with its meaning, what would be your word?
3250
3251I would create a separate word for a dead animal.
3252
3253For example, when a cat is little, we call it a kitten. When it’s mature, it’s a cat. We have a separate word for a tomcat and a pussycat. But why don’t we have a word for a dead cat?
3254
3255Every species needs a separate term for its dead version.
325618 Views
3257Why can't we see the sun at night?
3258Efrajim Canuck
3259Efrajim Canuck
3260Answered Nov 6
3261
3262People are asking very dumb questions on Quora all day. The amount of stupidity darkens the sky gradually until the sun disappears. Fortunately the idiots then go to bed, and it allows the sun to recover.
3263
3264However there is a special day every year when the moderators visit some of the idiots and slap them around with a large trout to stop them from posting. It is pretty much pointless because the overwhelming amount of stupidity in the world, but they still manage to postpone the darkness with an hour on that special day. It is even marked in the calendar as Daylight Saving Day.
326583 Views
3266What would happen if an M829 tank round passed extremely close (about a mm to an inch) to you, or if it cut very lightly (<1 mm) into you?
3267https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M829
3268Efrajim Canuck
3269Efrajim Canuck
3270Answered Nov 6 · Upvoted by Kenneth Sizer and Ryan Q.Y. See
3271
3272Can’t tell about the M829, but when I was in the Hungarian army, we had a strange accident. We were at a shooting range, and a soldier was sent to a hill to put some signal flag there. When he reached there, he heard a distant report, and he felt like his thick cotton coat was grabbed just under his arm, and he was turned around violently. When he looked down, half of his coat was missing, and he saw a T-72 tank in a distance, smoke coming from its cannon.
3273
3274He walked down to the command post and reported that he was shot. The company commander was flabbergasted.
3275
3276“Shot? With what?”
3277
3278“I think with a tank, sir.”
3279
3280He was very, very lucky, because the tank shell passed between his arm and his body, and only tore off his coat.
3281
3282I believe an American tank shell would work somewhat the same in this situation.
328314.1k Views · 712 Upvotes
3284Nicholas Gagarin
3285Nicholas Gagarin
3286
3287Holy crap! I'd think that the sheer speed of the penetrator rod would cause some sort of other da...
3288What would medieval peasants think of a Platypus?
3289Efrajim Canuck
3290Efrajim Canuck
3291Answered Nov 6
3292
3293There is a century old joke about two Szekely (Transylvanian Hungarian) peasants visiting the Budapest zoo for the first time. They look at the strange animals in awe, when finally reach the platypus/giraffe/elephant/ostrich (the joke has several versions) and say:
3294
3295“OK, that’s it, let’s go. There is no such animal.”
329682 Views · 2 Upvotes
3297Will the earth be hit by an asteroid?
3298Efrajim Canuck
3299Efrajim Canuck
3300Answered Nov 6
3301Originally Answered: Is an asteroid going to hit Earth? I'm really scared.
3302
3303The chance is equal to that I will someday get bored of stupid questions on Quora, and out of zillions of people who displayed flagrant ignorance, I’ll choose you to be visited and slapped around with a large trout.
3304
3305The chance is not zero, however negligible, given the amount of stupid questions here.
330646 Views
3307Can a bullet safely bounce from my body if it was fired from a very long distance that its energy became too dissipated to do severe damage?
3308Efrajim Canuck
3309Efrajim Canuck
3310Answered Nov 6
3311
3312Not likely. The momentum that drives the bullet forward will decline over distance, but I don’t think it would ever lose enough energy to become unable to penetrate a soft meatbag like you. Bullets fall because of gravity, not because of losing kinetic momentum. A bullet fired from a rifle in a horizontal line will touch the ground exactly in the same time as one just released and let fall.
3313
3314I assume therefore that a bullet will be still very harmful at the end of its parabolic trajectory. Perhaps less dangerous than at the muzzle, but still unhealthy.
331581 Views · 1 Upvote
3316Will insulting President Trump make me more popular?
3317Efrajim Canuck
3318Efrajim Canuck
3319Answered Nov 6
3320
3321Of course, in the eyes of certain people. Right now it’s a very good way to pick up dumb chicks at leftist events. Don’t expect wife material though, and use good protection. Even if you find one without any STDs, knocking up an insecure bimbo will not serve you well in the future.
332224 Views · 1 Upvote
3323What would happen if all the energy released by the sun in two seconds was instantly transferred into my body?
3324Efrajim Canuck
3325Efrajim Canuck
3326Answered Nov 6
3327
3328Is there some contest on Quora I missed? Who can ask the most idiotic questions about enormous amounts of energy, preferably the Sun?
3329
3330What do you think would happen? An epic sunburn, that’s what. And less stupid questions on Quora. Before you try it, please move a few parsecs away from me.
333132 Views · 2 Upvotes
3332What are some of the best stories about Winston Churchill?
3333Efrajim Canuck
3334Efrajim Canuck
3335Answered Nov 4
3336
3337Churchill was way worse than Hitler. If I was to choose the most terrible politician of the 20th century, he’d be very close second to Stalin.
3338
3339Churchill was the one who turned WW2 into the carnage it finally was. At the beginning of the war both sides attempted to refrain from bombing civilians and attacking non-military targets. (At least on the Western front.) Churchill was the one who ordered the deliberate mass murder of civilians and ordered the RAF to develop more efficient techniques to cause more damage to German cities.
3340
3341And no, don’t even bring up Coventry as an excuse. Coventry was essential to British aircraft production and it was known to both sides that it’s a legitimate target. The German armed forces invested great effort into researching the legal aspects of modern war way before WW2, and their findings was the same as every other nation’s. In times of war, it’s the government’s obligation to protect its citizens in the areas of possible enemy air attacks. The British government neglected this duty, didn’t build shelters for the people of Coventry, then blamed the “evil Germans” for what happened, stating that they deliberately targeted civilians. This wasn’t true, however this is exactly what happened in Berlin, Hamburg or Dresden, or as the Germans today call it, the Bombenholocaust.
3342
3343Churchill was the one who ordered the firebombing of Dresden, for one single purpose. He wanted the Soviet Army to witness the might and power of the Royal Air Force. The Soviets were already close to Dresden, which was practically an “open city”, with no military installations or any strategic importance. Furthermore, it was a beautiful historic town, also known as the Florence of the Elbe. Churchill gave the order to eradicate it from the map and kill all its inhabitants for a military demonstration, so he can boast about it to Stalin at the Yalta Conference.
3344
3345However, the weather turned bad a few days before the planned raid, and it had to be postponed. The day of the conference was coming, but the bombers still couldn’t fly. This hasn’t gotten better, and Churchill was deprived of the moment when he could proudly announce his mass murder to the other great mass murderer. The conference was already over, Stalin has left and Churchill was also packing when his aide came with the report that the sky is clear over Dresden. The slaughter of civilians was now entirely pointless, even by his own logic, yet he still ordered the raid to commence, just out of hate for the Germans.
3346
3347On next week’s episode of “How to Stop Loving a War Criminal”: the Bengal famine. Or do a search yourself.
3348
3349EDIT: Funny, 99% of the disapproving comments are coming from Brits, and most of them call me a Nazi apologist. I am sorry for your rectal pain, but I still have no respect for your fat murderer.
33506.1k Views · 172 Upvotes
3351Nathan Worrell
3352Nathan Worrell
3353
3354“The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb every...
33551 more comments from Tony Bartlett
3356If Jesus were running a bed and breakfast establishment, and two gay guys checked in, how would Jesus react, and what would He say to them? I am a Christ-follower, and I find myself in this situation.
3357Efrajim Canuck
3358Efrajim Canuck
3359Answered Nov 4
3360
3361It depends what kind of gays. Jesus was a wise and silent guy, but not when he drove the merchants out of the temple.
3362
3363If there were two gays who were absolutely normal, apart from obviously gay, he may not do anything as he watches them passing by. Then someone asked him why hasn’t he spoke up, and he delivered one of his short wisdoms, in the fashion of “render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's”.
3364
3365However if two perverts would walk in straight from Folsom Street Fair, with a child perhaps, they may meet the same welcome as the merchants did.
336642 Views
3367You are piloting a combat jet and there is a hijacked plane crashing into a stadium with 70,000 people. The Plane has around 300 people and will crash in 30 minutes. What do you do, destroy the plane or let it crash?
3368Efrajim Canuck
3369Efrajim Canuck
3370Answered Nov 3
3371
3372This is the dilemma from a German TV show, right?
3373
3374As far as my memory serves, most viewers voted to shoot down the plane and kill 300 people instead of 70,000. After the voting there was a discussion in the studio with some judges who all said that the pilot would be convicted for 300 counts of manslaughter if he did that, because regardless the danger, he had no authority to take the right of the passengers to live. By German laws, and most European countries’ laws, the plane must be let fall on the stadium and kill 70,000 people to protect the inalienable right of the passengers to live for a few minutes.
3375
3376Therefore the decision very much depends on where in the world is this happening. An American pilot may be authorized to shoot it down if this happens over the US. An European one will never be. What about a Russian, Chinese, Arab, Indian or Brazilian pilot? I don’t know.
3377
3378Personally if I were a German pilot, I would’ve shot down the plane, then immediately fly to Belgium and request asylum. Belgium is the only EU member state which still may offer asylum to citizens of other EU countries. Or I may try to fly over the sea and eject near an US ship. They will be obliged to pick me up, and I can request asylum from the skipper. However it is doubtful if he will have adequate legal knowledge to handle this situation and deny an extradition request.
337986 Views
3380My grandfather left me with $1.2 million. Should I invest it all in bitcoin?
3381Efrajim Canuck
3382Efrajim Canuck
3383Answered Nov 3
3384
3385Definitely not. Bitcoin can go down in any minute. It’s a nice toy, but not real money. You’re better off with gold or equities. But the best investment is actual investment - something that will produce money for you. Indeed, that’s the riskiest too.
3386102 Views
3387What is the coolest line in history?
3388Efrajim Canuck
3389Efrajim Canuck
3390Answered Nov 3
3391
3392The Árpád Line. It was the only major fortification line which was never breached during WW2. The Maginot line, the Siegfried line, the Mannerheim line, the Hitler line, they all fell, but this one held out. To make it even more interesting, the Royal Hungarian was able to hold it against all the might of the Soviet Red Army.
33938 Views
3394What would be your first words on Mars?
3395Efrajim Canuck
3396Efrajim Canuck
3397Answered Nov 3
3398
3399“The fuck am I doing here?”
34001 View
3401What would you do if you saw a flying pig?
3402Efrajim Canuck
3403Efrajim Canuck
3404Answered Nov 3
3405
3406I’d be like: “Wow, a flying pig.” And then returned to my daily routines, as nobody would believe me anyway.
340786 Views
3408What would happen if you shot a bullet through the sun?
3409Efrajim Canuck
3410Efrajim Canuck
3411Answered Nov 3
3412
3413Stupid question. A tiny object like a bullet wouldn’t even reach the Sun because it would evaporate. The tiny cloud of superheated metal vapor would travel on by its momentum and eventually disperse in the upper atmosphere of the Sun.
3414
3415To achieve a meaningful effect you’d need a bullet about a few thousand times the size of Jupiter. But that’s already called a superplanet, not a bullet.
3416140 Views · 1 Upvote
3417For my novel, how would you react if your child told you they killed your husband in self-defense?
3418Efrajim Canuck
3419Efrajim Canuck
3420Answered Nov 3
3421
3422I’d be like: “Oh. So I am not only hallucinating a kid, I am also gay now. Damn, I am a mess.”
342375 Views · 1 Upvote
3424What are some of the most interesting/surprising facts about any country?
3425Efrajim Canuck
3426Efrajim Canuck
3427Answered Nov 3
3428
3429Hungary is a small and relatively insignificant country in Eastern Europe. History buffs may know that it used to be much larger until 1920, about the size of modern Poland or Germany. But that’s not what’s so interesting.
3430
3431The Hungarians are thought to be a Finno-Ugric people, which originated from the Ural Mountains area. However, this theory is only supported by some 40 words which happen to be somewhat similar in Finnish and Hungarian. Even those are very doubtful, for example fish is hal in Hungarian and kala in Finnish. As a matter of fact, the Finno-Ugric theory was made up in the 19th century by the Habsburgs and forced on the Hungarians. Before that there was a long-standing tradition that the Hungarians used to be part of Attila’s Hun Empire.
3432
3433Does it mean that Hun-garians are Huns? The story is much more complicated. As it currently seems, while we indeed were part of the said empire, we’ve been around waaay before the Huns.
3434
3435Hungarian culture has a lot in common with the ancient Sumerians, also known as Assyrians, Babilonians or Phoenicians. We share a lot of our ancient heritage with Sumerians. For example a kind of bottle, the so-called “fütyülős” (whistling) looks exactly as ancient Sumerian liquor bottles. A piece of traditional everyday wear, the so-called “gatya” - a little bit like a crossover between boxer shorts and pants - has an equivalent in Sumerian culture, where it was called “gada”.
3436
3437This is the “gatya”. As you see, it’s held by a string around the vaist. There is a special tool, the “gatya string puller” (for you, fellow Hungarians: gatyamadzaghúzó) to fasten it. This is also a tool which has been unchanged since ancient times, and it’s been found among Sumerian ruins.
3438
3439But it gets interesting when we get to genuine and undisputedly Hungarian things. For example, our traditional dog breeds. You may have heard of the puli, the mudi, the kuvasz, the komondor, right? They are very unique breeds and they all have a very characteristic look. Guess what, the Sumerians had the exact same breeds, as demonstrated by several millenia old statuettes, and their names were: puli, mudi, kuvosa and kumundur. At least this is how their names were latinized from ancient reliefs. Since the scientists who decrypted the ancient writings were not Hungarians, they probably applied a different pronounciation, and the original may have been exactly as we call these dogs today.
3440
3441This is a komondor. A fierce and loyal breed. For strong handed owners only.
3442
3443And this is the mudi. Kind of the Eastern European version of the border collie.
3444
3445It’s a long known fact that the Carpathian Basin was inhabited even back to 6000 BC. You may have learnt about the Mesopotamian civilizations at this time, but certainly not the Carpathian civilization. Why not? Don’t ask me, but the fact is that this civilization was even more advanced than the Mesopotamian ones. For example, they knew the wheel - as seen on this little toy, found near Budaörs.
3446
3447Pretty nice, considering that it’s from around 3000 BC. That’s exactly when the wheel was invented. And where was it invented? As it happens, in Sumeria.
3448
3449They knew and worked with metals way before the copper age, as demonstrated by some beautiful golden jewelry and other items. It certainly wasn’t just some tiny village in the late Stone Age, but a thriving civilization, with advanced agriculture and industry.
3450
3451See this? Not likely the product of some cave dweller.
3452
3453According to the currently accepted scientific views, the Hungarians have arrived to the current Carpathian Basin 895 AD. However it is highly doubtful that this incredibly rich, fertile and well defendable basin was uninhabited. Who lived here? Nobody knows. What is certain that whoever they were, they were able to stop the Roman Empire at the Danube. And not only they stopped them, but the Romans were forced to maintain the strongest limes - border fortification line - to keep them outside of their empire. That’s quite a feat from an allegedly primitive, hut-dwelling people! Particularly that they lived in the Great Hungarian Plains, a terrain very well suited for traditional Roman warfare. What did these guys know that the Romans couldn’t defeat?
3454
3455These clues hint at a very old civilization in the Carpathian Basin which pre-dates Hungary, and very likely our current country is built onto its ruins. We certainly didn’t come to occupy deserted land.
3456
3457As a matter of fact, the Hungarians technically ceased to exist in around the 16th century. You’ll barely find anyone who is ethnically identical to the people before the Ottoman invasion in the 15th century. But the culture lives on, and currently we are a mixture of 13 different recognized minorities. Being Hungarian is being one with the Carpathian Basin, and its 6000 years old heritage.
3458746 Views · 21 Upvotes
3459If Trump gets "removed", could he be replaced by Hillary who did win the majority vote?
3460Efrajim Canuck
3461Efrajim Canuck
3462Answered Nov 3
3463
3464One can dream, huh?
3465
3466First of all, read my lips. Trump is President. Hillary is NOT. And she will never be. Her and her fans’ continued hissy fits is the most cringeworthy thing in modern history. No presidential candidate made up this many excuses and acted as if she were some deposed queen in exile, the rightful heir to the throne.
3467
3468If Trump gets “removed”, whatever that may mean in your dictionary, he will be replaced by Mike Pence. You know, the guy who’d treat homosexuality with electroshock therapy. If you’re so upset about Trump, you’ll love the magnificent bastard. Go ahead, remove the Drumpf!
346937 Views
3470Which is the best Star Wars movie and why?
3471Efrajim Canuck
3472Efrajim Canuck
3473Answered Oct 31
3474Originally Answered: What is the best Star Wars movie of all time?
3475
3476We don’t yet know what kind of Star Wars movies will be released in the next few hundred years. Therefore we can’t tell which is the best of “all time”.
3477
3478If you mean which was the best Star Wars movie of the past, that also cannot be answered because “good” is a subjective term, and it has nothing to do with “popular”. For instance methamphetamine is popular, but it’s not good at all.
3479
3480No professional critic would ever use the word “good” to describe a movie. Every flick has its own merits, but they are a product of their era and their values may resonate very differently in various communities. If A New Hope was released today, it’d be dismissed as a cheap story of clichés. It is only popular because it came out in the 1970s. It would be an outrageous movie if it was released in Nazi Germany, and it’d be probably banned. It would be incomprehensible for a society without technology, for example a tribe living in the Amazonian forest. I wonder how would it be received in North Korea? Different age groups may also view it very differently. It’s awesome for a kid, but is it for an adult too?
3481
3482Even in the Western world, Star Wars is somewhat controversial. It’s a shallow fantasy movie, a popcorn piece. Yeah, we love popcorn, but it’s a snack, not our bread and butter. Is Star Wars better than Schindler’s List or Fight Club? Does it contribute anything to your personal development?
3483
3484Anyway, it’s Rogue One, hands down.
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3486If you had to write one word and that would be your last, what would you write and why?
3487Efrajim Canuck
3488Efrajim Canuck
3489Answered Oct 31
3490
3491It’d be “Fuck you.”
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3493Why is fake news permeating the globe?
3494Efrajim Canuck
3495Efrajim Canuck
3496Answered Oct 27
3497
3498Because people love to make up gossips. Everybody tries to be well informed and therefore important. It’s a social thing. Beyond a certain level it’s a political agenda.
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3500What movie would you recommend to an alien?
3501Efrajim Canuck
3502Efrajim Canuck
3503Answered Oct 26
3504
3505That’s a rude word here in Canada. We call people “visitors”, not aliens. Anyway I’d show him or her some lesser known, yet awesome European movies.
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3507How do you get a fake news website (like imzansi.com) shut down? They do real damage.
3508http://imzansi.com
3509Efrajim Canuck
3510Efrajim Canuck
3511Answered Oct 26
3512
3513The better question is how do we shut up people like you. Censorship is bad, mmkey? That’s how you get dictatorships. You don’t want one, right? If you do, please lock yourself up in the basement, beat yourself up with something heavy, then shoot yourself. Don’t waste government resources.
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