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Attention -> pageviews -> ad money. The fundamental value chain of most news reporting today.
Feels like a stretch that multiple military personnel went on record and conspired to make this up for the clicks on a blog? Far easier ways to drive traffic.
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As a pair of eyeballs that likes to read about the Navy-UFO stuff, can you point me to something more critical of it? I just get a lot of noise and nothing really makes sense, so I just treat it as entertainint Sci-Fi.
Most of it makes perfect sense. But there is a certain Congress critter that has got himself convinced that UFOs are real and has made it his pet project to fund these investigations. Which, quote predictably, cherrypick facts to justify their continued funding.
I know it's toxic but from a technical aspect, that is really cool. I remember reading that the Apache Helicopter (I think?) can redirect it's exhaust internally temporarily to become invisible to heat seekers. Some of these technologies are super fun to read about.
> I know it's toxic but from a technical aspect, that is really cool. People who think like this make want to cry. Those who can see the consequences and choose to overlook them.
>tempguy9999: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s
thank you for your service, noble internet warrior!
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Most of it makes perfect sense. But there is a certain Congress critter that has got himself convinced that UFOs are real and has made it his pet project to fund these investigations. Which, quote predictably, cherrypick facts to justify their continued funding.
Said critter thinks the 'A' in 'UFO' means aliens from outer space.
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It seems the Airforce likes their bombers from Northrop, their fighters from Lockheed, and unmanned vehicles from Boeing.
There are a lot of political and national security concerns involved in that. The Air Force wants to maintain three aviation vendors in the industry as a matter of policy, otherwise Boeing and Lockheed are equally capable of making bombers. Awarding the JSF to Lockheed two decades earlier had similar connotations. Boeing could maintain its aviation capabilities and expertise on the back of its commercial business. Fo…
The science and technology is awe-inspiring .. as in awwww-mother fucker, we could have had universal healthcare and a peaceful world if we didn't spend trillions of dollars on this bullshit.
These recon and offensive capabilities have in fact led to a more peaceful world. It’s the harsh reality that we live in.
America rulez! Every1 3ls3 is 3nslav3d!!!$@!$@$
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These recon and offensive capabilities have in fact led to a more peaceful world. It’s the harsh reality that we live in.
The capabilities actually used were and are a real overkill, for many orders of magnitude. The whole think tanks and whole branches of military from the start worked on many order of magnitudes multiplied assumptions of the military capability of the opponents. Only now you can read their acknowledgment that the estimates were hugely overblown (1). So they did produce overkill from the start as they produced "enough"…
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These recon and offensive capabilities have in fact led to a more peaceful world. It’s the harsh reality that we live in.
Your idea of peace: America rulez! Every1 3ls3 is 3nslav3d!!!$@!$@$