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18 minutes ago, Horn Dog said:

7.  That there is some pilot just hanging out for a few weeks at 65,000ft, staying mentally sharp enough to pilot the balloon with just a few solar panels providing his oxygen and keeping his "bus" nice and toasty while outside it is -70 degrees F.

And that pilot?  George Santos.  Climbed down a rope ladder before Space Force made it go kaboom.

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Also team square dance checking in. Elementary school. 

Completely forgotten about that. 

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37 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Also team square dance checking in.

Team '83 South Texas ExtremePain Dodgeball would have raced to mid-court, snatched up all the red balls and gone medieval on Team Square Dance. 

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The spy ballon thing reminded me of the time Japan bombed Omaha in WW2.

Relatively late in the war, the Japanese desperately wanted to disrupt the American war effort.  The loaded up a bunch of balloons with incendiary ordinance and launched the them into the air stream, with a leakage rates that they believed would cause them to land in the US.  They were mainly trying to cause forest fires in the western US.  The effort wasn't terribly successful, although I think it did cause some fatalities as a few people who found unexploded bombs didn't stay clear.  And, one of these bombs did come down in Omaha, near an area of town called Dundee.  

The US Military didn't want the Japanese to have any notion of whether it was successful, so they completely covered it up.  

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Pretty sure there was a fire caused by that in Oregon.  We had a thread on it years ago on TOS.  These three "coastlines" have been a big help throughout history.  More than our national leadership IMO.  

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3 minutes ago, Tuco said:

The spy ballon thing reminded me of the time Japan bombed Omaha in WW2.

Relatively late in the war, the Japanese desperately wanted to disrupt the American war effort.  The loaded up a bunch of balloons with incendiary ordinance and launched the them into the air stream, with a leakage rates that they believed would cause them to land in the US.  They were mainly trying to cause forest fires in the western US.  The effort wasn't terribly successful, although I think it did cause some fatalities as a few people who found unexploded bombs didn't stay clear.  And, one of these bombs did come down in Omaha, near an area of town called Dundee.  

The US Military didn't want the Japanese to have any notion of whether it was successful, so they completely covered it up.  

Knew of that generally, didn't know they made it as far as as Nebraska, or Michigan for that matter.  https://www.history.com/news/japans-killer-wwii-balloons

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4 hours ago, squib said:

Team '83 South Texas ExtremePain Dodgeball would have raced to mid-court, snatched up all the red balls and gone medieval on Team Square Dance. 


it would be a slaughter 

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On 2/5/2023 at 7:16 PM, Red Five said:

These flew over Florida and Texas while he was potus and he did nothing. Except lie about it, of course. 

He probably never even knew, since he couldn’t ever be bothered to read his daily intelligence briefings. 

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3 minutes ago, tokamak said:

He probably never even knew, since he couldn’t ever be bothered to read his daily intelligence briefings. 


he’s a complete idiot. Probably can’t read past a grade school level 

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6 hours ago, Native Horn said:

And that pilot?  George Santos.  Climbed down a rope ladder before Space Force made it go kaboom.

Actually he parachuted out (you can just make out the missile I think):

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35 minutes ago, tokamak said:

He probably never even knew, since he couldn’t ever be bothered to read his daily intelligence briefings. 

If he never knew then he would claim he did. 

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37 minutes ago, tokamak said:

He probably never even knew, since he couldn’t ever be bothered to read his daily intelligence briefings. 

Yep. His handlers understood early on if they needed to hide something from Trump, they’d put in his PDB.

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On 2/5/2023 at 11:52 AM, tx 3 putt said:

 

Please let me hear that someone got the ever living shit sued out of them for using "Hold On, I'm Coming" without permission.

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4 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

I can hardly think of anything that affects less people in their actual lives than this spy balloon bullshit. I mean, oh my god, who cares? 

Truly. This is the dumbest story, and the fact that people can't let it go and move on, on both sides, is telling us all something if we care to listen.

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48 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

I can hardly think of anything that affects less people in their actual lives than this spy balloon bullshit. I mean, oh my god, who cares? 

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2 hours ago, HamsterHookah said:

Truly. This is the dumbest story, and the fact that people can't let it go and move on, on both sides, is telling us all something if we care to listen.

Remind me who on the D side can't let this go and move on?

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16 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

Remind me who on the D side can't let this go and move on?

Anyone still dignifying any conspiracy or outrage over any of this with a response **checks notes** 3 days later.

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27 minutes ago, HamsterHookah said:

Anyone still dignifying any conspiracy or outrage over any of this with a response **checks notes** 3 days later.

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On 2/6/2023 at 2:37 PM, Native Horn said:

And that pilot?  George Santos.  Climbed down a rope ladder before Space Force made it go kaboom.

legit question from this non-legit comment: did they ever say which agency took it down? was this Space Force's (snicker) first real mission? or did they get passed over for someone more experienced? (also snicker)

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11 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

legit question from this non-legit comment: did they ever say which agency took it down? was this Space Force's (snicker) first real mission? or did they get passed over for someone more experienced? (also snicker)

 

Whoever the pilot was, from whatever branch they serve, they get the first recorded kill in an F-22.

How cool is that?

 

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1 hour ago, kevwun said:

It was the Air Force if it was an F-22.  The Marines and Navy don't fly it.

 

i think I remember hearing or seeing F-22 in the news. I'm not 100% on that.

 

edit: I'd say 90% sure that is what I heard.

 

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1 hour ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

 

Whoever the pilot was, from whatever branch they serve, they get the first recorded kill in an F-22.

How cool is that?

 


I'm not too impressed. Seems like the balloon was vastly overmatched.

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2 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:


I'm not too impressed. Seems like the balloon was vastly overmatched.

Can a raptor even lock on to a balloon with some electronic gadgets?  
 

also I thought the thing was way up, like 60k up. 



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