Re:Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers
by echoangle on Monday March 17, 2025 @07:07PM
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Thanks for the link, very interesting. So CEP is estimated to be around 100m. Better than I thought but I wouldn’t call it hitting a specific house yet.
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Re:Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers
by ants_everywhere on Monday March 17, 2025 @09:22PM
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What do you consider the primary benefit of pinpointing a particular house in nuclear war?
Re:Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers
by Game_Ender on Monday March 17, 2025 @10:34PM
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I don’t know if it matters now but at some point certain targets were hardened to near misses of certain sizes but not direct strikes. So the better your accuracy the smaller the weapon (or fewer) you can use to take out those targets.
So you could say the use would be increased certainty your enemies command and control and other bunkers would be destroyed increasing the odds of “winning” whatever happens afterwards.
Re:Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers
by layla5alive on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @01:04AM
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There is no "winning" in global thermonuclear war... :/
Re:Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers
by echoangle on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @06:05AM
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That’s why I said the guidance is only really usable for nuclear weapons. I wasn’t saying the guidance is bad, I was saying it’s not accurate to a few meters.
Re:Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers
by ants_everywhere on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @01:17PM
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Oh you're right, my bad. I got lost in the conversation and looking into the types of guidance systems and I forgot that was your original point.