Whats going on in the World

Its only gonna get worse with the anti abortion agenda sweeping the country
Keep bringing more people into the world and they gotta go somewhere ???

This is a sad comment found all over. Before the days of Waze, my Illinois town sent a questionnaire out and one of the question asked if I did or knew of people using a residential street to avoid traffic. My answer was clear, "Is this a trick question? Of course I know of, and do that. So why not fix the problem?"

Unfortunately yes Dom. It’s a single two lane road with no sidewalks. The town traffic and safety dept puts up speed registers that flash, then a month or two later takes them down. I have slow down sign children at play screwed into the telephone pole in front of my house. Nothing works to slow people down.

If I told you who are the main culprits of speeding on this street, one might be shocked

Unfortunately yes Dom. It’s a single two lane road with no sidewalks. The town traffic and safety dept puts up speed registers that flash, then a month or two later takes them down. I have slow down sign children at play screwed into the telephone pole in front of my house. Nothing works to slow people down.

If I told you who are the main culprits of speeding on this street, one might be shocked

That sucks
In my neighborhood our own neighbors and residents are some of the worst culprits
Must be stressful when you let your daughter outside

Good Grief!!!

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Might be

I saw some debris last year while fishing

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[HEADING=2]United States tells citizens: Leave Russia immediately[/HEADING]

MOSCOW (Reuters) -The United States has told its citizens to leave Russia immediately due to the war in Ukraine and the risk of arbitrary arrest or harassment by Russian law enforcement agencies.

"U.S. citizens residing or travelling in Russia should depart immediately," the U.S. embassy in Moscow said. "Exercise increased caution due to the risk of wrongful detentions."

"Do not travel to Russia," it added.

"Russian security services have arrested U.S. citizens on spurious charges, singled out U.S. citizens in Russia for detention and harassment, denied them fair and transparent treatment, and convicted them in secret trials or without presenting credible evidence," the embassy said.

"Russian authorities arbitrarily enforce local laws against U.S. citizen religious workers and have opened questionable criminal investigations against U.S. citizens engaged in religious activity."

They better find something sinister with these ballons. We're using a jet that costs $86,000 an hour to operate which is firing a missile that costs $381,000.

They better find something sinister with these ballons. We're using a jet that costs $86,000 an hour to operate which is firing a missile that costs $381,000.

They're shooting missiles? I was hoping they were using their cannons.

They're shooting missiles? I was hoping they were using their cannons.

sidewinder from an F22 at least for the 1st balloon

sidewinder from an F22 at least for the 1st balloon

Meh, a few less to give away to the other Russians.

Just thinking, if we get desperate. Maybe the Taliban can loan us some.

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[HEADING=2]Here's why mysterious flying objects are suddenly popping up all over the place, according to the military command that's been shooting them down[/HEADING]

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[*]Four suspicious flying objects have been shot down over North American skies in recent days.
[*]The NORAD commander explained why more of these objects seem to suddenly be popping up.
[*]NORAD changed its radar filters to help spot smaller, slower objects after a Chinese spy balloon drifted over the US.
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A US Air Force general overseeing a bilateral command tasked with defending US and Canadian airspace explained that's there's a reason mysterious flying objects seem to suddenly be popping up all over the place. The command has changed the way it looks for them and is now finding more of these objects.

Four objects, one Chinese surveillance balloon and three other smaller objects, were shot down in the span of about a week, and the North American military command that's been involved in shooting down these objects flying over the US and Canada [revealed in a briefing Sunday]('https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3296177/melissa-dalton-assistant-secretary-of-defense-for-homeland-defense-and-hemisphe/') that the uptick in discovery and engagement follows a tweak of its radar filters after the Chinese spy balloon drifted across the continental US earlier this month.
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So in other words these "objects" have been flying across the USfor possibly years but we just never looked for them properly?

That's reassuring................

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[HEADING=2]Here's why mysterious flying objects are suddenly popping up all over the place, according to the military command that's been shooting them down[/HEADING]

[LIST]
[*]Four suspicious flying objects have been shot down over North American skies in recent days.
[*]The NORAD commander explained why more of these objects seem to suddenly be popping up.
[*]NORAD changed its radar filters to help spot smaller, slower objects after a Chinese spy balloon drifted over the US.
[/LIST]
A US Air Force general overseeing a bilateral command tasked with defending US and Canadian airspace explained that's there's a reason mysterious flying objects seem to suddenly be popping up all over the place. The command has changed the way it looks for them and is now finding more of these objects.

Four objects, one Chinese surveillance balloon and three other smaller objects, were shot down in the span of about a week, and the North American military command that's been involved in shooting down these objects flying over the US and Canada [revealed in a briefing Sunday]('https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3296177/melissa-dalton-assistant-secretary-of-defense-for-homeland-defense-and-hemisphe/') that the uptick in discovery and engagement follows a tweak of its radar filters after the Chinese spy balloon drifted across the continental US earlier this month.
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So in other words these "objects" have been flying across the USfor possibly years but we just never looked for them properly?

That's reassuring................

Five million people walked across the Border. Rest assured no amount of UFO’s (Can’t Rule Out as per pentagon) can touch that shit show that only one guy owns.

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They better find something sinister with these ballons. We're using a jet that costs $86,000 an hour to operate which is firing a missile that costs $381,000.

And he missed his 1st shot :rolleyes:

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And he missed his 1st shot :rolleyes:

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Since a Sidewinder is a heat seeking missile, IF the object didn't have a significant heat IR signature, that wouldn't be unexpected...

Since a Sidewinder is a heat seeking missile, IF the object didn't have a significant heat IR signature, that wouldn't be unexpected...

Wiki - sounds authoritative
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The Sidewinder is not guided by the actual position recorded by the detector, but by the change in position since the last sighting. So if the target remained at 5 degrees left between two rotations of the mirror, the electronics would not output any signal to the control system. Consider a missile fired at right angles to its target; if the missile is flying at the same speed as the target, it should "lead" it by 45 degrees, flying to an impact point far in front of where the target was when it was fired. If the missile is traveling four times the speed of the target, it should follow an angle about 11 degrees in front. In either case, the missile should keep that angle all the way to interception, which means that the angle that the target makes against the detector is constant. It was this constant angle that the Sidewinder attempted to maintain. This "[proportional pursuit]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_navigation')" system is straightforward to implement and offers high-performance lead calculation almost for free and can respond to changes in the target's flight path,[[8]]('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-9_Sidewinder#cite_note-8') which is much more efficient and makes the missile "lead" the target.