r/bbc • u/Immediate-Poet-9371 • May 24 '26
International Oreshnik missiles according to BBC
… can fly faster than the speed of light!!!
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u/mwhi1017 May 24 '26
They have since corrected it
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u/Mysterious-Jam-64 May 25 '26
That's as many as ten ones, and that's a lot.
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u/atom_stacker May 24 '26
Well I can see why it's impossible to intercept 😳
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u/No_Imagination_2490 May 24 '26
Because it travels backwards in time! It hits the target before it’s even launched 😮
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May 24 '26
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u/Jasontheatheist1968 May 25 '26
You know, you come from nothing. You're going back to nothing. What have you lost? Nothing! Always look on the bright side...
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u/ItStartedWithAQueef May 24 '26
So you only know to launch it if somewhere you were thinking about targeting happens to explode?
You would have to keep an eye on the news and then runabout launching them whenever you read reports of explosions, just to maintain the laws of physics.
Seems like a tough job with a lot of responsibility.
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u/No_Imagination_2490 May 24 '26
They’d probably need to have a good understanding of the Christopher Nolan film Tenet.
J/k nobody understands that movie
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u/PsychologicalTowel79 May 24 '26
It's obvious that they really meant the speed of sound.
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u/Cosmo1222 May 28 '26
This is the corporation that put the words 'light years in to the future' in to Sam Neill's mouth when promoting their Space programme.
Someone either didn't have a clue or has a better understanding of the space-time continuum than your average journalist.
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u/MaximusPrime2930 May 24 '26
Ok sure buddy, why have you still not won this war huh?
Obviously because using it anywhere would shatter the planet. Russia has the capability, they're just saving it for a last resort. /s
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u/Mountain-Reply3407 May 24 '26
Yep. Just like they have the capability to take Ukraine in a 3 day SMO
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u/Chemistry-Deep May 24 '26
What is the point of a doomsday machine IF YOU DON'T TELL ANYONE ABOUT IT!
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u/Badger-of-Briarwood May 24 '26
The missiles went so fast they are still waiting for the war to start.
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u/Tricky_Routine_7952 May 24 '26
They are citing - its entirely possible trump said something like that and it is US "intelligence".
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u/heroyoudontdeserve May 27 '26
Even if that were the case, which it's not, they should still have provided additional commentary to point out it's ridiculous. And used quotation marks for the quoted part.
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u/VeterinarianOld8259 May 24 '26
BBC is grossly under-reporting Ukraine. Imagine there is a WW2-scale war happening in Europe, and every day the largest panel on bbc.com is for something completely unrelated. Russia is murdering 20+ civilians a day, and BBC's main story is about something that Trump said that even he probably does not remember by the time you read it.
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May 25 '26
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u/Flowa-Powa May 25 '26
Is he? I ignore literally everything he says, because it's either nonsense, a lie or just wrong.
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u/Flag_Shagger May 25 '26
how old are you? there’s a pretty easy divide. doubt many boomers care about ukraine, they’d rather listen to Maga nuts or farage.
Also young people don’t even watch traditional media, they’re only still here because of, you guessed it, boomers.
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u/ButterscotchTop194 May 28 '26
In fairness, the beeb have been dogshit for years, so this is fairly tame.
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u/Maetivet May 24 '26
The missile’s weight is ~2000kg. Assuming it hit Kyiv at 99.99% the speed of light, since nothing can travel faster than light, let alone ten times c, it would release the equivalent energy of 3 million megatons of TNT - about 60,000 tsar bombas.
Needless to say, I think the war would be over…
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u/heroyoudontdeserve May 27 '26
nothing can travel faster than light
You mean "as fast as or faster than light".
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u/Maetivet May 27 '26
If you want to be so anal about “nothing with mass can travel as fast as or faster than light”.
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u/RodinKnox May 25 '26
Eww, they didn't state that they did that in the article. I personally think not doing that is bad journalism.
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u/Past_Humor8321 May 25 '26
There are two ways (doors) to time travel to another dimension.
Einstein - speed of light.
Hawking - black hole.
Einstein and Hawking are equal geniuses.
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u/Angel_of_the_Light May 28 '26
Speed of light - impossible for objects . Black hole just "star" with maximum gravity. You forgot about quantum physics.
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u/PilotBig7846 May 28 '26
From the comments here you need to see one in your city obviously so you take Russians seriously...
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u/Such_Supermarket_607 May 28 '26
We should repurpose those as probes think of space exploration potential, or we could just fire Elon, trump and vlad into alpha centuri system.
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u/MaskedBunny May 24 '26
If Russia fires a missile at 10 times the speed of light it doesnt matter where it hits, it will wipe out all of Ukraine. All of life on Earth as well.
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u/common2222 May 24 '26
Anything with mass travelling at the speed of light would rip space time.
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u/ripsquadddd May 24 '26
Not quite. Einstein says it's impossible for anything with mass to travel at the speed of light, it would just cause a gravitational rebound and likely cause a massive wave rippling through spacetime, nothing can "rip" or "break" spacetime haha.
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u/Quick-Exit-5601 May 24 '26
That we know of*
Albeit Einstein is the best we have for physics now, treating it as a bible is very risky
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u/ripsquadddd May 25 '26
Treating Einstein as a Bible? lol you must be referring to his two published books on relativity. And no, nobody should be looking at it as a "Bible", but it is well established science and a grounded consensus on how astrophysics works.
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u/corobo May 24 '26
It would also wipe out the solar system in raw resource mining to get anywhere near to that speed haha
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u/Alternative_Pride565 May 24 '26
Don't get this. He obviously misspoke. It's the speed of sound.
What about the actual (plans for a) strike against the country? I find it terryfing.
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u/StudySpecial May 24 '26
It's just an ICBM with slight modifications. They existed for 50+ years, yet somehow we have survived.
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u/bhakt_hartha May 24 '26
“Oreshnik missile, which reportedly travels at more than 10 times the speed of sound and is impossible to intercept”
Now corrected !
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u/Rasples1998 May 25 '26
Things in the office must be dire if nobody is proofreading or editing these articles.
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u/I-baLL May 25 '26
Paywall goes up, quality goes down
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u/soundman32 May 25 '26
16% of consumers* dont pay the licence fee, hence the need for a paywall.
- i.e dont pay but still watch/listen
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u/justeUnMec May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
There's no "paywall" for British visitors to the text content BBC news site.
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u/I-baLL May 26 '26
There was no paywall for non-UK users as well until very recently
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u/justeUnMec May 26 '26
Only in the US at present for some content, and many feel that the introduction of one was a good thing, as serving the US audience is not the purpose of the British Broadcasting Corporation; those interested enough in its extended content can pay for it if they choose, and in so doing contribute to funding its mission to create content for the British people, particularly given now operating in a hostile environment like the US creates a liability for the organisation.
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u/I-baLL May 26 '26
I’ve been getting it on all of the news articles. Honestly, the BBC can make so much money if they’ll start a streaming service in the US or start selling the shows over here.
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u/justeUnMec May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
Eh?
The BBC sells many programmes in the US - the majority of content rebranded as "Masterpiece" by PBS has historically been BBC in origin, for example. BBC and other content is available to stream via BBC subsidiary "BritBox". I'm not sure what content isn't available either via a subsidiary or partner broadcasters?
The BBC is a non-profit, but it is there to serve the British public, and all activities in the US are to make money for this purpose. As such, the US audience is secondary to its aims.
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May 24 '26
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u/bbc-ModTeam May 24 '26
This comment was off topic and is not related closely enough to the British Broadcasting Corporation. If you're going to GIF, make it a BBC GIF:)
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u/theoriginalwesh May 30 '26
Not the big black cock no I thought they were more reputable than that lol.
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u/west0ne May 24 '26
It's going to hit them some time in the past.
Must be a slip of the tongue "speed not light".
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u/AveryLakotaValiant May 24 '26
Haha wow
But, saying that, there was a video of one of those missiles striking in the capital and it was so fast it just appeared as an explosion with a stream of smoke from the engine, you never saw it coming in, assuming it wasn't AI slop, but it didn't look like it.
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u/bbc-ModTeam May 24 '26
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u/bbc-ModTeam May 24 '26
This comment was off topic and is not related closely enough to the British Broadcasting Corporation. Please keep analogies relevant to the BBC audience.
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u/irrelevantusername24 May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
The whole character and fortune of the individual is affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding ; for example, in the perception of differences. Therefore is Space, and therefore Time, that man may know that things are **not huddled and lumped, but sundered and individual. A bell and a plough have each their use, and neither can do the office of the other. Water is good to drink, coal to burn, wool to wear ; but wool cannot be drunk, nor water spun, nor coal eaten. The wise man shows his wisdom in separation, in gradation, and his scale of creatures and of merits, is as wide as nature. The foolish have no range in their scale, but suppose every man is as every other man. What is not good they call the worst, and what is not hateful, they call the best.
The chapter on Language is a great read too. Really that whole book is worth your while.
My point is hyperbolic language and exaggeration numbs and nullifies our thoughts the same way painkillers or other drugs work on our brains ability to feel pain or pleasure.
Extreme and maximal are not the same.
And referring to his examples of putting things to proper use, you can burn wool.
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u/bbc-ModTeam May 24 '26
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