Oh look, a right wing nationalist white 1%er with a bad haircut making disparaging, stereotypical, prejudiced, xenophobic comments about neighbouring countries.
Countdown until Johnson makes a “send them home” comment starting now. He does after all, want the Brexiter vote.
Queue the Conservatives,“Did we stutter?”
So they got the leaks from the Russians? Traitorous dogs.
What does ‘special relationship’ mean anyway? Does it mean we both speak English and the rich people intermarry?
It means we brits get preferential treatment and the Americans listen to us, so we can restrain your youthful exuberance, stop you nuking everyone.
Hahahahahahahahaha
ShivaX
5099
Mostly it means we fought the Nazis together and held the line against Stalin turning Europe into a giant shithole satellite.
But now it means we’re both flirting with fascism while shitting on the electorate and angling for quasi-dictatorships or at least open oligarchies.
Aceris
5100
Yeah, I can’t imagine a civil servant leaking diplomatic cables to a 19 year old brexiteer. Only 100 people were cleared to read the cable, and at that kind of level they’d leak to a more established journalist with a reputation for protecting sources. He is perfect, on the other hand, as a “cut out” for the Russians to pretend it’s a legitimate leak.
The really disturbing thing is that the Russians got hold of it.
I don’t know about Russia, but I agree the kid has clearly been played by someone with a motive to damage UK/US relations, or get rid of that ambassador. Russia fits, but so do others.
Frictionless reentry would have been rather problematic.
Why even bother though. His racist, idiot supporters just don’t care about facts.
magnet
5105
Yes, that’s what I first thought of. Frictionless re-entry literally ends with a crater. So after all its a good metaphor for Brexit.
Anyone able to work out what happens when 20 tons (Apollo module) hits solid earth at 11 km/s? (reentry velocity of Apollo 10)
Does it create Lake Boris or the Sea of Boris?
It creates a giant flaming asshole in the Earth and causes massive trauma and collateral casualties along the way.
ShivaX
5108
Well, Boris Johnson was born around that time…
CraigM
5109
Well frictionless means it is not interacting with ordinary matter. And that implies that a frictionless craft would be composed of neutrinos or other exotic matter.
So lets take our neutrino craft. It is moving at 11km/s and is frictionless. It would them hit the ground and continue moving. Depending on where it hit, and the angle it would probably make contact with the surface nowhere. That’s because an entry angle of 6.5° into atmosphere they would pass about 60km above the surface of the Earth, if my rough calculations are correct.
Earth is saved!
Even if it entered at a crazy 45° angle it would probably reach the surface somewhere in the pacific and exit the Atlantic. Would get a nice look at the outer core though!
rho21
5110
Assuming you just wanted 20 tons of matter hitting the surface of the earth at 11km/s though, it’d have kinetic energy of about 1,210 GJ, which is about 0.29 kT of TNT equivalent.
