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China\\\'s defense ministry expresses stern protest against U.S. attack on civilian unmanned airship Source: Xinhua Editor...
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In article <d5c1cd6b-399e-4733-91c9-f8a58f6e562en@googlegroups.com>,
John Walliker <jrwalliker@gmail.com> wrote:
The zeppelins bombing the UK in the first world war were nearly impossible
to shoot down. As far as I can remember none was.
Conventional weapons are optimised for tanks and bunkers, not soft targets
that are passed in a split second.
Groetjes Albert
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Don\'t praise the day before the evening. One swallow doesn\'t make spring.
You must not say \"hey\" before you have crossed the bridge. Don\'t sell the
hide of the bear until you shot it. Better one bird in the hand than ten in
the air. First gain is a cat spinning. - the Wise from Antrim -
John Walliker <jrwalliker@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sunday, 5 February 2023 at 20:52:06 UTC, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 2023-02-05 20:01, whit3rd wrote:
On Sunday, February 5, 2023 at 10:34:25 AM UTC-8, John Larkin wrote:
On Sun, 5 Feb 2023 10:03:56 -0800 (PST), whit3rd <whi...@gmail.com
wrote:
... but that was an airship that was drifting out of control, and
there wasn\'t any plan to take control
back and land it, so... it was a loss anyhow, for the weather
research team.
Seems big for a weather balloon.
Depends; if it was doing atmospheric composition determinations as well as
simpler temperature-height logging, it could be accumulating data
very slowly,
require an extended dwell time. What\'s surprising, is it was a
helium balloon; that\'s
expensive, hydrogen works just as well, and is more expendable.
How do you know what gas it used? Unless the Chinese said so, it is
impossible to know.
Simple. If it had been hydrogen there would have been a large fireball when the
balloon was ruptured by the missile.
The zeppelins bombing the UK in the first world war were nearly impossible
to shoot down. As far as I can remember none was.
Conventional weapons are optimised for tanks and bunkers, not soft targets
that are passed in a split second.
John
Groetjes Albert
--
Don\'t praise the day before the evening. One swallow doesn\'t make spring.
You must not say \"hey\" before you have crossed the bridge. Don\'t sell the
hide of the bear until you shot it. Better one bird in the hand than ten in
the air. First gain is a cat spinning. - the Wise from Antrim -
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On Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 1:13:41â¯AM UTC+11, Fred Bloggs wrote:
<snip>
He didn\'t have to shoot thousands of people to achieve that.
> The Stalin purges were all about avoiding an impending overthrow of Stalin due to one horrendous failed 5-year plan after another. Even most Russians realized Stalin was a joke and the political system wasn\'t working. And this points how stupid and delusional Hitler was to think Russia would eventually become a threat to western Europe- or so he said- he was just another lying western-European career politician- didn\'t believe in anything other than acquiring and holding on to power. The best way to deal with Russia would have been to leave them alone and allow them to self-destruct naturally.
Sadly, Hitler thought that they were racially inferior Slavs and the master race would walk over them - as it did for the first few months, mainly because Stalin had shot all the competent senior officers. He hadn\'t stopped the development of the T-34 tank, which got into production fast enough to make a big difference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-34
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Brest-Litovsk
It hasn\'t got anything to do with the current situation in Russia. Putin is a much of an incompetent lunatic as Stalin, if with different delusions, but so far he has killed many fewer people
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Bill Sloman, Sydney
On Monday, February 6, 2023 at 10:17:30 PM UTC-5, bill....@ieee.org wrote:
On Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at 12:16:30 PM UTC+11, John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 6 Feb 2023 16:24:04 -0800 (PST), m syadoz <sya...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday, February 5, 2023 at 9:56:42 PM UTC-6, bill....@ieee.org wrote:
On Monday, February 6, 2023 at 4:09:17 AM UTC+11, John Larkin wrote:
On Sun, 05 Feb 2023 15:42:44 GMT, Jan Panteltje <al...@comet.invalid> wrote:
On a sunny day (Sun, 05 Feb 2023 07:23:08 -0800) it happened John Larkin <jjla...@highlandtechnology.com> wrote in <v8ivthp7b3mv3efnb...@4ax.com>:
On Sun, 5 Feb 2023 06:56:25 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs <bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sunday, February 5, 2023 at 7:56:34 AM UTC-5, a a wrote:
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We had a wonderful Estonian lady stay with us for a couple of weeks, here for a speech pathology convention. She spoke excellent English and really hates Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia#History
\"The USSR established an oppressive regime. Most of the high-ranking civil and military officials, intelligentsia and industrialists were arrested, and usually executed soon afterwards. Soviet repressions culminated on 14 June 1941 with mass deportation of around 11,000 people to Siberia, among whom more than half perished in inhumane conditions.\"
Stalin wasn\'t a nice person. The Estonians were the only adjacent nation to suffer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
Stalin was undoing the Treaty of Brest, wherein Lenin ceded a full 30% of Russia\'s population to the central powers. It\'s not like the people living in those places were all that enthusiastic about belonging to any of those mismanaged states. But they were better off than living under the incompetent jackasses running Bolshevik Russia.
He didn\'t have to shoot thousands of people to achieve that.
> The Stalin purges were all about avoiding an impending overthrow of Stalin due to one horrendous failed 5-year plan after another. Even most Russians realized Stalin was a joke and the political system wasn\'t working. And this points how stupid and delusional Hitler was to think Russia would eventually become a threat to western Europe- or so he said- he was just another lying western-European career politician- didn\'t believe in anything other than acquiring and holding on to power. The best way to deal with Russia would have been to leave them alone and allow them to self-destruct naturally.
Sadly, Hitler thought that they were racially inferior Slavs and the master race would walk over them - as it did for the first few months, mainly because Stalin had shot all the competent senior officers. He hadn\'t stopped the development of the T-34 tank, which got into production fast enough to make a big difference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-34
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Brest-Litovsk
It hasn\'t got anything to do with the current situation in Russia. Putin is a much of an incompetent lunatic as Stalin, if with different delusions, but so far he has killed many fewer people
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney