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Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2019 7:42 am
by Ibanez
Skjellyfetti wrote:Also, looks like it was something somebody took with a cellphone in a SCIF.

I wonder if he's just sitting in there during briefings snapping photos of cool shit with his unsecured phone he refuses to relinquish.
1) cell phones aren’t allowed in a SCIF
2) what reason would he have to say we didn’t do something
3) why show a picture?
4) what is going on????




The Madness of King Don is upon us


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Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:06 am
by CID1990
Ibanez wrote:
Skjellyfetti wrote:Also, looks like it was something somebody took with a cellphone in a SCIF.

I wonder if he's just sitting in there during briefings snapping photos of cool shit with his unsecured phone he refuses to relinquish.
1) cell phones aren’t allowed in a SCIF
2) what reason would he have to say we didn’t do something
3) why show a picture?
4) what is going on????




The Madness of King Don is upon us


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1. The President’s is. And he can apparently declassify with it


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Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2019 7:49 pm
by Skjellyfetti
Cool. Thanks, Trump.
Amateur satellite trackers say they believe an image tweeted by President Trump on Friday came from one of America's most advanced spy satellites.

The image almost certainly came from a satellite known as USA 224, according to Marco Langbroek, a satellite-tracker based in the Netherlands. The satellite was launched by the National Reconnaissance Office in 2011. Almost everything about it remains highly classified, but Langbroek says that based on its size and orbit, most observers believe USA 224 is one of America's multibillion-dollar KH-11 reconnaissance satellites.

"It's basically a very large telescope, not unlike the Hubble Space Telescope," Langbroek says. "But instead of looking up to the stars, it looks down to the earth's surface and makes very detailed images."
But a small community of amateur satellite trackers was far more interested in the picture than the words. These individuals use backyard telescopes to watch satellites whizzing across the sky, and they know where most of them are—even classified ones like USA 224. "They're super bright in the sky and are easy to find," says Michael Thompson, a graduate student in astrodynamics at Purdue University who spots satellites in his spare time. Once a satellite is seen, it's relatively easy to work out exactly where it will be at any point in future. "Using math to calculate an orbit is really easy," he says.

Langbroek went further still. He was able to reconstruct the picture taken by USA 224 by matching the obliqueness of the circular launch pad in the image tweeted by Trump. His calculation showed that the photo was taken from the vantage of USA 224. Langbroek and another online researcher, Christiaan Triebert, also used shadows cast by towers around the launch pad as sun dials—allowing them to verify the time at which the photo was taken.

Both techniques suggest the pictures were snapped by USA 224, which flew near the site at 2:14 PM local time. "The match was perfect, basically," Langbroek says.
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/02/75667348 ... umps-tweet

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 6:40 am
by Ibanez
CID1990 wrote:
Ibanez wrote: 1) cell phones aren’t allowed in a SCIF
2) what reason would he have to say we didn’t do something
3) why show a picture?
4) what is going on????




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1. The President’s is. And he can apparently declassify with it


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It's not a crime if the President does it. :lol:

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 9:58 am
by CID1990
Ibanez wrote:
CID1990 wrote:
1. The President’s is. And he can apparently declassify with it


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It's not a crime if the President does it. :lol:
In this case, that’s true. The Prez is the ultimate declass authority.

Which is why I said Declassification By Tweet (Fart)

If it had been a cabinet official they would (oops... SHOULD) have been charged


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Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 9:58 am
by Chizzang
Imagine if Obama (the Muslim Terrorist) showed our enemies classified Satellite images...

:lol:

talk about "working for Russia in plain sight"

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 2:39 pm
by 89Hen
These individuals use backyard telescopes to watch satellites whizzing across the sky, and they know where most of them are
Must be riveting entertainment. :lol:

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 3:54 pm
by AZGrizFan
Chizzang wrote:Imagine if Obama (the Muslim Terrorist) showed our enemies classified Satellite images...

:lol:

talk about "working for Russia in plain sight"
He'll have more flexibility after the election. :coffee: :coffee:

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 4:31 pm
by SeattleGriz
Skjellyfetti wrote:Cool. Thanks, Trump.
Amateur satellite trackers say they believe an image tweeted by President Trump on Friday came from one of America's most advanced spy satellites.

The image almost certainly came from a satellite known as USA 224, according to Marco Langbroek, a satellite-tracker based in the Netherlands. The satellite was launched by the National Reconnaissance Office in 2011. Almost everything about it remains highly classified, but Langbroek says that based on its size and orbit, most observers believe USA 224 is one of America's multibillion-dollar KH-11 reconnaissance satellites.

"It's basically a very large telescope, not unlike the Hubble Space Telescope," Langbroek says. "But instead of looking up to the stars, it looks down to the earth's surface and makes very detailed images."
But a small community of amateur satellite trackers was far more interested in the picture than the words. These individuals use backyard telescopes to watch satellites whizzing across the sky, and they know where most of them are—even classified ones like USA 224. "They're super bright in the sky and are easy to find," says Michael Thompson, a graduate student in astrodynamics at Purdue University who spots satellites in his spare time. Once a satellite is seen, it's relatively easy to work out exactly where it will be at any point in future. "Using math to calculate an orbit is really easy," he says.

Langbroek went further still. He was able to reconstruct the picture taken by USA 224 by matching the obliqueness of the circular launch pad in the image tweeted by Trump. His calculation showed that the photo was taken from the vantage of USA 224. Langbroek and another online researcher, Christiaan Triebert, also used shadows cast by towers around the launch pad as sun dials—allowing them to verify the time at which the photo was taken.

Both techniques suggest the pictures were snapped by USA 224, which flew near the site at 2:14 PM local time. "The match was perfect, basically," Langbroek says.
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/02/75667348 ... umps-tweet
Could it have been a drone?

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 5:00 pm
by JohnStOnge
This guy is unbelievable. Here is a picture of him today showing a chart purportedly making it reasonable for him to have tweeted on Sunday, September 1, that Alabama "...will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated:"

Image

Note that the forecast he's showing shows the forecast as of 11 AM Thursday, August 29.

Here is an image of his tweet:

Image

Note that it was tweeted at 9:51 AM Sunday, September 1.

Now, check out this image of the forecast as of 11 AM Saturday, August 31:

Image

And here is the forecast as of 8 AM Sunday, September 1:

Image

As you can see, when he did that tweet, there is no way in hell the forecast suggested Alabama was going to be hit. But he went back in time to find a forecast he could use to TRY to wriggle out of having to admit that he was wrong. Like people aren't going to be able to figure that out.

And then there's the fact that SOMEBODY (I wonder who) apparently used a Sharpie on the chart he was showing to draw a bubble towards Alabama on the map. I mean, how bad is that? People, this guy is not all there.

This guy is hopeless. And so are people who believe ANYTHING he says.

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 5:47 pm
by Skjellyfetti
Tangential to editing the NOAA map with a Sharpie to include Alabama....

He commissioned Sharpie to make him personalized pens. His request was for them to "make it look rich"

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-u ... en-2018-11

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 5:53 pm
by CID1990
Chizzang wrote:Imagine if Obama (the Muslim Terrorist) showed our enemies classified Satellite images...

:lol:

talk about "working for Russia in plain sight"
His Secretary of State did -

and there was (rightly) a lot of outrage

Many of those previously outraged people are now no so outraged


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Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 5:56 pm
by JohnStOnge
CID1990 wrote:
Chizzang wrote:Imagine if Obama (the Muslim Terrorist) showed our enemies classified Satellite images...

:lol:

talk about "working for Russia in plain sight"
His Secretary of State did -

and there was (rightly) a lot of outrage

Many of those previously outraged people are now no so outraged


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Please provide details on Obama's Secretary of State showing enemies classified Satellite imagery. I'm not saying it didn't happen. But I'd like to see the details.

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 6:06 pm
by CID1990
JohnStOnge wrote:
CID1990 wrote:
His Secretary of State did -

and there was (rightly) a lot of outrage

Many of those previously outraged people are now no so outraged


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Please provide details on Obama's Secretary of State showing enemies classified Satellite imagery. I'm not saying it didn't happen. But I'd like to see the details.
John,

Some very drawn out conversations occurred right here on this very site

In one of her emails (which was classified by another agency) was satellite imagery - transmitted on her own private email server, which and idiot knows was being read by any competent intelligence agency all the way down to the Central African Republic’s

Now, she didn’t hand it over in a brown envelope marked “super duper secret” to Dolph Lundgren, and she didn’t Tweet it, but under the law governing what she did it was precisely the same thing

Please go down the intent avenue again it will be totally nonrepetitive


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Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 6:19 pm
by css75
Wake me up when John makes a short, concise good post.


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Re: RE: Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 6:35 pm
by UNI88
css75 wrote:Wake me up when John makes a short, concise good post.


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Good night Rip Van Winkle.

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Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 6:49 am
by kalm
css75 wrote:Wake me up when John makes a short, concise good post.


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He did a couple posts before yours.

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 6:49 am
by kalm
CID1990 wrote:
JohnStOnge wrote:
Please provide details on Obama's Secretary of State showing enemies classified Satellite imagery. I'm not saying it didn't happen. But I'd like to see the details.
John,

Some very drawn out conversations occurred right here on this very site

In one of her emails (which was classified by another agency) was satellite imagery - transmitted on her own private email server, which and idiot knows was being read by any competent intelligence agency all the way down to the Central African Republic’s

Now, she didn’t hand it over in a brown envelope marked “super duper secret” to Dolph Lundgren, and she didn’t Tweet it, but under the law governing what she did it was precisely the same thing

Please go down the intent avenue again it will be totally nonrepetitive


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* any

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 7:54 am
by 89Hen
mainejeff2 wrote:Notice the lack of comments from the Trump sycophants on here?
That's because there aren't any. :lol:

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 8:20 am
by Chizzang
89Hen wrote:
mainejeff2 wrote:Notice the lack of comments from the Trump sycophants on here?
That's because there aren't any. :lol:
There are a few...

:nod:

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 8:47 am
by 89Hen
Chizzang wrote:
89Hen wrote: That's because there aren't any. :lol:
There are a few...

:nod:
And by a few you mean two?

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 9:00 am
by Chizzang
89Hen wrote:
Chizzang wrote:
There are a few...

:nod:
And by a few you mean two?
:nod:

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 10:03 am
by css75
mainejeff2 wrote:
JohnStOnge wrote:This guy is unbelievable. Here is a picture of him today showing a chart purportedly making it reasonable for him to have tweeted on Sunday, September 1, that Alabama "...will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated:"

Image

Note that the forecast he's showing shows the forecast as of 11 AM Thursday, August 29.

Here is an image of his tweet:

Image

Note that it was tweeted at 9:51 AM Sunday, September 1.

Now, check out this image of the forecast as of 11 AM Saturday, August 31:

Image

And here is the forecast as of 8 AM Sunday, September 1:

Image

As you can see, when he did that tweet, there is no way in hell the forecast suggested Alabama was going to be hit. But he went back in time to find a forecast he could use to TRY to wriggle out of having to admit that he was wrong. Like people aren't going to be able to figure that out.

And then there's the fact that SOMEBODY (I wonder who) apparently used a Sharpie on the chart he was showing to draw a bubble towards Alabama on the map. I mean, how bad is that? People, this guy is not all there.

This guy is hopeless. And so are people who believe ANYTHING he says.
Notice the lack of comments from the Trump sycophants on here? There is NOTHING to defend about this guy. They want their judges at ANY cost.....plain & simple. :nod:

:coffee:
Not true, JSO posts are just so long and convoluted I just don’t bother with them.


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Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 2:53 pm
by JohnStOnge
css75 wrote:
mainejeff2 wrote:
Notice the lack of comments from the Trump sycophants on here? There is NOTHING to defend about this guy. They want their judges at ANY cost.....plain & simple. :nod:

:coffee:
Not true, JSO posts are just so long and convoluted I just don’t bother with them.


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That one wasn't convoluted at all. Very direct. And mostly pictures.

The guy is an atrocity. Having him as President humiliates the United States. It makes us the laughing stock of the planet.

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 10:52 am
by HI54UNI
Hey JSO what's your address? I'll buy you a Trump sharpie. :lol:

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https://shop.donaldjtrump.com/products/ ... int-marker