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Old 11th Feb 2023, 20:33
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albatross
 
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Originally Posted by Skyray
Must be a sad life not being able to find humor in the world around us. Or a depressing one.

On the serious front, be interesting to see what this turns out to be, if they make it public. Smaller surveillance balloon? Actual weather device?
”Why manage when you can overreact?”
Some of the comments made on multiple US Networks by so called experts and politicians in the the USA are cringeworthy.
At least one doesn’t seem to understand that in really cold weather the arctic oceans can freeze forming large sheets of thick ice that you can land helicopters and even aircraft on.
I guess they never heard of the Northwest Passage, Polar Shelf oil exploration project or the SS Manhattan. https://www.weather.gov/images/afc/ice/CT.jpg

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