Here’s an embedded Twitter feed for ‘#hitsunami’, for the latest news on the tsunami waves expected to hit Hawaii in about two hours…
[Twitter feed moved to newer thread…]
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windsagio Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:17:36am |
somebody put in a related link last thread, but its worth repeating, probaly;
[Link: www.ndbc.noaa.gov…]
realtime water level data. Interesting to watch! (for me)
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:18:13am |
People my age, older people and younger people don’t get why the internet is a special thing. Well, I don’t need to do anything to prove my point. Prayers for those about to be affected.
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wrenchwench Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:20:26am |
Yep, the wider one is better.
for the latest news [and useless chatter] on the tsunami waves expected to hit Hawaii in about two hours…
Twitter has its limitations because there are no limitations.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:20:33am |
Bones_Qc USA knows how to create earthquakes with HAARP. Check it out on youtube. (#hitsunami live at [Link: ustre.am…]
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:21:11am |
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:21:39am |
Queen Elizabeth is a shape-shifting reptilian alien.
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windsagio Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:21:43am |
re: #11 MandyManners
HAARP would have won us the cold war, if we didn’t win it so quick >
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:21:47am |
Someone on the feed just brought up HAARP. Kook Jesse Ventura did a kook show about that. Fucking morons.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:24:27am |
re: #13 windsagio
HAARP would have won us the cold war, if we didn’t win it so quick >
Forty years and millions dead, I wouldn’t call that quick.
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windsagio Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:26:48am |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:27:03am |
re: #15 MandyManners
Forty years and millions dead, I wouldn’t call that quick.
What was the name of the fake city that was built by the commies? To impress the USA.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:27:57am |
re: #14 Cannadian Club Akbar
Someone on the feed just brought up HAARP. Kook Jesse Ventura did a kook show about that. Fucking morons.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see the conservative blogs talking about government oppression, forced evacuations, FEMA and rounding people up. At the very least they’ll complain about whatever response to whatever happens.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:28:34am |
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windsagio Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:29:50am |
Tech note: About half the time, when I click on ‘new comments’ it throws me to the twitter page, and drops LGF. Is this just happening to me?
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:30:00am |
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:30:43am |
re: #17 Cannadian Club Akbar
What was the name of the fake city that was built by the commies? To impress the USA.
Yeah, the same nation that produced a truck that was too tall for the over-passes.
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Racer X Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:30:59am |
re: #21 windsagio
Tech note: About half the time, when I click on ‘new comments’ it throws me to the twitter page, and drops LGF. Is this just happening to me?
No, happened to me as well.
Charles - there is a glitch in the matrix.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:31:06am |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:31:19am |
re: #19 Killgore Trout
I wouldn’t be surprised to see the conservative blogs talking about government oppression, forced evacuations, FEMA and rounding people up. At the very least they’ll complain about whatever response to whatever happens.
Let ‘em complain. I would be going door to door asking for the next of kin. When they ask why, I would tell them I need to get a hold of someone when you’re dead.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:31:52am |
re: #21 windsagio
Tech note: About half the time, when I click on ‘new comments’ it throws me to the twitter page, and drops LGF. Is this just happening to me?
Not happening here but something weird’s going on.
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Racer X Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:31:54am |
The tsunami page just crashed. Too many users I bet.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:32:25am |
re: #19 Killgore Trout
I wouldn’t be surprised to see the
conservativeinsane blogs talking about government oppression, forced evacuations, FEMA and rounding people up. At the very least they’ll complain about whatever response to whatever happens.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:32:47am |
re: #21 windsagio
Tech note: About half the time, when I click on ‘new comments’ it throws me to the twitter page, and drops LGF. Is this just happening to me?
Me twice so far.
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windsagio Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:33:52am |
re: #31 Cannadian Club Akbar
hmm, ok half the time is probably too much, its freakin’ happening tho :p
…
Its weird being inbetween catastrophes like this, just some high-stress waiting.
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Lidane Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:36:58am |
OT, but 2005 just made a comeback in Florida:
Rubio raises Terri Schiavo case in an attack on Crist
*sigh*
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Charles Johnson Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:38:22am |
I’ll have it fixed in a minute so posting a comment doesn’t kick you out to a page with only the Twitter feed…
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:38:29am |
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Charles Johnson Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:42:02am |
OK, it should be fixed now. No need to reload the page this time.
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PhillyPretzel Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:42:36am |
A lot of the posts are interesting. Some of them come under the subject too much information.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:43:45am |
re: #33 Lidane
OT, but 2005 just made a comeback in Florida:
Rubio raises Terri Schiavo case in an attack on Crist
*sigh*
Rubio will beat Crist in the primaries. If Crist decides to run as an Indy, he will lose.
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wrenchwench Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:44:56am |
re: #39 reine.de.tout
Much better than TweetDeck for this purpose.
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keloyd Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:45:41am |
re: #19 Killgore Trout
I wouldn’t be surprised to see the conservative blogs talking about government oppression, forced evacuations, FEMA and rounding people up. At the very least they’ll complain about whatever response to whatever happens.
1. FEMA is Krispy Kreme donuts with cocaine sprinkles for conspiracy theorists. Even the (good) X Files movie used it.
2. Center-right and center-left people just don’t make big blogs. David Brooks or George Will cannot be troubled to do more than write the occasional column. They (we?) chat, but they don’t go to the trouble of creating something like LGF. Charles is the rare exception. Mostly, if you want to go to all the trouble, you’re likely some kind of revolutionary zealot nut, imho. I wonder if even Charles himself may feel like he’s got a tiger by the tail sometimes.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:46:19am |
re: #18 keloyd
Potemkin village?
It’s a Potemkin Village, but was done a couple centuries ago to fool the Czarina (Cath the Great??) by her advisor, Potemkin. And the US Army has caused several significant earthquakes by accident.
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Stan the Demanded Plan Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:46:19am |
So, how do you look at the twitter feed @the top of the page while following comments? Does it require 2 monitors? I’m lame at this stuff.
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reine.de.tout Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:47:36am |
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reine.de.tout Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:47:59am |
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reine.de.tout Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:48:17am |
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Stan the Demanded Plan Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:48:33am |
re: #47 reine.de.tout
Open up two windows to this thread and move back & forth between them.
Thanks Reine!
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The Sanity Inspector Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:49:26am |
For pete’s sake, a spammer in the twitter feed! “Watch the tsunami live at our sports website!” *spit*
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reine.de.tout Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:50:31am |
re: #51 The Sanity Inspector
For pete’s sake, a spammer in the twitter feed! “Watch the tsunami live at our sports website!” *spit*
There were Michael Jackson spammers in the Iran feeds during the demonstrations. Idiots.
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Stan the Demanded Plan Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:50:42am |
re: #48 reine.de.tout
Or use “spy” in one window.
I set myself up for buying another monitor though. Once you get it in your mind…etc.
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Charles Johnson Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:51:13am |
KHON2 in Hawaii has a live video stream here:
[Link: www.khon2.com…]
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wrenchwench Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:51:14am |
re: #51 The Sanity Inspector
For pete’s sake, a spammer in the twitter feed! “Watch the tsunami live at our sports website!” *spit*
See #9 above.
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windsagio Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:51:17am |
re: #53 Stanley Sea
Who doesn’t want the ‘supervillian’s secret lair’ setup?
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The Sanity Inspector Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:51:22am |
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:54:25am |
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Silvergirl Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:54:26am |
re: #55 Charles
KHON2 in Hawaii has a live video stream here:
[Link: www.khon2.com…]
Thanks! I just found it and was ready to post it. You beat me.
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SixDegrees Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:54:48am |
re: #33 Lidane
OT, but 2005 just made a comeback in Florida:
Rubio raises Terri Schiavo case in an attack on Crist
*sigh*
Hmm. It’ll be interesting to see how that stance plays in Florida. For many, myself included, the Schiavo fiasco was a real turning point, marking a parting of the ways with the religious right over intrusion into private affairs. And there are a hell of a lot of people who don’t want to find themselves hooked up to life support systems against their wishes. Particularly in Florida.
Claiming that others needed to take an even “tougher” position in support of Schiavo’s parents and Tom DeLay doesn’t strike me as a statement that’s going to play well among retirees, or others who feel the government needs to butt out of their personal matters.
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austin_blue Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:56:05am |
Well, I’m back and things just blew up downstairs. Walter is craaaan-ky today!
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:57:00am |
re: #12 MandyManners
Well JEEZ, why don’t you broadcast it? Now EVERYBODY knows.
Some people, I swear.
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The Sanity Inspector Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:57:03am |
I’m ignoring the twitter feed, instead listening to a local tv video stream in a separate tab.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:58:28am |
re: #67 negativ
Well JEEZ, why don’t you broadcast it? Now EVERYBODY knows.
Some people, I swear.
Dianna figured it out. That’s why she had to die.
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keloyd Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:58:45am |
We can have too much democracy. If the parties chose candidates in smoke filled back rooms instead of primaries where we let in all the busybodies and little Napoleons from neighborhood associations who have the spare time to volunteer, we’d have less of this Shiavo and Nirther bullcorn. Giuliani would have a shot at being president too.
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Racer X Sat, Feb 27, 2010 11:59:56am |
I was in Waikiki the afternoon Iniki hit. Hawaiians take these things seriously - and for good reason.
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windsagio Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:00:01pm |
re: #70 keloyd
See also: The initiative systems in the Western US.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:00:16pm |
re: #70 keloyd
We can have too much democracy. If the parties chose candidates in smoke filled back rooms instead of primaries where we let in all the busybodies and little Napoleons from neighborhood associations who have the spare time to volunteer, we’d have less of this Shiavo and Nirther bullcorn. Giuliani would have a shot at being president too.
Rudy put all his eggs in the Florida basket.
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reine.de.tout Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:01:10pm |
re: #70 keloyd
We can have too much democracy. If the parties chose candidates in smoke filled back rooms instead of primaries where we let in all the busybodies and little Napoleons from neighborhood associations who have the spare time to volunteer, we’d have less of this Shiavo and Nirther bullcorn. Giuliani would have a shot at being president too.
God forbid busybody citizens should have a part in government!
/
You do know, I guess, that the Pope is chosen from among all the “candidates” in a smoke-filled back room?
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HoosierHoops Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:02:27pm |
re: #55 Charles
KHON2 in Hawaii has a live video stream here:
[Link: www.khon2.com…]
You grew up on the Islands…I spent only 3 years there
Dear Lord..Protect the Souls on the Island.. Keep them safe from harm.
Comfort the Families that have lost a loved one today..
Protect and comfort those that have lost so much today…
Amen
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austin_blue Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:02:44pm |
re: #74 reine.de.tout
God forbid busybody citizens should have a part in government!
/You do know, I guess, that the Pope is chosen from among all the “candidates” in a smoke-filled back room?
And when the smoke turns white, everyone cheers!
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The Sanity Inspector Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:03:26pm |
Kushibo, a K-blogger based in Hawaii, is citizen journalism blogging right now.
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Mojave Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:03:35pm |
Check out [Link: www.hawaiitsunami.com…] for live streaming of local Hawaiian news.
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Mojave Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:04:19pm |
Doh! I see Charles has already provided a link to live streaming.
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:04:34pm |
re: #69 MandyManners
That was a body-double. The real Diana is living incognito as a man in Sandusky, Ohio where s/he works part time making sausage kolaches at the Czech bakery when it doesn’t interfere with her duties as the local theater critic.
You WANT to think I’m making this up.
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reine.de.tout Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:04:51pm |
re: #79 Mojave
Doh! I see Charles has already provided a link to live streaming.
You outta know Charles will be on top of things!
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:05:07pm |
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:05:20pm |
re: #66 austin_blue
Well, I’m back and things just blew up downstairs. Walter is craaan-ky today!
Not yet :)
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keloyd Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:05:24pm |
re: #72 windsagio
OOooh that’s good stuff. “The voice of the people is not the voice of God, for the voice of the people sent Jesus to the cross.” I’d like to see a modern governor say that. (originally the words of progressive CA governor Hiram Johnson.)
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:06:26pm |
re: #80 negativ
That was a body-double. The real Diana is living incognito as a man in Sandusky, Ohio where s/he works part time making sausage kolaches at the Czech bakery when it doesn’t interfere with her duties as the local theater critic.
You WANT to think I’m making this up.
I thought s/he was with Elvis in Area 51.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:07:06pm |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:07:42pm |
re: #86 MandyManners
I thought s/he was with Elvis in Area 51.
She died on my 30th Bday. And Jerry Rice got his season ended the same day.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:08:10pm |
re: #89 Cannadian Club Akbar
She died on my 30th Bday. And Jerry Rice got his season ended the same day.
Who he?
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:08:24pm |
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:08:37pm |
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sattv4u2 Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:08:59pm |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:09:10pm |
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sattv4u2 Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:10:09pm |
re: #91 Walter L. Newton
There is nothing unusual in Area 51.
Smokescreen cover for whats REALLY happening in area 666~!
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HoosierHoops Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:10:21pm |
re: #90 MandyManners
Who he?
Jerry Rice? The greatest receiver of all time in Football?
Don’t make me come over there!
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:10:23pm |
re: #91 Walter L. Newton
There is nothing unusual in Area 51.
Just some ugly-ass monster and an old alien ship.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:10:57pm |
re: #93 sattv4u2
One of the greatest recievers that ever played football
I need to know these things with The Kid getting older.
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SixDegrees Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:11:07pm |
re: #91 Walter L. Newton
There is nothing unusual in Area 51.
Well, nothing supernatural or outside the realm of science and engineering, anyway. I believe it’s largely decommissioned now, but it’s obvious that advanced aircraft were tested there. And not much else.
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keloyd Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:11:15pm |
re: #74 reine.de.tout
1. It’s all a matter of degree. Being a republic means, in theory, you are ruled over by elected representatives to minimize the tyranny of the majority.
2. I dig how the Catholics choose their popes, though I am on a competing team, so maybe I dig the history and tradition, or maybe I want my enemies in a weakened state. Still my religion does not possess the cunning and patience of the secret Jewish cabal who maneuvered a family of lizard people into Buckingham Palace. (kidding!) (or am I?)
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:11:27pm |
re: #94 Cannadian Club Akbar
Not sure. I think he used to play football. Or soccer.
Hoops is gonna’ hurt me.
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:12:22pm |
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:12:23pm |
re: #97 MandyManners
Just some ugly-ass monster and an old alien ship.
No.. honestly… there is nothing “paranormal” going on at Groom Lake, Area 51, what ever you want to call the place.
There is some really advance flying machine being tested there, and interesting engines and stuff like that.
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HoosierHoops Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:12:56pm |
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Charles Johnson Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:12:57pm |
I’m checking out the live Ustream feed, but the quality is really bad.
The direct link to KHON2 is much better.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:13:02pm |
re: #98 MandyManners
I need to know these things with The Kid getting older.
How many times I gots to tole ya
Send him to Uncle Sattys Summer Boot Camp!
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:13:05pm |
re: #103 Walter L. Newton
No.. honestly… there is nothing “paranormal” going on at Groom Lake, Area 51, what ever you want to call the place.
There is some really advance flying machine being tested there, and interesting engines and stuff like that.
I was kidnapped by aliens 10 years ago.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:13:11pm |
re: #99 SixDegrees
Well, nothing supernatural or outside the realm of science and engineering, anyway. I believe it’s largely decommissioned now, but it’s obvious that advanced aircraft were tested there. And not much else.
Bullshit. I listen to Coast to Coast with George Norrie and people say aliens are real. And they’re not crazy!!!
//
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:13:12pm |
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:13:26pm |
re: #99 SixDegrees
Well, nothing supernatural or outside the realm of science and engineering, anyway. I believe it’s largely decommissioned now, but it’s obvious that advanced aircraft were tested there. And not much else.
Yes.. said the same thing in #103. Decommissioned, more like “moved.”
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:14:05pm |
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:14:47pm |
Don’t fire your guns at the space ships. You may inadvertently start an inter-stellar war.
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Racer X Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:15:20pm |
re: #107 MandyManners
I was kidnapped by aliens 10 years ago.
Complain, complain, complain. Hey, we brought you back didn’t we?
Sheesh.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:15:22pm |
re: #111 Walter L. Newton
I’m watching Independence Day on TNT.
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:16:07pm |
re: #107 MandyManners
Whoa, that was you? You didn’t have to kick poor Zxorxol in the face like that. He was just kidding about the anal probe. We were totally just gonna do some donuts in the corn field (you guys call them ‘crop circles’) and put you back in your car with nothing more than a little bit of missing time. No hard feelings, though.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:16:16pm |
re: #113 Racer X
Complain, complain, complain. Hey, we brought you back didn’t we?
Sheesh.
We’ll always have Jupiter. …
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:16:18pm |
re: #113 Racer X
Complain, complain, complain. Hey, we brought you back didn’t we?
Sheesh.
Yea, but the chicken was dry. Just sayin’.
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The Sanity Inspector Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:16:43pm |
re: #105 Charles
I’m checking out the live Ustream feed, but the quality is really bad.
The direct link to KHON2 is much better.
KHON2 must be maxed out, in my location. Some choppy audio, and no picture. UStream is pixely, and looks like someone is pointing a camera at a monitor, but it’s coming through.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:17:19pm |
re: #115 negativ
Whoa, that was you? You didn’t have to kick poor Zxorxol in the face like that. He was just kidding about the anal probe. We were totally just gonna do some donuts in the corn field (you guys call them ‘crop circles’) and put you back in your car with nothing more than a little bit of missing time. No hard feelings, though.
RESPECT MAH AUTHORITAY!
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keloyd Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:17:23pm |
re: #103 Walter L. Newton
No.. honestly… there is nothing “paranormal” going on at Groom Lake, Area 51, what ever you want to call the place.
There is some really advance flying machine being tested there, and interesting engines and stuff like that.
Someone doth protest too much.
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Mojave Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:17:39pm |
re: #110 Walter L. Newton
Yes.. said the same thing in #103. Decommissioned, more like “moved.”
Area 51 hasn’t moved.
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:17:40pm |
re: #114 MandyManners
I’m watching Independence Day on TNT.
I love that movie… two and a half hours of crazy and then the nerd saves the world with an Apple laptop. And I love watching Harvey Fierstein flaming out… literally.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:18:20pm |
re: #122 Walter L. Newton
I love that movie… two and a half hours of crazy and then the nerd saves the world with an Apple laptop. And I love watching Harvey Fierstein flaming out… literally.
Harvey cracks me up.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:18:39pm |
re: #122 Walter L. Newton
I love that movie… two and a half hours of crazy and then the nerd saves the world with an Apple laptop. And I love watching Harvey Fierstein flaming out… literally.
Didn’t a drunk save the day? Just askin’.
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SixDegrees Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:18:57pm |
re: #110 Walter L. Newton
Yes.. said the same thing in #103. Decommissioned, more like “moved.”
Correct. Most of the work has been transferred to, I believe, Utah, although Area 51 itself remains closed.
They have an enormously long runway there, with an even more enormous runoff area, something like five miles in total length. Whatever was landing there was coming down fast. It’s probably kept as backup, much as Edwards AFB serves as backup for shuttle landings that can’t make KSC for some reason.
Sidenote: turns out the EAFB is the largest single user of renewable energy in the nation, with over 60% of it’s supply coming from renewable sources.
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The Sanity Inspector Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:19:04pm |
re: #115 negativ
Whoa, that was you? You didn’t have to kick poor Zxorxol in the face like that. He was just kidding about the anal probe. We were totally just gonna do some donuts in the corn field (you guys call them ‘crop circles’) and put you back in your car with nothing more than a little bit of missing time. No hard feelings, though.
What are you doing, spilling the beans like that, fool! …Here, Mandy; look into this light for a moment…
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:19:07pm |
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:19:53pm |
re: #126 The Sanity Inspector
What are you doing, spilling the beans like that, fool! …Here, Mandy; look into this light for a moment…
He makes it look good.
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Mojave Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:19:53pm |
re: #125 SixDegrees
Area 51 HAS NOT moved. Check out the FAQ at [Link: www.dreamlandresort.com…]
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SixDegrees Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:20:03pm |
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:20:06pm |
Note / non-sequitur: many of the Zappa quotes in the “Frank Says” applet are fantastically wrong, inaccurate, and/or devoid of context.
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HoosierHoops Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:20:25pm |
re: #123 MandyManners
Harvey cracks me up.
The Blind Side
Take your son…One of the best sports stories I have ever seen..
Sandra is going to win an Oscar from it
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:20:29pm |
re: #124 Cannadian Club Akbar
Didn’t a drunk save the day? Just askin’.
The computer virus enabled Quaid to attack.
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Silvergirl Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:21:02pm |
Some of these Twitter remarks (okay, I know they’re called Tweets, but it sounds dumb) are sweet.
I dipped into my preparedness kit and opened up a can of vienna sausage.
I’m thinking, hey, hold off on that. You may need it when you’re approaching the time when you have to drink your own urine and live on a tube of toothpaste for a week.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:21:06pm |
re: #132 HoosierHoops
The Blind Side
Take your son…One of the best sports stories I have ever seen..
Sandra is going to win an Oscar from it
My sister did during Christmas vacation.
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Mojave Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:21:46pm |
re: #130 SixDegrees
No, but most of the work has relocated.
Common misconception. Runways have been expanded recently, and a new hanger was built the other year. Check out the link I posted above.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:21:51pm |
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austin_blue Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:22:49pm |
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:23:10pm |
re: #125 SixDegrees
Correct. Most of the work has been transferred to, I believe, Utah, although Area 51 itself remains closed.
They have an enormously long runway there, with an even more enormous runoff area, something like five miles in total length. Whatever was landing there was coming down fast. It’s probably kept as backup, much as Edwards AFB serves as backup for shuttle landings that can’t make KSC for some reason.
Sidenote: turns out the EAFB is the largest single user of renewable energy in the nation, with over 60% of it’s supply coming from renewable sources.
I know… when I worked for the DOE (remember Edwards is simply a DOE facility… wink… wink)… at the National Renewable Energy Lab, a lot of our research was tested there… but of course, a primary purpose was to make them self sufficient, keep them off the grid as much as possible… it wasn’t so much an interest in renewables.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:23:33pm |
re: #136 Mojave
Common misconception. Runways have been expanded recently, and a new hanger was built the other year. Check out the link I posted above.
Thanks a load. Now we will have to shut it down.
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The Sanity Inspector Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:24:19pm |
re: #132 HoosierHoops
The Blind Side
Take your son…One of the best sports stories I have ever seen..
Sandra is going to win an Oscar from it
And I hope it dawns on some entertainment industry degenerates that there is a market out here for wholesome yet grownup family fare.
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:25:45pm |
re: #136 Mojave
Common misconception. Runways have been expanded recently, and a new hanger was built the other year. Check out the link I posted above.
Sorry… the list of DLR staff reads like a gaggle of fruitcakes.
Joerg H. Arnu
Area 51 Researcher; Founder, Dreamland Resort Founder and Webmaster
Chuck Clark
Senior Area 51 Researcher and Photographer; Content contributor and adviser
Richard Cliff
British Military Aviation and Black Projects Researcher; “Air Exercises” and “Black Projects” Section Leader
Andre’ M. Dall’au
Video Producer; Director of Video Productions for the Dreamland Resort
Norio Hayakawa
Senior Area 51 Researcher; Sponsor, Mentor and content producer of this web site
Peter W. Merlin
Aircraft Historian and Aerospace Archeologist
Connie Pardew
Freelance Aviation Journalist, Tikaboo Expedition and other stories
Hank Shaw
Area 51 Researcher; Site Moderator
Bill Whiffen Artist and Aviation Photographer
These people are nuts.
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watching you tiny alien kittens are Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:26:17pm |
This is all the fault of G. W. Bush, it must be, everything else bad is after all…
///
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:26:28pm |
re: #140 austin_blue
Sickening behavior, that. Spammer troll.
Ugh.
I wonder if it will get any hits.
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SixDegrees Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:26:51pm |
re: #136 Mojave
Common misconception. Runways have been expanded recently, and a new hanger was built the other year. Check out the link I posted above.
Uh - the runway expansion and additional hangar space were both performed a couple of decades ago. Poke around awhile, and you’ll find those exact same photos being peddled in articles dating back that far. They’re being peddled as if they were new either out of ignorance or willful intent to mislead. They were originally taken by France’s SPOT satellite series, and caused a good deal of yelping at the NRO over the release of sub-meter resolution imagery to the commercial market at a time when the US had been the sole agent capable of such resolution for quite some time. Since then, and entire industry has grown up providing high resolution satellite imagery to private concerns for a variety of uses.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:26:52pm |
re: #143 The Sanity Inspector
And I hope it dawns on some entertainment industry degenerates that there is a market out here for wholesome yet grownup family fare.
If you take the sales of family friendly movies and put them side by side with others, you will see a big gap. But it’s Hollywood. They are idiots.
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keloyd Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:26:53pm |
re: #114 MandyManners
I’m watching Independence Day on TNT.
Have they got to that part where the Israelis and Palestinians put aside their differences to fight the aliens yet? You can tell who teh Joos are because they sound more British than anyone on the BBC news or Top Gear, nttawwt, just an interesting choice for the ID guys.
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The Sanity Inspector Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:26:58pm |
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:27:29pm |
re: #136 Mojave
Common misconception. Runways have been expanded recently, and a new hanger was built the other year. Check out the link I posted above.
If you believe in the crap that is posted on this site, you may as well join the Truthers, Birthers and The Illuminati.
Do a little honest research on the people associated with this site.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:27:59pm |
re: #149 keloyd
Have they got to that part where the Israelis and Palestinians put aside their differences to fight the aliens yet? You can tell who teh Joos are because they sound more British than anyone on the BBC news or Top Gear, nttawwt, just an interesting choice for the ID guys.
I musta’ missed that part.
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:28:15pm |
re: #147 SixDegrees
Uh - the runway expansion and additional hangar space were both performed a couple of decades ago. Poke around awhile, and you’ll find those exact same photos being peddled in articles dating back that far. They’re being peddled as if they were new either out of ignorance or willful intent to mislead. They were originally taken by France’s SPOT satellite series, and caused a good deal of yelping at the NRO over the release of sub-meter resolution imagery to the commercial market at a time when the US had been the sole agent capable of such resolution for quite some time. Since then, and entire industry has grown up providing high resolution satellite imagery to private concerns for a variety of uses.
Are you me? We could easily tag team on so many of the same topics…
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The Sanity Inspector Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:28:37pm |
re: #140 austin_blue
Sickening behavior, that. Spammer troll.
Ugh.
This is why we can’t have nice things…
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Mojave Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:28:44pm |
Most are simply aviation nuts (i.e. planespotters). Pete Merlin is a historian for NASA.
A new hanger was built in 2007. Period.
[Link: www.dreamlandresort.com…]
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:28:53pm |
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Silvergirl Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:29:13pm |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:29:53pm |
re: #153 Walter L. Newton
Are you me? We could easily tag team on so many of the same topics…
Great. Two assholes.
///just kidding!!
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SixDegrees Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:30:52pm |
re: #158 Cannadian Club Akbar
Great. Two assholes.
///just kidding!!
It makes taking a dump more efficient.
Of course, it undermines the retentiveness necessary for a management track.
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:31:35pm |
Aisle seat, please.
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Mojave Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:32:22pm |
re: #153 Walter L. Newton
The new photos were taken in 2009 by the IKONOS private sattelite company GEOEYE.
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Silvergirl Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:32:47pm |
re: #153 Walter L. Newton
Are you me? We could easily tag team on so many of the same topics…
Tag teaming is apparently happening in the old thread right now. Updinging the comments against your objection to the downding about the Gollum thing.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:33:03pm |
I love living in the boonies. The aliens never attack here.
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watching you tiny alien kittens are Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:33:13pm |
re: #150 The Sanity Inspector
Ohh, scary 36 centimeter tall waves? Why that is more than 3 feet, utterly terrifying (not). Let us hope that is as bad as it gets and the successive wave fronts are not any worse…
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:33:26pm |
re: #162 Silvergirl
Tag teaming is apparently happening in the old thread right now. Updinging the comments against your objection to the downding about the Gollum thing.
Oh, for pity’s sake.
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keloyd Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:33:45pm |
re: #152 MandyManners
I musta’ missed that part.
not yet! It’s very quick, and right after the part where they’re sending morse code and lay the smack down, IIRC. I thought it was a nice touch. The Wodehousian Bertie Wooster accent was just odd, in an amusing way. The conflict was also a little less hostile in ‘96 iirc. Clinton was offering both sides cash and prizes to calm down, at least for a while.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:33:57pm |
re: #162 Silvergirl
Tag teaming is apparently happening in the old thread right now. Updinging the comments against your objection to the downding about the Gollum thing.
{sigh},,,, children!
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Mojave Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:34:12pm |
re: #141 Walter L. Newton
I know… when I worked for the DOE (remember Edwards is simply a DOE facility… wink… wink)… at the National Renewable Energy Lab, a lot of our research was tested there… but of course, a primary purpose was to make them self sufficient, keep them off the grid as much as possible… it wasn’t so much an interest in renewables.
Funny that you say Edwards is run by the Department of Energy. It is NOT, it is run by the United States Air Force (with NASA-Dryden being a tenant there).
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:34:34pm |
re: #163 MandyManners
I love living in the boonies. The aliens never attack here.
BUT, they also never go near water. That ruined the M. Night Shamalyn movie with Mel Gibson in it. Don’t remember the name.
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:36:09pm |
re: #162 Silvergirl
Tag teaming is apparently happening in the old thread right now. Updinging the comments against your objection to the downding about the Gollum thing.
Let the children have fun. They’re not doing much harm. And I can go back later and have something to laugh at.
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:36:33pm |
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jaunte Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:36:49pm |
re: #169 Cannadian Club Akbar
“Signs.” That was absurd, imagining that aliens allergic to water would go to the trouble to invade a water planet.
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:37:54pm |
re: #168 Mojave
Funny that you say Edwards is run by the Department of Energy. It is NOT, it is run by the United States Air Force (with NASA-Dryden being a tenant there).
Now… you go back and read what I wrote… you really don’t know what’s going on. Watch out, if you make me mad I am going to rip off my face and zap you with my lizard tongue.
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watching you tiny alien kittens are Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:38:30pm |
re: #163 MandyManners
I love living in the boonies. The aliens never attack here.
Your in “fly over country” why would anyone attack there? Everyone knows that terrorists, meteors, aliens, giant squids/sharks, giant dinosaur like monsters created by radiation, and all other forms of exotic threats only attack L.A., Washington D.C., or New York city.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:38:48pm |
re: #173 jaunte
“Signs.” That was absurd, imagining that aliens allergic to water would go to the trouble to invade a water planet.
I figured out the movie about 45 minutes into it. That is why I don’t go to movies anymore. Hollywood is showing me nothing.
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Mojave Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:39:56pm |
re: #174 Walter L. Newton
Fair enough. Sorry, I guess maybe I misunderstood you.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:40:34pm |
re: #175 ausador
Your in “fly over country” why would anyone attack there? Everyone knows that terrorists, meteors, aliens, giant squids/sharks, giant dinosaur like monsters created by radiation, and all other forms of exotic threats only attack L.A., Washington D.C., or New York city.
huh,,, And here I always thought the big threat was those tiny baby alligators pweople from NYC would buy in Florida, then when they didnt want them anymore flush them down the toilet emptying out into the subway tunnels
Learm sumfin new everyday!
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SixDegrees Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:41:21pm |
re: #164 ausador
Ohh, scary 36 centimeter tall waves? Why that is more than 3 feet, utterly terrifying (not). Let us hope that is as bad as it gets and the successive wave fronts are not any worse…
The problem here is the breadth of the wave; it’s not like a normal three foot high wave that breaks and immediately recedes. It’s more like the entire ocean suddenly gets three feet higher, and stays that way for a while.
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keloyd Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:41:52pm |
I called bullcorn on that. You can’t have CHUD people and giant alligators.
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:42:16pm |
re: #177 Mojave
Fair enough. Sorry, I guess maybe I misunderstood you.
The DOE supplies a lot of Edwards funding… call it black money if you will, but Edwards get’s a lot of money funneled through the DOE.
And there is nothing paranormal going on there. And yes, they have move a lot of the operation to Utah… not all, but a lot… confusing isn’t it.
That’s their point.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:42:41pm |
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The Sanity Inspector Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:43:04pm |
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sattv4u2 Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:43:21pm |
re: #164 ausador
Ohh, scary 36 centimeter tall waves? Why that is more than 3 feet, utterly terrifying (not). Let us hope that is as bad as it gets and the successive wave fronts are not any worse…
It’s not “a three foot wave” that you would be able to body surf from waist high in the beach
It’s a three foot rise in the ocean level for a period of time. Depending on how much force i propelling it depends how far inland it could go
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Silvergirl Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:44:48pm |
Did anyone hear them say (on the Hawaiian newscast) that is a person has an overdue library book, an adjustment will be made. Braving the tsunami to get to the library!
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:44:51pm |
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Mojave Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:45:04pm |
re: #181 Walter L. Newton
We’ll have to agree to disagree about the Utah thing (mostly chemical/bio weapons in Utah, missiles in New Mexico, aircraft/spacecraft? in Area 51). As an aside, you should really check out the X-Hunters Aerospace Archaeology Team website.
[Link: www.thexhunters.com…]
It’s by the same people as the Dreamland Resort. Lot’s of good reading on it.
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Charles Johnson Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:45:21pm |
There’s a guy paddling out on a surfboard at “Popular’s” — a surfing site I know.
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:45:48pm |
re: #185 sattv4u2
It’s not “a three foot wave” that you would be able to body surf from waist high in the beach
It’s a three foot rise in the ocean level for a period of time. Depending on how much force i propelling it depends how far inland it could go
And didn’t I read earlier that it would be around 3 meters… 9 feet or so, that’s a large surge… remember, it’s a surge, a surge is not a wave.
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Charles Johnson Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:45:55pm |
I’m about to post the Ustream feed and I’ll move the Twitter feed to that thread as well…
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:46:28pm |
I do love the American ability to organize in the face of a crisis.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:46:51pm |
re: #189 Charles
There’s a guy paddling out on a surfboard at “Popular’s” — a surfing site I know.
I called it in the last thread!
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com…]
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:47:14pm |
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The Sanity Inspector Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:47:24pm |
re: #175 ausador
Your in “fly over country” why would anyone attack there? Everyone knows that terrorists, meteors, aliens, giant squids/sharks, giant dinosaur like monsters created by radiation, and all other forms of exotic threats only attack L.A., Washington D.C., or New York city.
And when they only want to visit, not attack, they visit lone people in the woods or trailer parks.
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:47:31pm |
re: #176 Cannadian Club Akbar
Do not mistake M. Night Shyamalan for “the movies”. Allow me to recommend “The Children of Men” and “Little Miss Sunshine” if you’d like to see some recent movies that don’t suck.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:48:03pm |
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austin_blue Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:48:19pm |
re: #179 SixDegrees
The problem here is the breadth of the wave; it’s not like a normal three foot high wave that breaks and immediately recedes. It’s more like the entire ocean suddenly gets three feet higher, and stays that way for a while.
Isolated bays had up to six feet of water. And remember, the first wave is often not the biggest.
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Mojave Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:48:41pm |
re: #181 Walter L. Newton
And there is nothing paranormal going on there.I shoud add I agree with you here. The DLR website is NOT a UFO website, if you read their homepage. I often post there…we are simply aviation nuts, not UFO nuts. Of course, we’re not going to post anything that is going to threaten national security.
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SixDegrees Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:48:43pm |
re: #189 Charles
There’s a guy paddling out on a surfboard at “Popular’s” — a surfing site I know.
Yeah. And old Harry Truman said Mount St. Helens wouldn’t dare harm him when it erupted, too.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:49:12pm |
re: #196 negativ
Do not mistake M. Night Shyamalan for “the movies”. Allow me to recommend “The Children of Men” and “Little Miss Sunshine” if you’d like to see some recent movies that don’t suck.
Will I be able to figure out the ending?
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sattv4u2 Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:49:18pm |
re: #194 SanFranciscoZionist
I think that was under Catherine the Great.
And her lesser known sister, Mary The Mediocre!
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:49:36pm |
Anyone seen “Precious” yet. Thinking about seeing it in an hour.
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SixDegrees Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:51:42pm |
re: #199 austin_blue
Isolated bays had up to six feet of water. And remember, the first wave is often not the biggest.
So far, effects seem subdued. Let’s hope they stay that way.
At least the areas under watch are well prepared for tsunamis, and know to take the advance warnings seriously. The enormous death toll in Indonesia was due to failure to get the word out, and failure to appreciate the implications of the warnings, which were issued several hours before the waves struck.
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watching you tiny alien kittens are Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:52:40pm |
re: #182 negativ
And Tokyo.
But that was in the “old” days, Tokyo hasn’t been destroyed that I can remember in at least about 20 years…
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