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2006-02-20 Science & Technology

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-02-20 16:11|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I agree. Why use a bajillion-dollar aircraft to monitor a situation you have no intention of addressing?

Posted by BH 2006-02-20 16:35|| 2006-02-20 16:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Give it time, HA. We know the border situation is bad, but it may well get worse. Think: shoulder-launched missiles, for instance.

I wish it weren't so, but I suspect we will see the North American Command doing a lot more than remote surveillance and BMD over the next decade.

Posted by lotp 2006-02-20 16:41|| 2006-02-20 16:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Voice Over: Meanwhile for Ferdinand von Zeppelin, the year 1908 was a year of triumph.
Cut to interior of a zeppelin. A party. Expensively dressed guests. Champagne. A palm court orchestra playing. Some guests looking out of the windows in wonderment.
Von Bülow: (approaching Zeppelin) Herr Zeppelin - it's wonderful! It's put ballooning right back on the map.
Zeppelin goes instantly berserk with anger.
Zeppelin: It's not a balloon! D'you hear?... It's not a balloon ... It's an airship ... an airship ... d'you hear?
He hits him very hard on the top of the head with the underside of his fist.
Von Bülow Well, it's very nice anyway.
Tirpitz: (to Zeppelin) Tell me, what is the principle of these balloons?
Zeppelin: It's not a balloon! You stupid little thick-headed Saxon git! It's not a balloon! Balloons is for kiddy-winkies. If you want to play with balloons, get outside.
Drags Tirpitz over to the door, opens it and flings him out into the clouds.
Tirpitz: Aaaaaaaaaghhh!

Posted by Zenster 2006-02-20 17:05|| 2006-02-20 17:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Luft!

Posted by 6 2006-02-20 17:05|| 2006-02-20 17:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Eventually CONUS will become CORSICA/CORSICANT lite. The airships in LR will ultimately be impervious to anything except a direct hit by suicide airliner/spaceplane or ICBM warhead(s).

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-02-20 19:44|| 2006-02-20 19:44|| Front Page Top

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