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Post by Tricky Grama on Feb 15, 2024 13:57:41 GMT
IMO it's a bunch of fear mongering. The 'threat' is: "You better pass that bill"!
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Post by farmgirl on Feb 15, 2024 14:29:18 GMT
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Post by sunny225 on Feb 15, 2024 16:43:40 GMT
Smoke and mirrors is the way Rush used to describe this. I guess the 'new' word is gaslighting.
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Post by farmrbrown on Feb 15, 2024 20:50:03 GMT
You don't need a nuclear explosion to take down a satellite. That's exactly right. You DO need some form of weapon in space or capable of getting there quickly though and that's the basis of these "Militarizing Space" treaties. My only point was when it comes to honoring treaties here on earth, the track record is less than ..... heavenly.
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Post by farmrbrown on Feb 15, 2024 20:54:19 GMT
Smoke and mirrors is the way Rush used to describe this. I guess the 'new' word is gaslighting. Yep. Remember it's an election year and time for our 'employees' to vie for attention and/or jockey for position.
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Post by farmgirl on Feb 16, 2024 16:27:07 GMT
I'm putting this here because I think it fits. 🙄 I find I'm rolling my eyes a lot these days.
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Post by sunny225 on Feb 16, 2024 18:06:44 GMT
Oh, sure. Let's send untold amounts of money to Ukraine so Russia doesn't attack us. Makes perfect sense in an insane world.
They think we are stupid...
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Post by farmrbrown on Feb 16, 2024 21:00:08 GMT
Oh, sure. Let's send untold amounts of money to Ukraine so Russia doesn't attack us. Makes perfect sense in an insane world. They think we are stupid... Well.....we DID hire them, lol.
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Post by sunny225 on Feb 16, 2024 21:07:33 GMT
Oh, sure. Let's send untold amounts of money to Ukraine so Russia doesn't attack us. Makes perfect sense in an insane world. They think we are stupid... Well.....we DID hire them, lol. I didn't.
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Post by farmrbrown on Feb 16, 2024 21:19:18 GMT
Well.....we DID hire them, lol. I didn't. Ok.....most folks can't say that though - only those that don't vote and don't pay federal income taxes. And I won't ask either since we ALL are protected by the 5th Amendment. Even when the OTHER candidate won, I was stuck with him or her until the next election as my "employee", like it or not, lol.
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Post by farmgirl on Feb 21, 2024 5:35:07 GMT
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Post by joebill on Feb 22, 2024 19:38:47 GMT
I recall the huge flap when JFK said "we choose to go to the moon" and the general consensus was that the first one to the moon would stud it with missel silos and have the capability of raining nukes straight down on any nation it chose, without fear of reprisal. The US population at the time being scared of Russia seemed to think it was a great idea, so, nobody in our government decided to correct that assumption and the moon trips got easily financed I also recall that when the interstate highway system was being sold to the populace, one of the selling points was that those overpass artificial hills that got built at nearly every exit would be hollow inside and serve as bomb shelters... PT Barnum lives again!......Joe
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Post by blackfeather on Feb 22, 2024 20:16:57 GMT
The Biden administration just wanted to scare congress into passing aid to Ukraine. From what I can tell, they want to launch a satellite jammer, and it is powered by a mini nuclear generator of some sort. Similar generator to several of our space probes. They are using ground versions currently.
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Post by farmgirl on Feb 22, 2024 21:24:35 GMT
I recall the huge flap when JFK said "we choose to go to the moon" and the general consensus was that the first one to the moon would stud it with missel silos and have the capability of raining nukes straight down on any nation it chose, without fear of reprisal. The US population at the time being scared of Russia seemed to think it was a great idea, so, nobody in our government decided to correct that assumption and the moon trips got easily financed I also recall that when the interstate highway system was being sold to the populace, one of the selling points was that those overpass artificial hills that got built at nearly every exit would be hollow inside and serve as bomb shelters... PT Barnum lives again!......Joe I have never heard any of that. Interesting!
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Post by joebill on Feb 24, 2024 23:02:06 GMT
Either sone aspiring author or some aspiring country music singer/songwriter needs to get astraddle of a future where everybody shoots down everybody else's satalites until there are none left and no possibility of launching more and making them work. I think a fictional description of the world after that event might be danged entertaining and perhaps something to have sweet dreams about ....Joe
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