Stuck Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 I thought this was random enough to go here... Cheers! - Stuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tac airlifter Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Can anybody explain these wierd blue light over Norway without aliens or conspiracies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreeA10 Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Can anybody explain these wierd blue light over Norway without aliens or conspiracies? Could be a celebration of Tiger's ex and her soon to be second place in "Most golf money won on the tour" standings despite her having only recently picked up a golf club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M2 Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Can anybody explain these wierd blue light over Norway without aliens or conspiracies? Yeah, another Russian "success"... New Russian missile failure sparks UFO frenzy by Stuart Williams Stuart Williams Thu Dec 10, 12:14 pm ET MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia's new nuclear-capable missile suffered another failed test launch, the defence ministry said Thursday, solving the mystery of a spectacular plume of white light that appeared over Norway. The Bulava missile was test-fired from the submarine Dmitry Donskoi in the White Sea early Wednesday but failed at the third stage, the defence ministry said in a statement. The pre-dawn morning launch coincided with the appearance of an extraordinary light over northern Norway that captivated observers. Images of the light that appeared in the sky above the Norwegian city of Tromso and elsewhere prompted explanations ranging from a meteor, northern lights, a failed missile or even a UFO. Describing the latest failure of the Bulava as a major embarrassment for the military, leading Russian defence analyst Pavel Felgenhauer said the images were consistent with a missile failure. "Such lights and clouds appear from time to time when a missile fails in the upper layers of the atmosphere and have been reported before," he told AFP. "At least this failed test made some nice fireworks for the Norwegians," he joked. The White Sea, which is the usual site for such missile tests by Russian submarines, lies close to Norway's own Arctic region. This was the 12th test launch of the Bulava and the seventh time the firing has ended in failure, the Interfax news agency said. The submarine-launched missile is central to Russia's plan to revamp its ageing weapons arsenal but is beset by development problems. "The first two stages of the rocket worked but in the final and third stage there was a technical failure," the defence ministry said in a statement. The statement said the problem was with the engine in the third stage, while in past launches the first stage had been faulty. The problems with the Bulava have become an agonising issue for the defence ministry, which has ploughed a large proportion of its procurement budget into ensuring the missile becomes the key element of its rocket forces. The previous failure in July forced the resignation of Yury Solomonov, the director of the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology which is responsible for developing the missile. Felgenhauer said that it had dealt a serious blow to Russia's bid to maintain a credible nuclear deterrent. "By the year 2030, Russia could lose its position as a global nuclear power if the problems are not solved. And it could be that these missiles will never fly properly. "The Russian defence industry has disintegrated to such an extent that it simply cannot make such a complicated system work. Technology and expertise have been lost," he said. The problems are also a major political embarrassment, coming as Russia negotiates with the United States the parameters of a new arms reduction treaty to replace the 1991 START accord. The treaty expired on December 5, and despite intense negotiations the two sides have yet to agree the text of a new deal. In a separate development, a successful test-firing took place of Russia's intercontinental surface-to-surface ballistic missile Topol RS-12M, news agencies quoted a statement from the strategic rocket forces as saying. The missile -- introduced to the rocket forces before the fall of the Soviet Union -- was fired from the southern Russian region of Astrakhan and hit its target at a testing range in neighbouring Kazakhstan. The Bulava, which can be equipped with up to 10 individually targeted nuclear warheads, has a maximum range of 8,000 kilometres (5,000 miles). It is the sea-based version of the Topol-M, Russia's new surface-to-surface intercontinental missile, and designed to be launched from Moscow's newest Borei class of submarines. Defence analysts say that a further headache for the military is that the new submarines are designed to be compatible with Bulava and if the new missile fails to work the vessels will be virtually useless. Or at least that's what they're claiming! Cheers! M2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slacker Posted December 18, 2009 Author Share Posted December 18, 2009 This is certainly a tragic story, but the silver lining is we have possibly found a future C-130 loadmaster recruit? Watch the video at the link. Drunk 4 year old steals Christmas presents, wearing a girl's dress, looking for his Daddy in Jail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stunna Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 This is certainly a tragic story, but the silver lining is we have possibly found a future C-130 loadmaster recruit? Watch the video at the link. Drunk 4 year old steals Christmas presents, wearing a girl's dress, looking for his Daddy in Jail Heh. I know a couple of Loads that may have acted like that at 4, they sure as hell could have done that now. Our country just gets stranger and stranger... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B52gator Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 (edited) There are no words... Edited December 19, 2009 by b52gator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M2 Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 Can anyone think of a similar exercise that would provide not only her with the benefits, but her man as some as well? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S3C4AC908w Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brabus Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 There is no way that can be serious! I mean really... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CA Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Washington Times December 22, 2009 Pg. 2 Con Man Fooled CIA, Playboy Says A con artist convinced the CIA and other U.S. agencies in 2003 that he could decode secret messages sent by al Qaeda through Al Jazeera broadcasts, Playboy magazine reported. Duped by claims that "bar codes" on Al Jazeera television contained targeting information for al Qaeda attacks, President George W. Bush's administration raised the terrorism alert and canceled several trans-Atlantic flights in December 2003, the report said, citing former CIA officials. At the center of the scam was Dennis Montgomery, head of a small software company in Reno, Nev., the magazine said. He convinced the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Homeland Security that his technology could decipher messages with flight numbers and longitudes and latitudes meant for al Qaeda operatives. With assistance from French intelligence, CIA officials eventually concluded there were no secret messages in Al Jazeera television broadcasts, said the report, published in the magazine's latest edition. "A branch of the French intelligence services helped convince the Americans that the bar codes were fake," it said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord B Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 I think this article made the WTF thread on two separate instances. 1. Ridiculous schemes people use to generate money / publicity. 2. Simply because the words "French" and "Intelligence" are so close together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CA Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 I'm just trying to find out why this was in Playboy?? I didn't know Playboy had articles... Who's the who was reading the articles?? He was probably French too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old crow Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 WTF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest StreamOfTheSky Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 That monkey man is awesome! Next WTF: Woman goes batshit crazy at a McDonalds: http://foodnetworkhumor.com/2010/01/video-woman-trashes-mcdonalds/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
contraildash Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Definitely a WTF, but upon closer review a hell yeah! The Department of Public Safety says 25-year-old Richard Anthony Flores Jr., 25, was arrested on two counts of reckless driving and one count of criminal speed stemming from three separate incidents. Flores was also served with seven civil speeding citations. According to DPS, Flores was caught on camera November 11 around 6 p.m. traveling west on the U.S. 60 near Mesa drive at 79 mph while standing through his open sunroof. The posted speed in the area is 65 mph. Just two minutes later, DPS says Flores was captured again standing through the open sunroof near Alma School Road traveling at 78 mph. Flores had also been caught on camera November 6 traveling 90 mph on the San Tan Loop 202 near Lindsay Drive, according to officials. DPS says between October 14 and November 18, Flores' vehicle activated photo enforcement cameras a total of 14 times. Investigators have been able to id the suspect in eight of the 14 violations at this point. Officials say Flores has a California license plate on his vehicle with a louvered plate cover in an attempt to obstruct its visibility. He apparently has a California driver's license but investigators discovered that Flores has a local address in Chandler. When investigators contacted a family member at that address they advised them Flores needed to contact DPS. Flores apparently called the same day and turned himself in the next morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tac airlifter Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 (edited) Sheep gives birth to lamb with human face. edit: link Edited January 14, 2010 by tac airlifter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CA Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Sheep gives birth to lamb with human face. edit: link Those poor lonely russian men and their sheep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf424 Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Someone in editing screwed up... C-130 Bomber? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PapaJu Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Someone in editing screwed up... C-130 Bomber? That's about par for the course when it comes to media and airplanes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Champ Kind Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Someone in editing screwed up... C-130 Bomber? Even more amusing was that it was a piece on "military technology" and it featured a Herk (an E-model, to boot). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClearedHot Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Ohio Man Arrested on Charges of Urinating on $600-Worth of Steaks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest StreamOfTheSky Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Ohio Man Arrested on Charges of Urinating on $600-Worth of Steaks Heh, he ruined ~$600 worth of steaks and the price of the bond to release him from jail is $25,000. So worth it for him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M2 Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 Actually, this is pretty funny... Prank goes awry when coach hits blindfolded shot Cheers! M2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest merlock Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 Actually, this is pretty funny... Prank goes awry when coach hits blindfolded shot Cheers! M2 I saw that on the news last night (was one hell of a shot). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M2 Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 I saw that on the news last night (was one hell of a shot). A reporter covering the incident later made a backward, over-the-shoulder shot from around mid-court! It Appears Everyone Can Now Make Half-Court Shots At Olathe Northwest's Gym They are saying the court is "possessed!" Cheers! M2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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