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US jet shoots down unknown object flying off Alaska coast

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Re: US jet shoots down unknown object flying off Alaska coast

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Post by Rebelgecko »

moose_man wrote: post #27
bmitc wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably didn't help that an Air Force general was openly and loudly proclaiming that war is inevitable. I looked up some speeches of his, and he is off the rails, like the German general in All Quiet Along the Western Front .

I mean, it's nothing compared to the internal speeches that China gives its troops. Heck it's nothing compared to the speeches Xi gives internally to troops. Chinese troops are currently training on their missile corp on models of US aircraft carriers. Edit: Chinese propaganda video of attack on Guam - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBOho1AOKYY https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36598/chinese-air-forc... https://…

Some of the propaganda videos people are posting on douyin (OG tiktok) are hilarious (even if the historical events they're inspired by are very serious). It's interesting to compare foreign propaganda about the US military to US propaganda about foreign militaries.

https://www.douyin.com/video/6946497713223585028

https://www.douyin.com/video/7081571993102961958

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Post by nostromo »

r3trohack3r wrote: post #95

There was a fun theory on UFOs I saw recently. The general premise is this: U.S. adversaries realized they couldn't compete with the U.S. on spending. So they got creative and loaded the equivalent of Pringles cans up with a bunch of sensors, hooked them up to either a balloons or relatively cheap unmanned aircraft, and sent them through U.S. airspace to collect intelligence. They'd occasionally get caught (perhaps o…

Those UFOs were lens flares.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs

Turns out we like to spend gobs of money even when we're just chasing our shadow.

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Post by death_to_satan »

reaperducer wrote: post #44
MonkeyMalarky wrote: post #23

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I'd say it feels like a return to the era of cold war tensions but I wouldn't know, I was born around when the Berlin Wall fell. What say you older HNers, is this what it was like?

What say you older HNers, is this what it was like? The Cold War was a lot scarier than what we have now. In the back of your mind, every day you thought that today could be the day we all get wiped out. I'm not too worried about Russia or China starting anything nuclear these days. Russia invade Scandinavia? Sure. China invade Taiwan? Absolutely. But I'm not worried that they'll nuke someone else from a distance.

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Post by jandrewrogers »

post_break wrote: post #40
sammalloy wrote: post #38

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John Kirby of the National Security Council said he would not call it a balloon, according to NBC News. What was it then?

A drone of some sort, something with an engine if they used a heat seeking missile.

The US doesn't have any heat-seeking missiles. They use multi-spectral imagers that can see in the infrared spectrum among others.

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Post by pvaldes »

So we finally have our explanation for all the strange attempts to resurrect UFO interest in the last years.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23942463

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10970609

You could fly a flashing cow in this times and nobody would stop looking down at their phones.

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Post by Sharlin »

jabroni_salad wrote: post #183
Sharlin wrote: post #176

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I can't not shake my head reading comments like this. Seriously, the concept of weighing the cost of an action vs the cost of inaction was not... exactly invented by Eve Online players. The entire point of warfare is to make waging war more expensive to your opponent than to yourself, whether in terms of men, materiel, dollars, or popular support. And the concept of a Pyrrhic victory is likely as old as war itself –…

Nice, you spent 479 characters to say literally nothing. I'm +80 characters positive now in this thread where I also have said literally nothing.

HN happens to be one of the rare places on the modern internet where just flapping your figurative mouth pieces for the sake of flapping your figurative mouth pieces is not looked upon favorably. The attitude of "have something to say or shut the fuck up" is very refreshing.

And if you think that I didn't say anything… I suggest re-reading my comment.

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