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The parking spots for the bombers seemed close to the fence line. Like RPG range. Is that normal?

How hard would it be to keep NAVSEA away from it?

I binged the first 3 episodes and got hooked on it.

One thing I hope is that eventually, in this series or a movie, they recreate a scene from Justice League #5 (1987). Guy Gardner is being more than his usual jerk and Batman knocked him out with one punch.

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Fri Sep 25, 2026 3:10 pm Sorry not to have replied sooner. I am recovering from catching COVID. My parents also have it & Dad should be going into hospital shortly. Thanks for your understanding and patience.

Prayers and thoughts incomings

HMS Pinafore did a nice version of it if the German's had waited until June of 1941 to try it. Needless to say the German have an even worse time. I would have loved to have read about the aftermath of the 'incident' at the end of the story.

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2026 6:00 pm Sounds like Captain John Christopher was being very enterprising in catching even a blurred image of the UFO.
I wonder if he will have a son called Shaun Geoffrey Christopher, who will also be in the USAF in the future?

Perhaps becoming an astronaut too.

The band of the Coldstream Guards take a moment to honor Dolly outside of Buckingham Palace:

https://youtube.com/shorts/pNyv0gWSyH0? ... 7E5wLlUnY1

I'm reminded of the USS Stennis, USS Port Royal, and USS Bridge visit to Fremantle, Australia May 2002 after an extended period in the Indian Ocean in combat operations. It made a few headlines if I recall.....

jemhouston wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2026 12:44 pm

rtoldman wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2026 12:31 pm why does all this give me skynet vibes?

Or Colossus: The Forbin Project

Slight difference between the two: Skynet wanted to kill all human. Colossus wanted to save humans...but was will to kill some to save the majority.

The Battle of the Baltic would've been a knife fight in a telephone booth holding 3-4 people.

I suspect nerves were quite frayed during such operations.

I tend to agree with Bernard, We are NOT worthy!

This, the other OOBs, and Dark Earth itself are great!

Old one that was great. For All Time by President Chester B Arthur (or Mike Davis) A dystopian post-WWII scenario resulting from the death of Roosevelt shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, featuring horrific three-way race riots in the United States between white, black and Jewish gangs, and fr...

Haven't seen and probably won't. No big reason, just doesn't interest me. From what I've read of the plot to the movie I wouldn't say its progenitor isn't 'Close Encounters' or 'E.T.' its a miniseries Spielberg produced for the Sci-Fi channel in 2001. Same ideas about aliens having visited the Earth...

On the other hand - if you're not pulling your hair out over map sections on the floor getting moved, or trying to tiptoe around a map on the floor without stepping on it.....do you REALLY game? ;) Mike Having an unused ping pong table in the basement was quite nice. Especially when I played agains...

Regarding the spoiler....

You'll have a blast that game!

I had it a long time ago and enjoyed it a lot. It eventually vanished into the ether though...

Think it will take more than duct tape to fix it. Probably duct tape and some bondo. Interesting thing is that this same pad suffered what was until now the biggest on pad explosion in KSC history. 1965 a Atlas-Centaur rose a few feet and then came crashing down with a huge explosions of LOX, keros...

I saw this in Fuldapocalypse Fiction: https://fuldapocalypsefiction.com/2026/05/22/review-history-force-structure-and-tactics-of-the-russian-airborne-troops/ The Russian Way of War: History, Force Structure, and Tactics of the Russian Airborne Troops. Legendary Kremlinologists Lester Grau and Charle...

Cdr Salamander posted this as part of an article on DDG(X) https://substack.com/home/post/p-198343447 2fad93d7-e69f-42fb-890d-28109d53855f_976x522.jpg yea, pretty much. I get Sal's stuff every day and I very much am on the same page. We have a similar staff background. The BBG is clearly crowding o...