Without looking it up, do you know what the Vela Hotel Incident is?
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Without looking it up, do you know what the Vela Hotel Incident is?
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@foone D) I forgot the name of it, but knew what it was.
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6% yes, 4% kinda, 90% no.
Interestingly when I ran this on Tumblr, they were 12% yes, 5% kinda, 82% no. -
The quick explanation: the Vela Hotel Incident (or Vela Incident) was a 1979 event where a single satellite detected the double-flash of a nuclear explosion in the Indian ocean.
No country officially took credit, but the current consensus is that it was a joint South African-Israeli test. -
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@foone just curious, what prompted the poll?
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I'd be curious about the correlation with transness and with slotin fandom.
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@munin oh, they're all big slotin fans.
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@violator mainly just me trying to recalibrate my understand of what "most people know". I have a problem where I keep thinking everyone knows about what turns out to be obscure events, like the 1947 Star Dust "STENDEC" crash.
