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Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by anonu »

yread wrote: post #198
helsinkiandrew wrote: post #139

Cruising speed of Charles de Gaulle is 27knots which would give the runner a pace of around 1:10mins/km depending on direction. That would really screw up your Strava stats

His pace was 4:38 over 7.2km and his track seems to backtrack at times so either the carrier was doing weird maneuvers or he is running faster than they are carrier. I imagine they are in no rush to get closer to Lebanon. So maybe they are running in circles

He's running laps while the ship is moving. The little circles is him backtracking against the direction of the ship. It seems to me the ship is just going in a straight line.

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by nswango »

YawningAngel wrote: post #488
dboreham wrote: post #416

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quick note that at least since WW2 there has been a technique where you know that the enemy is recording the location of something. So you add an offset to the signal they receive. Then they know where the thing is, but actually they do not. This was done with V2 missiles where the navigation system had a tendency to drift slightly one way (forget if it was north or south). British reported V2 strikes as occurring wh…

I think the navigation system was OK, we just said the impacts were further West than they actually were so the V2s fell on East London instead

To be pedantic: I think the actual story is about V1 drones. They did not have a navigation system as such, they were just aimed in a certain direction and with the right amount of fuel to fall out of the sky over the target.

The British noticed that V1s aimed at London tended to fall a little short. This would have been to the South and East of London since that's the direction they were coming from. They reported more hits on the North West of the city, expecting correctly that Nazi spies in Britain would let the Luftwaffe know about this.

So the range was decremented further, meaning even more hits on the southern and eastern suburbs, but statistically fewer people killed and buildings destroyed as the mean moved to less populated areas.

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by emilburzo »

anonu wrote: post #491
yread wrote: post #198

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His pace was 4:38 over 7.2km and his track seems to backtrack at times so either the carrier was doing weird maneuvers or he is running faster than they are carrier. I imagine they are in no rush to get closer to Lebanon. So maybe they are running in circles

He's running laps while the ship is moving. The little circles is him backtracking against the direction of the ship. It seems to me the ship is just going in a straight line.

Yep, that looks like a paraglider circling in a thermal while being drifted due the wind.

Random tracklog example: https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:mattmozza/2...

(zoom in until you see circles on the track line)

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by kubanczyk »

nssnsjsjsjs wrote: post #443
system2 wrote: post #418

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There is no meaningful solution to this.

You could compare phone and watch coords assuming phone can be left in one spot.

There is no meaningful solution to this, besides just this one exception.

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by ta20240528 »

roysting wrote: post #489
locknitpicker wrote: post #474

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> how is a submarine commander committing war crimes? News reports from both Russia and Ukraine stated he was the commander of K-148 Krasnodar, a submarine that at the time of his command engaged in missile attacks on Ukrainian cities. From a BBC article: > Ukrainian media has said he could have been in command of the vessel when it carried out a missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia in July 2022, which k…

Who do you see as the “legitimate military target” in America due to America’s war of aggression on Iran? You imply it would be any military officer, anywhere, at any time, retired or not.

For active soldiers, yes - kill them, any time, anywhere. That's what "at war" means. Its not a policing operation.

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by applfanboysbgon »

roysting wrote: post #489
locknitpicker wrote: post #474

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> how is a submarine commander committing war crimes? News reports from both Russia and Ukraine stated he was the commander of K-148 Krasnodar, a submarine that at the time of his command engaged in missile attacks on Ukrainian cities. From a BBC article: > Ukrainian media has said he could have been in command of the vessel when it carried out a missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia in July 2022, which k…

Who do you see as the “legitimate military target” in America due to America’s war of aggression on Iran? You imply it would be any military officer, anywhere, at any time, retired or not.

Correct. The US assassinated Iran's leader and dozens of their military officers. Do you seriously believe Iran would somehow be in the wrong to kill any American officer it can?

It is eerie how closely the American mentality parallels that of the German regime. "The Nazis entered this war on the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everybody and nobody was going to bomb them."

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by throw0101c »

konart wrote: post #453
applfanboysbgon wrote: post #439

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Crazy to die because you used a jogging app. Really goes to show the value of privacy. And, you know, not committing war crimes that would make people want to hunt you down and kill you. Either or.

> not committing war crimes that would make people want to hunt you down and kill you People may want to kill you for different reasons though. No need to commit any crimes.

> People may want to kill you for different reasons though. No need to commit any crimes.

Or "crimes". (Stay away from windows.)

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by stef25 »

dmos62 wrote: post #398
jmyeet wrote: post #278

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It's this kind of incident that gives me faith that the military isn't hiding aliens and in fact pretty much any grand conspiracy that requires secrecy across a large group of people for long periods of time can pretty much be dismissed immediately. One of my favorite examples are the soldiers who leaked classified information to win arguments on online forums [1]. Similar incidents have occurred with a Minecraft Dis…

What are some instances of a large group of people hiding something for long periods of time and then getting found out? Snowden? Epstein? Are these cases the bulk of the conspiracies or is it the tip of the iceberg? I'd like to think it's the latter, for purely egocentric reasons: conspiracies stimulate my imagination like almost nothing else: keep them coming, please.

SkyECC

Another instance is one darknet market being taken down by Dutch police. They were also in full control of the next biggest market where they knew everyone would flee to, and they spent some time monitoring all comms on that second site before intervening.

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by iamacyborg »

embedding-shape wrote: post #486
iamacyborg wrote: post #473

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> and more because of the analysis, dashboards and stuff like that Which is weird, because if they bought a Garmin device, they already have all that built in.

Which if you've ever had a Garmin device + tried Strava, you'd realize that perhaps Strava provides additional insights on top of what Garmin provides?

Genuinely not sure what insights they provide that you don’t get out of the box from Garmin.

The social stuff is nice though.

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by nradov »

Eisenstein wrote: post #466
nradov wrote: post #429

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That's why standard carrier doctrine is to stand off from shore, out of range of cheap missiles and drones. To strike a carrier, an adversary would need large, expensive missiles or drones plus an effective detection and targeting system.

Couldn't they just send a boat/plane/balloon/zepplin with a charger on it out launch the drones from there. The would come back when low on power and recharge in waves. It took me 30 seconds to think of this so I am sure there are a lot of better ideas out there already.

That's not a new idea. In wartime any vessel or aircraft approaching within range to launch missiles or drones will be attacked.
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