God, who knows what else is down there. And we’ve been spending all this money on building them
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You know what would be a clever way to get someone to stop looking for a needle in a haystack? Pretend you found it already…
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At $117 million (plus teh seekrits!) I HOPE it wasn’t a total loss!
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Good news, the cup holder still works.
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that was something to do with the new linear accelerator launch mechanism
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From a American tax-payer perspective it would probably be better to deploy all the F-35s on the bottom of the South China Sea.
Jus’ sayin…
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At a cost of $337,000,000 ?!?
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The furry dice were wrecked; but, at least, the chrome skull gear shift knob was salvageable.
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They know already. Most of it, anyway.
But it’s always interesting to compare the blueprints and the real thing.
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Stereo is still working too, can’t dent a good 8 track player.
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We didn’t lose the stealth jet overboard, we just recommissioned it as a submarine.
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“That’ll buff out”.
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Put it in a swimming pool full of rice.
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Hard to imagine there’s much recoverable value in high-performance fighter jet that’s spent a couple of weeks (or days or hours) submerged in 12,000 feet of seawater. The reliability standards for that sort of aircraft are incredibly high.
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I think the point was to deny it to ‘other powers’ rather than any other purpose.
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Do you think Navy pilots put truck nuts on the back of their planes?
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They call them Aviators. They say they’re better than pilots.
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