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10 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Which is why they probably know more about what’s going on that we do. 

I agree with this 100%.  There's definitely some overreacting and folks misidentifying shit going on, but there's also clearly something going on in the background they aren't telling the public (could be benign, could be with good intentions, could be totally prosaic, etc.).

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My folks came down to visit and celebrate an early Christmas together, so the old man naturally had that Fox News bullshit on the tv the entire time.  The amount of brain rot he is dealing with thanks to watching that crap is incredible, and I can't believe how many old folks sit around with that stuff on the tv at full volume for hours per day.  It's just as bad for them as social media brain rot is for the kids, and it's sad to see the old and the young so susceptible to the same type of manipulation.  I live with a small amount of fear of getting old and sucked into that shit.   My dad would have never watched that crap until he got too old to recognize it for what it is, and now they have their hooks in him.
 Anyway, about 75% of the FOX coverage was about these stupid fucks mistaking airplanes and drones for aliens, or government spies, or whatever stupid notion will get the simpletons worked up.  Are other news outlets fanning the flames of this nonsense too, or is mostly FOX manipulating their older and addlebrained viewership?  I don't watch cable news of any kind, so I'm curious if this is something that is being driven by all outlets because it's easy ratings.

Going to my mother's apartment for Xmas. I'll be deleting that channel while she's in the can. Some poor kid technician from time Warner cable is going to get an earful.
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2 hours ago, Keef said:

I agree with this 100%.  There's definitely some overreacting and folks misidentifying shit going on, but there's also clearly something going on in the background they aren't telling the public (could be benign, could be with good intentions, could be totally prosaic, etc.).

Them being around Picatinny Arsenal - they literally do research for shit the soldiers carry individually, as well as stuff deployed with them at the company/battalion level (but still portable), so they are going to have stuff that is years from being used by the typical soldier - that's going to include the latest in night-vision and infrared, various electronic sensor equipment,  It's  not Camp Swift outside of Bastrop using hand-me-downs from the Army. 

Now it could always be that somebody got one of the human-sized drones, I mean VTOL vehicles from Pivotal (and these videos weird me out because I don't see how they are doing what they are doing) and they do have anticollision lights and have a car-sized footprint.

 

 

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3 hours ago, Keef said:

I agree with this 100%.  There's definitely some overreacting and folks misidentifying shit going on, but there's also clearly something going on in the background they aren't telling the public (could be benign, could be with good intentions, could be totally prosaic, etc.).

No shit there's something they aren't telling the public lol. When the F117 was being designed and tested there was a huge slew of UFO reports, and the government response then was very similar to what it is now. 

Plus ya know, all the """UFO's""" have had FAA-compliant lighting so I'm gonna put my chips on the government testing new equipment and not aliens or adversaries. We shot down a fucking balloon with an F-22, I don't think we'd sit on our laurels for an aerial assault

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59 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Them being around Picatinny Arsenal - they literally do research for shit the soldiers carry individually, as well as stuff deployed with them at the company/battalion level (but still portable), so they are going to have stuff that is years from being used by the typical soldier - that's going to include the latest in night-vision and infrared, various electronic sensor equipment,  It's  not Camp Swift outside of Bastrop using hand-me-downs from the Army. 

Now it could always be that somebody got one of the human-sized drones, I mean VTOL vehicles from Pivotal (and these videos weird me out because I don't see how they are doing what they are doing) and they do have anticollision lights and have a car-sized footprint.

a) Kinda cool.
b) Not sure how it flies with those itty-bitty propellers, but I ain't no aeronaut or whatever.
c) You mean they gotta back up to land or land backward? Great, now all those fucknuts who insist on backing up into a parking space will clog up traffic at our nation's airports.

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12 minutes ago, bolverk said:

c) You mean they gotta back up to land or land backward? Great, now all those fucknuts who insist on backing up into a parking space will clog up traffic at our nation's airports.

I don’t really agree with FEMA camps, unless you use them to arrest and house those people indefinitely.

 

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30 minutes ago, bolverk said:

c) You mean they gotta back up to land or land backward? Great, now all those fucknuts who insist on backing up into a parking space will clog up traffic at our nation's airports.

Holy shit is this annoying. Just pull into a fucking spot. When did everyone start needing to back in?

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56 minutes ago, Pam Cummings said:

Holy shit is this annoying. Just pull into a fucking spot. When did everyone start needing to back in?

I don't do it all the time, but I drive a full sized pickup with a backup camera with lane assist and it's actually easier to back into a tight spot than having to make a 3 or 5 point turn to go head first. I mostly try to just park at the back of the lot, though. Those 100 extra steps might do me some good. 

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1 hour ago, Pam Cummings said:

Holy shit is this annoying. Just pull into a fucking spot. When did everyone start needing to back in?

Holy shit this is annoying. Just back into a fucking spot, so you can pull right out when you leave. Instead of backing up 3 feet to see if there's anyone behind you. Then another foot. Then another. Then slowly backing out the rest of the way.

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2 hours ago, Captainant said:

No shit there's something they aren't telling the public lol. When the F117 was being designed and tested there was a huge slew of UFO reports, and the government response then was very similar to what it is now. 

Plus ya know, all the """UFO's""" have had FAA-compliant lighting so I'm gonna put my chips on the government testing new equipment and not aliens or adversaries. We shot down a fucking balloon with an F-22, I don't think we'd sit on our laurels for an aerial assault

 

This is kinda where I'm at. But, I possibly think there could be something going on that they  just can't tell the public, like a "for sure" dirty bomb threat that the intelligence agencies can't disclose without panicking the public. I mean, "radiation detection" has been floated out there. Maybe these drones have such good detection systems, they are scanning planes on final approach and taxiing. As for the lights? Maybe an FAA hangup. It could also be testing radiation detection drones for when Russia collapses and all of their arsenal gets pillaged and goes to the highest bidder. Run the drones in during the initial chaos and confiscate anything you can find.

It may be a kinda like a MIB movie, where we come close to annihilation every day, and we are completely oblivious to it, as the intelligence agencies eliminate the threat and we never know.

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7 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

Holy shit this is annoying. Just back into a fucking spot, so you can pull right out when you leave. Instead of backing up 3 feet to see if there's anyone behind you. Then another foot. Then another. Then slowly backing out the rest of the way.

Find a spot where you can pull through then. Why do we need to block traffic going both ways to back into a spot. I dont get it. Ive never had issues backing out of a parking spot. You just wait for it to be clear and.....back out.

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16 minutes ago, CHIEF said:

 

This is kinda where I'm at. But, I possibly think there could be something going on that they  just can't tell the public, like a "for sure" dirty bomb threat that the intelligence agencies can't disclose without panicking the public. I mean, "radiation detection" has been floated out there. Maybe these drones have such good detection systems, they are scanning planes on final approach and taxiing. As for the lights? Maybe an FAA hangup. It could also be testing radiation detection drones for when Russia collapses and all of their arsenal gets pillaged and goes to the highest bidder. Run the drones in during the initial chaos and confiscate anything you can find.

It may be a kinda like a MIB movie, where we come close to annihilation every day, and we are completely oblivious to it, as the intelligence agencies eliminate the threat and we never know.

CHIEF

Simplistic answer - these are civilian people fucking with everyone else.  It's too on the nose for military.  Why put lights on and make them so visible to everyone else and raise the obvious subsequent questions?  I'd think if they were military, at the very least they'd have IR visibility options and no lights to make them obvious targets.  Were any of them in a flight path for the airports?  They didn't seem all that high, but I haven't followed this much either.

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19 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

Simplistic answer - these are civilian people fucking with everyone else.  It's too on the nose for military.  Why put lights on and make them so visible to everyone else and raise the obvious subsequent questions?  I'd think if they were military, at the very least they'd have IR visibility options and no lights to make them obvious targets.  Were any of them in a flight path for the airports?  They didn't seem all that high, but I haven't followed this much either.

That's why I think there was a hangup with the FAA. Pilots and air traffic controllers would be panicking if they were seeing things on their radar with no visual confirmation. Military was put in a "no win" situation on that. You couldn't keep this under wraps, pilots and air traffic controllers aren't going to sit on that information.

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43 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

Holy shit this is annoying. Just back into a fucking spot, so you can pull right out when you leave. Instead of backing up 3 feet to see if there's anyone behind you. Then another foot. Then another. Then slowly backing out the rest of the way.

The problem with this take is the following fact: 100% of people who back-in park say "I'm super-good at it, I can get it done in an instant," but 99% of them are dead-fucking wrong.  

Signed, someone who regularly gets stuck in a parking lot waiting while someone takes 20 minutes to execute their 300-point back-in parking maneuver and blocks the whole fucking lane.

I don't know when this became such a thing, but it's fucking maddening, because for all the "it's safer and faster" bullshit I hear....I must have the worst luck on earth to always get stuck behind the guy who just can't seem to pull it off without adjusting his angle 5,734 times.

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1 hour ago, Pam Cummings said:

Holy shit is this annoying. Just pull into a fucking spot. When did everyone start needing to back in?

Driven in downtown Austin lately?  There are probably 1K or more reverse-angle parking spots.  It's a higher density version of parallel parking (but it does occupy more of the roadway).

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11 minutes ago, C-Man said:

My BIL went to med school at UTMB.  They had an easy screening question for when the crackpots came in: "oh....does your hair hurt?"  When they got the inevitable "yes, it does!", they knew that they could shuffle that one off to the crazy pile.

That article is CLASSIC mass hysteria shit.  "A rash of people are reporting that the mysterious aircraft are making them have to pee when they wake up in the morning!"  Fucking post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, on a mass level.

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17 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

The problem with this take is the following fact: 100% of people who back-in park say "I'm super-good at it, I can get it done in an instant," but 99% of them are dead-fucking wrong.  

Signed, someone who regularly gets stuck in a parking lot waiting while someone takes 20 minutes to execute their 300-point back-in parking maneuver and blocks the whole fucking lane.

I don't know when this became such a thing, but it's fucking maddening, because for all the "it's safer and faster" bullshit I hear....I must have the worst luck on earth to always get stuck behind the guy who just can't seem to pull it off without adjusting his angle 5,734 times.

That's fair. Back-in parkers should only get one shot at it where, as long as they don't hit another car, that's good enough, even if you can't open a door. Then sit there and wait for an opening to adjust your initial shitty job.

But people are selfish and suck, so I too have experienced the "wait for me until I get it just right" guy.

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4 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Them being around Picatinny Arsenal - they literally do research for shit the soldiers carry individually, as well as stuff deployed with them at the company/battalion level (but still portable), so they are going to have stuff that is years from being used by the typical soldier - that's going to include the latest in night-vision and infrared, various electronic sensor equipment,  It's  not Camp Swift outside of Bastrop using hand-me-downs from the Army. 

Now it could always be that somebody got one of the human-sized drones, I mean VTOL vehicles from Pivotal (and these videos weird me out because I don't see how they are doing what they are doing) and they do have anticollision lights and have a car-sized footprint.

 

 

So the aliens are doing Picatinny rails?

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2 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I don't do it all the time, but I drive a full sized pickup with a backup camera with lane assist and it's actually easier to back into a tight spot than having to make a 3 or 5 point turn to go head first. I mostly try to just park at the back of the lot, though. Those 100 extra steps might do me some good. 

So instead I have to wait behind the jackass who takes way to long to back into their space in the morning. Fuck that. Get the fuck out of the way so I can park and start my day. The sooner I I start, the sooner I can leave. 

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2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

My BIL went to med school at UTMB.  They had an easy screening question for when the crackpots came in: "oh....does your hair hurt?"  When they got the inevitable "yes, it does!", they knew that they could shuffle that one off to the crazy pile.

That article is CLASSIC mass hysteria shit.  "A rash of people are reporting that the mysterious aircraft are making them have to pee when they wake up in the morning!"  Fucking post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, on a mass level.

Brian Krassenstein had a pretty good Twatter post last night or night before last talking about this mysterious glowing circle that's been showing up over his house the last several days. (He was videoing the moon.)

 

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16 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

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5 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I don't do it all the time, but I drive a full sized pickup with a backup camera with lane assist and it's actually easier to back into a tight spot than having to make a 3 or 5 point turn

Truck is way too big if you can't park it without making a 3-5 point turn dawg.

 

5 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

 head first.

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