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Oct 15, 2023

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It’s time for another digest post of all the stuff I’ve been doing around the web. I am finishing something great to share here this week. Week after next I will be explaining my thesis topic to a room full of historians.

Polemology Positions

On Recent Trial Balloons And Heavenly Signs

Remember how the year started out weird? During January, Hawaiians saw these spectacular beams of light in the sky. Within a few weeks, it turned out to be a Chinese satellite, Daqi-1, launched in April 2022 and carrying LIDAR (laser imaging, detection, and ranging) “for detecting atmospheric aerosols and carbon dioxide,” according to Sascha Brodsky at…

2 years ago · 3 likes · Matt Osborne

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