Because we have done the unexpected.
Answer, after a two day think. We broke their military encryption.
That number again. A lazy google search returns: "McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle: While primarily a fighter jet, the F-15 has an operational service ceiling that exceeds 65,000 feet."
During Trump's first term I remember an interesting Trump comment from the Oval Office desk, about Elon. "He has to do what we say. We've given him so much money." Considering his family's history and his early life, I don't think Elon started out on our side. Somewhere along the line he got flipped.
Remember 30ish years ago when everyone would see the starving Somalian children on TV and in their junk mail? Was that a scam too?
I do. And further back in time when it was centered around Ethiopia. Sally Struthers was often the sad face on TV pleading for donations.
Now that the operations of NGOs have been seriously exposed, I think it is fair to suggest that the flow of money went: TV viewers -> NGO -> Africa -> CIA -> corrupt government officials & warlords. Billions of dollars never made a dent in halting starvation of African children.
What do you think are foreseeable next steps in starving the hydra? I mean in literal actions, not allegorical. Some: the Abraham peace accords reshaping the Mideast. Attacking the election fraud enterprise, especially the electronic voting machines. And constraining the operations of the Federal Reserve, towards its eventual elimination.
When I was a kid I thought it was just an entertaining show with guess-the-price games. (Though why contestants had to run screaming down the stairs to take their place in the qualification rounds seemed wildly over-the-top to me.) When you become an adult and understand more how money works the lightbulb clicks on. It's a one hour long platform for paid product placement commercials. No wonder why the show has lasted an eternity.
Do you have memories of Janice, Dian, and Holly? Maybe not. For boys becoming teenagers they were the real prize of The Price is Right.
I'll add a bit of history. The concept of Flow, or Flow State, as a psychological operating mode dates back to a software engineer working for Microsoft named Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi who, and this goes back to the 80s and 90s, designed video games. He developed the theory that well designed video games were highly addictive because the users entered a state of flow that they wish to stay engaged. Professional athletes also report a similar state of being when muscle coordination is locked in and play is going well. Here is a link to a free pdf of his 1990 book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.
A Green Beret applying the concept to America First momentum is a new twist for me. I like it.
Do prior corrections stick across sessions, or do you have to repeat the scolding?
I get where you're coming from. But some time ago, one fine day, the light bulb when 'boink' in my fuzzy brain. Those famous $10,000 toilet seats and $90,000 bags of 1 cent bushings? Don't assume it's payoffs to some dirty corporal. The overpricing is one of the ways the military funnels money into off-the-books black projects.
Not in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania it does not. Research the Pittsburgh Left. A traffic maneuver, not a political wing. Every red light is opportunity for excitement.
For those wanting the précis, the author assures us "low-information MAGA" that we are being squeeze-played by the Money Cartel in an orchestrated Hegelian thesis/anti-thesis/synthesis setup. With Trump playing us for fools as the Thesis.
(Edit: make that the anti-Thesis role for Trump. He's supposedly marching us straight into Fascism.)
That Trump will be installed to insure the division of the Right in the coming crackdowns. ... Trump’s lips will twitch, “I have to do it to save the country!” “It’s for national security!!” “Its for your safety!!!” By God Almighty, it is for the children!!!!”
Far too many will march in lock-step and cheer for the real loss in-practice of their very own freedom as his strings are tightened to a fascist soft-shoe dance.
This crap, again? I do not log onto GAW for this.
And, how so much I hate his kind of writing. Flowery drivel is drivel squared.
The multi-decade training exercises are soon to go active again on the political stage. The acting (and professional wrestling) rehearsals are nearly over, the (s)election near complete, the players will soon take the main stage again for another act, and the curtain will be thrown open... We should believe what the marionettes say, as the strings on the corners of their mouths are tugged. At the same time,,, we-damn-well-better be looking directly at the source of the tugging from the rafters of the theater... To do otherwise is failure before you even begin to see.
That is a 5:5.
I was secretly hoping for u/catsfive to show up next. Cats and Dogs living together!
Winn posts a clickbait title about clickbait. The Puppy Dogs of Ashland howl for a fight. You won't believe what happens next!
Update after a little more read-through. Not Navy, Air Force. Revudude shared in one thread that he is a graduate of US Air Force Academy Class of 1979 - the LCWB, "Last Class With Balls". That puts his current age around 69-70. He initially trained as a jet fighter pilot. And must have been quite skilled because he flew in at least one airshow. Also, he saw action outmaneuvering multiple missiles shot at us.
From flight crew he transitioned to engineering. Briefing the General's team on tech.. When he left the Air Force to run his own engineering the amounts invested were not small, either, but at least on one occasion tragic: Almost set up business there until the trustee ran off with our $200M investment.. So those Pentagon and/or DARPA connections carried weight. It sucks though that many of his inventions ended in the DoD procurement Valley of Death.
Oh Gawd. I am behaving like a teenaged girl stalking a crush. I got to stop now.
I see. War game simulation time on their supercomputer clusters. I overlooked that aspect.
You know, maybe it's better living life as an out-of-the loop civilian. But it kinda sucks to be always guessing as to the true state of the (classified) world. I once had a brief one-on-one chat with Tony Tether. He didn't tell me nothin' 'bout the cool toys on the inside.
- We would defeat them in minutes. It might take a few days for them to realize it.
The first sentence is startling. Combined with the second sentence, a real puzzle. What is an immediate defeat that takes three days to recognize?
Idea. Mess with their BeiDou Navigation Satellite System. Throw a Skinwalker Ranch-style spacetime "anomaly" bubble around each of their transmission satellites. Distort the timing signals so that any guided weapon relying on a realtime precision positioning signal misses its target. ... I'm describing a capability from the edge of science fiction, though.
I may have to update my assessment. Based on "I wanted my own company to do really cool stuff. But I kept running into the infamous valley of death. I am on my third company and trying to reach the other side." That description sounds like he was a one-time researcher at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory but then jumped to the private sector as an inventor/entrepreneur. Not an employee of large defense contractors I'd suggest. Rather, small companies doing prototype designs.
This guessing game is perhaps the most fun I've had on GAW. We have someone exceptional in our midst.
Having brought this thread back to life I just saw this question of yours regarding Wardenclyffe. (Such a funny old English spelling.) Not an electrical engineer as disclaimer. But my reaction has always been the same as Revodude's. Omnidirectional transmission is highly inefficient because of the geometry-enforced 1 over r squared law. Plus, consider how much receptive area is just wasted because the receivers are small, few, and scattered. A 100 kiloWatt radio transmitter tower for example works because the faint EM signal can be detected with an antenna and amplified. The radio receiving and amplifying the signal is not powered by the EM wave itself, but by batteries. Back in the day, a long line of D sized batteries. Similar situation for GPS satellite signals.
Tesla was an intuitive genius. Strong visual thinker. As far as I am aware though he developed no mathematics. Eventually the lack of mathematics limits you. In a similar vein Faraday knew no mathematics. Maxwell was a once-in-century mathematical physicist. Tesla was a once-in-a-century hands-on inventor -- with a big daring for grand designs and a large heart for the well being of human kind.
Quite interesting. I did not know of that study result.
I have a firm memory from that time period of political brochures mailed by our local representative decrying the damage of acid rain. He demanded urgent political action of course. The front of the brochure was a photograph of a small shallow lake densely populated with dead trees. It turned out the lake was a beaver pond.
Based on today's comments I'm currently thinking that Revodude was a technology acquisitions officer at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. How high up the chain of command I am not familiar enough to say. Sounds like he held oversight on a large swath of R&D.
The way I remember it acid rain was the environmentalist's rallying cry of the 1980s. In the 90s they moved onto the Ozone Hole scare. I'd have to do some historical research to locate the exact transition time.
What about Iceland? The gap between Iceland and Greenland is much shorter than the gap between Iceland and Ireland. Great fishing resources also. Don't Icelanders deserve to be rescued from Europe too?
Here's the question nobody is asking yet. If this weapon already exists, what else is already out there that we don't know about?
Calling u/Revodude.
DOUGHCON Level monitoring? That's hilarious. Except also serious.
What I'd like to say to William Henry Gates III, if he were listening. Tick tock, buddy. Tick-tock.
Scott Kelly was subject of a biopic A Year in Space. Nice family guy trains real hard and achieves his childhood dream kind of heartwarming documentary.
He's someone you want to like. But as with you I've become suspicious, especially with respect to Mark. Astronaut -> Senator -> Seditious Six. That trajectory does have the hallmarks of having been a CIA groomed asset from an early age. I do not know this, but also would not be the least bit surprised if the CIA injects astronauts into the program.
Besides, every tell-all book I have read from escaped Freemaons admits that they are well practiced in presenting a wholesome family face to the outside world.