your link is broken but the howstuffworks page is quoting from the Wikipedia, which sources the GPS guidance to an anonymous post on globalsecurity.org - itsself not a bad source - however the method of delivery is they open the back of the aircraft, push the bomb on a wooden pallet out the door, wait a few seconds, activate a parachute, wait a few seconds for the gps to kick in, whereby “fins” guide it to its location.

You’ll forgive me for being skeptical about 8m precision on a remote-controlled parachute from 35,000 feet at 400mph using rudders

I mean a quick google shows he’s done it a few times - here he is hunting wild goats

I mean that’s what I’m saying - most bombs miss by more than is effective. Close counts for a hand grenade if you don’t throw it in totally the wrong direction.

Edit: …and so far the only counter argument is “once we dropped a single bomb that was too big to miss - a decade ago.”

you dont have to convince me, of course, I just remain unconvinced

eh, I still don’t buy it.

WW2 was gonna be over by the second Christmas, Ukraine was a month-long special operation, etc…

Do you have an example on a similar population/campaign?

I’ll happily concede if you’ve got a source?

A fair correction. I’ll counter than the USA dropped more bombs than WW2 total on Vietnam, including dropping 100,000 tons of bombs on a 40 mile² area and a) didn’t kill everyone, b) didn’t even bomb every settlement in that area and c) lost.

And which conflict was resolved successfully by bombing?

Certainly Afghanistan was famously not resolved by aerial attacks, and the best result we have here so far is “its OK to miss with a $170,000 single bomb if it allegedly, unconfirmedly, kills between 0 and 90 people”

Not to mention this is a single data point and one debatably “accurate” hit does not suddenly make all air ordinance accurate.

Sure, just name a conflict that was resolved by bombing, with the exception of Hiroshima/Nagasaki- which im not counting because those were nukes, and Japan was on the verge of surrender anyway.

And was dropped approximately 100-200 meters (ie 1-2 football fields) off target.

Per your link: The MOAB was used once, has a 1 mile blast radius, and based on reports killed, depending on who you ask, “only terrorists - 90 of them” “a bunch of people including teachers and students” and “no one”

Hardly definitive. Also, a 1 mile bomb killing fewer than 100 people? Greenland has 52k people at a population density of 0.1/mile²

you didn’t go through a major train station in London? there’s usually armed guards there.

yeah I mean no English words except false cognates are in the Bible without translation, so it’s a meaningless question.

In fact the words in the first half of the Bible aren’t in the second half because the first half is Hebrew/Aramaic and the second half is Koine Greek.

wouldn’t it be a 125–250 mile cable tops?

That assumes that bombing is effective, accurate and deadly, which is not the case.

Bombs have a 20% accuracy rate, where “on target” is about 2 football fields around the target lol.

Does

Genesis 37:10:

And when he had related this to his father and brothers, his father rebuked him, and he said: “What does it mean to you, this dream that you have seen? Should I, and your mother, and your brothers reverence you upon the earth?”

I use a mental algorithm that means my password is always different on paper, but is always deducible by me.

I mean Trump, W, Raygun, Nixon…

Everyone says “caretaker president” perjoratively, but I’m starting to wonder if the presidents who do the least are the best.

Context: when asked how he felt about JK Rowlings transphobia he said

One thing: When a woman who was once a man is competing against women who have always been women, I think she has an advantage, because she inherited a man’s body, which is usually bigger and stronger than a woman’s Does that prove phobia?"

and

I want to be a Cambodian police woman, is that allowed?

Maybe instead, Cleese should consider that, as a writer, one must take responsibility for one’s work, even if that work is intended to be comic, that does not inure the writer from consequence or criticism.

to add to the pedantry, “electrocute” means “to kill via electricity” - they mean “electrify”