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Old November 12th 10, 09:27 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Brad Guth[_3_]
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Default A recent secret launch of a rocket off the coast of California?

On Nov 12, 5:34*am, Jeff Findley wrote:
In article 436b04e9-f30e-4116-b6e5-d26baeedcb68
@i32g2000pri.googlegroups.com, says...



On Nov 11, 3:44 pm, Jeff Findley wrote:
In article 4d40bd34-31aa-431f-9d8a-
, says....


Your very brown nose is noted. Next time when a rogue aircraft or
missile launch that's so easily cloaked as a commercial incoming
flight gets through, all because it took too long to properly
identify, we'll have Jeff Findley to thank.


It was never a rogue aircraft you dolt.

For at least several hours, no one including yourself knew what the
hell it was. *If something like that was bad news, with you in charge
it would be too late by the time anyone knew for certain.


Your failure in reasoning is noted. *It was hard to identify because the
eye witness got it wrong. *The original video wasn't long enough to
easily identify it as an aircraft, so everyone looking into this took
the Sherlock Holmes approach of eliminating everything it could have
been, and what remained was that it could have been a jet contrail
(which it was). *That sort of approach takes time.



You're crying wolf.

Better than being a dead wolf, as going with your first option. *Do
you also agree with everything rabbi Saul Levy has to say?


The aircraft in question was certainly tracked and was certainly identified,
otherwise it would have been intercepted by Air Force fighters. The US
Air Force isn't about to let an unidentified aircraft that big enter US
air space without permission.


In case you hadn't noticed, Russian bombers still play cat and mouse
with our Air Force. We still send up fighters to say "hi" and send them
back where they came from.


When our top officials were specifically asked, they didn't have a
clue. *


They didn't have a clue because nothing out of the ordinary happened
that day. *What happened was a bunch of civilians jumping to conclusions
over a short, shakey video tape. *

So it could have been anything, including a Russian or Chinese
aircraft as having easily taken the place of that US commercial
flight. *


Bull$hit! *If it would have been any of those, it would have been
detected and intercepted and if it didn't leave US air space, it would
have been shot down.

Just because it wasn't a rogue intruder this time doesn't
mean they had everything under control. *Do you really think whatever
bad guys wouldn't trail a commercial flight, or just as easily replace
one?


But if it was a rogue intruder, it would have been intercepted because
it would have shown up on radar and it wouldn't have had a transponder
corresponding to an aircraft with a flight plan.

The many cold wars are not actually over, are they.


Again, this is b.s. *Sure the Russians still play cat and mouse, but the
Cold War with the Soviet Union is absolutely over. *Today's capitolist
Russians have more trouble with former Soviet Union states than they do
with the US.

BTW; we didn't really win that space race unless hype, infomercials
and bogus eyecandy count. *Russia is the one that gets $20+M per
ticket to ride, and I'd doubt their net cost is more than $2M/seat
(that's $18M profit in a nation where the average income isn't half as
much as here).


You're redefining the Space Race. *The Space Race was to show which
superpower was technically and economically superior. *The US won that
race by putting men on the moon. *That was a huge technological and
economic feat in 1969. *In the four decades since Apollo 11 landed on
the moon, no other country on the planet has yet to duplicate that feat. *

Your reasoning is like that of the UFO nuts. *They claim the US
government must be covering up evidence of space aliens because the
government can't prove they don't exist. *The US government also can't
prove you don't have a live animal up your @$$, so I guess that must be
true too.

Jeff
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Excuses, excuses, just like with TWA flight 800, the SEC and Ponzi
Madoff fiasco and 9/11.

We know where your family paychecks or retirement benefits comes from,
don't we.

~ BG