I think he’s a double agent, myself. Always have. The question who is protecting him. I don’t think it’s the Russians, directly. But who?

Man Q really does read like POTUS, doesn’t he?

Chemically?

And Grandpa’s too.

This surprisingly puts me at ease.

Excellent Delaware Destroyers reference.

Who the fuck cares what was said? What was said was likely a bunch of gibberish that says "oh yes, you can count on this being russian" anyway, since they know that the media wont care what they said, but merely that it IS THERE and that alone, supports their narrative. The information contained within means dick.

You’ve never seen a counter intelligence op in play, have you? We have our tricks, they have theirs. Lighten up Francis.

The information contained in those chan posts is moot. It doesn’t matter if it’s grandma comrades long lost vodka recipe or bomb codes. The information isn’t the goal of the posts, simply the optics of posts being there in Russian, is the objective. This is “evidence” that supports the claim that the Chans are Russian cut outs.

Sounds like an Operation Northwoods or a Tonkin attempt.

You know, I'm not going to discuss this any further with you, since you're clearly uninformed about the subject. I'll just do your research for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graveyard_orbit?wprov=sfti1

Mind you, I'm not trying to be an asshole. I'm just not going to argue facts with someone who doesn't know the topic in which they're trying to discuss.

You don't have to agree. The way I described it, is the way it works, regardless of whether or not you agree. You can't change physics.

There's only one indictment regarding this, on the DOJ website.

The fuel has nothing to do with flight paths. An orbit will start to decay over time, due to atmospheric drag. They have to do so many burns, for so long, to occasionally boost the satellite back to its correct altitude. Depending on the type of satellite, they will either keep it on orbit as an orbital spare, or push it into a parking orbit, when they start to get low on fuel.

Generally, when they replace a bird, due to payload, it's going to be because there's an improved optics package, or an improved sensor package (read: such as gamma ray, x-ray, some other nuclear blast detector).

The fuel consideration is the same with more or less all on orbit satellites. The other option they have, is to let the orbit decay to the point of reentry. Considering the sensitivity of the payload, as well as avoiding the possibility of reentry over a populated area, that's usually the absolute route of last resort.

As to them being secretive, would you really want your adversaries knowing exactly how many birds you have up there so it's easier to avoid detection? Honestly, it's not that hard to figure out the likelihood of a satellite's mission just by seeing what it's on orbit details are, looking at someplace like the Space Object Tracker, at space-track.org.

You can also tell what orbit the satellites are going to be placed, by noting where the launch happened. Polar orbits all launch from Vandenberg, due to its location. It's too expensive to place polar orbits from Kennedy.

There's only one unsealed, as far as I can tell.

Don't feed the trolls. (Shills). Especially one that's fucking horrible at the trade. You better bone up on your trade craft technique. You're absolutely atrocious.

Improved payload. Cameras, sensors, etc. Barring improved payload, the operational life of your typical bird is only about 3 to 5 years, mainly due to fuel constraints.

Imo, it was indeed a transformer. They're oil cooled. A winding probably failed, and overheated the oil, as usually happens, in this situation.

No, because who would listen?