George Rebane
Chinese spy balloon. One of the more intriguing and scary test purposes for the balloon could easily have been to see how easy it would be to float EMP nuclear devices over the American mainland. The published altitude range for effective EMP explosions is about 60K-80Kft. Such considerations make it even more important to immediately shoot down these incursions as soon as they enter US air space into payload recoverable territory. I suppose then if an EMP device or test package was found, it could be considered an act of war. But in such a contingency things would immediately get very complicated with the introduction of a lot of other factors. The news about today’s underwater recovery results are guaranteed to be lies and propaganda; we should not tell the Chicoms what we found or didn’t.
[7feb23 update] Microsoft to integrate ChatGPT into Bing in today’s announcement (here). ChatGPT is the ‘complete natural language’ response system that represents the latest quantum leap in advanced deep learning systems and has already demonstrated how the new generation of smart machines will converse with users on a rapidly expanding base of human knowledge. My son-in-law who does advanced AI research at Microsoft Research tells me to “stay tuned, this could be history in the making.”
[12feb23 update] From post-SOTUS media reports, Democrats finally admit that Republicans have a totally opposite direction they want to take the country, and that neither side believes in each other’s facts. Given such terminal incongruity, what could then be the purpose of pursuing common goals for returning to or going forward to seek an unhappy state of America’s reunification. Isn’t it past time to start negotiating a peaceful Great Divide?
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