[Gargantua]

Hey, Comic. Check out my post #450, then look at this.

http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE67B11W20100812

We're closing in on the truth... as I always knew we would. This is just too big to bury, and the folks who lit that candle aren't just going to quietly slink away. That was just the first cannonball across our prow. Not the last.

;-\

[The Comedian]

Hey, Comic.

Yeah Tarantula?

Check out my post #450, then look at this.

Dude, post #450 contains no information. It is a series of unsubstantiated and unattributed rumors. It has zero information value.

And then your referenced Reuters article quotes a Chinese general thusly: "A country needs respect, and a military also needs respect. 'If someone doesn't hurt me, I won't hurt him; but if someone hurts me, I must hurt him," wrote Major General Luo Yuan in the paper.

Duh.

I've seen this sort of collapse of rational thinking before, many times. The weaving together of ideas, rumors, and theories as though they were data, facts, and logical conclusions.

Truthers use this sort of tortured pseudo-thought all the time.

Dude, step back from the brink. It was a friggin' airplane contrail. It was Flight AWE808 from Hawaii to Phoenix, or possibly UPS902.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.