FuglyDuck

Ever see this?

BirdNET-PI is a meant to run on a raspberry pi, and records and catalogs every species of bird by their call. (And keeps up with changing calls, actually.)

You might be surprised what you’ve got around you.

Maybe.

I doubt they’d tell anyone it was aliens, though.

The camera I had set up wasn’t able to focus on something that close, so it kinda sort of is just a vague talon-like blur. I’ll see if I still have it on my back up drive, but it wasn’t a very good photo.

He’s got a very nice hooting voice. You’d think with how secretive he is… he’d sound like Deep Throat ratting out Nixon.

There’s a significant number of men who don’t realize marital rape is even a thing, here in the US.

So they completely agree that “rape of any kind” should be criminalized, as well as going home and raping their wives cuz “god said so.”

And this is why I prefer those old school prism mirrors.

You’ve never heard of one of those breaking, and they dim glare behind me instantly, instead of just as you were getting used to being being blinded and kind of sort of liking it,

What’s to deliberate?

No kings. No fuckwits. No gaudy monstrosities!

I wonder if the bird bands are kinda like kids getting nose rings or something.

You know, they disappear for a few days and come back with nose ring and maybe a tat that says “noodle soup” but in Chinese characters.

Crawl back into the cave with the rest of the troglodytes?

I think we maybe need to force these idiots watch School House Rock again.

Maybe their voters, too.

Worse, this jackhole gets to be like “I think I’m gong to just not run for re-election” and get to go do it all to someone else again.

So.

You’re saying if I want Le Troll to pose… I’m gonna have to tie up little rabbits like that goat in Jurassic Park?

I have GHO that loves to hoot his little head off when I’m trying to go to sleep. (I can hear him as I’m tapping this out instead of doomscrolling).

Theyre always gone when I go out to try and get a pic.

I tried to set up a webcam, and he decided to use it as a perch. (Seriously. All I see are too-close talons.)

To date, the only photo I have is this one, of them perched with their mate in a neighbor’s tree.

I’ve seen clearer photos of freaking Sasquatch.

Well. Ricky did do justice to the moment.

I get the feeling that something died shortly after, too.

So like, the reality is that if he'd just admitted it, nobody would care. they'd forgive him and move on. The only times republicans care about purity of any sort is if it's a democrat caught cheating, or an underage girl they want to fuck.

she committed suicide by self immolation.

which is an absolutely horrendous way to go. and all because he coerced her to have sex with him.

Judge: “I think RFK should get shot. Is that unreviewable?”

DoJ lawyer: “Judge? Did you mean to say that out loud?”

RFK:

Even if not, there’s more than a few retroreflectors (fancy mirrors)up there, installed so we can get laser distance measurements.

Mock him for being incurious, stupid and failing google-fu.

Or show him some of these links, your call.

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/space-astronomy/moon-landing-conspiracy-theories-debunked

https://starwalk.space/en/news/was-the-moon-landing-fake

https://askanexpert.asu.edu/earthspace/top-question/moon-landing

For the Artemis vs Apollo stuffs:

https://spaceinformer.com/artemis-vs-apollo-comparison/

https://apollo11space.com/apollo-vs-artemis-how-technology-and-goals-have-transformed-lunar-exploration/

And just to see how stupid he is, maybe ask if the earth is flat. If they say yes… just have him go watch this entire channel…

The reason I’m calling him stupid is because he’s either never actually searched or done any kind of research beyond conspiracy theory memes, or has immediately discounted the vast majority of people patiently explaining why he’s wrong.

As for why china didn’t try to go… they didn’t have a space program until recently. As for the soviets? Well. Why go when we happily shared our research with them? One of the main motivations was propaganda. It was a sort of proxy war and we won. Beyond that, there wasn’t much point in duplicating efforts.

Another point of fact that many people don’t address is how impossible it would be to fake the radio transmissions without getting caught.

Something had to go to the moon. Tiny changes in antenna alignment were sufficient to cause a loss of contact with the CSM. (A fun movie about this is called The Dish and is based on a true story.)

The thing is that the CSM wasn’t going straight to the moon, it followed a transfer orbit that intersected both earth and the moons orbit (and at a time when the moon would be there!)

This path meant that you couldn’t just point an antenna at the moon.

It also meant that you had to keep a lock on the CSM’s path or risk losing it forever (The Dish, they almost lost it.)

HAMmies had their own rigs which could listen in, as did virtually every government.

The precision required to catch the signal meant you could track its location in real time.

It also means we have tons of recordings with the appropriate amount of signal lag.

And there would be no way to fake those signals by broadcasting from earth- everyone paying attention would know. if ever the entire world watched something that first landing was it.

So, here’s the thing.

That’s not a great analogy. The MIM-104 Patriot missile system is still providing vital and necessary functionality on a daily basis.

It’s also mobile in the exact same way I’m suggesting the V-150 could (and should,) be.

And finally, the reason they haven’t done that is because there’s plenty of other options like the RIM-174, which we also gave them. (But I’m not so sure it’s as vital. That’s a high bar to cross.)

As for its size, yeah. It’s huge. But you’re comparing that to earth construction. Star Wars always went big. For example the Lucrehulk freighter (which they used for a pilot training academy,)

That thing was large enough that pretty much every they brought to Hoth could fit on it and access with all the same capability as echo base itself. With room to spare. They probably wouldn’t even need to give up the flight academy!

The point being, it’s not unreasonable to suggest they could just literally do that- strap it to an appropriately sized freighter.

Like i mentioned before: they had to get it there somehow, and it’s not the type of thing you’d just build in place. (They stole it and several other cannons, after all.)

Drunk Nazis Spin Doctors, even.

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