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Apparently you can see the smoke from current Canadian wildfires from space:
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145119/an-epic-view-of-smoke-over-canada
It all looks like clouds to me, therefore: fake news.
Also, we all know the Earth is flat, so it's clearly a a mock-up.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145119/an-epic-view-of-smoke-over-canada
It all looks like clouds to me, therefore: fake news.
Also, we all know the Earth is flat, so it's clearly a a mock-up.
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I must say, even living a stone's throw from North Korea I find Pakistan's possession of nuclear weapons the most troubling.
The others, for their various sins, are relatively stable countries.
There have been a number of stories in years past of how the Pakistan army and security services work to their own agenda and the upper ranks are riddled with questions of dubious loyalty and worrying sympathies. I felt the same with regard to the Soviet arsenal in the final days of the U.S.S.R. when some nuclear material supposedly went walkabout.
Everybody wails about the peril of the North Korean threat, but you could write the criteria for their actual usage on the back of a postage stamp: when facing certain invasion--ditto Israel.
The others, for their various sins, are relatively stable countries.
There have been a number of stories in years past of how the Pakistan army and security services work to their own agenda and the upper ranks are riddled with questions of dubious loyalty and worrying sympathies. I felt the same with regard to the Soviet arsenal in the final days of the U.S.S.R. when some nuclear material supposedly went walkabout.
Everybody wails about the peril of the North Korean threat, but you could write the criteria for their actual usage on the back of a postage stamp: when facing certain invasion--ditto Israel.
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“A former deputy head of the UN’s atomic watchdog said Wednesday that Iran is capable of producing enough enriched uranium a nuclear bomb in six to eight months.
In an interview with Israel’s Army Radio, Olli Heinonen said that Israel and the Gulf states “have a reason to worry.”
Heinonen said that despite assertions to the contrary by the current leadership of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, which he left in 2010, Tehran has not been adhering to the 2015 nuclear deal.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-could-make-nuclear-weapon-in-6-8-months-says-former-iaea-deputy/
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In an interview with Israel’s Army Radio, Olli Heinonen said that Israel and the Gulf states “have a reason to worry.”
Heinonen said that despite assertions to the contrary by the current leadership of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, which he left in 2010, Tehran has not been adhering to the 2015 nuclear deal.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-could-make-nuclear-weapon-in-6-8-months-says-former-iaea-deputy/
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Coincidentally (heh-heh...) the USA has developed the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, which is capable of destroying hardened targets 200’ underground:
They need to work on their accuracy, though. It must have missed that traffic cone by at least six inches.
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They need to work on their accuracy, though. It must have missed that traffic cone by at least six inches.
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Today I learnt that there is a disorder called orthosomnia. Those who suffer from it are so obsessed with getting an optimum night's sleep that they can lose sleep fretting about the possibility of failing to do so.
Those who use modern sleep-monitoring apps and gadgets are particularly susceptible to this.
Modern humans are broken:
https://www.health.com/sleep/what-is-orthosomnia
Those who use modern sleep-monitoring apps and gadgets are particularly susceptible to this.
Modern humans are broken:
https://www.health.com/sleep/what-is-orthosomnia
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Fascinating.
While looking up the YouTube video of the MOP, I idly did a few minutes’ research on WW2 bombing accuracy:
“The US defined the target area as being a 1,000 ft (300 m) radius circle around the target point - for the majority of USAAF attacks only about 20% of the bombs dropped struck in this area.
[During] a raid in the Northern Hemisphere summer of 1944 by 47 B-29's on Japan's Yawata Steel Works from bases in China. Only one plane actually hit the target area, and only with one of its bombs. This single 500 lb (230 kg) general purpose bomb represented one quarter of one percent of the 376 bombs dropped over Yawata on that mission.
It took 108 B-17 bombers, crewed by 1,080 airmen, dropping 648 bombs to guarantee a 96 percent chance of getting just two hits inside a 400 x 500 ft (150 m) German power-generation plant.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_bombing#World_War_II
Now? Artillery officers can decide through which house window they want a shell or rocket to enter, from miles sway.
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While looking up the YouTube video of the MOP, I idly did a few minutes’ research on WW2 bombing accuracy:
“The US defined the target area as being a 1,000 ft (300 m) radius circle around the target point - for the majority of USAAF attacks only about 20% of the bombs dropped struck in this area.
[During] a raid in the Northern Hemisphere summer of 1944 by 47 B-29's on Japan's Yawata Steel Works from bases in China. Only one plane actually hit the target area, and only with one of its bombs. This single 500 lb (230 kg) general purpose bomb represented one quarter of one percent of the 376 bombs dropped over Yawata on that mission.
It took 108 B-17 bombers, crewed by 1,080 airmen, dropping 648 bombs to guarantee a 96 percent chance of getting just two hits inside a 400 x 500 ft (150 m) German power-generation plant.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_bombing#World_War_II
Now? Artillery officers can decide through which house window they want a shell or rocket to enter, from miles sway.
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Did you ever see the Bill Hicks sketch on 'smart fruit'?
When it comes to Second World War bombing accuracy, my mind usually turns to Cassino. The Americans were attempting to bomb a single very large monastery atop a massif, and bomb it they did--along with a great many other things near and far from this target.
Not least among those things were the personal caravan of the commander of the British Eighth Army (Oliver Leese) and the French Corps HQ, twelve miles away from Cassino.
As if the point was not clear enough, General Mark Clark who had himself approved the bombing was at his command post seventeen miles from the target and watched sixteen bombs strike the ground nearby.
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When it comes to Second World War bombing accuracy, my mind usually turns to Cassino. The Americans were attempting to bomb a single very large monastery atop a massif, and bomb it they did--along with a great many other things near and far from this target.
Not least among those things were the personal caravan of the commander of the British Eighth Army (Oliver Leese) and the French Corps HQ, twelve miles away from Cassino.
As if the point was not clear enough, General Mark Clark who had himself approved the bombing was at his command post seventeen miles from the target and watched sixteen bombs strike the ground nearby.
Edit:
Assuming this listing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_people
is up to date ...
There are five known people whose height is at or above 8' 0" tall. One of them (Jinnat Ali of Bangladesh) has not been officially measured by Guinness or an equivalent international authority.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_people
is up to date ...
There are five known people whose height is at or above 8' 0" tall. One of them (Jinnat Ali of Bangladesh) has not been officially measured by Guinness or an equivalent international authority.