Loading ...We already have the plague here in wildlife. For that reason kids have to be careful hunting rabbits etc. more so northern Calif. Occasionally but rarely a person can get it. Because of antibiotics the only way it could be a concern is if infected rats got it in the inner city in southern Calif like typhus did and spread rapidly due to the population coming from all over and particularly due to all the homeless and trash and now abandoned buildings in some parts of towns. I don’t know what happened here but the homeless camps disappeared. I know one reason was they’d give them a time to get out so they keep having to move around. It’s tough on many because their not chosing to be homeless they just got priced out and only way they can save money or afford to eat. More and more people are teaming up or kids not leaving home helping parents because rents ridiculous then gas and with it food prices, med insurance, car insurance all higher than other places thanks to our demoncratic government. When I went to southern Calif a few yrs ago I saw a big white rat crawling around at night outside a big hotel next to Disneyland in Orange country near LA then disappear I think in the street water drainage system.
You can use 60% in a bomb.
But it won’t be as efficient as higher rates. Little Boy was 80%.
The puzzle is that Manhattan only needed four years to make a bomb starting completely from scratch. Iran’s program started in 1957, so even with all the on/offs of the program, revolution, sanctions, inspections etc. they should be way ahead of what is claimed. Enrichment isn’t rocket science, just long, tedious running of centrifuges.
Supposedly Iran has enriched uranium up to 60%
that’s much higher than needed in power plants.
Iran’s Enriched Uranium Stockpile
Current Status
Iran possesses a significant stockpile of enriched uranium, specifically:
Total Amount: 972 pounds (440.9 kilograms) of uranium enriched to 60% purity.
Potential for Weaponization: This level of enrichment is a short technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90%.
Implications
The enriched uranium stockpile could enable Iran to potentially construct up to 10 nuclear bombs if it decides to pursue weaponization. This situation raises concerns among international observers regarding nuclear proliferation and regional security.
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Ferrett
Forgot to mention though they might be focused on a conventional air strike when it could be entirely something else. They “military” probably do know I hope but the media or what they tell us doesn’t.
Ferrett
That’s a interesting point but since I don’t need to know too much because it’s not in my field of job description I don’t focus on the details. So I kinda looked it up. The mountains are strategic protecting the facilities from bombing. So with tunnels scientists could travel underground and don’t even know where they go or building somewhere else while Isreal and US focused on what they do know it’s possible. I don’t know how far those satellites can go.
- Intelligence Monitoring: U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies utilize high-resolution satellite imagery to track new tunnel entrances, ventilation shafts, and the movement of specialized personnel.
- Bunker-Buster Limits: Most conventional bunker-busters, like the GBU-57, can only penetrate a few dozen meters of hard rock. Facilities buried hundreds of meters deep under granite, such as the Yazd fortress, are largely immune to current conventional air strikes. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Extracting U235 from yellowcake requires a lot of machinery.
Thousands of centrifuges, running for years, involving tens of thousands of people. You can’t keep it secret. So IF they have a programme, Israel and the US (and anyone else interested) would know about it. It’s not a Breaking Bad operation.
If they didn’t have it, there wouldn’t have been any point to the war. Ah, unless the point of the war is totally unrelated to military objectives; such as economic objectives that can be obtained by restricting the supply of oil, natural gas (especially), helium, aluminium, water etc. to China, foreign chip manufacturers, India, Europe, while at the same time boosting Russia’s economy with higher prices of all of the above. And weakening European and Asian economies en masse. MAGA upsized.
Ipso 17:59
It means they have a lot of hiding places. I’d like to know if that’s indeed Noah’s Arch in one of them.
goldielocks @ 17:13
“nuclear war” Yep could happen. Probably easier than we’d like to think.
I think Iran is very mountainous but I’m not sure what you’re relating that to?
Ipso
Plus don’t they have a lot of mountains in Iran and neighboring countries?
Ipso
The poll, how do they know at this point after so many yrs and building enemies they are even building these nukes in their country. For all we know they could be building them somewhere else in some compact form that they could just drive into Israel’s capital or somewhere else with lax borders and not only nuke them but affect the neighboring countries then go from there plus retaliation and starting WW111 and civilization as we know it is finished.
Ipso 12:57
Those laws were originally meant to protect paying tenants from being ripped off. Where they rent a place or room and the renter pulls a scam and gets their money and don’t hold their end of the agreement or changes their mind and doesn’t give them their money back because it was a scam or renter says they’re going to have to wait a few days because some problem came up or they’ll willingly move out and were honest so they unlawfully sneak in a steal their property and hold it hostage if they were only a few days late. Or steals from them in some form and goes into their place of room when they’re not there and snoops around takes stuff from them. So they made laws to protect renter from unscrupulous and scams usually to young people who don’t know the scams out there or their rights yet just that it’s wrong, elder or disabled.
So now the reverse they need to make laws to protect renters from creeps like that who are breaking and entering, trespassing stop paying once they get in or become a threat.
That pipeline looks a bit clogged
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🇮🇷🇵🇰 Thousands of Iranians are smuggling fuel into Pakistan by cars, trucks & motorcycles as the US naval blockade forced Tehran to encourage illegal land exports to prevent its oil storage facilities from overflowing
It’s the eastern border near the town of Pirkor, Pakistan
D’oh!
Francesco 🇮🇹
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Estibaliz Kortazar, a far-left Spanish activist, did what good comrades do, she opened her home to a North African migrant.
Once he got what he wanted, the man started sexually harassing her, insulting her, and beating her. Then he threw her out, changed the locks, and took over the house.
She called the police for help. Their response? “We can’t do anything without a court order.”
Now she’s sleeping at relatives’ houses, seeing a psychologist after a nervous breakdown, and has launched a petition to fast-track the legal process and get her home back.
goldielocks
“Typhus” That sounds delightful. Maybe we’ll see Bubonic Plague as well!
Ipso 21:14
It’s also more money to him and his cronies syndicate as he taxes the gas people need to get to work.
Mean while for awhile now Typhus has returned from before antibiotics as it can be spread hand to hand mouth thing. What they never mention is all the homeless in Los Angeles and piles of trash bringing in rats who carry it via fleas infecting other animals including domestic cats who chase and kill them as well as lack of toilets and hand washing to homeless. It just appears by itself ya know.
goldielocks
I think you’re on to something.
Ipso 12:23
He’s doing is bidding with China, he’s working for the other side.
Newsom at work
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Newsom at work…
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Maya
Looks like PMs holding the line after hours. That sounds like a memorable and a bit exhausting adventure during the near mid 20th century travel by rail were passengers can take second to shipments. The scenic travel could make it worth it if not in a hurry I can imagine with dining and comfortable seats or rooms vs the chaos of flying. It sounds like it traveled along the river.
Gold Train
The Twin Cities Burlington Zephyr
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/895810/
I rode this as a kid from Chicago to Minneapolis. Burlington main on Wisconsin side of the Mississippi river was blocked by derailment, so we detoured on Milwaukee road on the Minnesota side of the river. We spent all night inching down the line, last priority to all other traffic. Frequent stops & long holds in sidings.