Surprise!

Gusington · February 13, 2023, 11:23:55 AM

Meh I kinda like 'Surprise!'

FarAway Sooner · February 13, 2023, 02:53:34 PM

So many richer double entendres to be had (my mind keeps coming back to the Kardashians), but that's the sort of thing that's not quite as clever when done with the benefit of hindsight. If we changed names now, I wouldn't know where to find the dang thread!

Unless somebody could find a nice way to work in the "tit for tat" exchanges that seem to be taking place right now...

Does shooting something down over water make it more likely to retrieve the pieces intact? Or are they just more worried about damage to real estate and occupants?

I wonder how much those balloons cost, and how much the countermeasures cost? It kinda boggles my mind that the US used to fly U2s directly over Russian air space during the Cold War.

W8taminute · February 13, 2023, 02:57:16 PM

UK PM announces that they're on standby to shoot down an object over their territory. Now everyone things these things are part of some extraterrestrial invasion. Even China claims that they have balloons over their territory.

Gusington · February 13, 2023, 02:57:41 PM

^wut?? Is today the day?

W8taminute · February 13, 2023, 02:59:12 PM

^I don't know man but the way the news has been flying around twitter and telegram you would think it is the day.

Gusington · February 13, 2023, 03:08:22 PM

'Oh crap' -Harvey Firestein

GDS_Starfury · February 13, 2023, 07:08:07 PM

so the balloon over Lake Huron needed two Sidewinders to take down because the first missed.
one could say it was bad AIM.

Windigo · February 13, 2023, 08:51:36 PM

Quote from: Gusington on February 03, 2023, 05:02:30 PMDoes 'payload' automatically mean 'weapon'?

Could be books of Quotes from Mao

Gusington · February 13, 2023, 09:24:29 PM

^heh

Windigo · February 13, 2023, 10:23:02 PM

seriously though, those damn things could with the payloads could be dropping all sorts of things, avian flu, swine flu, covid, freaking monitoring instruments, the list goes on

Sir Slash · February 13, 2023, 11:15:06 PM

If you need me I'll be in my Underground Bunker. The secret knock to get in is....Wait a minute! You're NOT allowed to know that dammit!

JasonPratt · February 14, 2023, 08:46:15 AM

Well, there has been an economically distressing nationwide spike in poultry deaths in the last year from (if I recall correctly) a version of avian flu (which has doubled the price of chicken and eggs in some areas, including my rather rural area despite being in the middle of a Tyson chicken-farming region), which epidemiologists don't seem to know the source of. So... do we have a conspiracy smiley now?

ArizonaTank · February 14, 2023, 09:51:56 AM

Quote from: JasonPratt on February 14, 2023, 08:46:15 AMWell, there has been an economically distressing nationwide spike in poultry deaths in the last year from (if I recall correctly) a version of avian flu (which has doubled the price of chicken and eggs in some areas, including my rather rural area despite being in the middle of a Tyson chicken-farming region), which epidemiologists don't seem to know the source of. So... do we have a conspiracy smiley now?

I think the card for Steve Jackson's Illuminati game is:

Chinese UFO Balloons
Power: 1 Resistance: 1
Alignment: Communist, Weird
+1 to takeover News Network Talking Heads

steve58 · February 14, 2023, 10:18:28 AM

nvm

Sir Slash · February 14, 2023, 10:51:20 AM

Tucker had a great piece on a couple of weeks ago from Chicken Ranchers who reported their hens had completely stopped laying eggs, for months on end. They said it had never happened to them before. However when they stopped using commercial chicken feed like Purina, and began using locally produced feed, the hens went back to laying with a vengeance. Purina gave a statement they were aware of the stories and there was nothing wrong with their feed. It does make you wonder, what's in things we are using?