Notes From an Environmentalist;

         The Baltimore Bridge Collapse;

                 The Spoofing Hypothesis                            

Four years after the description of Covid-19, the mainstream and scientific media have come to the realization that they were too quick to dismiss concern about one form of controversial technology in favor of the natural spillover explanation for the origin of the recent pandemic.  

Are we now going to make a same mistake in    overlooking the potential role of another dangerous new technology?

Right now the reigning explanation for the Francis Scott Keys Bridge collapse is that dirty fuel caused the container ship Dali to lose power and slam into the bridge, precisely where it would do the most damage, both to the bridge and to America’s largest car and truck cargo harbor.

But there is another potential explanation. It involves “spoofing,” the ability of a hacker to highjack a ship’s GPS causing it to go dangerously off course.

We know that ships have been spoofed and destroyed harbors and docks and as recently as in February an off course container vessel destroyed a major bridge in Guangzhou, China.

We know spoofing is routinely done by criminals in Shanghai and perhaps by government agents as well.

We don’t know if it was done in Baltimore by foreign crypto agents, criminals, or a couple of 12 year olds hacking around after school.

But we do know that spoofing is a real thing and should not be summarily dismissed in favor of all the usual suspects, shoddy maintenance and dirty fuel.