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Blue Origin's all-female flight is set to launch next week with Gayle King, Katy Perry and Lauren Sánchez on board​

Blue Origin's all-female flight launches to edge of space with Gayle King, Katy Perry and Lauren Sánchez on board​

Blue Origin completed its latest spaceflight Monday with a historic all-female crew. The mission, NS-31, was the 11th human flight for Jeff Bezos’s space tourism company and 31st overall.

 

Meta's Zuckerberg disputes US antitrust case in trial testimony​

"I think we misunderstood how social engagement online was evolving," Zuckerberg said.

 

China could sink entire US carrier fleet in 20 minutes, Pentagon chief warns​


Ehhhh...Whiskey Pete isn't wrong but he's still wrong.

If the US Carrier fleet lined up on the back side of Taiwan, dropped anchor and didn't move for as long as it took for the Chinese to find them, fire their missiles, and the Americans did nothing in the 10 minutes between launch and impact, including not bringing the Arleigh Burke's with the Aegis systems....well yeah.

In reality though, the carriers are constantly moving around in a protective bubble defended by a few missile cruisers, a few destroyers, frigates and subs,..... and a full compliment of F 35's among other treats. Finding them is harder than you'd think (ocean is mad big yo) and getting a targeting solution on one is again, harder than just finding one. Then you need the American missile defence cruisers to not shoot your shit down, which given how successful an older, lesser system has been in shooting down Russian hypersonics in Ukraine...

So like, realistically...yeah China could sink a carrier but probably only if an American carrier was really close to Taiwan (like, as in they decided that they needed to use F-35's using only internal fuel to protect Taiwan so need to be within 100-150km of Taiwan) so China got to use their bigger, better land based hypersonic kit on them. If a carrier is fucking about 1000+km from the Chinese coast, just doing random carrier shit in SEA, I don't see it.

This sounds like the thing people at the Pentagon say when they're about to ask for funding on a new weapons programs.
 
Ocean is, indeed, "mad big yo." Found that out in spades learning to sail off Pt. Loma/San Diego. Thanks for more info. Does for sure sound like prelude to a financial ask! 👍
 
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