I've worked space weapons since 1980, and no one who knows better can take this with a straight face. The Soviets developed co-orbital anti-satellite weapons long ago. The Chinese have been demonstrating their satellite interceptors in recent years. Actions speak louder than words.
2nd time tonight: "Once you're awake, there's no going back to sheep." I need new glasses---but this may have been an improvement.
Sign of the times. I misread that as "...a vision that a steer had..." That stopped me in my tracks...
Logical progression. Namecall a people; namecall a person.
No. It's about an ethnic group. No difference. From it you condemn the Mahlers, Douglases, and Feynmans of the world. Hello, Adolf.
And, correspondingly, why it is an empirical necessity for Russia to gain control of all of Ukraine, and secure the borders. Fait accompli. The only "next step" would have to be overt direct war against Russia---which would be suicide.
Wow. Like Al Capone was Italian, right? "Does this person have Italian roots?" So much for Gustav Mahler. So much for Kirk Douglas. So much for Richard Feynman.
I've seen them close up in aquariums. I have never been so rattled as to see one. And now when I see Soros in his humorless smile, I can think of no better resemblance. With no prejudice against the eels as God's creatures, Soros fully inspires the dread of a demon (and I am not one to toss the idea of demons around lightly).
In case you have never understood this, the Russians are not concerned to gain territory. They are concerned to destroy the Ukranian armed forces, which they are able to do at 1000 dead UKR per day as the Ukrainians throw themselves at Bakhmut like lemmings over a cliff. The Russian losses are only a tenth as much, and they are patient. The Ukrainians are now desperate for men, weapons, and ammunition, all of which are evaporating. The magic bullets from the West are highest on the list for Russian artillery to obliterate.
Bakhmut is the center of a crossroads of major highways that are crucial to holding the region, and are at the eastern side of four major defense fortification lines. One has been breached, and the Russians are working on the next two (they are adjacent). Once they have been breached, the third line is less fortified. After that, the steppe is open to them. Once the ground dries, they can burst forth. Right now, it probably has 0 people. The size of the town is irrelevant to its strategic significance.
The problem (as he makes clear) is that in the process of holding Bakhmut, the Ukrainians are destroying their armed forces at a rapid rate.
At church today we discussed the fact that many heresies derive from the psychology that salvation through Jesus is "too good to be true," and it's up to us to work for salvation (or God's attention).
I'm not bothered. Who is really hurt by this?
Relax. Who is more capable of multi-tasking than anyone? God knows the fall of every sparrow. He enjoins us to pray to him, about anything and everything. Do you think He would say this, for us to ignore it? He walks at your side daily, watching, listening, and waiting for your prayers. Talk to Him. He is your Father.
"Do, or do not. There is no try." ---Yoda
But when Yoda is suffering from constipation, the message is "Try or not, there is no Yoda do-do."
Thank you much. It won't kill me, but things have been better.
Thanks for calling me "spineless." I guess I must be the most annoying invertebrate on the planet. You misread me. Treason is the ONLY crime that IS defined in the Constitution, so you had better read up on it. You want to use it as spray paint to assuage your hysteria. As for the rest, I have been an ardent Constitutionalist from a long time ago. You aren't bringing me any news.
I'm sorry. Life has been a blur for me lately.
Right after March 30 is April Fool's Day. Coincidence?
She got zonked right after she went to exercise at the local LA Fitness. The air on an airliner is taken from the outside, which is dry as the dickens and bathed in UV all day long. No germs. Nothing to live on.
Do you perhaps have his vaccination certificate as evidence he was vaccinated? Dying of an aneurysm or heart failure has no linkage to the vaccine. And it would be up to you to prove that the vaccine caused his death.
Playground ethics are no ethics at all. They are just an excuse to get down in the gutter.
Actually it is. The average age of death for a black man is about 67 years. Starting from about 25 years, the mortality rate doubles for every 10 years. He could have had an aortic aneurysm that finally failed. That happened to the father of a boyhood friend. He could have had heart failure from a torn mitral valve and died of pleural edema. That nearly happened to me.
Since we don't know what to "think it was," your remark is really premature.
It's an iffy thing. The ZAMU-PF, being socialist, has been antipathetic to the U.S. for a long time. Neighboring Zambia, however, continues to play footsie with importuning Americans (lots of emissaries showing up in the last few weeks) who want mineral concessions for the price of kickbacks to the appropriate ministers and bureaucrats, in order to obtain "investment" (a euphemism for foreign aid). A recent letter of understanding was recently signed among Zambia, the DR Congo, and the USA, concerning cobalt and lithium mining and production development. The Zambian PF party is also vile socialist, but never lets ideology get in the way of a good venue of corruption. The ruling UPND party is suffering the pangs of buyer's remorse, as President Hakainde Hichilema rules in an aloof and unapproachable manner, seemingly blind to the corruption in his own administration.
I've been using NAC as a supplement for years. Although I can't say for sure how it has helped me (being monitored for endocrinology), I can verify that it is harmless and I am better with it, than without.
This is terrible, but wouldn't "French hip-hop" be the proper antics of "frogs"? (And I speak with amity toward the French. My dear cousin is half French.)
Thunderstorms don't involve a huge dump of mass arriving at hundreds of miles an hour. The MQ-9 cruise speed is about 200 mph. The Su-27 cruise speed is hard to estimate, but quite possibly in the range of 600 mph. That would be an overtaking speed of 400 mph, much worse than any flight through a thunderstorm (which I doubt is a desired flight environment). The engine ingestion problem was already analyzed, but it strains credibility to think that the engine would ingest anything coming from the aft direction, since the intakes are facing forward. (The Su-27 went upward after the fuel dump. Standard maneuver for a what was essentially a bomb drop. The fuel kept on going.)
Or even when it is not done in secret. The history goes back to the 1960s, and includes Russia, the U.S., China, and india. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-satellite_weapon