NEW: Amid reports that America's bunker-busters may not have destroyed the deeply-buried site at Fordo, here's a look at the science of earth-penetrating weapons. It turns out geology matters a lot. www.npr.org/2025/06/25/n...
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A great reminder that nature (and science) always bats last
jun 25, 2025, 1:09 pm • 2 0 • view
to ppl like trumpians geology is just a vague concept
jun 25, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Why America's giant bunker-busting bombs may have failed to reach their target : NPR www.npr.org/2025/06/25/n... "It depends enormously on the kind of rock"
jun 25, 2025, 1:50 pm • 1 0 • view
jun 25, 2025, 12:53 pm • 0 0 • view
What a surprise. (Sorry, but the crazy idea about that 'anything can be penetrated' is absurd to anyone who knows even a little bit of tunnelling engineering.)
jun 25, 2025, 10:46 am • 0 0 • view
“In fact, going deeper is a simple solution to the threat of bunker-busters. A major conclusion from the 2005 study was that "it's cheaper and easier for someone to dig deeper than it is to penetrate through that depth," he says.”
jun 25, 2025, 10:57 am • 5 0 • view
Hold the phone - they didn't put their super valuable facility under silty clay? Crazy
jun 25, 2025, 11:32 am • 2 0 • view
The narcissism is metastasizing across the White House: "The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
jun 25, 2025, 2:05 pm • 0 0 • view