<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><font size="4" style="" face="georgia, serif"><i style=""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Once in position, they </i>[spy satellites] <i style="">cannot be hidden.</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Actually they can <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">hide</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> because modern spy satellites are powered so they do not have fixed orbits, and they use stealth technology: </span></b></font></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zirconic"> Zirconic</a> </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>And then there's this:<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></b></font></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/1ojqbv4/so_apparently_the_us_forced_a_new_megatelescope/"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>The U.S forced the new Vera Rubin Observator  to hide what it sees.</b></font></a><br><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i style=""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>How do you suppose the military was able to fetch Maduro without loss of life, </i></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>As I said before,<span class="gmail_default" style=""></span> <span class="gmail_default" style="">Maduro was not popular with a lot of people in the Venezuelan military, so </span><span class="gmail_default" style="">the US was probably able to get </span>one of<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>Maduro<span class="gmail_default" style="">'s most trusted henchmen, or henchwomen, to betray him in return for power; </span>Delcy Rodríguez<span class="gmail_default" style=""> would be the most likely suspect. Unfortunately that was not as easy to do in Iran. </span></b></font></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>What is the discombobulator please?</i></span></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">I</span><span class="gmail_default" style="">f it existed, why wasn't it used in Iran? </span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>The only evidence that the <span class="gmail_default" style="">"</span>discombobulator<span class="gmail_default" style="">"</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> exists comes from the lips of the most frequent liar on the face of the Earth. </span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span></b></font></div></div>