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Grusch is a bit different from the others. He is the one who sparked the excitement about reverse engineering, recovery of crashed vehicles, etc. But he didn't claim first-hand knowledge, so what can he say at the hearing? Will he name his sources? I guess he will plead confidentiality on...

Quite a lot really. Still invades its neighbours. Still imprisons or assassinates political opponents, at home and abroad (Litvinenko, Skripal). Still no free press or free speech. Still allows its soldiers to rape women without fear of retribution. Still routinely spews out absurd...

In a democracy all politicians are subject to pressure from special interest groups. They will be tempted to give in to that pressure provided: a) it doesn't cost anything b) it doesn't go against any strong interests or beliefs of their own, and c) it won't be unpopular with their voters...

Germany has very publicly and vigorously renounced its anti-semitic past, and made reparations to Jews and to some of the other people affected by its actions under Hitler. I cannot judge how sincere this is, but at least on the surface it is clear enough. Russia's attitude to its Soviet past...

I don't know how you draw that inference. I certainly wasn't implying that Russians are somehow inferior humans. I do think that the Russians have been very unlucky with their history, though not as unlucky as some of their neighbours (e.g. Poland). The Bolshevik coup of 1917 was arguably the...

Readers may like to note that Avi Loeb's expedition is causing an international (not interstellar) incident. Allegedly the materials in question were recovered from waters in the jurisdiction of Papua New Guinea. The Government of PNG say that permission should have been sought for the...

Neither do I, but the expression 'false flag' in itself could have many meanings. It was originally used for pirate ships and others who used false flags to gain a tactical advantage by sneaking up on an enemy. More recently, 'false flag attack' seems to be mainly used with the quite narrow...

Nobody thinks the Sons of Liberty wanted to 'pass themselves off' as Mohawk Indians. They just wanted to disguise their identity.

Katyn is hardly an isolated or merely historic incident. Don't forget that the Soviet Union continued to deny responsibility for Katyn up to around 1990, when many of Russia's current leaders (including Putin) were Soviet officials. If you limit the term 'false flag' to cases where the false...

Do you want me to go back to Katyn?

That seems like pure speculation, though if true it would support the belief that Russia is deliberately using the power station as a 'shield'. Whereas the suspicion that the Russians are planning a false flag attack would be entirely consistent with their track record, and with their recent...

I think the prediction from Ukrainian sources is that explosives would be planted by the Russians to look like damage from incoming artillery shells, which would give some credibility to a 'false flag' attack by Russia. If so, they have done it very clumsily, but that is not unusual for Russian...

As Avi Loeb has reported that some of his cosmic spherules contain a 'steel titanium alloy', I was interested to find a historical study of the use of titanium in human technology. At first sight titanium might seem a good candidate for the 'reverse engineering' of ETI artifacts like crashed...

Is that a new calculation? I don't recall it, but then there are a lot of things I don't recall. If the calculation is correct, it is a stumbling block for those who think that the image is a good representation of the object at 10NM. Even viewed tail-on, 15 feet would be narrow for the...

Thanks. I didn't spot the link. Interesting (as Loeb himself says) that the radiometric age of the supposed extra-solar system spherules (or rather the materials in them, such as uranium) is If I understand correctly, in nature uranium is only produced in very high-energy stellar events like...

I noticed this news report on Avi Loeb's researches on the first 'interstellar' meteor. It describes his explorations in the Pacific Ocean and states that he has completed the explorations and taken the materials discovered back to Harvard for further analysis...

I think we must be using 'angle of inclination' in different senses. If you are standing on a flat floor, and give a Nazi salute at 45 degrees to the floor, towards the east, then pivot on your heels until you are saluting towards the west, while maintaining the angle of 45 degrees throughout...

No, it just says that there is a tilt of twenty-three and a half degrees. That would not exclude the axis 'swinging' round in a circle, provided it always maintains the same angle of inclination to the orbital plane. And that is probably how some people would interpret the later phrase 'it...

I'm posting a comment here because the issue raised seemed closest to this thread. I was just watching the new Netflix series Our Planet II when I noticed it gave an explanation of the changing seasons which may perpetuate the common misconception that the earth's axis of rotation 'tilts' or...

Neither have I, but it would be consistent with Russian/Soviet traditions. In WWII, when Leningrad was under siege and Marshall Zhukov had been put in charge of the defending forces, he ordered his subordinate commanders: Source: Beevor, Antony. The Second World War (p. 204). Orion. Kindle...