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not sure how much it matters, but is it interesting that Russia and China abstained? <i dont follow UN stuff much, so that is an actual question. The United Nations Security Council adopted a draft resolution condemning Iran's attacks on Gulf...

Iran (like Russia) isn't really dependent on top shelf advanced weapons. Shahed drones are cheap, they're produced domestically, produced in Russia, claimed (but not last I knew proven) to be produced in North Korea and at offshore Russian...

I've seen several commentators state that the war will be short because one or more of the players will run out of advanced weapons. Unfortunately that was also used by many of the same talking heads to predict an end to the Ukraine war which (so...

Yeah, some drone pilots were caught flying a drone illegally during the daytime, in the past few weeks. This happened near Volkel, Eindhoven, and Gilze-Rijen. In the case of Volkel, it seems that the drone pilot was just making some video footage...

Source: https://www.iea.org/about/oil-security-and-emergency-response/strait-of-hormuz 20 mb/d, around 25% world seaborne oil trade, transits the Strait – 80% destined for Asia. 3.5 to 5.5 mb/d of pipeline capacity with the potential to...

The thing about pipelines is like Internet vs. sneakernet. The Internet feels really fast and direct and it definitely has advantages of flexibility and response time, but a box of hard drives is still vastly faster at moving a lot of data. The...

Much of that video is obviously AI generated, like the one with the two story tall firefighters with a yellow hose that loops back on itself or anything with moving cars (scale is all over the place even in single shots and at one point a large...

A more reasonable soluction would be multiple pipelines from The Persian Gulf to the Red Sea, entirely within Saudi Arabia. Being a fixed structure it would be vulnerable to attack, but being entirely on Saudi territory it would be much easier to...

I'm going to assume that's sarcasm...

The thing about pipelines is like Internet vs. sneakernet. The Internet feels really fast and direct and it definitely has advantages of flexibility and response time, but a box of hard drives is still vastly faster at moving a lot of data. The...

Close Encounters had many UFOlogy/ related tropes, deliberately so. @Todd Feinman mentioned the police cars pursuing a UFO (this has happened several times in the real world). Small, fast "scoutships" that do the flitting about, and a...

The tallest mountain range in the Arabian Peninsula run down that peninsula, I'm not sure even Operation Plowshare could run a canal through that terrain, there's no convenient plateau lake to take advantage of. There's a spot around that weird...

The Saudis and Emeratis did think of that as a back up to tankers but there are limits. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqTKKgdlCHY

Much of that video is obviously AI generated, like the one with the two story tall firefighters with a yellow hose that loops back on itself or anything with moving cars (scale is all over the place even in single shots and at one point a large...

Close Encounters had many UFOlogy/ related tropes, deliberately so. @Todd Feinman mentioned the police cars pursuing a UFO (this has happened several times in the real world). Small, fast "scoutships" that do the flitting about, and a...