6 Impossible Things

So the White Queen in Alice in Wonderland tells Alice that sometimes she believes as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

I'm not any kind of aficionado of Lewis Carroll but plenty of people are, and they will tell you all about amazing maths puzzles in the stories and logic exercises and all kinds of things, including, apparently that there are in fact '6 impossible things' in the text. Now I don't believe that, but, for the sake of this post, let's just go with their story and list them:

1. There's a potion that can make you shrink;

I hope to be able to swing away from
depressing 'war talk' soon.

2. There's a cake that can make you grow (well, all cakes can do that!);

3. Animals can talk;

4. Cats can disappear;

5. There's a place called Wonderland;

6. You can slay the Jabberwocky.

O-kay.

Last night I was looking at a video feed of the inside of a C135 with a couple of women in  there -, who had been using the shower facilities in-board (they do have those), and then, they got dressed in bathrobes for the flight they were on because they were going quite far. It was going to be a long flight for them. So I'm listening to - and watching - these super high-tech experts in um, well, one was wearing a silk Chinese thing. Now I mean how are you supposed to take these people seriously? God, you give women some responsibility or 'role' and the first thing they do, the very first thing, is bring in their plants and 'stick on' gonks and what-not.

You have absolutely no f*'n' chance of keeping things like a Michael Douglas 'Wall Street' office scene, right?

This flight was nowhere near the current 'problem' area around the Baltic Seas and all of that.

It was right down here, just off the Antarctica.

This plane was so high up it was virtually at its service ceiling of 50,000 feet.

Yeah the Earth is definitely not flat...

Anyway...

'Restomod' but still,
is based on things when people
knew how to design.

There are military satellites that orbit around this spot, and this is where the 'experiments' are all done on them.

No beautiful 'Southern Aurora' or anything, not even any artificial ones. Although, apparently, so I'm told, the NoKo missile they just set off did produce some kinds of visual effects in the ionosphere.

Some guy on Reddit just this morning commented that the military events inside the Ukraine just shows that no one has 'back-engineered' anything from ET Alien technology!

...As far as he knows.

Thermobaric bombs are a tremendous advance in weapons technology, and can send supersonic blast waves which can literally obliterate everything in the design effect proximity - although, they can be used above a pseudo-target, in order to procure a psychological effect and some fairly modest actual material damage.

The immediate tactical position in the Ukraine is that the Ukraine Air Force has been completely destroyed - and I mean, totally. There is literally not one serviceable, flying weapons-carrying aircraft left. Additionally, there are exactly no major air defense installations able to take out helicopters or jets, although there appear to be several dozen Man-portable air defense systems left.

The long convoys filmed entering the outskirts of Kiev are carrying, substantially, food, medicines and water, not weapons or men.

The 'on-the-ground' fighting personnel are already present surrounding Kiev and maintaining one single northern access highway open, but which leads straight to the Chechen brigades who control the northern parts of the Ukraine.

White hats. Snicker, snicker.

Could Putin use nuclear weapons? Absolutely.

He could deploy the 'rainbow bomb' technology and knock out all satellite-transferring electronic communications, including, potentially the entire SWIFT system in Europe. Technically, he could claim it was simply a thermobaric bomb exploded in the upper atmosphere, but in fact it would be a nuclear device with little 'ground destruction' effects.

Actually, funny thing about these recent(-ish) volcanic lighting events - because they can produce pretty much the same kinds of effects, and no one would be able to blame anyone. Especially not me, for example, because no one believes that kind of impossible thing.

Meanwhile, twenty people have lost their lives in Queensland, Australia, in eleven metre high flooding, that has never been seen ever before, ever, there.

I wonder if Ladbrokes would pay the guy who predicted that and took the bet with them.

Now, let me see...

What about the next bet?

LOL

Sorry if I seem so lacking in care or concern about people's deaths. The fact is though, more people died in Queensland from the event we predicted here, than from Covid.

Now. Let me see... What comes next, do you think? Can't really bet on this one, because the FBI will rush straight in afterwards and ask a bunch of questions. Mind you it is tempting. I would sit and answer the questions too, if I knew for sure they couldn't or wouldn't 'freeze' my payment from Ladbrokes. Hell, I got answers! Answers that absolutely no one would believe other than maybe, the White Queen.