Missing Titanic Sub

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
🔥 The Wall Street Journal ran an odd story yesterday headlined, “U.S. Navy Heard What It Believed Was Titan Implosion Days Ago.” The subheadline explained, “Underwater microphones designed to detect enemy submarines first detected Titan tragedy.”

Now they tell us. The Navy, citing national security concerns, did not name the specific system used for the operation. Presumably it used some high-tech military sensors and advanced computers to help search for the wayward mini-sub:

The Navy began listening for the Titan almost as soon as the sub lost communications, according to a U.S. defense official. Shortly after the submersible’s disappearance Sunday, the U.S. system detected what it suspected was the sound of an implosion near the debris site discovered Thursday and reported its findings to the Coast Guard commander on site, U.S. defense officials said.​


So … on Sunday, they heard the sub collapse and knew the location. But for its own reasons, the government didn’t release that information to the public, or to the other non-military agencies that were involved in the immeasurably-expensive search, until five days later:

The U.S. held off making public what noises it had detected because it wanted to ensure search-and-rescue operations continued and couldn’t say for sure it was an implosion.​


If you give it a moment’s thought, that is a terrible explanation. I don’t know why they didn’t tell, but it couldn’t have been for the reason they gave. They could have send people right to the debris. The alleged explanation also fails to explain the claims from earlier this week that banging noises were heard.









There weren’t any banging noises unless it was ghosts.

The Navy’s delay, combined with the timing of yesterday’s release — after it’s no use to anyone — led to suspicious headlines in several conservative news media, like this one from the PostMillennial: “BREAKING: US Navy Detected Titan Implosion on Sunday, but Biden Admin Only Released News on Thursday After Hunter Plea Deal and Whistleblower Reports Released.”

Which leads us to our next story.
 
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