[ExI] Inflation and the 2024 election

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Oct 17, 2026 at 2:10 PM John Clark via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 8:14 PM Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > >  nobody ever gave Rajneesh the keys to a missile carrying nuclear submarine like they did for the MAGA leader.
>>
>> > I am fairly sure that orders to launch would not be obeyed unless the US was under attack
>
> A modern nuclear missile submarine stays 1000 feet underwater for months at a time, so the captain of the submarine is completely cut off from what's going on in the outside world except for a ultra low frequency ultra low bandwidth military radio receiver that can only receive about 2 words a minute, so the only way he would know that the US was under attack was if his Commander and Chief told him it was under attack. And then his orders would be clear, launch all missiles.

The comms wouldn't go directly from POTUS to sub.  The chain of orders
would likely be intercepted and halted before they could be sent to
the sub if the US was not actually under attack.