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by ANewFormation 553 days ago
Check any radiation map to see what's probably happening. Parts of New York, in the vicinity of the sightings, are showing extremely high radiation levels.

Its probably just drones searching for the source with the secrecy aimed at trying to avoid a mass panic.
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AlexeyBelov 553 days ago
Can you link a map?
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ANewFormation 553 days ago
A web search will turn up a bunch. Here's one - https://www.gmcmap.com
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llamaimperative 551 days ago
Looking at the history of the one counter currently showing elevated levels (northjerseymike), it looks like the current value is well within variance of historical levels. I jumped back 10, 50, and 100 pages and without plotting, it didn't seem anything is notable about more recent data.

Also... why wouldn't the feds just say they're inspecting infrastructure and avoid the entire question...?

IMO this is almost certainly a commercial LIDAR mapping effort plus right wing conspiratorial hysteria.

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ANewFormation 551 days ago
You need to go by date, not whatever pages are. When I made that post, levels were around 400 which is dangerously high.
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llamaimperative 551 days ago
The pages are sorted by date... I ended up going back roughly 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months.

A single value at a moment in time doesn't mean anything at all. You need to see the variance over time. And you need to trust the source data. The only "dangerously high" readings I saw were from counters that had no name, no history, no identifier, no additional values.

This theory makes no sense from the get-go and this "evidence" is extremely low quality.

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ANewFormation 551 days ago
Ok so you went back a day, saw the ongoing sky high readings from multiple sources which you were apparently trying to claim didn't exist, now acknowledge they exist, and now you want to claim they don't mean anything. Ok.

You sort of people are so weird.

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