Posted on 01/25/2025 8:51:40 AM PST by Mount Athos
A FARTING whale is thought to have sparked fears that Russian drones were targeting UK nuclear subs.
The suspected blow-offs were picked up twice by Navy sensors scanning the area for signs of enemy activity.
It raised concerns that one of Vladimir Putin’s drone subs had dropped a listening device on to the seabed between the Isle of Raasay and Applecross in North West Scotland.
But a Naval official told The Sun: “We have been analysing the sounds and now believe it was a marine mammal. A whale.”
However, another source said they were still worried, adding: “We are taking it very seriously. We have to assume the worst.”
The sound was first detected travelling north from the range towards open sea. It came back days later and moved south towards the Skye Bridge before turning round and leaving.
At first, analysts described them as man-made sounds which had never been picked up on the range in its 55-year history.
It was feared that Russia’s deep sea research unit, known as GUGI, was trying to record acoustic signatures of our subs — making them easier to track and putting crews in danger.
And this week two civilian ships equipped with undersea robots were spotted at work in the 1,000ft-deep channel.
However, whale trumps have been mistaken for enemy subs in the past.
The Global Warmers are really riled up about cow farts.
Maybe there’s a little bit of truth in their message that farts could destroy the planet.
These farting whales are more than just rude. They are also contributing to Climate Change. And probably more than cows do, given that whales are so much larger.
Somebody ought to notify Al Gore about this.
1956 Suez Crisis. NORAD received a number of simultaneous reports, including unidentified aircraft over Turkey, Soviet MiG-15 fighters over Syria, a downed British Canberra medium bomber, and unexpected maneuvers by the Soviet Black Sea Fleet through the Dardanelles that appeared to signal a Soviet offensive.And many more...except I didn't find any other whale fart alarms.1960. Radar equipment in Thule, Greenland, mistakenly interpreted a moonrise over Norway as a large-scale Soviet missile launch. Upon receiving a report of the supposed attack, NORAD went on high alert. Doubts about the authenticity of the attack arose due to the presence of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in New York City as head of the USSR's United Nations delegation.
1961. November 1961. SAC simultaneously lost contact with NORAD and multiple Ballistic Missile Early Warning System sites...the failure of a single relay station in Colorado was the sole cause of the communications problem.
1962. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, US military planners expected that sabotage operations might precede any nuclear first strike by the Soviet Union. A guard at the Duluth Sector Direction Center saw a figure climbing the security fence. He shot at it and activated the sabotage alarm, which automatically set off similar alarms at other bases in the region. At Volk Field in Wisconsin, a faulty alarm system caused the klaxon to sound instead, which ordered Air Defense Command nuclear-armed F-106A interceptors into the air. The pilots had been told there would be no practice alert drills and, according to political scientist Scott D. Sagan, "fully believed that a nuclear war was starting".
Anyone tried to make an electronic ping sound like a whale?
They would be remiss if not
Nuke The Whales!
They always blame somebody else. He who smelt it, dealt it is what I think.
Ha, Ha, those zany Russkies, that's exactly what they want you to believe......
“ whale trumps”
I assume that’s from “trumpet” and not a lame Brit jab at our president.
He who denies it supplies it.
Zeepers immediately call for a Gulf of Pull My Finger Resolution. Linseed Graham gets excited.
Guranteed that “Artificia Intelligence” is used to analyze the sonar and misidentified the “whale farts.”
AI is just as fallible as humans.
They need a “Whale Fart” Filter on that software.
It could be a scenario like the one from the movie, “Up Pericscope”!
Not one word.
Oldest pub in Portsmouth: Ye Olde Farting Whalle
Whoopie Goldberg on a beach vacation?
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