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(DIR) Post #AngGTYBUvw7LVj5Ps0 by foone@digipres.club
2024-11-03T23:17:48Z
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Without looking it up, do you know what the Vela Hotel Incident is?
(DIR) Post #AngGlVVVcsRwQ60c5I by rappet@chaos.social
2024-11-03T23:21:00Z
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@foone I had to look it up, but remembered it. (was confused by "Hotel")
(DIR) Post #AngGpDTKcdMzdwl7ce by azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2024-11-03T23:21:01Z
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@foone 📸📸
(DIR) Post #AngGtPbTSaN2QUZIPY by artandtechnic@digipres.club
2024-11-03T23:21:04Z
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@foone D) I forgot the name of it, but knew what it was.
(DIR) Post #AngGwMqi9mIIkk6Y4G by cliffordheath@mastodon.social
2024-11-03T23:22:43Z
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@foone (d) I know what it is, but didn't recall the name
(DIR) Post #AngHB9oGv2Cyej134q by mikailborg@mastodon.social
2024-11-03T23:25:39Z
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@foone After voting, I looked up “Vela Hotel incident” and then I was “oh, yeah, I heard of that.”
(DIR) Post #AngHW5oUyLdeLJ6Ydc by Computeum@mastodon.bayern
2024-11-03T23:29:23Z
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@foone That time when the US closed their eyes to let their friends have bombs? The one that made others as well think it's fine to develop them? Yeah, and nowadays the boomerang gets another round by showing off how owning of them protects whatever they intend to do?Brave new world ...
(DIR) Post #AngHpFovzTsMsgRgFk by skaverat@skaverat.net
2024-11-03T23:32:55Z
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@foone ohh, *that* incident. Voted "no", but I actually heard about it before
(DIR) Post #AngNboa2YcEWMDSByS by brennen@federation.p1k3.com
2024-11-04T00:37:37Z
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@foone this is one of those "i have read this wikipedia article before but did not remember what it was called" things.
(DIR) Post #AngR79CCG8ln8Ovv6m by equinox@chaos.social
2024-11-04T01:16:40Z
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@foone isn't it normally just called the Vela Incident? Kinda threw me for a second
(DIR) Post #AngS1BnBnAYBP8xW52 by WooShell@chaosfurs.social
2024-11-04T01:27:07Z
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@foone Does it involve pizza in the hallway?
(DIR) Post #AngjUkEIX5PnpQJlFw by artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay
2024-11-04T04:42:57Z
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@foone I've only ever heard of it as "Vela incident".I asked an IAEA tour guide in Vienna about it and that claimed it never happened
(DIR) Post #Angs6kHvYwVqeCe9SK by agitatra@berlin.social
2024-11-04T06:19:27Z
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@foone I've heard of a Vela Incident (bright flash) and the Controversy about the Vela Hotel in Barcelona, but never anything about a "Vela Hotel Incident"?
(DIR) Post #Angsj22Q18hEhZeHsO by ppxl@social.tchncs.de
2024-11-04T06:26:23Z
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@foone to my defensive, I am European, your honor.
(DIR) Post #Angz8mBcAwaonDbpsO by typhon@piaille.fr
2024-11-04T07:38:13Z
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@foone answered too fast, thought you were talking about the Vela incident
(DIR) Post #AnhTC1pxRMQ6pHwjaq by realcainmosni@mastodon.me.uk
2024-11-04T13:14:59Z
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@foone Interesting. And disturbing.
(DIR) Post #AnihbHlMxS5lyYhJbs by foone@digipres.club
2024-11-05T03:31:04Z
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6% yes, 4% kinda, 90% no.Interestingly when I ran this on Tumblr, they were 12% yes, 5% kinda, 82% no.
(DIR) Post #AnihqhzbidWHfYiBWq by foone@digipres.club
2024-11-05T03:33:56Z
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The quick explanation: the Vela Hotel Incident (or Vela Incident) was a 1979 event where a single satellite detected the double-flash of a nuclear explosion in the Indian ocean.No country officially took credit, but the current consensus is that it was a joint South African-Israeli test.
(DIR) Post #AniiLU8RI6HhfTWBBw by maxh@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-11-05T03:39:24Z
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@foone I've only heard it called the Vela incident, never Vela Hotel. If I had seen the poll before this post I might have assumed it was a different thing.
(DIR) Post #AniiOPHZn08lUEBX3w by bujold@dice.camp
2024-11-05T03:39:56Z
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@foone The "Hotel" bit plus the fact that Tumblr knew about it made me think oh, I don't know the name but it's got to be that one story where someone died in a hotel water tank, obviously
(DIR) Post #Anij50CaugOK9ZALSa by violator@mathstodon.xyz
2024-11-05T03:47:39Z
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@foone just curious, what prompted the poll?
(DIR) Post #AnijCM7NpRAc9SEce8 by bersl2@furry.engineer
2024-11-05T03:49:01Z
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@foone Oh, that one.
(DIR) Post #AnikAGQy5hd7thxho0 by Milkman76@mastodon.social
2024-11-05T03:59:49Z
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@foone that's interesting. I had no idea, and I tend to know some things lol. Ive always assumed israel had nukes. Pine Gap, for ex, as well as the nukes we have in Australia. People should know about that, as well.
(DIR) Post #AnixcpMn6Y4dkexUWW by meijerjt@wandering.shop
2024-11-05T06:30:37Z
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@foone oh, knew about that one. Only the name didn't ring a bell.
(DIR) Post #Anj12ibDBiNu9dk0NE by gabe@mendeddrum.org
2024-11-05T07:08:56Z
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@foone I'd be idly curious who knew the incident but not the name.(Not curious enough to try and find out.)
(DIR) Post #Anj9U6foaVHyGtSsjo by foone@digipres.club
2024-11-05T08:43:32Z
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@munin oh, they're all big slotin fans.
(DIR) Post #Anj9cuhSTT1jk6Qu6S by foone@digipres.club
2024-11-05T08:45:11Z
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@violator mainly just me trying to recalibrate my understand of what "most people know". I have a problem where I keep thinking everyone knows about what turns out to be obscure events, like the 1947 Star Dust "STENDEC" crash.
(DIR) Post #AnjeGXYWwJuyAf4JEW by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2024-11-05T14:28:26Z
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@foone @nyrath Since I have encountered people suggesting that the Vela incident was due to a meteorite impact combined with the satellite seeing a glint at exactly the wrong time:The event was also detected by hydrophones; and it was followed by small amounts of iodine-131 fallout being detected downwind in Australia over the following weeks.It was definitely a bomb - https://scienceandglobalsecurity.org/archive/sgs26degeer.pdf