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siegecrossbow

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Ancient aliens at work!

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A video from China has had the internet doing flips after it showed moving vehicles mysteriously stop in their tracks and levitate up before falling back to the ground. The incredible footage looks like a scene from an X-Men movie but what caused these cars to rise up off the road? An earthquake? Aliens? Was it a hoax using camera trickery or was it something altogether something far more simple?

The CCTV footage shows an intersection in Xingtai, in southern Hebei province, flowing normally until a minivan that approaches the traffic lights seems to hit some imaginary force field where its rear end is dramatically yanked back up a few feet into the air then flipped backwards onto its side. Two other vehicles at the traffic lights at the same time also were lifted off the road and tossed around like toy cars. Pedestrians at the scene were left mystified but, luckily (or, more surprisingly) nobody involved was injured. Maybe just a little dazed and confused.

Levitating cars, solved
The baffling footage has since gone viral with the internet offering its share of conspiracy theories but, sorry, there's no X-Files stuff going on here. The police provided a simple explanation as to why the cars suddenly lifted up. If you watch the video you'll see a road sweeper roll into shot on the right-hand side just before the minivan approaches the lights.

If you've got a keen eye, on the left of the video a faint black line appears before the incident – this is a thick cable or wire that accidentally got wrapped around one of the road sweeper's brushes, essentially creating a trip wire. So there you have it. A simple explanation but a rather remarkable looking event nonetheless.
 

Equation

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Remember this is North Korea, who claims that unicorns are real.
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delft

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For example, building so called carrier killer missiles projects an adversarial posture that is targeted
It might be targeted but it is a defensive weapon. It cannot attack US and will not be used to attack carriers except in case of war. The UN Charter allows defence, not aggression.
 

siegecrossbow

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It might be targeted but it is a defensive weapon. It cannot attack US and will not be used to attack carriers except in case of war. The UN Charter allows defence, not aggression.

I beg to differ. The U.S. carrier is considered to be a piece of mobile U.S. territory. Any attack against an U.S. Carrier is equivalent to an attack on U.S. soil.
 
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