DoomsdaysCWAug 4, 2023
Very loud, low-flying jet plane just shook up my neighborhood here in southern #Maine (not far from the Portland JetPort). My neighbor thinks it was a fighter plane, but we weren't able to see it because of the cloud cover. We often hear planes overhead, but never that loud. I wonder what's going on?
#MaineAirspace #Planes
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It could be training going on. Though that sounded bigger than an A-10. A couple of my neighbors came out to see what was going on. It was wicked loud.

Here's why there have been fighter jets over the Portland area this week

"They are A-10 Thunderbolts taking part in pilot training day for the #Maine Aviation Corporation."

https://www.wmtw.com/article/here-s-why-there-have-been-fighter-jets-over-the-portland-area-this-week/28511319

#MaineAirspace

Aug 4, 2023 at 2:56pmWeb
Show threadDoomsdaysCWAug 4, 2023
Whenever I hear planes flying low, I always think of the beginning of the novel, "Dies The Fire." Is the "Change" upon us? #Emberverse
Show threadDoomsdaysCWAug 4, 2023

Wikipedia: "Dies the Fire is a 2004 alternate history and post-apocalyptic novel written by S. M. Stirling. It is the first installment of the Emberverse series and is a spin-off from S. M. Stirling's Nantucket series in which the Massachusetts island of Nantucket is thrown back in time from March 17, 1998 to the Bronze Age.

"In Dies the Fire, S. M. Stirling chronicles two groups during 'The Change', a mysterious worldwide event suddenly alters physical laws so electricity, gunpowder, and most other forms of high-energy-density technology no longer work. As a result of this, modern civilization comes crashing down.

"Dies the Fire is a fantasy novel set in post-apocalyptic Oregon and Idaho. After an unknown phenomenon disables most forms of modern technology such as electricity, high-pressure steam-power, combustion, computers, electronics, guns, car and jet engines, and batteries, people quickly adapt, relying on swords and bows. Many people starve..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dies_the_Fire

#Emberverse #Dystopian #Fiction #SMStirling #Novels

Dies the Fire - Wikipedia

Show threadDocHollidayJul 21, 2024
@DoomsdaysCW that sounds very weird but certainly intriguing
Show threadDoomsdaysCWJul 21, 2024
@WmShakesp3are What I find fascinating about the series is the way societies break down and morph back into old patterns. There's a rivalry between earth-centered Pagan types and those who embrace Christo-fascism. I don't want to give too much away though.
Show threadDoomsdaysCWJul 21, 2024
@WmShakesp3are The part that got to me was the graphic descriptions of how f*cked we are if modern civilization suddenly collapsed -- everywhere (Polycrisis, anyone?). The fantastical element that's too good to be true is that guns and nuclear plants (and most modern technology), no longer works because the laws of physics have mysteriously changed. In the real-life version of that sort of collapse, nuclear melt-downs and gun-wielding hoards would be rampant.
Show threadMonarchLadyJul 21, 2024
@DoomsdaysCW Great writing! I've got them all. One of the few authors I will buy in hardback.
Show threadMonarchLadyJul 21, 2024
@DoomsdaysCW I'm under the landing pattern for CMH Columbus Ohio! Sometimes when the big shadow falls over me, I give thanks that pterodactyls are extinct.