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skeezix:
There was plenty of time to shoot it down over land over unpopulated areas.
I'd like to know how the shrimpers & fishermen are doing these days without LORAN-C. When it was decommissioned, they were very upset. If I was in charge of things, LORAN-C would be the first thing to come back.
MDK2:
--- Quote from: skeezix on February 06, 2023, 0037 UTC ---There was plenty of time to shoot it down over land over unpopulated areas.
I'd like to know how the shrimpers & fishermen are doing these days without LORAN-C. When it was decommissioned, they were very upset. If I was in charge of things, LORAN-C would be the first thing to come back.
--- End quote ---
It was up at 60,000 feet and had something like the mass of two or three buses, with a potential debris field 7 miles wide. No, there's no place so depopulated that that would have been safe over land. Don't listen to the people trying to make political hay out of this.
Pigmeat:
There's a nuke buried in the swamps around Seymour Johnson AFB in N.C. It was lost on takeoff around 65 years ago and was fully armed. The Air Force searched for it for years, said, "The Hell with it.", and threw up chain link fences for miles around the suspected impact zone. One of these days that thing might go off and it will be "Goodbye" to a couple of million people, including the the Holy Shrine's of both Nahunta Pork Center's and Wilber's BBQ.
They could have knocked that balloon down anywhere in the Carolina Low Country with the only risk being to yellow pines, alligators, wild hogs, and timber rattlers. Not a Nascar track would've been harmed.
sat_dxer:
Two "Broken Arrows" stories mixed together and posted above.
Date: March 11, 1958
Location: Florence, South Carolina
No capsule of nuclear materials was aboard the 8-47 or installed in the weapon.
Date: January 24, 1961
Location: Goldsboro, North Carolina
There is no detectable radiation and no hazard in the area
https://www.atomicarchive.com/almanac/broken-arrows/index.html
Pigmeat:
--- Quote from: sat_dxer on February 09, 2023, 2133 UTC ---Two "Broken Arrows" stories mixed together and posted above.
Date: March 11, 1958
Location: Florence, South Carolina
No capsule of nuclear materials was aboard the 8-47 or installed in the weapon.
Date: January 24, 1961
Location: Goldsboro, North Carolina
There is no detectable radiation and no hazard in the area
https://www.atomicarchive.com/almanac/broken-arrows/index.html
--- End quote ---
That's what the Government say's, who are you going to believe, me or that pack of lying curs? What are you some sort of wise guy? If that nuke blows, no more eastern Carolina BBQ ,the best whole hog BBQ in the known universe! You're worse than Al Fansome, a well known poopy-head in his lifetime. Never interrupt me when I'm on a roll!
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