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Mysterious drones have been spotted at airports across Europe

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Re: Mysterious drones have been spotted at airports across Europe

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post #42

The fact that these drones are only appearing in NATO aligned countries makes it seem pretty obvious to me that it's one of two possibilities. 1) Russian sabre-rattling 2) NATO countries running "secret" drills in public in anticipation of 1) The UFO community is of course running with a third option that doesn't warrant any seriousness.

3. NATO countries stirring up shit to justify war mongering.

Re: Mysterious drones have been spotted at airports across Europe

#102
post #44

One thing that is particularly annoying: the lack of communication from the governments/police about the status of the investigation, or lack thereof. Side question: How likely are autonomous reconnaissance drones today? I'd expect them to be impervious to traditional jamming. I could imagine a pair of drones, a few km apart, communicating by laser line-of-sight, where the reconnaissance one acquires data, send it to…

> the lack of communication from the governments/police about the status of the investigation, or lack thereof.

Because they are doing it to stir up public hysteria.

Re: Mysterious drones have been spotted at airports across Europe

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post #101
post #42

The fact that these drones are only appearing in NATO aligned countries makes it seem pretty obvious to me that it's one of two possibilities. 1) Russian sabre-rattling 2) NATO countries running "secret" drills in public in anticipation of 1) The UFO community is of course running with a third option that doesn't warrant any seriousness.

3. NATO countries stirring up shit to justify war mongering.

NATO invaded Ukraine?

Re: Mysterious drones have been spotted at airports across Europe

#104

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Only if every car has only one person - once you start getting 2 or more people in a car, driving starts to win[0] (and that's discounting the heavy multiplier you get from things like coaches and buses.) [0] https://terrapass.com/blog/carbon-footprint-of-driving-vs-fl...

Right, but you're missing the part where in the real world, nobody on the plane is going to carpool with other passengers they've never met, they're going to drive themselves in their own car, because people are not automatons that instinctively select the most climate-friendly option. We shouldn't be comparing the most optimistic outcome in the world as you'd prefer it to be that could happen as a result of the flig…

> nobody on the plane is going to carpool with other passengers they've never met

I would put a good $25 on there being almost zero flights in the world where every passenger has no relation to every other passenger (to the point where you'd need N individual cars to transport them.)

I'd add another $10 on top to bet that there isn't a situation where all of those passengers would refuse to get on a train / bus / coach with the others if the plane wasn't available.

Re: Mysterious drones have been spotted at airports across Europe

#105
post #42

The fact that these drones are only appearing in NATO aligned countries makes it seem pretty obvious to me that it's one of two possibilities. 1) Russian sabre-rattling 2) NATO countries running "secret" drills in public in anticipation of 1) The UFO community is of course running with a third option that doesn't warrant any seriousness.

If you take into account the silence from officials and politicians then 2) seems more likely.

Officials aren't silent on these matters. Very embarassed at their total inability to do something about it, is how I'd describe it.

Re: Mysterious drones have been spotted at airports across Europe

#106
post #33

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What about trains, though?

People aren't going to do what you want them to do, they're going to do what they want to do, and in the USA, that's almost never trains.

If you make trains better/cheaper/faster than planes, people will take trains

Re: Mysterious drones have been spotted at airports across Europe

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Just what we need. They stopped Nuclear energy from taking over in the 70s and 80s, why not destroy Air travel too?

Probably not the same people. Air travel is hard to decarbonise, so needs to be limited

Re: Mysterious drones have been spotted at airports across Europe

#108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right, but you're missing the part where in the real world, nobody on the plane is going to carpool with other passengers they've never met, they're going to drive themselves in their own car, because people are not automatons that instinctively select the most climate-friendly option. We shouldn't be comparing the most optimistic outcome in the world as you'd prefer it to be that could happen as a result of the flig…

> nobody on the plane is going to carpool with other passengers they've never met I would put a good $25 on there being almost zero flights in the world where every passenger has no relation to every other passenger (to the point where you'd need N individual cars to transport them.) I'd add another $10 on top to bet that there isn't a situation where all of those passengers would refuse to get on a train / bus / coa…

Exactly, just make trains better/cheaper/faster and planes worse/more expensive/slower

Re: Mysterious drones have been spotted at airports across Europe

#109
It is not Russia's aggression "against the west", it is your aggression against Russia, and in general against Russians, since the west organized the Kiev's coup at 2014 (renember the Odessa May 2014 pogrom at the Unions House against people opposing to "Maidan", for which none, or almost none, got punished, or the murders by ucranian services at Mariupol, of which most of the westerners did not hear at all). Ucrainian war is just the logical outcome, were it not for your built-in dishonesty and hypocrisy which make it seem as a spontaneous aggression against a peaceful neighbour.

(I am not saying this is the whole story. But the main part of it, yes.)

Re: Mysterious drones have been spotted at airports across Europe

#110
I am quite sure that these "mysterious drones" which the western services "cannot identify" is yet another "false flag" as you like to call them, to justify investing hindreds of billions (maybe also these stolen from Russia) into a future war against Russia which the west is feverishly preparing. Territory, natural resources, this is what it is about. Always is, always has been.
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