>>5332996

I wouldn't call the Moon "well within" the Earth's atmosphere.

The atoms there that source from Earth's atmosphere are incredibly thin, what we would call a vacuum for all practical purposes. But it's enough that it's detectable with scientific instruments, which is interesting and relevant for space exploration and studying other planets, to know that traces of atmosphere are detectable that far away from the host planet.

By analogy it would be like calling Earth's night side "well within" the illumination from the bright star Sirius, because its light is detectable here, but we sure wouldn't think of it the same way as the day side of Earth is "well within" the warmth and illumination of our Sun.

From the article:

The new study revealed that sunlight compresses hydrogen atoms in the geocorona on Earth’s dayside, and also produces a region of enhanced density on the night side. The denser dayside region of hydrogen is still rather sparse, with just 70 atoms per cubic centimeter at 60 000 kilometers above Earth’s surface, and about 0.2 atoms at the Moon’s distance.

“On Earth we would call it vacuum, so this extra source of hydrogen is not significant enough to facilitate space exploration,” says Igor.

>>5333192

I may have missed the start of this discussion, but what's the argument that's invalid? All I see are neat photos of a Trident flight near San Francisco, with the plume conspicuous because it was illuminated by sunlight.

As for the Skunk Bay photo, and whether that was a SLBM aimed at AF1 - granted it's a kind of insane choice for a weapons system to use in such a situation, but maybe the cabal uses whatever they have under their control, even if it's not a particularly sane decision? I think the test for plausibility is not "is this a sensible choice" but "would it work for what they care about" (and after 9/11 we know the cabal doesn't care about not causing massive damage, might even see that as a benefit)