China Floodwatch 2020-21 - Wuhan, Hubei/Henan Province is sinking and I dunno how to swim.

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Exactly my point. China does nonsensical things like this all the time in an effort to gain more control over its population. Herding their citizens into the cities is all about control.

In China it's considered a privilege to live in cities. A filthy commieblock and 80-hour a week factory job sucks but there's more opportunities there than in a tiny ass village, especially for your kid (although many villages were exempt from the One Child Policy). Like instead of some filthy, tiny market with bat and maybe a dog or two , they get the slightly less filthy and spacious Huanan Seafood Market with lots of different kinds of bats, dogs, cats, and even pork.

Incidentally, a lot of the worst examples of Chinese behavior on the part of their citizens (and not the government) usually involves people recently moved from the countryside. There's a specific term in China for them.

 

[NyQuilninja]

If China is unable to feed themselves now is not a good time to pissing off America. The amout of food we export them is huge.
U.S. total exports of agricultural products to China totaled $9.3 billion in 2018, our 4th largest agricultural export market. Leading domestic export categories include: soybeans ($3.1 billion), cotton ($924 million), hides & skins ($607 million), pork & pork products ($571 million), and coarse grains (ex.

https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/china-mongolia-taiwan/peoples-republic-china

 

[Tookie]

Haarp is still a thing? I mean its a perfect get out of jail free card fo0r the evil CCP.

The interesting thing about HAARP theories is that they're ubiquitous in some countries hostile to the United States to such a degree that they've become commonly accepted among the population. I knew someone from Iran who was highly educated (Masters degree) in her field and was very pro-Western/anti-Mullah who casually mentioned HAARP one day. She wasn't even being paranoid about it, she just thought of it as one more weapon in the US arsenal.

And why not? The US has the ability to dispatch swarms of robots to pick off generals or to project world-ending nuclear hellfire from the other side of the globe. HAARP almost seems mundane in comparison. She didn't understand the mechanics of how HAARP would operate, but then again how many people really understand the minutiae of how a nuclear bomb works or take the time to find out either?

 

[Otterly]

Whiskey is spelled with an E.

It’s whisky in Scotland and whiskey in Ireland (and America apparently.)

 

[Absolutego]

It’s whisky in Scotland and whiskey in Ireland (and America apparently.)

We usually just call the Scottish version Scotch, which leads to hilarious Americanisms like Scotch Whiskey.

 

[TaimuRadiu]

It's interesting that there are HAARP analogs in... Russia and China, as well as the EU.

Every time some tard on shortwave brings up HAARP being used to create California's latest earthquake I immediately think "wait a second dude, wouldn't it be more likely that China is using this?"

 

[Super-Chevy454]

It's interesting that there are HAARP analogs in... Russia and China, as well as the EU.

Every time some tard on shortwave brings up HAARP being used to create California's latest earthquake I immediately think "wait a second dude, wouldn't it be more likely that China is using this?"

Indeed and if it was them, would they stop only at California? They could have shake Seattle, Portland or New Madrid as well.

 

[Otterly]

HAARP is still there, they just turned it over to the university.
How is it supposed to cause earthquakes? Frequency resonance or something? How would that even be possible? You can certainly do some funky stuff messing with the atmosphere at that level but earthquakes seem unlikely

 

[Super-Chevy454]

I saw that tweet where the poster mentionned a documentary titled "The Coming war on China" done in 2016.

https://twitter.com/Si_or_just_Si/status/1286751856316649472

With the current floods in China, I think it might not aged very well.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

So, what are the odds that by opening the floodgates for this long, the dam accidentally washes away the riverbed that it stands on? I know, a breach would be catastrophic on a global scale, but I still want to see the CCP get dragged out of their offices and dangled from lampposts.

 

[Second Hand Syringe]

So, what are the odds that by opening the floodgates for this long, the dam accidentally washes away the riverbed that it stands on? I know, a breach would be catastrophic on a global scale, but I still want to see the CCP get dragged out of their offices and dangled from lampposts.

I think a bigger concern is the structural integrity of the spillways. They need to keep them open to protect the dam, but the high volume of flow seems to be causing cavitation damage. They've already shut off the spillway closest to the livestream camera after it appeared to be damaged two days ago. The shape of the flow from that spillway started changing, then they closed it shortly after the flow became visibly different. Once the spillways start being eaten away from cavitation you could have a case where the flow undercuts the dam.

My guess is that if the floods keep up long enough the spillways will be one of the most likely points of failure. I'll be preforming a rain dance at midnight.

 

[robobobo]

I'm not even remotely an architect, but I'm assuming it's impossible to do any kind of significant repair on the dam while it's operating in emergency conditions like these. I think they're going to have to just hold on to their asses and pray it doesn't blow before the waters recede. The problem is, if the pressure relief system has already begun to fail, they're only going to put more pressure on the remaining gates by locking the ones that are coming apart, accelerating the wear on the others. That's really not great if they still have 4-8 weeks to get through.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

Why is the water coming out of the sluice gates filthier than the water upstream? Is it sediment going through the sluice and possibly building up in there?

Satellite imagery seems to show deep water as blue even in when it's very muddy. Unfortunately, I don't know why.

think a bigger concern is the structural integrity of the spillways. They need to keep them open to protect the dam, but the high volume of flow seems to be causing cavitation damage. They've already shut off the spillway closest to the livestream camera after it appeared to be damaged two days ago. The shape of the flow from that spillway started changing, then they closed it shortly after the flow became visibly different. Once the spillways start being eaten away from cavitation you could have a case where the flow undercuts the dam.

That's very not good. Cavitation damage is what started the massive failure of the the main spillway of the Oroville Dam. A small defect in the surface of the concrete spillway

in the span of a few days went from this

to this:

to completely fucked

 

[Pocket Dragoon]

Satellite imagery seems to show deep water as blue even in when it's very muddy. Unfortunately, I don't know why.

They're composite images across the spectrum, normally; and a lot of watercourse imagery is tweaked to make them more visible to the average user (i.e. blue).

Water associated with national-security facilities (i.e. nuke plants/dams/ports) are also artificially updated, mostly to cover things like vessel wakes/datums & site operational status.

 

[NyQuilninja]

HAARP is still there, they just turned it over to the university.
How is it supposed to cause earthquakes? Frequency resonance or something? How would that even be possible? You can certainly do some funky stuff messing with the atmosphere at that level but earthquakes seem unlikely

Since I'm quite the peruser of Conspiracies haarp has since days long past has long since been a topic of mind control and weather Manipulation amongst leading conspiracy cows

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4jw6bw

 

[Driftwood]

If China is unable to feed themselves now is not a good time to pissing off America. The amout of food we export them is huge.
U.S. total exports of agricultural products to China totaled $9.3 billion in 2018, our 4th largest agricultural export market. Leading domestic export categories include: soybeans ($3.1 billion), cotton ($924 million), hides & skins ($607 million), pork & pork products ($571 million), and coarse grains (ex.

https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/china-mongolia-taiwan/peoples-republic-china

Would agree if China valued life. I am not even playing edgelord here.

 

[Iceland Heavy]

On the /pol/ threads there were a bunch of nuke the reservoir shitposts which are obviously shitposts but what can China realistically do if things did get bad enough where they're faced with letting the dam burst or taking drastic measures?

 

[Livecorpse]

On the /pol/ threads there were a bunch of nuke the reservoir shitposts which are obviously shitposts but what can China realistically do if things did get bad enough where they're faced with letting the dam burst or taking drastic measures?

If the stories about them dynamiting levees and dams is true, I think they're at the desperate measures point anyway. I feel like at this point, they're just holding on and hoping for the best.

 

[Pocket Dragoon]

HAARP is still there, they just turned it over to the university.
How is it supposed to cause earthquakes? Frequency resonance or something? How would that even be possible? You can certainly do some funky stuff messing with the atmosphere at that level but earthquakes seem unlikely

My personal theory has always been that HAARP was originally intended to interfere with orbital/high altitude surveillance and/or boost-phase rockets; by creating localised patches of highly ionized atmosphere, which could definitely fuck up non-hardened avionics & guidance systems.

The weather-modification angle was either the half-truth cover-story, or what it was repurposed to when it either didn't work as intended, or became obsolete.

 

[Cycleye]

On the /pol/ threads there were a bunch of nuke the reservoir shitposts which are obviously shitposts but what can China realistically do if things did get bad enough where they're faced with letting the dam burst or taking drastic measures?

Operation Highball - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-kx2Vpvxk4

Operation Upkeep was the bouncing bomb type that was used (in)famously against the dams in Germany. It was a different shape to Highball.