It won't be easy. But Starlink depends on a monstrously-large constellation, which suggests that Musk is looking toward a direct link between the user and the constellation. If the constellation is linking only to a modest number of portals, there would be no need for such a large constellation. This is the way in which his (former) support of the Ukraine armed forces would make sense, since battlefield connectivity depends on radio communication. This has always been the long-term goal of large-scale satcoms, and why they are attractive to nations (such as in Africa) which have poor existing internet connectivity.
Also, there is the possibility that the EMP threat is overblown, or that measures have been taken by government and private actors (or at least I hope so). Many were convinced that we would have a worldwide computer glitch once the 21st century arrived, but it turned out to be a nothingburger.
This has been the wolf that Dr. Peter Pry (RIP 2022) has been crying about for a very long time. No one paid attention to him, which is probably unfortunate, because he had a legitimate concern.
I suspect this is a handy "man-bites-dog" story to fill blank space. If it were for real, the Deep State would be struck dead along with everyone else. If it isn't real, there are alternatives to the internet, such as Starlink.
The meme is a joke. The F&WS are completing the assessment update and a mid-November launch is in prospect. Not too unreasonable when the launch pad destruction rained debris on the surrounding 385 acres of the Boca Chica facility and the adjacent state park. Musk was a thoughtless fool to launch without the exhaust diverter. He brought this delay on his own head. And people who carp about safety in this industry are also fools.
Here are the sources: https://spacenews.com/fish-and-wildlife-service-documents-damage-from-starship-launch/ https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/11/starship-update-110223/
As a Christian, I am increasingly mindful that, of all the vocations in life, the duty of a soldier to put him- or herself in harm's way for injury, mutilation, or death is the utmost emulation of Christ's sacrifice. We are a nation of 300 million, and yet we have so few to protect us, our liberty, and our providence from God. It is cruel, wicked, and even sacrilege that their obedience ever be to treasonous tyrants. This is like Christ being subject to Nero, something too vile to describe. I pray that this evil disorder be rectified, and that we live again more securely in God's grace.
Oh, that's rich. "Socrates was a moron." Well, you don't disappoint...
Why should I "give up"? All you have to express at this point is dismay?
No, what I know is correct. If I don't have expertise, I don't comment. And if there is no significant error, I pass it by. Just because you don't want to agree doesn't mean I am wrong. I have always backed up my statements with details and/or explanations. Mostly, I hear crickets. I will admit that I don't go along with fantasy nonsense (Flat Earth, Moon Hoax, "chemtrails", Reptilians, etc.), which is ENTIRELY in accordance with the site rules against fringe conspiracy discussion.
And you are so full of name-calling, but not one iota of refutation. The bullet is propelled from the pistol at a typical speed (for 9mm) of 1000 fps. It can't do that unless the gas behind it is also moving at the same speed, at high pressure. Once the bullet leaves the muzzle, the high-pressure gas actually expands and increases its velocity, but dissipates after traveling several feet.. I've read articles in the shooting press on the use of Schlieren photography to visualize the density field around the bullet, to draw conclusions about whether a boat-tailed bullet or a flat-based bullet will be affected by this expansion cloud behind it. (In my opinion, interpreting the photos, I didn't think their experimental setup was exact enough to draw any conclusions. Understanding Schlieren photographs is part of my training as an aerodynamicist.)
I've already mentioned I have fired at least 8 major pistol calibers, repeatedly, or at least enough to have preferences. I've fired semi-automatic pistols and revolvers, double-action and single-action triggers. You don't mention if you have even fired a .22. (Of course, if that's all you've fired, I would be embarrassed to say so.)
I don't know what that acronym means, but if you try to pronounce it, don't trip on your way down the stairs.
This is old news. I have repeatedly made the point that ground- and ship-based units at this power level are in trials. Israel has had to advance that schedule. Our versions have been available for perhaps 5 years.
"It is often said" is generally bullshit. Not said by anyone who knows anything. The technology for this has been public since it was demonstrated at the laboratory level. In the late 1970s, I watched video of a comparable laser weapon drill a melted hole into a tethered, hovering helicopter. Maybe not in the newspapers, but also not classified, and usually available as news from publications like Aviation Week & Space Technology. (So much so, that in the industry, it is often nicknamed "Aviation Leak.")
The only embarrassment here is that you are simply failing to pay attention. I'm trying to educate you, and you just spit it up.
But, as I have been explaining, the slide recoiled and returned before the casing reached that point in its trajectory. There was never any reason for the casing to be blurred, as the "exposure time" on the camera was fast enough. The idea that it was photoshopped is pure, groundless speculation. Particularly since the whole thing was captured as a video that had continuity through the motions.
Look, to give you some idea of how fast the recoil cycle of a semi-automatic pistol really is, I can refer you to the Glock 18 pistol, which is designed to be fully-automatic. No delay between firing cycles. The firing rate is about 1200 rounds per minute, or 20 rounds per second. This means the complete cycle from firing, recoiling, and rechambering is 0.05 second. That would be the same for a semi-auto pistol, only the shooter cannot possibly pull the trigger that fast. That's 50 milliseconds. The average blink of an eye is from 100 to 400 milliseconds. If you blink, you've missed it.
How fast is the casing being ejected? They seldom are ejected any higher than 3 feet. That would mean an ejection velocity of about 10 feet/second. The bullet is traveling 100 times faster. Or compare the difference in speed between an automobile traveling at 100 mph and a pedestrian walking at 1 mph (a brisk walk is 4 mph). Being able to photograph the casing is no big deal. Being able to photograph the recoil motions mean you have to choose the taking of your photo to within 50 milliseconds.
This is all facts and physics. I don't propose to argue about it.
Okay, that is definitely NOT a Sig 226. It lacks the lengthwise shelf on the side of the slide. Since it is a flipped image, you are seeing what is really the right side of the gun. The slide release, safety/decocker, and disassembly tab are located on the left side, which is what this flipped view is NOT showing. The sights are completely kosher. Wide is good for close combat shooting. I'm willing to wait for the gun to be identified. (I'm leaning toward it being a Taurus, which is a South American brand.)
The muzzle is 80% in shadow, so if anyone can see rifling, you have a marvelous monitor. Never any problem seeing the junction line between slide and frame.
Easy to pick out a frame from a video at umpteen frames/second. There is a long history of assassins just walking up to a victim and shooting them.
No reason for his right arm to change position. A steady grip will produce accurate shots. You can't tell a hit at a distance by its caliber. Cartridge selection and bullet design make a world of difference. Response to being shot varies all over the map, depending on details and individuals.
When I saw the shell casing, I knew it was real. And everything since is confirmatory. Doesn't anyone here shoot?
Interesting photo. The bullet has left the muzzle (because you can see the smoke, which may still be several feet in front of the muzzle). The bullet is not visible, but it could be blocked from view by the guy in the black shirt. At a muzzle velocity of 1000 fps (typical for a 9mm) this might make it 5-10 feet downrange, or 0.005 to 0.010 seconds into flight. The pistol is still level, or what can be seen of it. Recoil is usually not visible except for slide action, which cannot be seen. If there is muzzle flip, it occurs after the slide has fully recoiled (impulse of the slide hitting the stops and rotating the frame). It may be that the recoil is in progress but the casing has not yet been fully extracted from the breech.
It would be interesting to see that photo. Safety considerations should have dictated the photographer being behind the muzzle plane, which means you can see the slide and barrel if the timing is good, but estimating casing distance away from the gun is hard.
Not fake. Why would you say it is? This is apparently a frame from a video that captured the action. There is no doubt that he shot the victim. Or that it was him.
That's not a bullet. It is a button on the guy's shirt in the background. The bullet is long gone (tip of the Hatlo Hat to QuackQuack, below). The immediate tip-off is that it is not aligned with the axis of the barrel, does not look like a bullet, and has no velocity smear. There are no "sparks" and "smoke." We are no longer using flintlock firearms with black powder. The bullet is traveling in the vicinity of 1000 feet/second. The casing at maybe tens of feet/second. Just fast enough to smart if it ejects with a backward slant and hits you in the forehead.
This photo was flipped left-for-right. The ejection port on the pistol is shown on the left side of the pistol, but they are all on the right side. It is also more expectable that the shooter would be right-handed than left-handed. It is the same photo as shown in another posting on this site. (I don't know why people do this flipping, but I suspect it is an attempt to create the impression that there are multiple photos of the single incident, in order to get more traction in the public mind. It may also be a stratagem to circumvent copyright restrictions.)
As for the why, it sounds like he/they didn't find out about the ability until the game was already in play. Bad idea to change any plan in mid-stream. Also, it is very likely that the plan was compartmentalized and decentralized, so there would have been no opportunity to coordinate...and maybe stumbling problems if attempted. Besides, we are talking about the arrogant Deep State. More ballots than we need? What's the down side? (As it turned out, none for them. Yet.)
The pistol has completed its ejection cycle and is BACK in battery. The shell casing didn't get in mid air all by itself; it was ejected. There can never be a "trace of movement on the slide" when being in battery, which is stationary. The flight of the casing is SLOW compared to slide movement in action. With good technique, there should be no sign of "recoil induced hand movement." There is only barrel rise with muzzle flip, but that would be visible in this photo only if the shooter "limp-wristed" the shot, which is easy to prevent. The usual way of absorbing such motions is for the forearm as a whole to rise, and there is no way of telling whether it did or not.
You clearly don't know what you are talking about, because (1) there wouldn't be visible smoke (the discharge departed the muzzle at the rate of 1000 feet/second), (2) you can't tell the difference between relaxed or unrelaxed, but good technique requires being relaxed, (3) the shooter was point-shooting (not using sights) which is typical at close range if one is practiced with the weapon used, (4) brass is seen clearly in photography as a commonplace (read gun magazines to see examples), (5) with respect to timing, the slide has completed its cycle and is ready for the next shot (yes, it is damn near instantaneous), and (6) you don't know how many shots the cameraman took that were crummy, if he had a motorized shutter (there was a famous World War II photographer who explained that his technique was to simply take copious amounts of photos and sort them out afterward to find the choice shots); it also happens that people are in the right place at the right time. Being in the right place at the right time is NOT an impossibility. (The flip side, of course, was that the victim was in the wrong place at the wrong time.)
Really a joke for you to say anything was fake, when you are unfamiliar with the subject.
It's clear you have not been trained to shoot. You do so with a relaxed hand, though with a grip firm enough to keep the pistol under control. What do you expect to see? A clenched fist? Impossible to shoot straight. Bulging arteries? Get serious. And yes, the slide operates VERY FAST. When shooting, it is so fast you only notice the instant of recoil and the pistol can shoot again as quickly as you can pull the trigger. There is generally no visible smoke ("smokeless" powder, remember?).
Yeah. Was it Socrates who said that insults were the last resort of a failing argument? Tells me that I'm over target.
Glad to oblige. The shell was ejected to the right of the pistol. The pistol was held out in front of the guy. By being parallel with the shadow of the eyeglasses, the shadow of the shell casing should go downward diagonally just in front of that guy's chest and to the left of his forearm.
It's easy when you know how to recognize reality.
Questions...but no answers.