• nexguy@lemmy.world
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    Dude just speed the ships up and skid over the land (while drifting) and slide back into the water so sick

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    Don’t even worry about canals and all that bs. Just go that way what are they gonna do about it?

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    No need for that when you finally take down Putin. In less than 2 years from now, Vladimir Putin will be history.

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      I think you’re mistaken. The country bombing Israel, US military bases in the middle East and forbidding crossing of the Hormuz strait is not Russia, it’s Iran. In response to a war started by the USA.

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        10 hours ago

        I know what I wrote, you did not understand what I wrote.

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      Now if you look at my proposal:
      line bypassing the entire straight of oman At 50m elevation change it is inline with the Panama Canal or the Canal of Corinth and a length below 600km it should be easy doable.

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        Now you need to balance the cost of building that vs bombing the shit out of Iran. Manly men like Hegseth know the answer!

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          Ok, but hear me out: We drop the bombs all along this line instead! Iirc Alaska was planning (or did?) this with nukes 💀

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        Panama Canal has a natural lake to feed water to the canal locks. Where are you going to get a sufficient water supply for the 50m of elevation in this proposal?

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          Im sure 2 nation that export lots of fossil fuels will find the energy to pump up ocean water. Nothing could possibly go wrong when pumping salt water inland.

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    Looking up who controlled that peninsula, I found this lovely feature:

    The Oman Donut

    The UAE controls a lot of that peninsula, but the tip is controlled by Oman. Halfway down the peninsula is a roughly circular region, inland, that is controlled by Oman, but surrounded by territory controlled by UAE. Inside that circular region is an even smaller circular region controlled by UAE. I wonder how that happened.

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      These are called Exclaves and there’s way more of them than you might think. I think this isn’t the only double Exclaves either. There are so many border fuckery things around the world, even in countries you might not expect, I want to make a YouTube video on them, I’m obsessed with finding them on google maps.

      Take a look at the border of Nederland and België for an extreme example:

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        Wow, I knew the border wasn’t a straight line, but I didn’t realize quite how fractal it was. It’s like they interviewed each household and decided on a case-by-case basis who was Belgian and who was Dutch.

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          If you look closely it’s not even house by house. Much of it is just random fields or parts of fields. Maybe houses stood there decades or centuries earlier when the borders were drawn up, IDK

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    It also funnels all the traffic into an even narrower pass that can be easily blocked by a bad actor

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      Fun little fact, several underground detonations were carried out in gas fields as an early attempt at fracking. The result was a giant cavity full of radioactively contaminated methane, that didn’t even link up to the other two giant cavities full of radioactively contaminated methane.

      Overall, massive failure all around. But the fun fact is that areas where those nuclear fracking tests occurred were the same areas where the first mysterious cattle mutilations were reported.

      As a further note, local farmers, ranchers, and police were not told about the fracking tests, or the radioactive methane below their feet. Also, the cattle that were mutilated were missing lymph nodes, which could theoretically be tested in a lab for certain radiation based cancers.

      Finally, the guy who did the initial investigations on the mutilations was best friends with a member of Air Force Office of Special Investigations who had been actively lying to a very smart yet gullible man, telling him that the strange aircraft and mysterious signals he was getting from the Air Force base across the street was in fact, aliens and not super classified aircraft and weapon systems tests.

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        I had heard of cow mutilations as part of tracking prion diseases but this is an interesting version

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          Part One: How The U.S. Government Used Aliens To Destroy a Man’s Mind | BEHIND THE BASTARDS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8F1HnpeQTo

          and

          Part Two: How The U.S. Government Used Aliens To Destroy a Man’s Mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cD5WETr_DA

          It tells the whole story, and yeah, some of the loudest voices in the UFO movement, were literally paid by the US government to lie, saying that top secret weapons tests were actually aliens.

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            OH that’s the same story. I think I watched part 1 of that a while ago. It would seem to me the answer is in El Dorado. Both.

            I don’t believe Lazar is an acting prodigy who devoted his to an elaborate charade but I’m also certain many of these psyops are real. Mixing lies and truth in creative ways to specific ends is what some of these spooks live for.

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              I mean, it’s not hard to keep telling the same sorts of lies for years when people keep paying you to do so.

              I’m not talking about the government here, the UFO community is happy to support a number of conmen and fake experts.

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                An onion of intellectually lazy assumptions.

                I’m not gonna hold your hand through the logistical challenges that would be orchestrating Bob Lazar’s life instead here’s a body language expert watching his original reel: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DOj_BMFLhrk

                I’ve watched a couple other interviews with Lazar, if he’s lying he’s better at it than Leonardo DiCaprio. And to seemingly no positive end.

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                  Of course a “body language expert” is your proof.

                  I almost died laughing when I saw it.

                  It’s conmen all the way down. It’s what they do. They reference each other in a web of “legitimacy”.