15 pointsby breve5 hours ago4 comments
  • aucisson_masque3 hours ago
    If I was American I wouldn't care so much about the stock pile but about the amount that was and is still being used everyday. 3.5M$ x 850 is a lot of wasted money when diplomacy is much less expensive.
    • roxolotl3 hours ago
      Seeing the NASA ask for a permanent moon base at $20B while the pentagon is looking for $200B really puts it into perspective. You’re telling me it’s going to cost 10x as much to wage war on Iran as it is to build a moon base? Wtf are we doing.
      • johng2 hours ago
        If you think NASA will be able to build a moon base for $20B, I've got a bridge to sell you.
        • roxolotl2 hours ago
          Oh yes absolutely it will cost more than $20B. But that’s an order of magnitude difference. If NASA has price overruns by 9x it’s still cheaper. That’s why it’s so stark.
        • fragmede2 hours ago
          NASA didn't go to moon for the love of science and because it was cool. They went there because Sputnik was an ICBM with a radio for a payload instead of a warhead.
          • chewsan hour ago
            didn't know that Neal Degrasse Tyson was also on HN.
    • PearlRiver38 minutes ago
      The US dumped more bombs on North Korea than all of WW2 combined and it still ended up in a stalemate.
    • johng2 hours ago
      Diplomacy hasn't worked for the past 50 years, why would it work now?
  • mitchbob3 hours ago
    > More than 850 have been fired in just four weeks, people familiar with the matter said, raising concerns about the weapon's limited supply.

    https://archive.ph/xa4li

  • glass11222 hours ago
    American clowns can't print their missiles and weapons, just like they print their dollars? Pathetic and Sad!! Glad to see, pedophiles and child murderers cannot start wars, kill children because of their parasitic greed.
  • cyanydeez2 hours ago
    how else are we suppose to pump up the militarial industrial complex?