film...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, February 19, 2023 at 8:11:11 PM UTC-8, bfh wrote:
>> kmiller wrote:
>>> On 2/18/2023 7:55 PM, bfh wrote:
>>>> kmiller wrote:
>>>>> On 2/18/2023 10:59 AM, bfh wrote:
>>>>>> kmiller wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2/17/2023 2:24 PM, bfh wrote:
>>>>>>>> dm_callier wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Friday, February 17, 2023 at 8:37:31 AM UTC-8,
>>>>>>>>> dm_callier wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Thursday, February 16, 2023 at 5:08:54 PM
>>>>>>>>>> UTC-8, bfh wrote: <BigSnip>
>>>>>>>>>>> Look, so, does that, like, mean (blink blink
>>>>>>>>>>> blink blink...) you're OK with literally
>>>>>>>>>>> shooting down unidentified unknown objects -
>>>>>>>>>>> which may or may not even be technically a
>>>>>>>>>>> balloon - with a 400 million dollar missile? --
>>>>>>>>>>> bill Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.
>>>>>>>>>> Well, a) It's only a $400K missile. b)
>>>>>>>>>> Considering moral, ethical and/or political
>>>>>>>>>> considerations is too close to the metaphysical
>>>>>>>>>> to be part of my current calculus as pertains to
>>>>>>>>>> transitory high altitude objects. When: c) Going
>>>>>>>>>> forward, I was only really interested in
>>>>>>>>>> following the science in re the efficacy and
>>>>>>>>>> economics of downing biggly objects at high
>>>>>>>>>> altitude with $400K missiles versus with cannon
>>>>>>>>>> fire that I posited would be less expensive with
>>>>>>>>>> similar or enhanced efficacy.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Enjoy the day! dmc
>>>>>>>>> And now it turns out that all the objects fired on
>>>>>>>>> weren't necessarily biggly at all. The
>>>>>>>>> efficiency of the $400K missile
>>>>>>>>> may be higher than first I supposed if the rumor of
>>>>>>>>> the downing of a balloon with a diameter of 3-9
>>>>>>>>> feet is
>>>>>>>>> verified–efficacy
>>>>>>>>> still in some doubt.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> yeah but but but since they were unknown unidentified
>>>>>>>> aerial objects of undetermined - and possibly
>>>>>>>> extraterrestrial - origin, we shot them down out of
>>>>>>>> an abundance of caution. Besides, I'll bet the pilots
>>>>>>>> thought it was more fun than they've had since they
>>>>>>>> got out of fighter pilot training - and they're
>>>>>>>> probably already wearing a Balloon Killer patch on
>>>>>>>> their flight suits and getting free drinks at Happy
>>>>>>>> Hour. I would be surprised if the O' Club bartenders
>>>>>>>> didn't invent a drink that "will blow your payload
>>>>>>>> off".
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm mostly surprised that your own MTG didn't arrange
>>>>>>> to have them shot down with those Jewish space lasers -
>>>>>>> the efficacy of which has already been proven in the
>>>>>>> forests of North America. Or, if they could detect them
>>>>>>> closer to launch, they could have Josh Hawley trot by
>>>>>>> them whereby the balloon would be sucked into his
>>>>>>> vortex never to be seen again. Or, or, or how about
>>>>>>> getting some of them Jan 6 tourists to leap on the
>>>>>>> balloons in their "patriotic" fever to save their dear
>>>>>>> leader and stab holes in the balloons with their orange
>>>>>>> goon flags.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> LOL. It's literally intuitively obvious to the most
>>>>>> casual observer that you don't have a working knowledge
>>>>>> of altitude or of the exterior ballistics metrics of
>>>>>> orange goon flags. You're just one more self-identified
>>>>>> expert who isn't. And look, by the way, at the end of day
>>>>>> going forward - or even like, backward - MTG is not mine.
>>>>>> That dog won't hunt and that spaghetti won't stick.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ahhh, c'mon. There's enough hot air in your George Santos
>>>>> to reach space. HawHawHaw!
>>>>
>>>> He's not mine, either. If there were literally any justice in
>>>> any of the toolboxes on the table, you would be red-flagged,
>>>> all of your - probably unregistered - spaghetti would be
>>>> summarily confiscated, and your name would be put on the
>>>> Federal No Pasta List.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Jeepers! You are sooo sensitive. Are you sure you ain't woke?
>>> HawHawHaw!
>> Can't be. I take too many naps to qualify. -- bill Theory don't
>> mean squat if it don't work.
>
> I'm sympathetic to "woke" as meaning "personal & social awareness",
> yet I still find myownself mostly identifying as "perplexed", due
> to my frequent wondering, "WTF do some people do like they do?"
> Worse, it's not a feeling that provides me with much comfort!
> HawHawHaw!
>
> Miss Manners Jr.

To which people doing what are you referring, Miss?

--
bill
Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.