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Hot Eagle Still Alive?
On Feb 2, 8:58 pm, Fred J. McCall wrote:
" wrote: :On Feb 2, 10:46 am, Pat Flannery wrote: : : It will show up on radar as it enters the atmosphere, make a sonic boom : as it gets into the target area, and then float down under its : chute...that's not very subtle. : :And not very visible to bin Laden in a cave. : But REAL visible to the folks on watch outside the cave. Really? A dark, small object miles away and far up in the night sky would be visible to someone with no radar or meaningful IR scanning capabilities? The rest of your pointlessly argumentative nonsense snipped. |
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Fred J. McCall wrote:
: :And not very visible to bin Laden in a cave. : But REAL visible to the folks on watch outside the cave. If we knew where the cave was, all we'd have to do is bomb the entrance to it and seal him in. BTW, the dread bin Laden Cave, which he picked up surplus after Ernst Stavro Blofeld finally died and SPECTRE had its going-out-of-business sale: http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/2002question/cave.htm It is rumored that bin Laden has converted the piranha tank into a giant Jacuzzi and replaced the knockout gas emitters in the elevators with automatic air fresheners to give it that "new cave" smell. Pat |
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Fred J. McCall wrote:
Uh, it's got to come down, ****wit. It's *NOT* particularly dark during reentry. They could vertically land it with rockets instead of using a parachute; no one would notice that at night. :-D Here, its inconspicuous larger brother disgorges rocket-belt equipped troops: http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/ithacus.htm That's one of the few times you are ever going to see a B-70 used for low altitude cargo drops. Pat |
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Pat Flannery wrote:
If we knew where the cave was, all we'd have to do is bomb the entrance to it and seal him in. Or lock him out, if he happened to be on the throne at the time. A cave with an outside latrine should have a lower rent, after all. |
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Hot Eagle Still Alive?
On Feb 3, 12:36 am, Fred J. McCall wrote:
" wrote: :On Feb 2, 8:58 pm, Fred J. McCall wrote:: " wrote: : : :On Feb 2, 10:46 am, Pat Flannery wrote: : : : : It will show up on radar as it enters the atmosphere, make a sonic boom : : as it gets into the target area, and then float down under its : : chute...that's not very subtle. : : : :And not very visible to bin Laden in a cave. : : : : But REAL visible to the folks on watch outside the cave. : :Really? A dark, small object miles away and far up in the night sky :would be visible to someone with no radar or meaningful IR scanning :capabilities? : Uh, it's got to come down, ****wit. It's *NOT* particularly dark during reentry. A: During re-entry, it'll look like a shooting star. People see those fairly commonly and hardly ever shoot at them. B: It'll look like a shooting star dozens to hundreds of miles away from the target. The Shuttle hardly glowed incandescently all the way to the runway. |
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