SwiftOnSecurityEuropeans when they realize this is how America transports nuclear weapons between our 6,000 military bases: 🤯🤯
Charlie Stross@SwiftOnSecurity I cry Photoshop fake! There's no gun rack at the back of the cab and it's not rolling coal. (The nuclear weapons are totally plausible, though.)
Knepherbird@cstross @SwiftOnSecurity And two giant American flags posted at either corner of the rear cab.
kepler@SwiftOnSecurity That's just how lifted F-150s ramp off of pedestrians here.
Tommi@SwiftOnSecurity Wait, I thought this is the vehicle every American needs because they "use them for work"??
Mister_Fun_Guy@SwiftOnSecurity some might say we’re digging our own graves
El Diablo Roboc 😈🤖@SwiftOnSecurity I thought that they were just dropped from planes with a cowboy riding them down
Robert McNees@SwiftOnSecurity True story: One of the Army Counterintelligence officers who transported sensitive materials between Oak Ridge and Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project was Thomas Forkner, who later co-founded Waffle House.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/business/thomas-forkner-dead-waffle-house.html
Anthony Watkinsand now Waffle House makes great hashbrowns but is racist, hateful and generally mistreats their employees
adamdoesit@mcnees @SwiftOnSecurity This accounts for so much: the unity of 24/7/365 work efforts between the Manhattan Project and Waffle House; the link between Waffle House and national disaster, via FEMA's famed Waffle House Index; and my unshakeable fear/desire that just the wrong/right hash brown order might achieve criticality.
Ian Renton@SwiftOnSecurity Meanwhile in Britain, our vehicle for transporting nukes between our one nuclear missile base and the other side of the same base:
Doctor LURK@SwiftOnSecurity there... there are other ways?
News to this American!
Th3 Ph3d@SwiftOnSecurity Here's how they transport nuclear waste from the sites that produce it to the storage sites.
These TRUPACT containers hold 14 55 gallon drums of waste. They can transport 2-3 on a flatbed along the interstate highways to get from the source to the destination.
The destination is usually the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, located in New Mexico.
The engineering and testing of the TRUPACT is really interesting. Details here: https://www.wipp.energy.gov/fctshts/TRUwastecontainers.pdf
These TRUPACT containers hold 14 55 gallon drums of waste. They can transport 2-3 on a flatbed along the interstate highways to get from the source to the destination.
The destination is usually the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, located in New Mexico.
The engineering and testing of the TRUPACT is really interesting. Details here: https://www.wipp.energy.gov/fctshts/TRUwastecontainers.pdf
Dani (
Antifascista)@SwiftOnSecurity Here in Germany, cities are only 100 kilo-tons distant from each other. (Last millenium NATO speak)