Veritasium: We Tested the US Military’s Secret Space Weapon by Dropping Very Heavy Things From a Helicopter

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An engineer came up with a plan to drop tungsten telephone poles from space - the idea has been seriously considered on multiple occasions, so we tested it. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. You can get started for free, or the first 200 people to sign up via brilliant.org get 20% off a yearly subscription.

Massive thanks to Archisand for building such a beautiful sandcastle. youtube.com
Thanks to Inland Empire Film Services and the San Bernardino County Film Office for portions of the video shot in the County of San Bernardino.

Huge thanks to John and Angie Miller for helping us with securing the shooting location and going above and beyond to make this shoot happen – highdesertlocations.com

Massive thanks to Dr David Wright for the interview and providing invaluable guidance during the research for this video.

Here’s a great video about space-based missile defense – ucsusa.org

Massive thanks to Adam Savage for being part of this video

Additional photos from NASA and ESA

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References:
USAF. (2003). The US Air Force transformation flight plan.

Preston, R., Johnson, D. J., Edwards, S. J., Miller, M. D., & Shipbaugh, C. (2002). Space weapons earth wars. Rand Corporation.

Wright, D., Grego, L., & Gronlund, L. (2005). The physics of space security. A Reference Manual, Cambridge.

DeBlois, B. M., Garwin, R. L., Kemp, R. S., & Marwell, J. C. (2004). Space weapons: crossing the US Rubicon. International Security, 50-84.

Baucom, D. R. (2017). The Rise and Fall of Brilliant Pebbles 1. In United States Military History 1865 to the Present Day (pp. 329-376). Routledge.

Hitchens, T., & Samson, V. (2004). Space-based interceptors: still not a good idea. Georgetown journal of international affairs, 21-29.

National Research Council. (2012). Making sense of ballistic missile defense: An assessment of concepts and systems for US boost-phase missile defense in comparison to other alternatives. National Academies Press.

Borger, J. (2005). Bush likely to back weapons in space. The Guardian, 19.

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Written by Petr Lebedev, Derek Muller, and Emily Zhang
Filmed by Trenton Oliver, Derek Muller, Petr Lebedev, Emily Zhang, Raquel Nuno and Eddie Lopez
Animation by Mike Radjabov, Fabio Albertelli and Jonny Hyman
Edited by Trenton Oliver
Slow Motion Camera: Shawn Sanders and Anthony Corrales
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105 comments
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lawhawk  Dec 21, 2022 • 10:40:32am

Rods from gods…

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 21, 2022 • 10:44:21am

Surely, Zartan and Cobra Commander wouldn’t lie to me….

Youtube Video

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No Malarkey!  Dec 21, 2022 • 10:48:13am

Democracy Docket is live tweeting the Arizona voter fraud trial. Lake is trying to prove through a witness that 19 inch ballots were printed on 20 inch paper in a deliberate effort to cause the printers to malfunction.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 21, 2022 • 10:48:33am
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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 21, 2022 • 10:48:35am

Re Tesla decline in value. Both Ford and GM have lost over 40% of their value this year; Tesla may have lost over 65% but then it was valued at a far higher historical P/E ratio. So much of the decline may not be due just to Musk’s erratic behavior but to problems with the auto market itself and the pandemic supply chain issues that affect supplies.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 21, 2022 • 10:50:38am

re: #6 Hecuba’s daughter

Re Tesla decline in value. Both Ford and GM have lost over 40% of their value this year; Tesla may have lost over 65% but then it was valued at a far higher historical P/E ratio. So much of the decline may not be due just to Musk’s erratic behavior but to problems with the auto market itself and the pandemic supply chain issues that affect supplies.

And with coronavirus burning through China like an out of control Malibu Canyon wildfire, I’d say those supply chain issues are gonna continue for a bit.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 21, 2022 • 10:52:33am

re: #6 Hecuba’s daughter

Re Tesla decline in value. Both Ford and GM have lost over 40% of their value this year; Tesla may have lost over 65% but then it was valued at a far higher historical P/E ratio. So much of the decline may not be due just to Musk’s erratic behavior but to problems with the auto market itself and the pandemic supply chain issues that affect supplies.

It’s both, and if Tesla can shake off Elon, they might bounce back, making them a great investment today. but I don’t think we can count on them being able to move forward.

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 21, 2022 • 10:57:08am

I am very happy for Rosie!

Rosie O’Donnell’s family is expanding!

The comedian’s youngest son, Blake O’Donnell, popped the question to his longtime girlfriend, Teresa Garofalow Westervelt, Sunday night in New York City while attending Broadway’s “Phantom of the Opera” musical.

“Last night - my son blake asked his gf teresa to marry him - and she said yes!!!” Rosie, 60, excitedly told her Instagram followers Monday, sharing a pic from the moment the smiling 23-year-old got down on one knee.

pagesix.com

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:03:47am

re: #7 Dr Lizardo

And with coronavirus burning through China like an out of control Malibu Canyon wildfire, I’d say those supply chain issues are gonna continue for a bit.

Great name for a car! GM you listening? I get 10%

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:10:42am

re: #7 Dr Lizardo

And with coronavirus burning through China like an out of control Malibu Canyon wildfire, I’d say those supply chain issues are gonna continue for a bit.

Also: as mentioned in my note above, even at its current “depressed” valuation, Tesla has significantly higher P/E ratio; it is about 43, while both Ford and GM have ratios below 7. So if investors actually look at the metrics of the company, ignoring the antics of the CEO, it would appear that it could have a much farther drop without it signaling anything about bad management. Indeed, one could argue that it remains very overpriced; how much of the earnings are based on their selling carbon credits and not cars? I know that you would expect P/E ratio to be much higher than traditional manufacturers, but over 6 times as high?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:17:17am

re: #10 Shropshire Slasher

Great name for a car! GM you listening? I get 10%

The Simpsons - Canyonero

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:19:48am

re: #12 Eclectic Cyborg

Robocop (1987) 6000 SUX Commercial

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wrenchwench  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:19:50am

It’s only a 4, but I started a long way from the end.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 550 4/6*

⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Again, they accepted a guess (#3) that I don’t consider a word (I have never looked at the list they use).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:20:46am
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Dr Lizardo  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:24:14am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:24:57am
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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:27:33am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:30:53am
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Charles Johnson  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:32:07am
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lawhawk  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:33:56am

re: #18 The Pie Overlord!

It’s clear Musk has no clue how any coding is done anywhere, ever.

No technology stack is clean. None. Even when starting from scratch, you’ll be inheriting code or APIs that have ugliness to them. Trying to rewrite the code from ground up on a live product without totally wrecking things is incredibly difficult. What’s the point of rewriting the code? To say you did it?

There’s a lot in Twitter coding that could be bloat, but not without doing a deep examination on the APIs, calls, and services that are used and configured, and how load balancing occurs, etc., and methods to improve the code base would show efficiency gains.

Redoing the code doesn’t guarantee a better experience.

It just means a new code base that may have as many bugs and issues as the old system.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:34:14am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:35:07am

Stamford has a contact address for people not at the college, so I made two suggestions for slurs I frequently get.

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

There are some on that list that seem somewhat of a stretch.

“American” for example is problematic, since there are many countries in the Americas. It’s root referred to the original Thirteen Colonies, when the USA was the only independent nation in the Western Hemisphere. In Portuguese for example, an American is called “estadunidense” (citizen of the United States).

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Dangerman  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:37:26am

re: #6 Hecuba’s daughter

Re Tesla decline in value. Both Ford and GM have lost over 40% of their value this year; Tesla may have lost over 65% but then it was valued at a far higher historical P/E ratio. So much of the decline may not be due just to Musk’s erratic behavior but to problems with the auto market itself and the pandemic supply chain issues that affect supplies.

rightly or wrongly, because of his toying with twitter at this moment, a lot of the loss in value will be blamed on him regardless

the same way the president is blamed for things out of his control - like oil prices or Afghanistan or whatever

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:37:41am

re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Looks like Zelensky brought the C-40 (737-700 Boeing Business Jet) all the way to DC. The 737 isn’t normally thought of as a transoceanic aircraft but executive versions, which the C-40 is, have extra fuel tanks in the baggage compartments and can easily manage it.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:39:43am

re: #21 lawhawk

It’s important to note that clean code does not necessarily perform better than so-called “bloated” code. In general, it may reduce resource usage on servers and allow for some minor cost savings, but unless a programmer has done something dreadfully wrong, the resources required to execute an operation are pretty fixed. In fact, refactoring just for the sake of refactoring is generally frowned upon in the industry, viewed as a mark of someone who is overzealous in enforcing their preferred standards. Any refactoring effort should indicate what needs to be refactored, and what value will come out of it (e.g., if I refactor method X, it will allow us to eliminate an extra call to service Y every time Twitter performs operation Z, reducing network overhead by 1.5%.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:39:45am

re: #385 Nyet

I love how the list simply provides made up stuff as a justification.

“hip-hip hurray, hip hip hooray This term was used by German citizens during the Holocaust as a rallying cry when they would hunt down Jewish citizens living in segregated neighborhoods.”

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The call was recorded in England in the beginning of the 19th century in connection with making a toast. Eighteenth century dictionaries list “Hip” as an attention-getting interjection, and in an example from 1790 it is repeated. “Hip-hip” was added as a preparatory call before making a toast or cheer in the early 19th century, probably after 1806. By 1813, it had reached its modern form, hip-hip-hurrah.

It has been suggested that the word “hip” stems from a medieval Latin acronym, “Hierosolyma Est Perdita”, meaning “Jerusalem is lost”, a term that gained notoriety in the German Hep hep riots of August to October 1819. Cornell’s Michael Fontaine disputes this etymology, tracing it to a single letter in an English newspaper published August 28, 1819, some weeks after the riots. He concludes that the “acrostic interpretation … has no basis in fact.”

(more)

Hip Hip Hooray (Wikipedia)

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Dangerman  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:41:03am

re: #21 lawhawk

It’s clear Musk has no clue how any coding is done anywhere, ever.

No technology stack is clean. None. Even when starting from scratch, you’ll be inheriting code or APIs that have ugliness to them. Trying to rewrite the code from ground up on a live product without totally wrecking things is incredibly difficult. What’s the point of rewriting the code? To say you did it?

There’s a lot in Twitter coding that could be bloat, but not without doing a deep examination on the APIs, calls, and services that are used and configured, and how load balancing occurs, etc., and methods to improve the code base would show efficiency gains.

Redoing the code doesn’t guarantee a better experience.

It just means a new code base that may have as many bugs and issues as the old system.

not better, just different

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Charles Johnson  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:42:42am

re: #26 Dopamine Fish

I wouldn’t trust Elon Musk to know the difference between a variable and a constant. The guy is faking the whole thing.

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:42:51am

re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth

I guess the Republicans can’t vote against the 1.7 trillion spending bill if Ukraine money is attached to it.

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Nyet  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:43:46am

re: #27 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Exactly. No evidence for the etymology, no evidence of a link between hip and hep and no evidence of a Holocaust connection.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:44:01am

re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Do Dogs Have Mirror Neurons? (Scientific American)

Based on that video, yes, they do.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:44:07am

re: #29 Charles Johnson

I wouldn’t trust Elon Musk to know the difference between a variable and a constant. The guy is faking the whole thing.

I’ve suspected that for a while, especially when he was using arbitrary code reviews as a basis for laying people off (“Show me the code you’ve produced in the last 10 days”… what the fuck?) I don’t necessarily put stock in people’s degrees, but what background does he actually have in computer science or software engineering?

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:46:22am

re: #29 Charles Johnson

I wouldn’t trust Elon Musk to know the difference between a variable and a constant. The guy is faking the whole thing.

He’s a narcissist surrounded by yes-men. I think it’s unlikely that he knows he’s faking it.

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piratedan  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:46:29am

re: #30 Shropshire Slasher

c’mon now, that’s disingenuous, of course they can… hell, if Zelensky address the House, and talks about Putin invading his country, we may even see multiple GOP Congresscritters mouth “you lie!” ala Rep Wilson while he’s speaking…

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:47:19am

re: #35 piratedan

c’mon now, that’s disingenuous, of course they can… hell, if Zelensky address the House, and talks about Putin invading his country, we may even see multiple GOP Congresscritters mouth “you lie!” ala Rep Wilson while he’s speaking…

I think I might actually vomit if that happened.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:49:04am
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:49:39am

re: #18 The Pie Overlord!

there’s a longer and larger view of the whole thing someone recorded and Kyle Fucking Rittenhouse along with Dan Scavino Jr were in there.

and they left as soon as Muskrat left.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:50:58am

re: #37 Charles Johnson

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:51:56am

re: #388 Charles Johnson

There are no words to express how bizarre it is to see Republicans attacking the FBI as a bunch of woke liberals. The FBI headed by a TRUMP APPOINTEE. They don’t even *try* to make sense any more.

Propaganda doesn’t have to make sense: It works best if it short-circuits reasoning. The only thing using a word incorrectly such as “woke” is to assign a negative connotation to it; the recipient then associates the negative association with the person or object being described.

This is similar usage to “groomer” to describe drag queens (or more recently to Democrats in general), since most people consider grooming people to be objectively bad (except when done by religions to inculcate children). The revulsion most people feel toward paedophiles is transferred to the person or object to spin up hate (or violence).

As such, that propaganda does make sense.

On Critical Race Theory, Christopher Rufo has acknowledged he specifically selected the term to attack school boards and libraries to subvert education. Since Critical Race Theory also is a niche subject used by other countries (particularly the Soviet Union) to call out the appalling human rights record of the United States concerning treatment of minority groups.

Of course, when you’re explaining you’re losing, so five paragraphs of saying what’s wrong with their framing cannot overcome redefining such word as “woke.”

About the only way I can see to dismiss such disingenuous propaganda is with PRATT (point refuted a thousand times, then move on). Dismiss the person a liar and make them defend their propaganda.

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DodgerFan1988  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:52:58am
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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:54:57am

re: #37 Charles Johnson

Brown chicken brown cow,
I got the mayo right here.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:55:40am

re: #41 DodgerFan1988

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No Malarkey!  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:57:07am

Consumer confidence at highest level since April.

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wrenchwench  Dec 21, 2022 • 11:57:10am

re: #37 Charles Johnson

She’s wearing my favorite glasses! I met the mom of a friend in the late 70s and she was wearing those. I was snickering to myself the whole time. I knew they were right side up, but they looked upside down.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:03:22pm
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Captain Ron  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:04:41pm
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Nyet  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:07:48pm

MAGAts hate democracy, so defensive military operations that are pro-democracy are not worth a cent to them.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:08:37pm

re: #47 Captain Ron

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Jackass. We’d be better off if Mitch had embraced vaccine paranoia like the low-level Republicans have.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:09:37pm

re: #48 Nyet

MAGAts hate democracy, so defensive military operations that are pro-democracy are not worth a cent to them.

Sadly true. Talk to them about the radicalized-right’s attacks on our democracy, and they’ll tell you that we’re not a democracy and aren’t supposed to be one.

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Captain Ron  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:10:00pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:13:40pm

CRY MOAR, BUTTFACE

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DodgerFan1988  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:13:41pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:13:47pm

re: #51 Captain Ron

It’s always projection with these fuckers. ALWAYS.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:19:03pm

This is Zelenskyy’s Tan Suit moment.

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Dangerman  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:19:31pm

re: #41 DodgerFan1988

explain how government spending takes away money that you could personally spend on groceries

i’ll wait

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:22:18pm

re: #52 The Pie Overlord!

CRY MOAR, BUTTFACE

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:27:37pm

He’s inverting reality in his block-head of course.

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Sherlock Hound  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:28:33pm

re: #25 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Looks like Zelensky brought the C-40 (737-700 Boeing Business Jet) all the way to DC. The 737 isn’t normally thought of as a transoceanic aircraft but executive versions, which the C-40 is, have extra fuel tanks in the baggage compartments and can easily manage it.

His plane also carries HF radios for transatlantic passage. The oceanic airspace between us and Europe is amongst the busiest in the world. I often hear that traffic on shortwave, and perhaps I’ll hear his plane on the way back.

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wrenchwench  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:31:52pm

Zelenskyy to Republicans:

Hey, I hear y’all are into weaponizing things…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:35:10pm
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No Malarkey!  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:37:03pm

re: #56 Dangerman

explain how government spending takes away money that you could personally spend on groceries

i’ll wait

If the government had distributed ammunition and anti-tank weapons to American citizens instead of sending them to Ukraine, we could’ve taken them to Krogers and bartered for groceries.

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John Hughes  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:40:16pm

re: #281 Belafon

My son and I were talking the other night, and he noted that New England has preserved more of the old British accent than has been retained in England.

Which old “British” accent. There isnt, and never has been, such a thing.

Edit: isn’t, not is.

There is no such thing as a “British accent”. Hell, there is no such thing as an “English” accent.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:42:23pm
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wrenchwench  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:42:47pm

re: #46 Charles Johnson

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gocart mozart  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:43:27pm
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Dr Lizardo  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:45:01pm

There are two kinds of state visits….

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:46:36pm

re: #66 gocart mozart

“He killed 16 Czechoslovakians. The guy was an interior decorator.”

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aatharuv  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:47:56pm

re: #53 DodgerFan1988

You know if President Joseph Biden isn’t offended, I know he can speak for himself. I’m pretty damn sure he doesn’t need us to be offended on his behalf.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:48:54pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:51:11pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:51:19pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:51:33pm
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lawhawk  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:52:38pm

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

Tommy.

Primus - Tommy The Cat (Official Music Video)

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Belafon  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:53:21pm
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Jay C  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:53:40pm

re: #69 aatharuv

You know if President Joseph Biden isn’t offended, I know he can speak for himself. I’m pretty damn sure he doesn’t need us to be offended on his behalf.

TBH, I think Zelenskyy should have dressed up a bit better for his WH visit: though yeah, Joe doesn’t look at all offended, and given everything else Pres. Z has had (and still has) to deal with, carping about his wardrobe seems fairly petty.

But then again, consider the source.

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wrenchwench  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:54:33pm

re: #72 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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That dropped like a tungsten telephone pole.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:54:48pm

re: #72 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Maybe Roland Emmerich wasn’t so crazy after all…..

“DAY AFTER TOMORROW”-freezing scene

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Belafon  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:55:29pm

re: #72 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I want to time it so that I’m outside when that happens here tomorrow.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:55:45pm
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wrenchwench  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:56:16pm

re: #76 Jay C

TBH, I think Zelenskyy should have dressed up a bit better for his WH visit: though yeah, Joe doesn’t look all offended, and given everything else Pres. Z has had (and still has) to deal with, carping about his wardrobe seems fairly petty.

But then again, consider the source.

That’s a business suit, if your business is war.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:57:26pm

speaking of rapidly falling temperatures:

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:57:47pm

re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth


Sleepy Joe surrendered to Zelensky, and the Ukranian flag now flies in our Capitol.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 21, 2022 • 12:58:56pm

re: #81 wrenchwench

That’s a business suit, if your business is war.

This isn’t the first time Zelenskyy has been criticized for not dressing up for an address. The fact is, his people are being rounded up and shipped off, raped, murdered, and exploited. I wouldn’t be out there flashing a fancy suit either. He’s showing solidarity with the ordinary Ukrainians back home. I don’t think anybody has a problem with his wardrobe choices except some stuck-up stuffy Republican blowhards who don’t like him anyway, and still wouldn’t like him if he did wear a suit.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2022 • 1:00:15pm

re: #84 Dopamine Fish

and if he did wear a suit, they’d find something to complain about that

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No Malarkey!  Dec 21, 2022 • 1:01:06pm
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Dopamine Fish  Dec 21, 2022 • 1:02:08pm

re: #85 Backwoods_Sleuth

and if he did wear a suit, they’d find something to complain about that

“Who wears an army green suit?! What kind of monster is this man?”///

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gocart mozart  Dec 21, 2022 • 1:02:39pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 21, 2022 • 1:04:18pm

re: #86 No Malarkey!

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sizzzzlerz  Dec 21, 2022 • 1:05:01pm

re: #12 Eclectic Cyborg

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Possibly the funniest parody commercial ever broadcast on the Simpsons.

“It’s a country fried truck endorsed by a clown”. Genius.

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John Hughes  Dec 21, 2022 • 1:06:35pm

re: #368 Nyet

No, that’s not what I meant, quite obviously. But an explanation would be lost on you.

Well, it appears to have been lost on everybody. But keep your magic knowledge if it makes you feel happy.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 21, 2022 • 1:06:36pm

This is the most nauseating, culture appropriating Hanukkah tweet you will see all week. At first I thought it has to be parody because the username is so nuts, but its entire spammy TL is full of this shit.
Behind the tag because BLEAAAAHH WTF

Click to Reveal
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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 21, 2022 • 1:07:48pm

re: #88 gocart mozart

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Dec 21, 2022 • 1:14:23pm

re: #37 Charles Johnson

“I always knew Subway would turn cannibal, and this new promotion
confirms it.”

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 21, 2022 • 1:14:46pm
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Captain Ron  Dec 21, 2022 • 1:16:46pm
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aatharuv  Dec 21, 2022 • 1:20:44pm

re: #88 gocart mozart

He’s not even the first openly gay Republican in Congress!

Jim Kolbe, a pro-choice Republican from Arizona, who passed away 2 weeks ago, was reelected a few times after coming out some time after DOMA passed.

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John Hughes  Dec 21, 2022 • 1:35:25pm

re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth

As far as I know Zelenskyy never set armed troops on striking miners, planned the landing in Gallipoli, planned an attack on the USSR in 1940 or screwed up the Norway campaign.

Zelenskyy is no Churchill.

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John Hughes  Dec 21, 2022 • 1:37:35pm

re: #23 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

. It’s root referred to the original Thirteen Colonies, when the USA was the only independent nation in the Western Hemisphere.

well, appart from all the ones that were not colonies.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 21, 2022 • 1:39:15pm

re: #98 John Hughes

As far as I know Zelenskyy never set armed troops on striking miners, planned the landing in Gallipoli, planned an attack on the USSR in 1940 or screwed up the Norway campaign.

Zelenskyy is no Churchill.

Take your concerns up with the Admiral.

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John Hughes  Dec 21, 2022 • 1:49:28pm

re: #76 Jay C

TBH, I think Zelenskyy should have dressed up a bit better for his WH visit

Hell, no. He’s liberating us all. The fucking suit must die.

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John Hughes  Dec 21, 2022 • 1:52:27pm

re: #81 wrenchwench

Zelenskyy should be congratulated for being a civilian war leader who doesn’t dress up in some fake military uniform.

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piratedan  Dec 21, 2022 • 2:28:17pm

re: #94 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Cousin Betty was desperate for a date, so at the next family reunion…….

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darthstar  Dec 21, 2022 • 2:51:42pm

re: #1 No Malarkey!

Should Sotomayor and Kagan consider retiring before 2025 so that Biden can replace them while the Democrats still control the Senate?

No, but Thomas and Alito should

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sagehen  Dec 21, 2022 • 8:35:36pm

re: #101 John Hughes

Hell, no. He’s liberating us all. The fucking suit must die.

I suspect there’s no functioning dry cleaners in Kyiv.


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