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Frond
Mar 12, 2018

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Gunshow Poophole
Sep 14, 2008

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Clapping Larry

AnEdgelord posted:

Looks like we finally found what was bappin

:chanpop:

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

AnEdgelord posted:

Looks like we finally found what was bappin

Bert Roberge
Nov 28, 2003

https://twitter.com/Militarydotcom/status/1215412746663223297

Rah!
Feb 21, 2006



:hellyeah:

https://i.imgur.com/AXufqNC.mp4

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Testimony Before an Emergency Session of the Naval Cetacean Command

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

Someone post the scifi short story about the usn training neurologically enhanced squids and getting owned when they don't account for their non human Psychology

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

I want more C&C Generals and less Red Alert 3.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/fugioutliberem/status/1215330877523275776

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Stairmaster posted:

Someone post the scifi short story about the usn training neurologically enhanced squids and getting owned when they don't account for their non human Psychology

That was what I was referencing: https://www.drabblecast.org/2013/12/06/drabblecast-305-testimony-emergency-session-naval-cephalopod-command/

Goon written!

KozmoNaut
Apr 23, 2008

Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle


Rand alPaul posted:

I want more C&C Generals and less Red Alert 3.

AK-47s for everyone!

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/alihashem_tv/status/1215527949350424576?s=19

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 22 days!)

https://twitter.com/SpittingBack/status/1215511201171435520?s=20

Venom Snake
Feb 19, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo

how do they know the dolphins political tendency??

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 22 days!)

natural alignment

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER


lovin this incredibly sinister picture of a dolphin

Daikloktos
Jan 1, 2020

by Cyrano4747

V. Illych L. posted:

lovin this incredibly sinister picture of a dolphin
Glad the media's done whitewashing their bullshit

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
those dolphins were no angels

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy

lmfao, totally a coincidence, right? I guess now we get to ask questions about any ACARS backdoors the pentagon might have access to

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy
like, until a moment earlier, the most plausible theory was accidental shooting down, yes.

2 engines suddenly catching fire, one of them while still on the ground? something fishy going on here.

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

what kind of sick, insane, and diabolical mind would try to weaponize dolphins

KozmoNaut
Apr 23, 2008

Happiness is a warm
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Truga posted:

like, until a moment earlier, the most plausible theory was accidental shooting down, yes.

2 engines suddenly catching fire, one of them while still on the ground? something fishy going on here.

Or the Iranian military is very well aware that the first people on the ground would be the Rangers, who specialize in taking over airports and airfields, and who arrive in big planes that would look like a passenger plane on radar. Especially so if the flight was delayed and the flight plan wasn't updated, so it looked like there shouldn't have been a plane at that place, at that time. Which is prime fodder for an itchy trigger finger and/or an officer making a bad decision.

Hanlon's razor does apply, without completely ruling out malicious action. The US does have a huge boner for wrecking poo poo.

KozmoNaut has issued a correction as of 11:05 on Jan 10, 2020

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy
yeah, but as that dumb guy pointed out, the chances of an engine suddenly catching fire at the exact same time a war starts? basically zero.

two of them on entirely separate planes doing that in <24h? uhhhhhhhhhhhh, nope.

comedyblissoption posted:

what kind of sick, insane, and diabolical mind would try to weaponize dolphins

in b4 post transition liberal dolphins

KozmoNaut
Apr 23, 2008

Happiness is a warm
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Truga posted:

yeah, but as that dumb guy pointed out, the chances of an engine suddenly catching fire at the exact same time a war starts? basically zero.

two of them on entirely separate planes doing that in <24h? uhhhhhhhhhhhh, nope.

That's the thing, the Ukranian plane was basically new and had just had its maintenance check a couple of days before, so I don't think it's simply a mechanical failure, as lovely as Boeing is at designing and building planes, and even if the engine model used in the 737-800 is a bit crap.

Again, I attribute it to an accident of incompetence, rather than outright malice.

What's the reasoning for the US to gently caress up a random plane from Rwandair immediately after the Ukranian plane, on an airplane model with a previously rather clean record?

KozmoNaut has issued a correction as of 11:31 on Jan 10, 2020

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

AnEdgelord posted:

Looks like we finally found what was bappin

never meet your heroes

Daikloktos
Jan 1, 2020

by Cyrano4747

comedyblissoption posted:

what kind of sick, insane, and diabolical mind would try to weaponize dolphins
If Dolphins could understand what was being asked of them they'd loving do it without hesitation.

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy

KozmoNaut posted:

What's the reasoning for the US to gently caress up a random plane from Rwandair immediately after the Ukranian plane, on an airplane model with a previously rather clean record?

thought it was in the air already so they could claim iran shot down another plane?

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 22 days!)

https://twitter.com/sparksjls/status/1215473896654364672?s=20

Mommy's Special Boy Thinks He's Doing Great

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

Don't know when, don't know where.......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEtldt-FI8Y

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
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I've heard of unknown unknowns, but this is ridiculous!

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 22 days!)

imminent uncertainties

KozmoNaut
Apr 23, 2008

Happiness is a warm
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Truga posted:

thought it was in the air already so they could claim iran shot down another plane?

And claim that Iran blew up a plane from a random African airline, for some reason. All the while Israel says not a drat thing about it, because they love Iran so much that they keep quiet.

Make perfect sense :jerry:

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy
as opposed to random ukrainian airline? i'm not seeing your point here.

KozmoNaut
Apr 23, 2008

Happiness is a warm
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A Ukranian airliner in Iranian airspace being mistaken for a US military plane.

Versus a Rwandan airliner sitting on a runway in Israel.

Totally the same thing.

E: FWIW, Rwandair have made an official statement that it was a simple tailpipe fire, which was dealt with and the plane took off normally afterwards: https://www.ktpress.rw/2020/01/no-cause-for-alarm-rwandair-explains-tel-aviv-incident/

The only reason a relatively routine event like that even got reported on was because people were looking for anything they could connect to the current Iran/US thing.

KozmoNaut has issued a correction as of 12:35 on Jan 10, 2020

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 22 days!)

shut the gently caress up about the plane please, it's just circular speculation at this point

shrike82
Jun 11, 2005

given their track record, can't wait for Iran to start up the centrifuges at Bushehr and kill a bunch of their own civvies

Dante80
Mar 23, 2015

shrike82 posted:

given their track record, can't wait for Iran to start up the centrifuges at Bushehr and kill a bunch of their own civvies

That would be a refreshing change from the norm (Iran civvies getting assassinated by Israel).

PoontifexMacksimus
Feb 14, 2012

Azathoth posted:

the unmistakable keytar intro of asia's the final countdown as alarms blare in the cockpit*

:doh:

PoontifexMacksimus
Feb 14, 2012

CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:

woke man's burden

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THS
Sep 15, 2017

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

shut the gently caress up about the plane please, it's just circular speculation at this point

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