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WEH
Feb 22, 2009

or, you know, they believe in it AND it drives people nuts

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LITERALLY A BIRD
Sep 27, 2008

I knew you were trouble
when you flew in

Um actually we are clearly about to enact a giant ritual reproduction of assisting Apep in his assault on Ra while Ra is momentarily blinded, only obviously it will again ritually fail as the Sun will emerge victorious; as always He will, huzzah, praise Ra Who is Horus of Two Horizons, we are participating in the mythology of the eclipse and celebrating our eternal Sun.

Praise Ra, All Seeing, Ever Burning, etc

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




moon once again the unsung hero for interposing itself to body-block nasas demon-rocket attack on the sun

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




“haha no” laughs the moon, having built up an immunity to rockets by decades of slow exposure

LITERALLY A BIRD
Sep 27, 2008

I knew you were trouble
when you flew in

we sent up all those moon portraits in February as a payoff

krispykremessuck
Jul 22, 2005

unlike most veterans and SA members $10 is not a meaningful expenditure for me

I'm gonna have me a swag Bar-B-Q
I agree w/ nasa’s mission to kill the sun

Justin Tyme
Feb 22, 2011


Sequel to Sunshine where they're trying to dump a bunch of iron into the sun to cause fusion to stop

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




i hope the sunward serpent missiles look like something an art student designed after consuming the complete œuvre of h.r. giger, and cocaine

The Demilich
Apr 9, 2020

The First Rites of Men Were Mortuary, the First Altars Tombs.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo-1g2VaN1k

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


what's the sun ever done for me anyway??? poo poo is in my eyes rn let's kill it

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

Jazerus posted:

what's the sun ever done for me anyway??? poo poo is in my eyes rn let's kill it

burns everything constantly. so overbearing

Buck Wildman
Mar 30, 2010

I am Metango, Galactic Governor


I'm calling Blade on all your asses a lot of masquerades being violated itt

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




dialing the blade hotline toll-free to drop a hot tip about some fang-faced dopes who just spilled too many a bloody bean

Buck Wildman
Mar 30, 2010

I am Metango, Galactic Governor


dialing 1-800-BLADE as the bass drops

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




thank you for calling the 1-8-HUNTERED. if you are currently being bitten, hang up and dial 911. my name is vanessa. are you in danger?

Buck Wildman
Mar 30, 2010

I am Metango, Galactic Governor


I NEED TO SPEAK TO WHISTLER PLEASE CONNECT ME

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

Buck Wildman posted:

I'm calling Blade on all your asses a lot of masquerades being violated itt

it's just a pronounced sensitivity okay no need to start calling people names

Buck Wildman
Mar 30, 2010

I am Metango, Galactic Governor


don't you touch that loving sprinkler button

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




a slayvan of specialists is being dispatched to that location. thanks, caller, for helping us keep this city safe from undead predation. we know that making things better can feel like trying to ice-skate uphill, and we appreciate you making the effort.

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




v much enjoying the dystopian premise of reliance on private vampire hunter services

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




meanwhile, the vampires have organized, and are launching missiles to kill the sun

Lpzie
Nov 20, 2006

any reason not to believe mummies came from ufos ?

Buck Wildman
Mar 30, 2010

I am Metango, Galactic Governor


Lpzie posted:

any reason not to believe mummies came from ufos ?

no one would treat an immigrant that well

aw frig aw dang it
Jun 1, 2018


Lpzie posted:

any reason not to believe mummies came from ufos ?

they're torpid vampires obvs. but the suckheads don't want you to know this

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




enter hero: moon, to save us from the existential threat of capitalism.,and vampires

SpaceGoatFarts
Jan 5, 2010

sic transit gloria mundi


Nap Ghost

Lpzie posted:

any reason not to believe mummies came from ufos ?

the smaller mummies lay eggs and have weird skeletons.

the larger mummies are pregnant and look more like humans.

according the people pushing the tridactyls as real, I think they believe the larger mummies are human/alien hybrids

e: also maybe the mummies just live in the inner earth and cave systems

SpaceGoatFarts has issued a correction as of 19:52 on Apr 7, 2024

sharknado slashfic
Jun 24, 2011

Azathoth posted:

God hotboxing the library is literally my vision of heaven

Lol

sharknado slashfic
Jun 24, 2011

Jazerus posted:

what's the sun ever done for me anyway??? poo poo is in my eyes rn let's kill it

It can make it quite difficult to drive at times, I agree

Buck Wildman
Mar 30, 2010

I am Metango, Galactic Governor


Squizzle posted:

a slayvan of specialists is being dispatched to that location. thanks, caller, for helping us keep this city safe from undead predation. we know that making things better can feel like trying to ice-skate uphill, and we appreciate you making the effort.

lol

The Saucer Hovers
May 16, 2005

your peruvian mummys
lookin so crumbly
break a toe off and
put it in my tummy
powder sugar
preservation method
ooohh so yummy
make and omelette
with its egg and
top it off with honey

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005
even if they were fake real as hell btw breaking the toe off via mishandling is both super rude and deeply hilarious

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through
has anyone from a real lab done dna tests on these newer totally alien and not-at-all fraud mummies yet

seems like it’d be pretty definitive

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

mediaphage posted:

has anyone from a real lab done dna tests on these newer totally alien and not-at-all fraud mummies yet

seems like it’d be pretty definitive

there's a group of folks doing so presently, and even softly endorsed by Garry Nolan
https://twitter.com/GarryPNolan/status/1775978531060916686

D-Pad
Jun 28, 2006

Mellon with another one:

https://x.com/ChrisKMellon/status/1777048558127976885

And just to hammer on the points I have already been making...

quote:

Encounters with small unidentified "objects," sometimes in swarm-like groups of as many as eight. Sightings of other objects, including some characterized as drones, flying at altitudes up to 36,000 feet and as fast as Mach 0.75. Another apparent small drone actually hitting the canopy of an F-16 Viper causing damage. These incidents and many more, all occurred in or around various military air combat training ranges in Arizona since January 2020.

I'm sorry but it may be within the realm of possibilities that China has a drone with those performance characteristics but there is no way in hell they could get it over Arizona airspace undetected. A drone like that would be very large and would need infrastructure or a big rear end ship to launch and it would be detected as soon as it was in the air.

The same thing applies when talking about fleets of drones versus one offs at low altitude which could be commercial grade. Commercial grade drones aren't getting to these altitudes:

quote:

For instance, on March 29, 2021, two pilots flying F-35s in the vicinity of Buckeye, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, made a report about "3 to 4 UAS off [the] right side while e[ast] bound at 17,000 feet," according to the FAA. On April 22, 2022, another F-35 pilot reported "8 silver UAS [at an altitude of] between 16,000 and 20,000 feet" in the vicinity of Glendale, Arizona, another Phoenix suburb, another entry in the FAA's logs says.

quote:

For example, on March 25, 2021, pilots in a pair of F-35s flying in the vicinity of Casa Grande, Arizona, which is situated between Pheonix and Tucson, "reported a large white UAS... at FL240 [24,000 feet]," according to one entry in the FAA logs. "The object, which appeared to be stationary was described as a small GA [general aviation] aircraft or a very large UAS."

When it comes to higher altitude encounters, the pilots of two F-35s "observed a blue/green UAS while southbound at FL360 [36,000 feet]..." near Glendale on March 1, 2021, per the FAA logs. On September 28 of that year, the individual at the controls of another F-35 "observed a UAS while southwest bound at FL320 [32,000 feet]," according to another entry. The full entries for both of these incidents are reproduced below.

They, of course, agree with this assessment:

quote:

The ability to fly at around 100 knots at altitudes of 20,000 feet or more is already well beyond the performance typically associated with small UASs, especially commercial-grade ones and even some military types. As a comparative example, AeroVironment's RQ-20 Puma, a popular small UAS in service with the U.S. military and elsewhere around the world, has a stated maximum speed of 45 knots and a typical operating altitude of around 500 feet. Being able to reach 0.75 Mach at 33,000 feet is even more unusual. This is a high-performance, likely jet-powered system that is flying at roughly 500 miles per hour.

This poo poo is happening constantly all the time over our most secure air space and it's INSANE that it isn't a huge national security story and only the warzone is covering it. Incredibly frustrating.

WEH
Feb 22, 2009

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

there's a group of folks doing so presently, and even softly endorsed by Garry Nolan
https://twitter.com/GarryPNolan/status/1775978531060916686

drat i thought bourdain died, guess he just wanted to go into forensics

WEH
Feb 22, 2009

also if the thing that f-16 hit was an actual bird it wouldnt just "damage" the canopy, that poo poo would go right through and paste the pilot in the process

weird drones are w/e, if china or whoever wants to commit them to dumb poo poo like this so we waste oodles of money chasing ghosts more power to em

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

the people who kept saying look how lovely China is with their big stupid spy balloon and look how lovely Russia is with its old miltech are the same people claiming the hyperadvanced UAPs the US keeps flagging in extremely restricted airspace are Chinese or Russian

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




and if you encounter chinese ghost drones, or jiāngshī, contact the blade hotline

WEH
Feb 22, 2009

im not going to rag on about it beyond this but the drone poo poo mellon is yodeling about screams misdirection far more than a lot of the stuff people usually point at

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D-Pad
Jun 28, 2006

WEH posted:

im not going to rag on about it beyond this but the drone poo poo mellon is yodeling about screams misdirection far more than a lot of the stuff people usually point at

the misdirection is that the military are characterizing them as drones when the majority of them are clearly UAP and not at the direction of terrestrial nations

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