[ExI] Inflation and the 2024 election

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2026, 7:01 AM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Oct 17, 2026 at 3:10 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> * > 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.*
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>> * > 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.*
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> *Once a launch of an ICBM in Asia from an enemy nation has been detected
> and its trajectory definitively determined to be a city in the USA the
> President of the United States will almost certainly be dead in 20 minutes.*
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It would take much less than 20 minutes to verify there was no ICBM launch
detected, or anything remotely resembling an incoming attack against the
USA. This would likely be done by those in the immediate vicinity of those
who directly received the order from POTUS.

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