|
Welcome to the International Skeptics Forum, where we discuss skepticism, critical thinking, the paranormal and science in a friendly but lively way. You are currently viewing the forum as a guest, which means you are missing out on discussing matters that are of interest to you. Please consider registering so you can gain full use of the forum features and interact with other Members. Registration is simple, fast and free! Click here to register today. |
11th May 2022, 08:16 AM | #1 |
Watching . . . always watching.
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Southeastern USA
Posts: 2,378
|
China has a hurricane gun
Breaking wind! Er, news! According to one of his staffers, Donald Trump thought that China had developed a hurricane gun to create storms and direct them at the U.S.A. Story here.
|
11th May 2022, 08:32 AM | #2 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: The Antimemetics Division
Posts: 69,914
|
In the interest of saving you a click: MSN reports that Rolling Stone reports that an unnamed ex staffer claims that Trump asked about this and was "totally super serious, I swear".
|
__________________
There is no Antimemetics Division. |
|
11th May 2022, 08:34 AM | #3 |
Maledictorian
Join Date: Aug 2016
Posts: 22,558
|
China's Hurricane Gun and HAARP can fight it out between each other.
|
__________________
“Don’t blame me. I voted for Kodos.” |
|
11th May 2022, 09:23 AM | #4 |
Philosopher
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 9,071
|
Given that when the Spanish 'discovered' the Hurricane season/cycle in the Americas they thought it was the work of the Devil.
|
11th May 2022, 11:28 AM | #5 |
Philosopher
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Central California Coast
Posts: 6,863
|
The Chinese are working with the Australians to make rain, and cause the sea levels to rise, and hold the world hostage to their master plan...whatever that is...wake up, sheeple!
|
__________________
Disingenuous Piranha |
|
11th May 2022, 11:51 AM | #6 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 24,921
|
|
__________________
"Reality is what's left when you cease to believe." Philip K. Dick |
|
11th May 2022, 11:55 AM | #7 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Where the Arrantly Roam
Posts: 26,169
|
I can just see the staffer explaining it to President Trump:
*staffer stirs chocolate mild rapidly in clear glass* "Now sir, if instead of this spoon stirring the yummy beverage into a hurricane, we pick up this AR-15..." |
__________________
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" -Mark Twain "Half of what he said meant something else, and the other half didn't mean anything at all" -Rosencrantz, on Hamlet |
|
11th May 2022, 12:12 PM | #8 |
Muse
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Tampa Bay, Florida
Posts: 816
|
Luckily his magic sharpie was able to divert the hurricanes to wherever he wanted them to go!
|
11th May 2022, 01:53 PM | #9 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Nelson, New Zealand
Posts: 25,306
|
Trump wanted to buy Greenland from Denmark; he said that the USA captured all the British airfields during the American Revolutionary War, he wanted American Cops to gun down BLM protestors, and he wanted the US military to fire Patriot missiles at Mexican drug labs (which is doubly stupid, because Patriots are surface to-air missiles not surface-to-surface missiles)
Based upon the above mess of sheer stupid, why do you think its unreasonable that he might think China has a Hurricane gun? |
__________________
If you're not a scientist but you think you've destroyed the foundation of a vast scientific edifice with 10 minutes of Googling, you might want to consider the possibility that you're wrong. Its TRE45ON season... convict the F45CIST!! |
|
11th May 2022, 02:39 PM | #10 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Where the Arrantly Roam
Posts: 26,169
|
China made, you say? So who the hell is going to make the knockoff clones?
I'd kind of like one to piss off my neighbors when they play country music. |
__________________
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" -Mark Twain "Half of what he said meant something else, and the other half didn't mean anything at all" -Rosencrantz, on Hamlet |
|
11th May 2022, 02:47 PM | #11 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: The Antimemetics Division
Posts: 69,914
|
|
__________________
There is no Antimemetics Division. |
|
11th May 2022, 03:33 PM | #12 |
The Clarity Is Devastating
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Betwixt
Posts: 20,891
|
If a hurricane gun creates and directs hurricanes, what does an elephant gun do?
|
__________________
"*Except Myriad. Even Cthulhu would give him a pat on the head and an ice cream and send him to the movies while he ended the rest of the world." - Foster Zygote |
|
11th May 2022, 04:15 PM | #13 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: I live in a swamp
Posts: 27,712
|
I wish the ******* had invented a better vaccine. We wouldn't have our supply chain issues if they'd put more energy into making a vaccine that doesn't suck. Morons. Who gives a **** about hurricanes?
|
__________________
Ashley Babbit was a good start. |
|
11th May 2022, 08:49 PM | #14 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Nelson, New Zealand
Posts: 25,306
|
Given Trump's well understood propensity to lie and to say stupid stuff (often both at the same time), I can easily find what MSN/Rolling Stone have said/reported/linked to be believable...
Just to clarify, "finding something believable" is not the same as "actually believing that something" |
__________________
If you're not a scientist but you think you've destroyed the foundation of a vast scientific edifice with 10 minutes of Googling, you might want to consider the possibility that you're wrong. Its TRE45ON season... convict the F45CIST!! |
|
11th May 2022, 09:00 PM | #15 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Dharug & Gundungurra
Posts: 16,811
|
|
__________________
...our governments are just trying to protect us from terror. In the same way that someone banging a hornets’ nest with a stick is trying to protect us from hornets. Frankie Boyle, Guardian, July 2015 |
|
11th May 2022, 09:02 PM | #16 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Dharug & Gundungurra
Posts: 16,811
|
|
__________________
...our governments are just trying to protect us from terror. In the same way that someone banging a hornets’ nest with a stick is trying to protect us from hornets. Frankie Boyle, Guardian, July 2015 |
|
11th May 2022, 09:24 PM | #17 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: The Antimemetics Division
Posts: 69,914
|
|
__________________
There is no Antimemetics Division. |
|
11th May 2022, 09:36 PM | #18 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 19,539
|
|
__________________
/dann "Stupidity renders itself invisible by assuming very large proportions. Completely unreasonable claims are irrefutable. Ni-en-leh pointed out that a philosopher might get into trouble by claiming that two times two makes five, but he does not risk much by claiming that two times two makes shoe polish." B. Brecht "The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions." K. Marx |
|
11th May 2022, 09:46 PM | #19 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: The Antimemetics Division
Posts: 69,914
|
Of course you find it believable. That's the whole point: Rolling Stone is monetizing confirmation bias. And MSN is monetizing monetizing confirmation bias.
And don't get me wrong: I think it's totally okay to find unsubstantiated gossip believable. My purpose in saving you a click was to bring the fact that it's unsubstantiated gossip up front where it belongs. And to get you past the completely unnecessary involvement of MSN in the reporting of it. |
__________________
There is no Antimemetics Division. |
|
11th May 2022, 10:08 PM | #20 |
Disorder of Kilopi
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: State of Flux
Posts: 17,630
|
|
11th May 2022, 10:25 PM | #21 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Nelson, New Zealand
Posts: 25,306
|
|
__________________
If you're not a scientist but you think you've destroyed the foundation of a vast scientific edifice with 10 minutes of Googling, you might want to consider the possibility that you're wrong. Its TRE45ON season... convict the F45CIST!! |
|
11th May 2022, 10:28 PM | #22 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: The Antimemetics Division
Posts: 69,914
|
|
__________________
There is no Antimemetics Division. |
|
11th May 2022, 10:45 PM | #23 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Nelson, New Zealand
Posts: 25,306
|
|
__________________
If you're not a scientist but you think you've destroyed the foundation of a vast scientific edifice with 10 minutes of Googling, you might want to consider the possibility that you're wrong. Its TRE45ON season... convict the F45CIST!! |
|
13th May 2022, 10:07 AM | #24 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Sacramento
Posts: 60,375
|
Chinese must have made a deal with the Weather Wizard to make the gun.
Someone tell The Flash. |
__________________
Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty. Robert Heinlein. |
|
27th May 2022, 05:33 PM | #25 |
Illuminator
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 3,128
|
|
__________________
__________ Hiding from the |
|
27th May 2022, 05:42 PM | #26 |
Featherless biped
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Aporia
Posts: 26,431
|
|
29th May 2022, 11:20 PM | #27 |
Illuminator
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Hyderabad, India
Posts: 3,377
|
|
__________________
I've got to get to a library...fast Robert Langdon |
|
30th May 2022, 12:02 AM | #28 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Dharug & Gundungurra
Posts: 16,811
|
|
__________________
...our governments are just trying to protect us from terror. In the same way that someone banging a hornets’ nest with a stick is trying to protect us from hornets. Frankie Boyle, Guardian, July 2015 |
|
30th May 2022, 03:14 AM | #29 |
No longer the 1
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 30,147
|
|
__________________
As human right is always something given, it always in reality reduces to the right which men give, "concede," to each other. If the right to existence is conceded to new-born children, then they have the right; if it is not conceded to them, as was the case among the Spartans and ancient Romans, then they do not have it. For only society can give or concede it to them; they themselves cannot take it, or give it to themselves. |
|
9th June 2022, 09:41 AM | #30 |
Illuminator
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 3,402
|
|
Thread Tools | |
|
|