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05-13-2020, 12:32 PM #1Banned
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Media alarmism and distance from reality
Prime example.
Failed rocket crashes only 13 minutes from New York City and lands 5k miles away
https://www.yahoo.com/news/space-deb...125100556.html
at least it was still in the Northern Hemisphere.
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05-13-2020, 12:59 PM #2Funky But Chic
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I wrote something about this on here a few days ago, it really seems to have ramped up lately, from all sides, on all topics. The constant screeching is just turning into background noise. At this point it would be much more noticeable if it suddenly stopped.
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05-13-2020, 01:00 PM #3
Looks like it missed LA (or at least San Diego) by even less? Or is it going W->E?
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05-13-2020, 01:01 PM #4
Most Jews are probably pretty happy the Chinese are the boogeymen in all this, considering their history.
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05-13-2020, 01:16 PM #5Rope->Dope
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They've gotten too liberal with their use of "Breaking News"
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05-13-2020, 01:41 PM #6
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05-13-2020, 02:24 PM #7
I just read a bio of Hitler, and now I'm reading a history of Ford, the man and company. Both men were contemporaries and, of course, in Hitler's case, rabid anti semites. It was a strong, tolerated position early in the century, and they were blamed for most financial and political ills. It's something I'm learning more and more about in detail. But, even going back to the Black Death in the fourteenth century, Jews were blamed for that, too, in many places, so much so that they were burned. I'm convinced that, if it wasn't for the fact that China has evolved to #2, the Jews would be blamed for this too, somehow. Btw, the black plague originated in China way back then.
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05-13-2020, 08:11 PM #8Funky But Chic
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05-13-2020, 08:23 PM #9Banned
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05-13-2020, 08:31 PM #10
The only ones distanced from reality are the Red-Hatters
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05-13-2020, 08:31 PM #11
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05-13-2020, 08:54 PM #12
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05-13-2020, 09:40 PM #13
I said both were.
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05-13-2020, 09:44 PM #14Funky But Chic
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05-13-2020, 10:08 PM #15
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05-13-2020, 11:04 PM #16
Can we put ellipses on the arms of people who routinely commit bad grammar and syntax?
A modest proposal...Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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05-13-2020, 11:43 PM #17
It was poorly worded, but plural use of anti semites makes it clearer. The "of course" refers to the fact that we all know Hitler was an anti Semite, probably shouldn't have used a comma there (ie it should have read "of course in Hitler's case"). Still would have been clunky writing but would have been more obvious.
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05-13-2020, 11:50 PM #18
Seven, post number seven. Who had post number seven in today's TRG Godwin's Law pool?
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05-14-2020, 03:47 AM #19not awesome
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I did a little bit of work on satellite tracking. Satellites move very fast. 13 minutes to travel 5000 miles downrange sounds reasonable. A low earth orbit satellite can go around the earth once in 60-80 minutes.
Jonathan McDowell, the astronomer quoted in the article, knows as much as any civilian about satellites. If he says the re-entering debris was 13 minutes from the New York area, meaning if it had re-entered 13 minutes earlier it would have come down in the NY area, then you can rely on it. The reporter accurately quoted a reliable authority.
Of course, what that means is that 13 minutes is a long time for a satellite, so it wasn't "close," except that taking chances with re-entering debris hitting a major metro area is like dancing with hangfire - how big a chance is a good idea? The relevant quote from the article:
"For the Chinese to let this rocket come down due to natural orbital decay is seen as irresponsible by most people in the space industry", said McDowell.
(What he implies is that they should have been prepared to do some kind of thruster burn so they could control where it re-entered and aim it into a nice blank ocean.)
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05-14-2020, 04:59 AM #20
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05-14-2020, 05:12 AM #21
Yeah, and I excell at yelling at the internet after three cocktails.
Putting Hitler and Ford in the same sentence is an obvious statement. If you have read about ford, which it seems you have.
But a good grammar fight is a hilarious distraction.
If only you had thrown an Oxford comma in there.
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05-14-2020, 08:02 PM #22
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05-14-2020, 08:26 PM #23
Ferrous, positively ferrous.
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05-14-2020, 09:38 PM #24
I'm alarmed by all this alarmism.
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05-14-2020, 09:43 PM #25Funky But Chic
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It wakes me up at night.
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