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11·3 days agoAmerican company of a hundred engineers proposes wild venture capital bait
“Meet the one rich guy who will revolutionise XYZ all by himself”
Single Chinese company prepares to test tech concept and fills in a government form
“The entirety of China has unanimously approved this concept, people will be falling out of the skies imminently, China says”
45·3 days agoIronically these types of guys are usually French, or English. Both will mock you for attempting to speak their language but also expect everyone to understand them. Often they will use the laziest of stereotypes to try and insult you because, despite living their entire lives within spitting distance of your country, they have an extremely narrow history education that boils down to “Why we were so great from 1000s to WW2 and then history ended”. You find them everywhere but in western Europe its those two nationalities disproportionately.
Fitting given that Tolkien was inspired by the industry in the midlands when creating Mordor
Genuinely surprised there was any steel manufacturing happening in the UK still.
Why are all these guys so weird. This particular guy Braun got fired from UCD for harassment and is now an “independent researcher” who thinks Nordstream was blown up with nukes.
Dr Ní Shúilleabháin related how Braun had regularly shown up in her office at UCD, asked her out on dates, made persistent phone calls and in one incident followed her to a hotel in Cork where she was staying.
Braun (58), who worked in UCD until 2019, was issued with a court order in late 2019 barring him from contacting her for five years after she had reported the matter to gardaí.
His website where he talks about the Nordstream stuff: https://www.geophysical-forensics.ch/nordstream.html
Academia is rife with the most unhinged of conspiracy theorists, there is something about the in-depth knowledge in one specific field combined with the culture that creates the same irrational self-confidence you see like flat earthers (of which there are many in STEM, I’ve even met a NASA Engineer who is a flat earther) I know top level academics who believe the pyramids are an ancient geomantic power source.
This can also be seen in the works of Christopher Busby, whose work was linked here a few months ago regarding the use of depleted uranium by Israeli forces in Lebanon. He also has several nuke conspiracy theories that devolve into him claiming that several of his fellow researchers where assassinated because of their research into cold fusion and that Kennedy was shot because of the Kennedy Kruschev test ban. This is a man who was appointed to government advisory councils and top scientific boards, then went on to try and grift people with anti-radiation pills after Fukishima.
These particular theories are just believable enough that if you see a guy in a labcoat with a doctorate and some nice graphs you might just believe it if you never google them or meet them in person. Because the other thing about these guys is they are not shy about their theories either. They will gladly get up and talk about these things at conferences if you let them because of that air of self-confidence that arises inside the bubble of academia.
At least this will get all those “Ireland and America has a special relationship” people to shut up. Fun Fact: Viagra is produced in Ireland.
Theres a pretty great historical immersive paper about this called Call of Duty World at War which features the U-Bahn flooding.
Yes, they have already sent bricks made of a volcanic material similar to lunar regolith to Tiangong a few months ago to study their exposure to space. Chang’e 7 will use a unique hopping rover to hopefully scout Shackleton in ways a conventional rover ever could. It almost sounds like one of those stupid venture capital buzzword baits that NASA might fund a feasibility study on and then shelve. But that is just a sign of how much more advanced China’s lunar exploration program is, they are doing quite literally what NASA can only dream of.
Of course this will not stop American so-called “Space enthusiasts” from completely ignoring these facts and claiming that because they sent some guys there in the 70s and then completely gave up for 50 years that anything done in space from now unto the heat death of the universe is second place.