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Did anyone lose a missle?

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Re: Did anyone lose a missle?

I will admit to this one.......

I was testing my Zenith 801 using full power on take off and it got a little out of hand. :lol: :lol: :lol: :^o

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Years ago I saw one of these around sunset from Santa Ynez, CA. I think it turned out to be a Patriot, but it was truly a spectacular sight. I just hope I never a gaggle of them. :shock:
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No comment :twisted:
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Filming for Iron Man 3??? :?:
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According to my information - the picture and the story do not belong to each other.
I was told someone has shot Nancy Pelosi to the moon, one way... :roll:
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JJBAKER wrote:According to my information - the picture and the story do not belong to each other.
I was told someone has shot Nancy Pelosi to the moon, one way... :roll:


Poor Moon. [-X [-X :mrgreen:
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years ago I had occasion to work on San Clemente Island for one week doing a job on some of the barracks... while I was there I saw all sorts of military goings on.. and one evening when I was done working I was sitting watching the ocean and here comes a frigate, Not the bird, full speed towards shore... about a mile out he turns hard to starboard, and comes parallel with shore... Then fires off a missile straight up and it disappeared into the low clouds... have no idea where it went or where it came down...but I did wonder if he was firing at us for a few minutes... This one, apparently , was fired north of Catalina Island yesterday...and like so many stories of this type I would bet dollars to donuts it will just die and go away and never be mentioned again ... and the navy will probably claim they had no idea where it came from or who fired it... In fact they'll probably say we didn't see what we saw... or it was a "weather Balloon"... :^o [-X
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I was told someone has shot Nancy Pelosi to the moon, one way...



She'll be in good company with the dead Orca whale thats up there.
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This one, apparently , was fired north of Catalina Island yesterday...and like so many stories of this type I would bet dollars to donuts it will just die and go away and never be mentioned again ... and the navy will probably claim they had no idea where it came from or who fired it... In fact they'll probably say we didn't see what we saw... or it was a "weather Balloon"... :^o

You're probably right, some Navy guy having some fun pushing buttons. Makes you feel pretty secure knowing they have nuclear stuff to play with too.
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I was told someone has shot Nancy Pelosi to the moon, one way... :roll:[/quote]

Please do not start rumors! You know you could cause heart attacks by getting some of us too excited!!!
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JJBAKER wrote:According to my information - the picture and the story do not belong to each other.
I was told someone has shot Nancy Pelosi to the moon, one way... :roll:


Ugh... I should know not to get into politics here, but I hear tell it was Sarah Palin... :o
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Sarah Palin?. Darn, I missed my flight!!!!!
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Friend of mine in the Nat'l Guard sent me this, regarding the mystery missile:

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Yesterday, President Obama announces that he supports India to have a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, much to the dismay of China.

China possess the most quiet diesel/electric submarines in the world.

An unknown missile is launched in deep water due west of Catalina Island.

Is China sending us a message?

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This may explain a lot, but I just GOTTA believe that our intelligence community would figure this out.
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China possess the most quiet diesel/electric submarines in the world.

That is cus we quit making them in the 60's. Not too quiet when the diesels are running. You cannot make it from china to so cal on the battery. Three kts for a day then fire up the diesels to recharge. Think these boats were made for short range. Or they could have the energizer bunny :D Endurance: 45 day; 6,000 miles with snorkel @7 knots; or 400 miles submerged @3 knots


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JJBAKER wrote:According to my information - the picture and the story do not belong to each other.
I was told someone has shot Nancy Pelosi to the moon, one way... :roll:


I hope they made her leave the broom at home. Otherwise, it might be all for naught.
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justine wrote:Ugh... I should know not to get into politics here, but I hear tell it was Sarah Palin... :o


:shock: Holy Cow! Her too? So there is hope? Haha!
Hello Justine. I've been in hiding for a while. It all looks very strange. New people, good!

hicountry wrote:Please do not start rumors! You know you could cause heart attacks by getting some of us too excited!!!


:idea: I forgot! Rumors are bad for the heart. Lets just think it was a citizen group, having shot all political ankle biters and rats to the moon.

Let me think about that...
Poor Moon! Poor Orca!
And where did all the politicians go?

PS: And - Yes! I am that dumb! I managed to hit the "reply with quote" button three times to edit the mess of quote tags. Out of practice. Sorry.
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qmdv wrote:Not too quiet when the diesels are running.
Tim


I yield to your 500X greater knowledge on this subject... if they had to run the diesels for most of the way then wouldn't we have heard them coming for at least long enough to figure out what they were up to? Also, "quiet" or not wouldn't their boats still be seen by flying/floating magnetic anomaly equipment?
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Their already claiming it didn't happen:

http://contrailscience.com
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hicountry wrote:I was told someone has shot Nancy Pelosi to the moon, one way... :roll:


Please do not start rumors! You know you could cause heart attacks by getting some of us too excited!!![/quote]
The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming!....no wait..the politicians are leaving, the politicians are leaving...Oh well, one can only hope.
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