1 The video clearly shows a pod or missile.  It is much too small to have been a 747.  Inside job!

2 Obviously, I denounce myself.

3 There is no way a pilot could bring a plane in that close to the ground and hit right in front of the grandstand.  The level of skill for that precise a hit is impossible.

4 It really is tragic.

Husband and I have a policy of never going to those things.  They just seem like a death wish.  We did accidentally see the Chicago Air & Water Show on Lake Michigan one year.  We were having brunch at the 95th and the building got buzzed by some sort of jet.  Pretty cool, but not something I'd care to repeat. 

5 Racists!

6 google it!

7

Just how popular is this magazine really? I've never seen any unbiased polls regarding it.

The biggest lie may be up front!

 Just sayin' 

 

 

8 Pretty cool, but not something I'd care to repeat. 
Posted by: Y-not
...........
Being over water, the Chicago air show is pretty "safe".

9 He wasn't even in the plane. The CIA was remote controlling it.

10 Do these Popular Mechanics have degrees from Pep Boys or some other credentialed institution? If not, what business have they opining on mechanics?

11 Excellent piloting skillz guiding that plane into the front row - where the explosives were rigged.  In the stands.  By the jews.

12 _{I'm betting on either The Rain in Spain or The infamous Nevada Quadrangle.} 

13

There were other planes nearby that weren't affected.

There's your proof!

14 Being over water, the Chicago air show is pretty "safe".

Yeah, but iirc the jet seemed to be pretty darned close to the John Hancock Center (that houses the 95th), which is only a couple of blocks from the lake.  Scared the poo out of us until we realized what the heck was happening. 

Good brunch, too. 

15 I went to the air shows that they used have at Moffett field.

16 Faked at the same place they did the fraudulent "moon landing".

Moon landing. Hah!

17  There were reports of parts from the P-51 Mustang being scattered as far away as Israel.

18 Neocons are using this as a pretext to build an airplane factory in South Carolina.

19 15
There were other planes nearby that weren't affected.
There's your proof!
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Tea Party SOB at September 23, 2011 06:54 PM (d0Tfm)

However, at the adjacent field for radio controlled craft, an otherwise intact and undamaged plane plummeted to the earth several hours later ...

20 I didn't know Halliburton made airplanes.

21 The plane isn't visible in the wreckage after the missile strike!

22 There is no wreckage that even looks like a plane, just a bunch of random parts.

23

Husband and I have a policy of never going to those things.  They just seem like a death wish.

Posted by: Y-not at September 23, 2011 06:50 PM (5H6zj)

Yeah, I went to my first air show in Dayton two years ago and watched the Thunderbirds perform, among others.

It was badass covered in awesome sauce and the action is right on top of you.

 F-16s approaching the speed of sound just a couple hundred feet above your head, one wrong mechanical failure or stress fracture in an aileron and bad news follows.

24 They're using the Reno Air Show Crash as a pretext for sending more community organizers into Carson City.

25 Odd that the disaster occurred on the Jewish holiday commemorating Joshua's visit by Gabriel who told him not to go into work that day.

26 When the head of the FAA was told about the crash, he was reading "My Pet Glider" to kindergarteners and did nothing. He knew about it all along.

27 This never would have happened if we had a Palestinian state.

28 My uncle,  he has a shop near... that place where the thing happened.  And he has survalence survalance securety hidden camera footage of a jew buying a longbow just before the crash.

29 Ten years from now, there still won't be new bleachers built at the crash site.

30


it was the rapture

31


and the jews need to cover it up.

32 If John Boehner didn't know this was going to happen, why wasn't he there?

Is it just coincidence that a WAR plane kills people not long after the President proposed scaling down the WAR in Iraq?

Isn't it obvious that someone wired up the plane with explosives in advance, and they just happened to go off when the plane hit the ground?

I'm just asking questions.

33 Ten years from now, there still won't be new bleachers built at the crash site. Posted by: George Orwell what knows Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure

With a mosque on the top.

34 >>>It really is tragic. >>>Husband and I have a policy of never going to those things. They just seem like a death wish. Can I say something that isn't necessarily well thought out? One thing that occurred to me when this happened is that the pilot died doing what he loved. The bystanders on the ground did not exactly die doing what they loved, but they were at an air show, and wanted to be there. Every death like this is tragic. But (here is the part I haven't thought out) a certain amount of the human experience involves tempting death. It's a vital part of us. Death is never good (unless it's Anus Bottle Jihadi), but we have to bear in mind that risk is part of life, and the pilot, at least, assumed that risk. And I don't mean that in a "The hell with him, he knew what he was doing" way. I mean an essential part of his life and his enjoyment of life was doing risky things in an airplane. So in an incoherent way I wanted to say something like "Let's not overlook the joy and courage here, as we grieve the dead."

35 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

36 The P-51 is a symbol of American hegemony and militaristic imperial aggression!

37 There was no wreckage on the ground, apart from the "wreckage."

38 P-51s were designed to combat Germany and Japan, therefore this incident is a direct result of US foreign policy.

39 Jon Stewart still hasn't told me what to think about the crash.

40 My incoherent thought was similar to what I thought when that 14 year old girl was allowed to attempt a round-the-world solo boating expedition. Risky? Absolutely. But have we become so fearful of death we cannot celebrate or understand the courting of risk?

41 Seriously, why wasn't the FAA ordered to ground all flights and Homeland Security to scramble fighters with shoot-on-sight orders?/

42

Posted by: C*ntessa Brewer's Yeast Infection at September 23, 2011 06:57 PM (Ulyg2)

Thankfully for my nose and laptop, I wasn't having a drink of Guinness when I read your nic.

I vote it the thread winner even though it's not technically a comment.

43 The cockpit radio was open; the last words noted from the pilot were "Let's barrel roll." Yeah, I should be burning in hell.

44 The wing flew back and to the left. Back and to the left. Back and to the left. Back and to the left. Back and to the left. Back and to the left.

Clearly racism.

45  I told the Bush administration this was going to happen.  In a note I wrote to a friend in high school I said how thse P-51 Mustang planes sure are cool.  Cool and dangerous.  The teacher took up the note and since it was a public school,  the government had it.  Probably still does.  I'm sure Bush saw it.  And ignored it.

46 Backers of the triumphalist Montgolfier Brothers' Museum have applied for permission to begin building on the disaster site post haste.

47 Don't look at me. I was gettin' busy. As they say, incest fits best.

Posted by: Little Morgan Freeman at September 23, 2011 07:03 PM (IhHdM)

I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom!

48 My incoherent thought was similar to what I thought when that 14 year old girl was allowed to attempt a round-the-world solo boating expedition.

Risky? Absolutely.

But have we become so fearful of death we cannot celebrate or understand the courting of risk?

Posted by: ace at September 23, 2011 07:05 PM (nj1bB)

She did that after a tardisil shot

49 39 And I don't mean that in a "The hell with him, he knew what he was doing" way. I mean an essential part of his life and his enjoyment of life was doing risky things in an airplane.

So in an incoherent way I wanted to say something like "Let's not overlook the joy and courage here, as we grieve the dead."

That's reasonable, to one part of me. The other part is an engineer, and when I read Popular Mechanics analysis of what that trim tab was subjected to in this situation, I have to say "damn, that shouldn't have happened; one of my tribe should have seen it coming, and done something."

50 BOOOSH!!11!!!

51 George Bush shot down the plane

(hasn't read the comments yet)

52

Can I say something that isn't necessarily well thought out?

Have you forgotten who we are?

53 The good news is that we haven't had another crash like that since.

54 This goes along with my assertion that anyone who does not favor in-state tuition at flight schools for senior citizens has no heart.

55 This was bush's fault

56  "One thing that occurred to me when this happened is that the pilot died doing what he loved.

The bystanders on the ground did not exactly die doing what they loved, but they were at an air show, and wanted to be there"

Great points,  Ace.  Couldn't have said it better myself.

57 >>Can I say something that isn't necessarily well thought out?

 <sub>Hell, this is AoSHQ after all. Just spit on your hands and have at it.

I know the proprietor. He's heavily into graphic novel flicks, prolly won't even read this.</sub>

58

This is the predictable outcome of our foreign airplane policy. Chickens coming home on turbo-boost. The Little Curtis LeMays sitting in the stands, taking their photographs and videos, braying into their cell phones and arranging their power lunches, were complicit in that policy.

The hot dog vendors and janitors were of course innocent.

59 We clearly need more air show regulation.When people are hurting the government has to move!

60 Hey, any of you fellas see that youtube of a test crash of an F-4 into a concrete wall? The thing just freaking disintegrates. I don't know why the voiceover is messed up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--_RGM4Abv8

61 If this were Facebook, I would like this post.

62 I just dropped a model P 51 on the concrete from 8' and all it did was break the propeller

63

So in an incoherent way I wanted to say something like "Let's not overlook the joy and courage here, as we grieve the dead."

Seems plenty coherent to me. And isn't that kind of what we're doing here (which, you know, you started) getting a few laughs out of what we all know was a tragedy? So there's not much inherent risk in commenting on your blog, but there is a measure of joy. As for courage, it's unlikely but possible that my next job interview might be with Empire of Jeff.

64 Lies. You know who runs The Popular Mechanics, right?

65

One thing that occurred to me when this happened is that the pilot died doing what he loved.

Don't feel bad. You're quite correct in my estimation, my furry friend.

That's what struck me about the Challeger tragedy: we don't often get to witness noble death, although in this case, it's a bit different. Somewhat related, but different nonetheless.

I can think of worse ways to go....

66 That was a Predator drone strike.

The real plane was crashed into the sea

67 Fuckin' Rick Perry, the man's a menace.

68 Pretty cool, but not something I'd care to repeat.

One of the flight paths for the San Diego Air Show goes right over my house.

All the Blue Angels, less than 1000 feet away. My camera conked out, or I'd have posted pictures.

(The Canadian team went by at about double the distance.)

69 It's obvious the bleachers were pre-wired with explosives.

70 The back-and-forth flexing can quickly cause severe metal fatigue; think of bending a paper clip back and forth until it breaks.
Sounds fishy. I'll bet an intrepid youtuber will blow the lid on this fake-sounding "metal fatigue" business.

71 Seriously though the daughter of my husbands' friend was seriously cut up and burned in this accident please keep her in your thoughts and prayers

72

This is the work of the IDF. Those bastards piloted that drone all the way from Tel Aviv.

73 You know who runs The Popular Mechanics, right?

Mitt Romney?

74 You guys are a bunch of sick, sick fucks. I laughed so goddamn hard.

75 All the Blue Angels, less than 1000 feet away. My camera conked out, or I'd have posted pictures.

(The Canadian team went by at about double the distance.)

Posted by: Meiczyslaw at September 23, 2011 07:12 PM (bjRNS)

They fly over my house during sea fair too, it's pretty cool

76 The Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta is much safer.  For the people on the ground.

77 82Seriously though the daughter of my husbands' friend was seriously cut up and burned in this accident please keep her in your thoughts and prayers

Posted by: Phoenixgirl at September 23, 2011 07:12 PM (+DZLk

Aww sorry to hear that. Prayers going up for sure.

78

Seriously though the daughter of my husbands' friend was seriously cut up and burned in this accident please keep her in your thoughts and prayers

I hope she's doing well.

79 @55 thread winner. AOSHQ lifestyle guide award.

80 Damn sock sorry 88

81 A lot of innocent people got hurt there.

82 @39
Sure thing, ace. 

I didn't mean to bring the thread down.  I've just had a bad week is all.

83

65

that's just wrong dude

so wrong I'm going to git a beer

84

Plane crashes be's Racist!

y'all jes be wantin' the black man to fail.

85

This is the work of the IDF. Those bastards piloted that drone all the way from Tel Aviv.

Isn't Teva Pharmaceuticals from that neck of the woods? First they try to inundate Vanuatu with their asthma "medicine" ....

86 It was gremlins with boxcutters.

87 56: As a fellow member of the tribe that works in aviation, I guarantee someone, many someones, including ones that were graybeards back in '39 when the P-51 was just lines on a page saw that yes, metal fatigue will be an issue. I would also bet that this part on this airplane was likely inspected regularly but sometimes things either get missed, or you roll snake-eyes and the part fails early.

And since Murphy hates you with a righteous burning passion, it will happen when you want it the least. But that's the price paid when you want to push the envelope, only because it's there. I think ace is dead on for this one.

88 The pilot was injected with Gardasil before getting in the plane.

89

I can think of worse ways to go....

Me, too. One involves a bottle of Diet Coke, some Mentos, and a certain facility in Morocco.

90 There is a film out there on the tubes that tells the real truth, people: "Loose Rivets."

91 72I just dropped a model P 51 on the concrete from 8' and all it did was break the propeller

Posted by: robtr at September 23, 2011 07:10 PM (MtwBb

Sounds like me Christmas Day 1964

92 It's a little too convenient that we can't question the pilots now.

93 Did someone say gremlins?

94 The air show organizer said "pull it".

95 I just dropped a model P 51 on the concrete from 8' and all it did was break the propellerPosted by: robtr

Shit!  That was mine!  I'm tellin' mom!

96 Whoa, CNN Breaking News: 3 Silver Dimes Found at Crash Site.

97

Yeah, marrying a liberal scrunt and dying a slow death...

...of alcohol poisoning. Consider yourself grokked.

And prayers goint out for your friend, Phoenixgirl.

98 Just don't try to dry hump the demon, Shatner. We've heard about you.

99

O/T - An atty just told Levin there's a 13-year-old federal statute that says if you give in-state tuition to illegals, you have to give it to everyone.  I caught the call halfway through, but this guy filed it in CA and lost, which he attributes to liberal judges.  Filing in a conservative state like TX is getting ML's blood pumping.

The next hot call asks, "How can Obama grant (ObamaCare) waivers on federal statutes?  Levin is quite excited and it's not from any little blue pills.

You can listen on-line.

Because...Barack Hussein Obama is a stuttering clusterfark of a miserable failure.

100 I was just trying to make music like with a comb and a piece of paper--I didn't know that blowing on the trim tab would cause it to vibrate and fatigue.  Damn, there was a shovel ready job there to fix it, and I missed it!

101

goint = going

Alcohol may be involved. But the wish remains intact...

102 Who benefits from this? Jet class racers!

103 OK, who the Eff has a great hash like freaking "AZGON"?? Last time around I wound up with QUeef, For Pete's Sake!

104 OK, who the Eff has a great hash like freaking "AZGON"?? It is my only consolation here. I need as much as I can get... I live in Clownifornia.

105 I was seated alongside the pilot and simply waved to the crowd ... how was I to know my hand was in front of his face?

106 The speed of gravity is exactly 3.14159 light years per sun spot. There is no wat in hell a plane can fall that fast.

107 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filed a final version of its net neutrality rules Thursday, one year after they voted to pass the framework defining the principles of an ‘open Internet.’ The vote on the framework was passed on partisan lines, 3-2. The rules, published on the Federal Register’s website, will go into effect November 20th

lucianne

108 George Bush caused the crash, to distract all you Sheeple from the efforts of he and the Monster Cheney to frame poor Troy Davis. Damon and Clooney told me so at our monthly sheep-dippin' soiree over at Tina Fey's place. And everybody knows that those two are too dumb to lie.

109

Obama must have visited this plane in the hangar a couple days earlier touting how his stimulus plan saved or created thousands of pilot jobs.

Boom!

110

I sent Ace a note proposing essentially the same scenario about 24 hours after the accient, based on loss of trim tab, resulting g's, and pilot incapacitation.  I further speculated that maybe he unfastened his harness to jump before becoming incapacitated, and that was why he was not visible in the final pictures, but if he pulled 22 g's he wasn't doing anything, he was out cold if not asphyxiated.

Popular Mechanics says the tailplane generates terrific downward force at high speed.  Well, yes, but most pilots would say it like the wing generates terrific upward force, and the elevators have to be held down hard to keep the plane from climbing, and the trim tab helps you do that.  Technically the same, but worded bass-ackwards from the way a pilot would think about it.  Weird.

111 This would never have happened if America Airlines didn't invade foreign airports.

112

Last time around I wound up with QUeef, For Pete's Sake!

Nothing wrong with that, nor with my somewhat musical nic of doTfm, like an underground FM station.

Far out, man. Pixy is awesome sometimes.

113 Ancient Aliens! Tractor Beams!

114 OK, who the Eff has a great hash like freaking "AZGON"??

Last time around I wound up with QUeef, For Pete's Sake!

Posted by: CoolCzech at September 23, 2011 07:28 PM (niZvt)

 

How long have you been here?

Mine sucks too because it changes every time I log on. Let's see what it is this time.

115

Posted by: ErikW at September 23, 2011 07:33 PM (CB4n3)

Breaker, breaker one-nine. What's you're 20, Ghost Rider?

116 Has anyone noticed that ace has been quiet about the neutrino moving faster than the speed of light enabling time travel?

117 Fools! I did it with my Windmill Death Vortex! Behold the consequences of defying my brilliant renewable energy plans!!!! Muwahahahahah!!!!!!!!

118

Has anyone noticed that ace has been quiet about the neutrino moving faster than the speed of light enabling time travel?

he's a member of Big Light

119 129 Has anyone noticed that ace has been quiet about the neutrino moving faster than the speed of light enabling time travel?   He's gone back to fix that little glitch in the fabric of the universe, along with the one that lets fire melt steel - might as well while you're working close to that part anyway, right?

120 Has anyone noticed that ace has been quiet about the neutrino moving faster than the speed of light enabling time travel? Ace wrote a thirty thousand word essay about it but Pixy went back in time and killed Ace's post.

121 I think we should stand up a new agency as an umbrella for the TSA, CIA, FBI, and NGA we can put another layer of management over it to oversee Airshow security and protect us from follow-on "crashes". We can name it CONTROL and give all the agents cool shoe phones.

122 Has anyone noticed that ace has been quiet about the neutrino moving faster than the speed of light enabling time travel?

Well, yeah...because he's busy in the future, hunting the hobos of tomorrow, today...

123 We can name it CONTROL and give all the agents cool shoe phones. The Democrats will make sure it is unionized.

124 Too soon?

125 Has anyone noticed that ace has been quiet about the neutrino moving faster than the speed of light enabling time travel? Posted by: robtr

Hate to break it to you,  kid.  But Ace's bloated corpse will be found next week in a Holiday Inn with three dead trannies and a midget porn star who looks just like Gordon Ramsay tied to a mechanical bull.  You should go to the funeral.  A cool fight breaks out.  Anyway,  I gotta run.  Gonna try to go backwards now.

126 Ace's bloated corpse will be found next week in a Holiday Inn with three dead trannies and a midget porn star who looks just like Gordon Ramsay tied to a mechanical bull. So what you're saying is, a normal weekend.

127 Has anyone read about the guy who was grousing about having to miss the last 15 minutes of the Unlimited final heat for the day, because he had to go to his daughter's wedding practice.  Guess where his seat was.  He would have been the ony resident of "P-51 Propeller Spinner-hat", population briefly one.

128 I gotta run.  Gonna try to go backwards now.

Posted by: The Amazing Neutrino at September 23, 2011 07:42 PM (TXKVh)

While you're back there vote for McCain along with 10 Million of your friends ok?

129 Ace's bloated corpse will be found next week in a Holiday Inn with three dead trannies and a midget porn star who looks just like Gordon Ramsay tied to a mechanical bull. Who are you calling Gordon Ramsay? And can somebody take these nipple clamps off, please??

130

While you're back there vote for McCain along with 10 Million of your friends ok?

Posted by: robtr

I'm going back 3 years to bitch slap every talking head that bitched about 5% unemployment.

131 I'm going back 3 years to bitch slap every talking head that bitched about 5% unemployment. Posted by: The Amazing Neutrino at September 23, 2011 07:51 PM (TXKVh) Punch Peggy Noonan right in the f*ck*ng cervix, while you're at it.

132

Anyone have a guesstimate as to the speed of the UARS parts when they hit the ground?

I'm fucking with a concerned relative in Florida because I'm a dick like that.

133

Daylight Savings Time.

 

I mean, as long as we're bustin on the Jews

134

Anyone have a guesstimate as to the speed of the UARS parts when they hit the ground?

I'm fucking with a concerned relative in Florida because I'm a dick like that.

Posted by: ErikW at September 23, 2011 07:53 PM (CB4n3)

Not as fast as the world trade center

135 We do not formally recognize the Jewss did this.

Wha? Wait..... oh crap.

allah snackbar!!!

136

Anyone have a guesstimate as to the speed of the UARS parts when they hit the ground?

I'm fucking with a concerned relative in Florida because I'm a dick like that.

Posted by: ErikW

Pretty damn fast from what I hear.

137 What that pilot needed was more jewelry to balance his load

138 There was no air race.  It has served it's purpose.

139 @146: I HATE the way Daylight Savings Time works. Why do we have it in the summer, when there is PLENTY of daylight? I HATE the waking up an hour early routine every autumn. Enough!! Have DST 365 days a year and don't mess with it. I don't CARE about the little monsters at the bus stops that always take their sweet, sweet time getting on the bus because they wait inside the house. Or, they sit in Mom's SUV because everyone is so paranoid about pervs under every rock these days.

140 Ask a smartass a question...

141

Anyone have a guesstimate as to the speed of the UARS parts when they hit the ground?

I'm fucking with a concerned relative in Florida because I'm a dick like that.

Posted by: ErikW

Looks like maybe 17,500 mph?  That fast enough to break something.  If it takes more than just a glancing blow.

142

This was just a warm up for the Apocalyptic DeathStar Crashing Satellite of Doom.

143

It was Cheney, on the grassy knoll, with a shotgun.

144 This thread is getting lame.  I'm thinking about going back to that other one.  Can someone give me a ride?

145 @145

Anyone have a guesstimate as to the speed of the UARS parts when they hit the ground?

I'm fucking with a concerned relative in Florida because I'm a dick like that.

- - -

Terminal velocity?  Sounds scary enough.

146 My brothers were there in Reno for the races, so as you can imagine I had some anxious moments after I saw that the plane had hit the spectators. Lots of texting and phoning around.

Luckily, true to the AoSHQ Lifestyle™, they were drinking it up in the hotel when it happened.

Still sad about the people who weren't so lucky though.

147 Looks like maybe 17,500 mph?  That fast enough to break something.  If it takes more than just a glancing blow.

This week on A Thousand Ways to Die...

148

Punch Peggy Noonan right in the f*ck*ng cervix, while you're at it.

 

On it.

149 Looks like maybe 17,500 mph?  That fast enough to break something.  If it takes more than just a glancing blow.

Posted by: Dang at September 23, 2011 08:00 PM (TXKVh)

I'm talking how fast it's going after most of it burns up and the bigger pieces start coming down. I'm wondering about actual impact.

150 Time for another slut walk! They look like bad, bad girls... and they need a spanking. Real hard. And long. In depth.

151 Terminal velocity?  Sounds scary enough.

I was thinking that, but haven't had a chance to run the numbers. Worst case, probably just under the speed of sound.

That's assuming that there's enough drag to slow it to terminal velocity. If it's shaped like a bullet coming down, drag might not slow it down enough.

152

I'm talking how fast it's going after most of it burns up and the bigger pieces start coming down. I'm wondering about actual impact.

Posted by: ErikW

Shit, man.  Okay!
From a Guardian article...

"Depending on their size and shape, the components will strike at speeds of between 55mph (90kph) and 240mph (385kph)."

Total buzz kill.  Whoopdie-Fucking-Do.

153 This thread is deader than the Kennedy Brothers.

154 ErikW. Scroll down for the formula

155 "Depending on their size and shape, the components will strike at speeds of between 55mph (90kph) and 240mph (385kph)."

Total buzz kill.  Whoopdie-Fucking-Do.

Posted by: Dang at September 23, 2011 08:09 PM (TXKVh)

What does that tell you about building 7 and the p 51? This thing is falling from fucking space and can barely make the speed limit.

156 Link to the mayhem buzz-kill article.

55 to 240 mph?  I've seen Chris Christie move faster than that - if there's a funnel cake involved.

157 What does that tell you about building 7 and the p 51? This thing is falling from fucking space and can barely make the speed limit.

At least, regarding the difference between UARS and the P-51, the Mustang's engine was running.

158 That's assuming that there's enough drag to slow it to terminal velocity. If it's shaped like a bullet coming down, drag might not slow it down enough.

Posted by: Meiczyslaw at September 23, 2011 08:07 PM (bjRNS)

I don't know anything about that and I'm guessing that the pieces are odd shaped mechanical parts that would create huge drag and they must have a lot of solid mass if NASA thinks the parts will make it to the ground.

 

 

159 Deader than my cooter, boys! Wanna see?

160 This thread is deader than the Kennedy Brothers. Posted by: CoolCzech

No kidding.  How long's this dip been sitting out.  I don't feel so good. *brp*

161 Time for another slut walk!

They look like bad, bad girls... and they need a spanking. Real hard. And long. In depth. Posted by: CoolCzech

Do you think anyone would get the joke of having a Heterosexual Male Walk?

162 I don't know anything about that and I'm guessing that the pieces are odd shaped mechanical parts that would create huge drag and they must have a lot of solid mass if NASA thinks the parts will make it to the ground.

He was looking for a reasonable number to scare someone with.

But you're probably right. I fully expect the satellite to heat up and blow apart, leaving the pieces to flutter down to the ground.

For relative values of "flutter".

163 ot sorry/
 did anyone know of this from GayPatriots site

The conversations were recorded by Andre Howard who ran the Lone Wolf Trading Company. Howard’s gun dealership had been cooperating with the ATF in “Fast and Furious.” At least two of his weapons were sold to a straw buyer before turning up later at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Hope MacAllister, the ATF agent heard in the conversations, was the lead case agent.

Dealer: Â…Holder has to respond to this tomorrow.

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Agent: Yeah.

Dealer: He canÂ’t deviate.

Agent: Well if, I mean I’ve seen a rough copy at least of what our US Attorney here has sent up. Whether or not he has the b—s to actually use it or not, I doubt it. But I mean it’s pretty aggressive. Um. The way I see it our local US Attorney is extremely aggressive. When it gets to DC…

Â…

Dealer: WhatÂ’s HoldersÂ’ office got to say about this?

Agent: Well like I said they’re supposed to come out with little more um b—-y statement than they have in the past, so…

Dealer: God theyÂ’re (intell)

Agent: I mean at some point they’re gonna say have to say Grassley you’re just gonna have to sit your a– down. I mean that or they’re gonna have to (unintell). I mean like I said my understanding is he can’t call a hearing. Somebody from the majority party has got to call a congressional hearing and as of right now…

Dealer: Patrick Leahy’s an a—-e, you know that. He gets ahold of something he’s like a dog with a bone.

Agent: As of right now we donÂ’t have any info thatÂ’s occurred. SoÂ…

Â…

Agent: ThatÂ’s kind of what my suggestion but nobody thought that was funny like if I were a P.I. IÂ’d put him on Grassley, IÂ’m sure thereÂ’s a lot would go away. Actually my one suggestion was just tell him in a registered Republican. IÂ’m sure if he knew that everything would be fine, they didnÂ’t like that either.

So, we apparently have an ATF agent suggesting the use of blackmail against a United States Senator for the purpose of interfering with a lawful investigation.

164 ErikW. Scroll down for the formula

Posted by: Ronster at September 23, 2011 08:11 PM (/ej8I)

I don't do math, dude. It's complete gibberish to me!

165  I don't know anything about that and I'm guessing that the pieces are odd shaped mechanical parts that would create huge drag and they must have a lot of solid mass if NASA thinks the parts will make it to the ground.

 Posted by: ErikW

It's been NASA's policy to place "shitloads" of bullets and other "exploding stuff" in all their satellites as ballast.  Or as the boys at NASA call it "show stoppers" or "dirt poppers."  Sounds crazy,  but it's true.  Look it up.

166 Correction:

He was You were looking for a reasonable number to scare someone with.

Sorry. I lost track of the thread.

167 O/T: "Universal Logo for Human Rights" revealed ...

... whoop, whoop, whoop, whoopie!

168 This thread is over. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_CS5v5K46E

169 O/T: "Universal Logo for Human Rights" revealed ...

... whoop, whoop, whoop, whoopie!
Posted by: No Whining

The Smurfs like it.

170 182 O/T: "Universal Logo for Human Rights" revealed ... ... whoop, whoop, whoop, whoopie! Posted by: No Whining at September 23, 2011 08:22 PM (Ulyg2) Looks like Japanese tentacle porn.

171

heh, Kieth Ellison just said on O' Rielly that Lincoln built the INTER Continental railroad. Jeeebus

172 "... during the Civil War, Lincoln pulled together the intercontinental railroad ..."
  -- Keith Ellison, ("Jeaneous D", MN) on BOR

173

O/T: "Universal Logo for Human Rights" revealed ...

Is that supposed to be a bird or a defected hand?

174 Only thing pilots need to hear is one word, flutter.

175 @188: I think it's supposed to be a human hand that symbolically looks like a bird because birds represent freedom. Or crap on your windshield, anyway. I think the best logo for human rights EVAH is the Great Seal of the United States of America, personally.

176 Oh, I get it the peace dove.

177

It's been NASA's policy to place "shitloads" of bullets and other "exploding stuff" in all their satellites as ballast.  Or as the boys at NASA call it "show stoppers" or "dirt poppers."  Sounds crazy,  but it's true.  Look it up.

Posted by: Dang at September 23, 2011 08:21 PM (TXKVh)

Why would a satellite need ballast?

Okay, I'll look it up.

178 O/T:
September 23, 2011 — MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) — Nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis gave up on his race for New Jersey state Senate on Friday, a day after a federal appeals panel removed him from the ballot because he didn't meet a four-year residency requirement.

179 "Lies. You know who runs The Popular Mechanics, right?" Mitt?

180 It's 8:33 and this zombie thread has been staggering along in search of fresh brains for hours now. I can only conclude that the UARS satellite crashed into Ace's pad and took out his entire collection of velvet Elvis paintings.

181 sorta O/T:

September 23, 2011 — CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A 6-ton NASA satellite on a collision course with Earth clung to space Friday, apparently flipping position in its ever-lower orbit and stalling its death plunge.

The old research spacecraft was targeted to crash through the atmosphere sometime Friday night or early Saturday, putting Canada, Africa and Australia in the potential crosshairs, although most of the satellite should burn up during re-entry. The United States wasn't entirely out of the woods; the possible strike zone skirted Washington state.

182

Why would a satellite need ballast?

Because they have extra rocket fuel they need to get rid of. Do you want them to poor it on the ground?

183 The United States wasn't entirely out of the woods; the possible strike zone skirted Washington state.

Posted by: No Whining at September 23, 2011 08:35 PM (Ulyg2)

Damn....I got all excited until I read 'state'.

184 the possible strike zone skirted Washington state.

Posted by: No Whining at September 23, 2011 08:35 PM (Ulyg2)

Awww fuck, I was just relaxing drinking a beer. Now I have to go put up the sattelite sheild.

185 198 The United States wasn't entirely out of the woods; the possible strike zone skirted Washington state.
Posted by: No Whining at September 23, 2011 08:35 PM (Ulyg2)

Damn....I got all excited until I read 'state'.
Posted by: Tami at September 23, 2011 08:37 PM (X6akg)

Gotta go drive to the beach, but someone ought to give ParanoidGirlInSeattle a "heads up" ...

186 Awww fuck, I was just relaxing drinking a beer. Now I have to go put up the sattelite sheild. Posted by: robtr at September 23, 2011 08:37 PM (MtwBb) Just put on an aluminum foil dunce cap. That should do the trick.

187 When is it going to Fall on me

188

September 23, 2011 — CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A 6-ton NASA satellite on a collision course with Earth clung to space Friday, apparently flipping position in its ever-lower orbit and stalling its death plunge.

The old research spacecraft was targeted to crash through the atmosphere sometime Friday night or early Saturday, putting Canada, Africa and Australia in the potential crosshairs, although most of the satellite should burn up during re-entry. The United States wasn't entirely out of the woods; the possible strike zone skirted Washington state.

Posted by: No Whining at September 23, 2011 08:35 PM (Ulyg2)

 

So does anyone besides me understand that we, as human beings, are NOT as smart as we thhink we are?

189 202 When is it going to Fall on me Posted by: Phoenixgirl at September 23, 2011 08:40 PM (+DZLk) Well, if something crashes right thru your ceiling going 17,000 miles an hour and strikes you dead... consider yourself felled.

190 The United States wasn't entirely out of the woods; the possible strike zone skirted Washington state.