• merc@sh.itjust.works
    56·
    15 days ago

    Looking up who controlled that peninsula, I found this lovely feature:

    The Oman Donut

    The UAE controls a lot of that peninsula, but the tip is controlled by Oman. Halfway down the peninsula is a roughly circular region, inland, that is controlled by Oman, but surrounded by territory controlled by UAE. Inside that circular region is an even smaller circular region controlled by UAE. I wonder how that happened.

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
      23·
      15 days ago

      These are called Exclaves and there’s way more of them than you might think. I think this isn’t the only double Exclaves either. There are so many border fuckery things around the world, even in countries you might not expect, I want to make a YouTube video on them, I’m obsessed with finding them on google maps.

      Take a look at the border of Nederland and België for an extreme example:

      • merc@sh.itjust.works
        17·
        15 days ago

        Wow, I knew the border wasn’t a straight line, but I didn’t realize quite how fractal it was. It’s like they interviewed each household and decided on a case-by-case basis who was Belgian and who was Dutch.

        • Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          15 days ago

          If you look closely it’s not even house by house. Much of it is just random fields or parts of fields. Maybe houses stood there decades or centuries earlier when the borders were drawn up, IDK

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    39·
    15 days ago

    It also funnels all the traffic into an even narrower pass that can be easily blocked by a bad actor

    • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      15 days ago

      Fun little fact, several underground detonations were carried out in gas fields as an early attempt at fracking. The result was a giant cavity full of radioactively contaminated methane, that didn’t even link up to the other two giant cavities full of radioactively contaminated methane.

      Overall, massive failure all around. But the fun fact is that areas where those nuclear fracking tests occurred were the same areas where the first mysterious cattle mutilations were reported.

      As a further note, local farmers, ranchers, and police were not told about the fracking tests, or the radioactive methane below their feet. Also, the cattle that were mutilated were missing lymph nodes, which could theoretically be tested in a lab for certain radiation based cancers.

      Finally, the guy who did the initial investigations on the mutilations was best friends with a member of Air Force Office of Special Investigations who had been actively lying to a very smart yet gullible man, telling him that the strange aircraft and mysterious signals he was getting from the Air Force base across the street was in fact, aliens and not super classified aircraft and weapon systems tests.

      • redsand@infosec.pubEnglish
        3·
        14 days ago

        I had heard of cow mutilations as part of tracking prion diseases but this is an interesting version

        • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          14 days ago

          Part One: How The U.S. Government Used Aliens To Destroy a Man’s Mind | BEHIND THE BASTARDS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8F1HnpeQTo

          and

          Part Two: How The U.S. Government Used Aliens To Destroy a Man’s Mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cD5WETr_DA

          It tells the whole story, and yeah, some of the loudest voices in the UFO movement, were literally paid by the US government to lie, saying that top secret weapons tests were actually aliens.

          • redsand@infosec.pubEnglish
            1·
            14 days ago

            OH that’s the same story. I think I watched part 1 of that a while ago. It would seem to me the answer is in El Dorado. Both.

            I don’t believe Lazar is an acting prodigy who devoted his to an elaborate charade but I’m also certain many of these psyops are real. Mixing lies and truth in creative ways to specific ends is what some of these spooks live for.

            • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              14 days ago

              I mean, it’s not hard to keep telling the same sorts of lies for years when people keep paying you to do so.

              I’m not talking about the government here, the UFO community is happy to support a number of conmen and fake experts.

              • redsand@infosec.pubEnglish
                1·
                14 days ago

                An onion of intellectually lazy assumptions.

                I’m not gonna hold your hand through the logistical challenges that would be orchestrating Bob Lazar’s life instead here’s a body language expert watching his original reel: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DOj_BMFLhrk

                I’ve watched a couple other interviews with Lazar, if he’s lying he’s better at it than Leonardo DiCaprio. And to seemingly no positive end.

                • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  3·
                  14 days ago

                  Of course a “body language expert” is your proof.

                  I almost died laughing when I saw it.

                  It’s conmen all the way down. It’s what they do. They reference each other in a web of “legitimacy”.

  • nexguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    14 days ago

    Dude just speed the ships up and skid over the land (while drifting) and slide back into the water so sick

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    14·
    15 days ago

    Ah, yes.

    Let’s start a major infrastructure project… in the middle of a warzone that is actively being hit by precision missile strikes on an regular basis.

    While a pipeline in this location might make more sense… its still the same fundamental problem.

  • kubica@fedia.io
    14·
    15 days ago

    Just schedule a few meteorites to fall there and you don’t have to spend so much in terrain modifications.

  • qualia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    15 days ago

    ELIC (Explain Like I’m Caveman)

    Edit: the thumbnail looks like two chimps holding hands

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      4·
      15 days ago

      Explain like I’m 5 million years ago. (Well, 500,000 is more like it, but there’s no nifty name for that, so a chat with monke it is)

      • qualia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        15 days ago

        To anyone about to pounce on this hoser that apes aren’t monkes: all apes are a branch within the monkes and you can’t evolve out of a clade (monophyly). So either apes are monkes, or the word ape is synonymous with catarhini (making rhesus macaques also apes), or monkes don’t exist. The reason science goes with the first is that monkeys all share similar body plans while us apes have the weird derived features you damn, dirty apes!

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          1·
          14 days ago

          Thank you, although I feel like using the meme spelling offered some protection anyway.

          Also public service announcement that pachyderm is no longer a category of any meaning. I made a wet of myself with that one, once.

  • 4am@lemmy.zip
    6·
    15 days ago

    The problem is that the map has two more dimensions than the original poster’s mind can think in