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[OzHybrid]

 

[MALBAR 70]

 

[Hyak]

Is it just me, or does anyone else find the "smells like rotten eggs" thing uselessly anachronistic? I have never smelled a rotten egg, and I bet most of you haven't either. Am I wrong? If the day ever comes when I get near a rotten egg, I'll ask where the hydrogen sulfide is coming from, because that's a smell I know.

Must be a city boy huh?

 

[Hyak]

You guys don’t know what you’re missing. We have an organic mushroom farm ~ 100 metres up the road. They grow around 20 different varieties and the produce is brilliant.

Some (occasional) meals I cook are close to 30% fungus goodness, and what’s a pizza without mushrooms?

Beautiful stuff.

"and what’s a pizza without mushrooms?"

Edible!

 

[OzHybrid]

"and what’s a pizza without mushrooms?"

Edible!

There's 2 pizzas I have regularly. One is one half beef and half mushroom. KISS. The other is seafood special. The guy that makes it is from Napoli. I dare anyone to tell Angelo that either mushrooms or seafood do not belong on pizza. I wouldn't..........

 

[LibraryTed]

 

[Knundrm]

 

[MALBAR 70]

 

[Cape Byron]

 

[BDB]

It’s my neighbors…

 

[KenECoyote]

Which is smaller... his wallet or brain?

 

[Cape Byron]

 

[KenECoyote]

 

[NateB]

 

[Antares JS]

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Most cursed thing I've seen all day.

 

[brockrwood]

Never give up! Never surrender!

 

[brockrwood]

It’s my neighbors…

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In Denver, at the very cool “Wings Over the Rockies” aerospace museum, they have a complete B-1 bomber on display. Next to it is a nuclear bomb casing (sorry, kids, no warhead). Was the B-1 strictly a nuclear bomber? I thought it was intended to replace the B-52?

 

[Art Upton]

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[Knundrm]

 

[brockrwood]

 

[Alan15578]

In Denver, at the very cool “Wings Over the Rockies” aerospace museum, they have a complete B-1 bomber on display. Next to it is a nuclear bomb casing (sorry, kids, no warhead). Was the B-1 strictly a nuclear bomber? I thought it was intended to replace the B-52?

Yes, the B-1 was supposed to take over the SAC role of the B-52. The president cancelled it saying it was a good airplane, just 40% too expensive as a B-52 replacement. President Reagan brought it back as the redesigned B-1b, which was doubly wrong as we were so much closer to the B-2 then. The B-2 is a national treasure and I would never want to put one in harms way.

I liked the B-1 and I thought they could have produced one wing as a special purpose bomber, perhaps building as many as the B-1b's that were actually built. What I liked most most about the B-1 was that it could do a base escape with a supersonic dash, while the B-52 had to be kept in the air or at remote locations to avoid destruction by a nuclear blast. I also liked the variable inlet option for enhanced supersonic performance.

 

[boatgeek]

The B-2 is a national treasure and I would never want to put one in harms way.

Not to go all Churchill on you, but if you can't put a military object in harm's way, it has little or no value as a military object.

 

[NTP2]

Not to go all Churchill on you, but if you can't put a military object in harm's way, it has little or no value as a military object.

That is exactly what i was about to say!!

Ps great minds…

 

[boatgeek]

That is exactly what i was about to say!!

Ps great minds…

Also, fools come in pairs.

 

[brockrwood]

Yes, the B-1 was supposed to take over the SAC role of the B-52. The president cancelled it saying it was a good airplane, just 40% too expensive as a B-52 replacement. President Reagan brought it back as the redesigned B-1b, which was doubly wrong as we were so much closer to the B-2 then. The B-2 is a national treasure and I would never want to put one in harms way.

I liked the B-1 and I thought they could have produced one wing as a special purpose bomber, perhaps building as many as the B-1b's that were actually built. What I liked most most about the B-1 was that it could do a base escape with a supersonic dash, while the B-52 had to be kept in the air or at remote locations to avoid destruction by a nuclear blast. I also liked the variable inlet option for enhanced supersonic performance.

I value airplanes based on how cool they look. And the B-1 is super cool-looking. ;-)

Well, it is.

https://wingsmuseum.org/exhibits/rockwell-b-1a-lancer/

 

[MALBAR 70]

Never give up! Never surrender!

Hey! I resemble that!
(Bald guy with a ponytail)
And no, I won't give up till its gone!

 

[cls]

Not to go all Churchill on you, but if you can't put a military object in harm's way, it has little or no value as a military object.

The F22 is like that. Way too great to ever risk losing one... So what's the point?

 

[Banzai88]

The F22 is like that. Way too great to ever risk losing one... So what's the point?

What I fear is that we've invested so much money in these wonder toys and have so few in inventory and so much invested in the aircrew training that eventually (if not already) it'll come to a financial decision to risk the hardware and do what's necessary, or avoid the potential risk and just let the bad guys keep on being bad guys.

At that point we'll be a paper tiger with a glass cannon.

 

[dr wogz]

Also, fools come in pairs.

"great minds think alike.. [And] fools seldom differ" is how I was told

 

[boatgeek]

The F22 is like that. Way too great to ever risk losing one... So what's the point?

I was going to post about how the F22 has been sent on combat missions. And then I looked and it's basically only been used against undefended targets. So yeah.

In fairness, the battlespace that it's supposed to dominate hasn't really existed since we haven't had any air superiority conflicts since it entered service. That said, using it to bomb poppy fields in Afghanistan is an enormous waste of resources (how many $/hour to operate!?) and smells of a make-work project to show that it can be used for Something.