To be a reputable critical thinker you must be
able to admit you are wrong when the circumstances dictate.
Then you must be able to apply what you’ve learned to
prevent future mistakes…
I got the first part of that nailed down. Despite my lack of maturity I can and will admit to being wrong BUT - you have to prove I’m wrong first. (Or I have to do it myself). So, Filthie…you fuggin idiot! What’d ya learn from all this?
- Well…we exposed some fuzzy thinking about the nature of radiation and weapons grade plutonium. Radiation can turn biological flesh into corroded oozing sores, but metal is largely untouched in any physical way. It just becomes radioactive too. Just storing and maintaining a weapon like this presents challenges that, while not insurmountable… will be far beyond the abilities of your typical yodelling moslem mudflap terrorist rag head. Despite Tom Clancy, James Bond and Robert Ludlum… a rogue nuke/terrorist scenario is highly unlikely but still possible.
- I learned that it is not really the yield of these weapons or the range of the rockets carrying them. It is their threat or strategic value that makes them attractive to hostile adversaries. Mutually assured destruction is a powerful motivator in keeping everyone relatively honest. But - in the case of terrorists… the use of a nuke (or any WMD, really)…would probably unify the world against them and would probably spark a real, bonafide international “war on terror”. If loose cannons and loose lips sink ships… loose nukes will lay waste to entire nations. It’s one thing to give long range weapons to the Ukes… but Ukes with Nukes? Even Pedo Joe would have to rouse himself to serious thought about that. Strategic WMDs make little sense for terrorists and the other pawns. You definitely want the King and Queen calling the shots on fireworks like those.
- how to apply this going forward in trying to separate truth from disinformation? I’m open to suggestions. Ordinarily I take pride in being a critical thinker but I get burned all the time by stuff like this just like everyone else. When the story first broke I saw two things: the vid of that CEO of the drone company raising the idea of drones flying at night: my attention zeroed in on that alone and was diverted from the other relative data that was available. My mind is not yet fully attuned to that of the hoaxster despite my best efforts. The other thing I saw was a vid of some yokel firing at a passing drone at night using tracers - I think it was over at Phil and Cederq’s. Obviously that one was not a balloon with lights attached to it… but it very easily could be drunken retards screwing around.
In my defence I did the deep dive and tried to keep an open mind. I still am: it is still entirely possible the Establishment was in the air for purposes unknown, in the pursuit of fuckery and faggotry unknown… but at this point it is far more likely a group of retards pulling a fast one.
It will be something to keep in mind once The Next Current Thing is upon us.
Fentanyl in the water supply would fuck things up far more than an dirty boom. Virtually undetectable until it's too late. Imagine if the operators of Chalk River disappeared all of an sudden, and the emerg shutdown went not smoothly and instead an meltdown is initiated! There is tons of that shit in the hands of bad actors.
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I'm a chemist for a major corporation.
DeleteHow much fentanyl in what water supply??
You'd need a supertanker full of the stuff pumping it non-stop into one reservoir. For a week.
You couldn't get enough into an average reservoir to have any actual effect unless you could crash a hundred 747s full of the stuff into the water supply all at once.
And opiates are detectable at tiny levels even with retail piss kits sold for $20 at every drug store in the country.
You're way out of your league.
It's not raghead terrorists we need to worry about. It's some faction (rogue?) of the deep state, CIA? Mossad? Plenty of money and resources.
ReplyDelete"Nuclear radiation" is almost always a reference to either "alpha", "beta", or "gamma" ionizing radiation. The first two are actually subatomic particles (comparatively *big*) moving at sub-light speed, while "gamma" actually *is* light. Only "gamma" can penetrate 10 feet of air. These things are the emissions of nuclear reactions, but they do *not* make things radioactive, hence the claim that it's safe to irradiate food. (I reserve judgement)
ReplyDeleteNuclear fission will also usually emit neutrons (again, subatomic particles (big) moving at sub-light speed), like "alpha" and "beta", their size means they're likely to hit things, so they don't penetrate far.... But when they *do* hit something, they can be absorbed (become part of an atom's nucleus), which *will* make the atom a radioactive isotope. (subject to a nuclear decay half-life) When that isotope decays, it changes into a different element. So things subject to neutron bombardment, do undergo structural change.
Neutron dectectors are not cheap, but are commonly used by "first responders" because they detect nuclear decay, instead of just nuclear radiation.
Well thanks for that, Fido. I’m passable on basic chem but clueless in nuclear and quantum stuff. It gets especially fuzzy when you see Alpha, beta and gamma and think of them as rays or wavelengths on the EM spectrum, and then particles moving at relativistic speeds.
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