Smiling Jack posted:We've been operating UAVs in very permissive airspace against opponents who operate in the Stone Age. Comcast operates outside the US?
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That Works posted:Comcast operates outside the US? They are working on the ITAR paperwork now
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Sep 20, 2016 17:59
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Smiling Jack posted:We've been operating UAVs in very permissive airspace against opponents who operate in the Stone Age. Yeah, I'm more asking in the sense of "It seems like eventually things will go unmanned on a larger scale". I don't know if the timeframe for that meshes up with the service window of the B-21.
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Sep 20, 2016 18:07
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pretty much the whole acquisition's been classified
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Sep 20, 2016 18:53
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That Works posted:Comcast operates outside the US? 
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Sep 20, 2016 19:36
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That Works posted:Comcast operates outside the US? 
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Sep 20, 2016 19:45
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Apparently a U-2 went and did one of those lithobraking things: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/20/politics/california-u-2-crash/
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Sep 21, 2016 00:51
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U-2 ejections seem to be pretty often casualty-inducing. Also, the missions are long as poo poo with very weird flight tolerances and cumbersome gear. I'd rather drive a Tanker, tbh.
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Sep 21, 2016 00:58
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https://translate.google.com/transl...cio-activo.html
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Sep 21, 2016 02:38
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China's space station is falling http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/a22936/tiangong-falling-to-earth/
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Sep 21, 2016 04:56
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I love how Mexico bought Texans. 
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Sep 21, 2016 04:56
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Dragon Lady down, both ejected. One dead, one injured. https://www.yahoo.com/news/u2-spy-plane-crash-california-kills-pilot-injures-212541083--finance.html
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Sep 21, 2016 04:59
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Airline related, kind of  depending on the kind of job you havehttp://www.backus.fr/hotesse-de-lair-sexy-et-hot/
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Sep 21, 2016 05:14
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I can honestly say I've never seen a flight attendant as attractive as any of them.
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Sep 21, 2016 05:29
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Unsurprisingly, Aeroflot wins by a landslide.
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Sep 21, 2016 05:48
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B4Ctom1 posted:China's space station is falling That's an incredibly generous depiction of Tiangong-1...
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Sep 21, 2016 05:49
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B4Ctom1 posted:China's space station is falling Oh hey, no worries, we'll just take the Space Shuttle up there and slap some PAM rockets on it to safely deorbit it and...oh...right. 
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Sep 21, 2016 06:10
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Shooting Blanks posted:Unsurprisingly, Aeroflot wins by a landslide. I thought it was some fictional airline and they were actresses because of the logo but no, for the 90th anniversary they actually switched to old Soviet era livery with the hammer and sickle in it.
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Sep 21, 2016 06:19
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Oh hey, no worries, we'll just take the Space Shuttle up there and slap some PAM rockets on it to safely deorbit it and...oh...right. Well, maybe if the Air Force wasn't so stingy with the X-37B...
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Sep 21, 2016 07:03
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Well, maybe if the Air Force wasn't so stingy with the X-37B... I remember reading a GI Joe comic that had something similar as a scenario, only difference it was the Space shuttle that was attacked by a Cobra shuttle and GI Joe had to launch their own top secret one.
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Sep 21, 2016 08:00
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Cardiac posted:I remember reading a GI Joe comic that had something similar as a scenario, only difference it was the Space shuttle that was attacked by a Cobra shuttle and GI Joe had to launch their own top secret one. The West Wing had an episode about a shuttle 'stuck' in orbit, and the fact that the Air Force had a personal super-secret Shuttle that was purposely kept off the books that could've been used to save the crew.
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Sep 21, 2016 08:04
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B4Ctom1 posted:Airline related, kind of God I love women.
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Sep 21, 2016 10:37
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The West Wing had an episode about a shuttle 'stuck' in orbit, and the fact that the Air Force had a personal super-secret Shuttle that was purposely kept off the books that could've been used to save the crew. Was this before or after the X-37? I guess before.
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Sep 21, 2016 15:42
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B-21 Specter would've been a better name. Or even B-21 Black Raider.
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Sep 21, 2016 16:03
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Godholio posted:Was this before or after the X-37? I guess before. Before, but I'm pretty sure even with EVA suits the X-37 (especially the A model) didn't have room to fit a full crew and restraints to keep them secured for reentry. The implication was that it was a regular Shuttle with "Air Force" on the side that we didn't want anyone to know we had because it was reserved strictly for classified/military use.
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Sep 21, 2016 16:23
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LostCosmonaut posted:The Rb 05 is loving magical - a supersonic MCLOS missile on a single seat aircraft (meant to be launched at very low altitude, to boot). I assume they were never used in combat, but they must have been the odd exercise with live fire. Anyone know what sort of hit rate they actually managed.
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Sep 21, 2016 16:33
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 X-37 is pretty tiny. You might get two guys home if you added basic life support and restraints in. I'm not actually sure how big the payload bay is on it, so possibly not even that. It looks to be that whole center section top to bottom, but I've never seen a non-rendered picture of it. Solar panels and poo poo also fold into there. At one point this thing was going to be CARGO for the space shuttle.
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Sep 21, 2016 16:45
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The West Wing had an episode about a shuttle 'stuck' in orbit, and the fact that the Air Force had a personal super-secret Shuttle that was purposely kept off the books that could've been used to save the crew. There were actually two such plots. One with the shuttle stuck in orbit but eventually fixing itself, one with the ISS losing oxygen and no shuttle available to evacuate the crew. So they send the secret one, which was able to be readied in time and dock with the station on it's very first flight. Because TV shows are very realistic.
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Sep 21, 2016 17:00
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Alaan posted:X-37 is pretty tiny. You might get two guys home if you added basic life support and restraints in. I'm not actually sure how big the payload bay is on it, so possibly not even that. It looks to be that whole center section top to bottom, but I've never seen a non-rendered picture of it. Solar panels and poo poo also fold into there. 7 × 4 ft, apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37#Specifications
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Sep 21, 2016 18:17
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Deptfordx posted:I assume they were never used in combat, but they must have been the odd exercise with live fire. Anyone know what sort of hit rate they actually managed. I don't have any hard numbers but old geezer stories indicate it was actually pretty good - something like "minute of garage door" at max range. When you started training on the system, you first had to fire a thousand shots in a simulator. Then you were upgraded to firing about half a dozen SS-11's (a 50's MCLOS ATGM that moved at a snail's pace in comparison) from a bug smasher, and finally after that you could try it live on a real aircraft. After launch, the missile automatically pitches up and into the pilot's field of view so you can start steering it. The rocket engine is smokeless and the missile has a light in its rear end, so since the steering's collimated "all" you need to do is line up the light with the target and keep it on there. You put the aircraft in altitude hold mode on the autopilot while doing it. It's still hard but not completely impossible. 
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Sep 21, 2016 19:02
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hepatizon posted:7 × 4 ft, apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37#Specifications What loving idiot signed off on a twodimensional cargo bay
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Sep 21, 2016 19:17
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I thought satellite "maintenance" was part of the original plans for X-37's capabilities. If the 80's taught me anything, it's that you only need one guy and a secret phase-conjugate tracking mirror to handle a faulty space station, plus a lot of popcorn. Now we've got something that doesn't even have a mirror or popcorn, and we don't even use it. It's like Back to the Future II all over again. People wait all this time, and all we get are shoes that light up, and "hoverboards" that are nothing more than boring fire hazards. Lame.
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Sep 21, 2016 20:42
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Effective-Disorder posted:I thought satellite "maintenance" was part of the original plans for X-37's capabilities. Like shooting ducks in a barrel.
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Sep 21, 2016 20:43
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The West Wing had an episode about a shuttle 'stuck' in orbit, and the fact that the Air Force had a personal super-secret Shuttle that was purposely kept off the books that could've been used to save the crew. This was (almost) the worst plot line The Sam/Callgirl and Zoe/Kidnappers plots might win out there. What a stupid way to deal with such a good character.
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Sep 21, 2016 21:00
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DeesGrandpa posted:This was (almost) the worst plot line The Sam/Callgirl and Zoe/Kidnappers plots might win out there. What a stupid way to deal with such a good character. The deus ex machina nuclear catastrophe was pretty bad.
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Sep 21, 2016 21:11
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Terrible Robot posted:Like shooting ducks in a barrel. Let's go see that film on blinding techniques, and then we'll have lunch, hmm?
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Sep 21, 2016 21:28
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Before, but I'm pretty sure even with EVA suits the X-37 (especially the A model) didn't have room to fit a full crew and restraints to keep them secured for reentry. The implication was that it was a regular Shuttle with "Air Force" on the side that we didn't want anyone to know we had because it was reserved strictly for classified/military use. My point was that the Air Force having a secret shuttle wasn't exactly outlandish since they literally did.
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Sep 21, 2016 22:37
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Platystemon posted:The deus ex machina nuclear catastrophe was pretty bad. Yeah that too. I wouldn't have had a real problem is it was just a nuke plant issue but to have it have magically been one that the republican candidate fought to have built is pretty out there. Still maintain even though the later years were noticeably more out there, it was still great TV.
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Sep 21, 2016 23:13
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the real out there part is a republican advocating for spending
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Somebody dropped an absolutely massive album about Ulithi Island in particular and the Pacific War in general on imgur: http://imgur.com/a/mOvzk Of particular note; here's how good the damage repair crews were during WWII; the Houston was later repaired from this: 
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