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BabaYaga

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  1. Fuck me. #3 could have run that back.
  2. Fucking mugging the Texas D line. JFC
  3. Fucking fuck fuck.
  4. Two best teams in the nation are Texas and Oregon. Punish these fucks. You have the edge on both sides of the ball.
  5. What in the cock gobbling bag of dicks is this this shit. Complete a fucking pass. GA is on their fucking heels.
  6. Years back a dad on my kids soccer team was a long-haul trucker. He'd book a trip to Disney in CA every year, load the family up in the cab, Griswold it out to CA, then rent a car. The haul usually paid for the trip/park-passes/etc. Sounded like a blast. I know the owners of InstiCo Logistics in Plano. They have some pretty wild stories of the shit their drivers deal with. One I remember, they were driving on a two-lane road and a guy passed one of the trucks on an open stretch. As the car was passing one of the driver side truck tires exploded. Just detonated. Sent this poor guy off the road, down an embankment, and through a barbed wire fence that wrapped itself nice and tight around the axle. Everyone stopped. Guy was ok as the embankment was just grass.....but had it been trees, a creek.....
  7. All I know is the insurance companies have lawyers......lots and lots of lawyers...
  8. As posted earlier, the laser-pointer effect. It's ever there! No, it's over there! It's defying the natural laws.....or, it's an illusion. Utilizing the oldest form of asymmetrical warfare known to man. The closet the world ever got to nuclear annihilation was in 1983. Russian military command, specifically Stanislav Petrov tracked inbound US ballistic missiles heading for Russia. Having a cool head and notating certain anomalies, he devised that is was an incorrect reading....AFTER....the missiles were supposed to arrive. It's debatable whether he notified his superiors, but his giant mammoth balls saved the entire globe in NOT following protocol and launching their own. It was a bad computer reading. The point being in this day of tech, warfare takes the forms of ones and zero's, but the tactics haven't changed: Obfuscation, deception, and decoys still remain effective. If you can blind your enemy or make them think something is there that isn't, you have the advantage. AND.....I hope UFO's are real.....
  9. GA is an underdog for the first time in the last 50 games!
  10. Testing. These seem to be heavily located around military bases. As for classifying, all of skunkworks was classified for decades. Much of it still is. It takes decades of development. The U2/SR-71 was first commissioned back in the 50's & 60's. The only limitations now are the human pilot. Radical speeds and G-forces are no longer a concern. I just can't shake the notion that advanced aliens would cross billions of miles undetected, stay undetected, and send down blinking, lit probes that can be seen with the naked eye. They can cross the vast expanses of space, but need drones to get the details? I'm not saying that is THE explanation, but it's plausible.
  11. I have no dog in this fight. I WANT to believe that this is extraterrestrial, and I hope it is, but I have my doubts. As for fooling, you can make the argument that if you can fool the best military in the world, you can fool everyone. You also have the siloed military complex that keeps secrets secret and away from the frontline troops.
  12. To clarify, I don't think all of this is tech, and for the most part, if it is, it's ours. I think much of this is equal parts drone tech and equal parts illusion tech to "make" it seem that something is there. Fooling radar goes back to the advent of radar. Chaff is nothing new. The problem with chaff is that you know something is there. It's an electronic smoke screen. What if you could fool countermeasures into thinking something is here, over there, everywhere. That's the tenet of asymmetrical warfare. It's the cat with a laser-pointer.
  13. Agreed. I just think all variables have to be taken into consideration, and we have to start with the most obvious/probable ones first.
  14. I definitely think there could be, but there are two axis on this equation: distance and time. Billions of miles away in every direction. And billions of calendar years - so are they ahead of us, or behind us? I think the second part of the equation is the anthropomorphism effect - we assume other life has our mindset, characteristics, curiosity, etc. "We" like to study the unknown, etc. What's the probability that life evolves as schools of life akin to what we see in the sea? Where are we on the timeline of cosmic evolution?
  15. I think much of it is the "hawthorne" effect. Everyone in Ireland see leprechauns. Everyone in Pacific NW sees bigfoot. Everyone in Mexico sees Chupacabra's. After WWII the rise in sightings is what caused the hockey stick to rise from sightings. I am NOT saying this is THE explanation, but I discount most of these as sights of what people expect to see now that the zeitgeist is established. Radio controlled drone technology goes back to the 30's. I do think most of these sighting are military in nature, but that alone isn't to say the vastness of the universe is to be discounted, but if you can travel billions of miles, your "ship/probes" are blinking lights and saucers easily detected with the naked eye? My tongue in cheek earlier post about laser pointers was about creating the perception of a thing using illusion and deception - two of the oldest tenets of warfare. You "think" you saw something, and you act upon it. Now you see it, now you don't.... None of this helps Russia in Ukraine, as it's a conventional war of attrition. Doesn't help China either as they will invade Taiwan from within. It's a fortress with no accessible beachheads and a Chinese navy without landing craft across 100 miles of rough ocean.
  16. That Iridium is clean. Hell of a knife for the price point. Obviously the thin tip could be problematic in rougher situations (what she said...), but it's not a bushcraft knife either. I have a similar box cutter from Home Depot to yours that I use ALL THE TIME.
  17. And filmed, for posterity.....
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