• tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    how many horses we need to produce this year

    Setting aside everything else about this statement, there’s some lag time there.

    Assuming a maximum rate of horse-sexing is initiated today with no organizational delay:

    https://www.petmd.com/horse/pregnancy-horses

    The gestation period for a horse is 340 days on average, or about 11 months.

    Then you’ve got time for a foal to grow and then to train it.

    https://thehorse.com/115040/when-is-a-young-horse-ready-to-ride/

    In the performance horse world and with many breeds, 3 to 4 years old should be an adequate age to start a horse under saddle. In the racing breeds we start a little earlier (around 2 years of age) and the data doesn’t show that starting these horses early is a problem. But, generally, 3 to 4 years old is a good age and the horse should be plenty mature skeletally for some riding.

    Horse aren’t completely physically mature at this point and are still growing, and certainly a 3-year-old Warmblood will look different from a 6-year-old Warmblood. You have to play it by ear and…

    • Skua@kbin.earth
      2·
      3 days ago

      That has to be translation error, surely? There’s no goddamn way anyone thinks that that’s a meaningful option

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          You could use centrifuges, but there are larger fundamental issues, like the cost of moving the mass of a refinery and inputs into space and deorbiting the outputs. The vulnerability of space launch infrastructure itself. Probably heat dissipation, though I’m not gonna go look up specifics.

          Just the time to develop, manufacture and deploy something like that compared to the kind of timeline permitted by war.

          I mean, I assume that Russian dude isn’t trying to do a deep analysis here, just throw out encouraging outside-the-box ideas, but even with that for context, “space” is pretty bonkers.

          EDIT: Oh, saw the bit about shooting things down before they take off. Just gallows humor.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    underground

    Uh huh. That sounds familiar.

    https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll8/id/4149

    Interrogation of Reich Marshal Hermann Goering

    16 May 1945

    SPAATZ [US Army general]: Did the jet airplane really have a chance to win against us?

    GOERING: Yes, I am still convinced, if we only had four to five months more time. Our underground installations were practically all ready. The factory at Karla (?) had a capacity of 1000 to 1200 jet airplanes a month. Now with 5000 to 6000 jets the outcome would have been different.

    VANDENBURG [US Army Air Force lieutenant general]: But could you train sufficient jet pilots, considering your shortage in oil?

    GOERING: Yes, we would have had underground factories for oil, producing a sufficient quantity for the jets. The transition to jets was very easy in training. The jet pilot output was always ahead of the jet aircraft production.

    SPAATZ: Could Germany have been defeated by air power alone, using England as a base, without invasion?

    GOERING: No, because German industry was going underground, and our counter measures could have kept pace with your bombing.

  • Kowowow@lemmy.ca
    13·
    3 days ago

    With how much weather could affect small aircraft like drones I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a number of mini hidden weather stations in russian territory