Shock & Awe has begun, Iraq being blown up.

[Guest Ram]

I believe they did find the black boxes on the 9/11 flights.

It's off topic but ABC News reported:

 

"Although investigators look for an entire black box, sometimes the only parts of the device that survive are the recorder's crash-survivable memory units (CSMU). THE CSMU IS ALMOST INDESTRUCTABLE. It is housed within a stainless-steel shell that contains titanium or aluminum and a high-temperature insulation of dry silica material."

 

“It is designed to withstand HEAT OF UP TO 2,000 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT FOR ONE HOUR, salt water for at least 30 days, immersion in a variety of liquids such as jet fuel and lubricants, AND AN IMPACT OF 3,400 G’s. By comparison, astronauts are typically exposed to up to six Gs during a shuttle takeoff.” [ABCNews - http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/Tec...oxes010917.html]

 

So the Black Box is designed to withstand an impact of 3,400 G's. So what about the Pennsylvania crash site?

 

"THE VOICE RECORDER WAS SAID TO BE HEAVILY DAMAGED, and the manufacturer was being asked to help with further analysis. The plane that crashed in Pennsylvania was reported to have hit the ground in excess of 500 MILES PER HOUR." [ABCNews -

http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/dai...main010915.html]

 

The plane hit the ground at 500 mph. Taking the weight of the plane, its speed of descent, the G's end up much, much lower than 3,400.

 

Since each plane has two seperate Black Boxes which are designed to be indestructable in the event of a tragedy, that makes a total of EIGHT BLACK BOXES. If we are to believe that all the Black Boxes were damaged beyond use, then that is to say EIGHT BLACK BOXES in total were destroyed, while a measley paper passport survived.

 

Thanks to my friend Shibli for referencing this.

 

Anyway, just couldn't resist the challenge, sorry.

Faulty work?

[Guest Jobber of the Week]

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2003/03/...1/48006-ap.html

 

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Saddam Hussein has decreed that any Iraqi who kills an enemy soldier will get a reward equivalent to $14,000.

 

And $28,000 will go to anyone who captures an enemy soldier alive, the decree said, according to the official Iraqi News Agency.

 

Shooting down an enemy fighter plane is worth $55,500, a helicopter, $28,000, and a missile, $5,500. Killing the pilot will bring $14,000; capturing the pilot alive is worth twice as much.

[Guest HartFan86]

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2003/03/...1/48006-ap.html

 

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Saddam Hussein has decreed that any Iraqi who kills an enemy soldier will get a reward equivalent to $14,000.

 

And $28,000 will go to anyone who captures an enemy soldier alive, the decree said, according to the official Iraqi News Agency.

 

Shooting down an enemy fighter plane is worth $55,500, a helicopter, $28,000, and a missile, $5,500. Killing the pilot will bring $14,000; capturing the pilot alive is worth twice as much.

And taking over Iraq and bombing the hell out of Baghdad. Priceless.

 

For everything else, there's cruise missles. The official sponser of this years War against Iraq.

 

Oh wait.

[Guest Jobber of the Week]

If I lived in Baghdad I'd be claiming that I shot down all those missles with my Kalashnikov a few hours back.

[Guest SP-1]

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2003/03/...1/48006-ap.html

 

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Saddam Hussein has decreed that any Iraqi who kills an enemy soldier will get a reward equivalent to $14,000.

 

And $28,000 will go to anyone who captures an enemy soldier alive, the decree said, according to the official Iraqi News Agency.

 

Shooting down an enemy fighter plane is worth $55,500, a helicopter, $28,000, and a missile, $5,500. Killing the pilot will bring $14,000; capturing the pilot alive is worth twice as much.

And taking over Iraq and bombing the hell out of Baghdad. Priceless.

 

For everything else, there's cruise missles. The official sponser of this years War against Iraq.

 

Oh wait.

[Guest Jobber of the Week]

cue Rumsfeld to say something like, "we'll pay double to any Iraqi soldier who kills or captures Saddam and his sad-damn sons. Hell, we'll make it a cool hundred thou. and throw in an Explorer SUV."

[Guest Zero_Cool]

Don't forget Bush giving the Iraqi citizen a lunch with Alex Rodriguez.

[Guest Jobber of the Week]

"imbed? sounds a lot like in bed" -Brit Hume FoxNews

 

"ssss-sssecond night of bombing" -Brit Hume again

 

Brit Hume will start hallucinating shortly. Brit, please go to bed. I fear if he goes on we'll start to hear "As you can see we've just crossed the border into France and now the first Marine Cyborg Division is engaging cheese eaters. Did you guys notice that I was a humming bird?"

[Guest Crazy Dan]

I just heard that about 10000 Iraqi soldiers have surrendered. They are basically saying "Fuck this, we rather live". I have feeling that we will hear more stories like this. I think also this is showing how pathetic the Iraqi military really is. I think the first Gulf War kinda dismantled it. Throw in the inspections that took place before 1998, which did destroy a good amount of weopons. And I think that the US military is going to march right up to Baghdad, where they will experience the hardest fights (the most gung-ho of Saddam's republican gaurd).

 

So far this has been a cake walk, which I am glad, because the shorter this is, the less causulties on both sides.

 

As for Iran entering the fray, I doubt it. I think that the Mullahs know if they send their forces in, it's going to weaken their home front to the Iranian students who are screaming for reform and relations with the west. I guess they trully want their MTV. The last thing the Mullahs need is for them to have nothing to protect them.

[Guest Crazy Dan]

"imbed? sounds a lot like in bed" -Brit Hume FoxNews

 

"ssss-sssecond night of bombing" -Brit Hume again

 

Brit Hume will start hallucinating shortly. Brit, please go to bed. I fear if he goes on we'll start to hear "As you can see we've just crossed the border into France and now the first Marine Cyborg Division is engaging cheese eaters. Did you guys notice that I was a humming bird?"

Man Brit Hume has been terrible in reading the news. The first night I was watching, and he keep saying "uh" after every two words. Brit, please take the phallic object out of your mouth. I actually have liked CNN

s coverage more thean FOX.

[Guest EricMM]

Did you guys notice that I was a humming bird?"

 

Imagines Brit Hume humming around the studio like Apu from that episode of the simpsons

 

[Guest Jobber of the Week]

Brit finally did sign off like a half hour ago. Here's hoping he has someone drive him home.

[Guest phoenixrising]

I wake up around 10 and am taking my time making coffee and such and finally turn on the TV and see that part of Baghdad got bombed back to the Stone Age. Wonder what that giant explosion was (the one that lit up the TV screen for a few seconds and the debris came fluttering down after the detonation).

 

Iraq's army was reduced to a third of what it was in the 1991 Gulf War. Throw in that they haven't updated their equipment much and they are screwed, until they can hole up in Baghdad's buildings and force the Coalition troops to root them out, where much of the Coalition technology would be useless.

[Guest Jobber of the Week]

[06:09] <fox-live> he is sure it was sadam hussein, 
                        he was put on a stretcher, taken in an ambulance.
[06:09] <fox-live> do we know where the ambulance went?
[06:09] <fox-live> tony we have another bit of breaking news.
[06:09] <fox-live> the wires are reporting at this hour
                  that saddam hussein is reported via iraqi tv as telling 
                  usa and british forces to respect the rights of prisoners of
                  war.

[Guest Mad Dog]

 

Man now I have an image of Brit Hume prancing around the Fox studios on his tip toes stuck in my head.

[Guest My Eyebrow is on fire]

This Just In:

 

Documents found in the captured city of Umm Qasr have linked former WCW Champion Big Van Vader to an assasination attempt to a Kuwaiti reporter earlier in the decade. Al-Qa'eda ties are suspected.

 

Source - Roto-Reuters

[Guest snuffbox]

This Just In:

 

Documents found in the captured city of Umm Qasr have linked former WCW Champion Big Van Vader to an assasination attempt to a Kuwaiti reporter earlier in the decade. Al-Qa'eda ties are suspected.

 

Source - Roto-Reuters

.....er wait,

[Guest Mad Dog]

Brit Hume has disappeared after mistaking Sheppord Smith for a flower and trying to suck out the nector.

 

Bit was last sighted chasing Neil Cavuto down the street.

[Guest B-X]

Someone may have already mentioned this, but three Tomahawk cruise missles fucked up and hit places in Iran today.

[Guest Powerplay]

Someone may have already mentioned this, but three Tomahawk cruise missles fucked up and hit places in Iran today.

Were they proven to be Tomahawks, or were they fired by Iraq?

 

Edit: Because, suffice to say, Iran is in the totally wrong direction than Iraq.

[Guest Jobber of the Week]

CNN is showing a massive protest, where nuggets of signage wisdom like this are seen:

[Guest SP-1]

I particularly like how people like to bring up "Commandments" like Thou Shalt Not Kill on their signs. When I'm willing to bet that they can't hold up to all of the commandments themselves. Trying to guilt Christians is fun, I guess.

[Guest Downhome]

I particularly like how people like to bring up "Commandments" like Thou Shalt Not Kill on their signs. When I'm willing to bet that they can't hold up to all of the commandments themselves. Trying to guilt Christians is fun, I guess.

I personally love the commandment "Thou Shalt Not Kill", especially when morons like these people take it totally out of context to mean you aren't to kill ANYTHING/ANYONE. I love it even more when vegies use it to mean animals, heh.

[Conspiracy_Victim]

That's their 11th commandment, "Thou shalt translate these to justify whatever you want"

[Guest cobainwasmurdered]

I particularly like how people like to bring up "Commandments" like Thou Shalt Not Kill on their signs. When I'm willing to bet that they can't hold up to all of the commandments themselves. Trying to guilt Christians is fun, I guess.

nobody's perfect but that's kinda a MAJOR one right there.

 

I've been listening to all of it on my radio up here and frankly to me America is being overlyconfident. This war has just started and your already killing your selves.

 

Pace yourselves so that there's some left of you to drop bombs on the Canadians if we ever get involved.

 

 

 

 

Seriously though, I don't really approve of war but Hussien is a evil man and needs to be stopped. But remember those weapons he's using to kill American soldiers were given to him by America. The people in Iraq are so poor and sick partly because of the UN sanctions that the US spearheaded.

 

No one is blameless.

[Guest B-X]

Pentagon confirms they "may" have struck targets in Iran.

[Guest Sandman9000]

Someone turn that one sign up above into "Tony Blair is a wanksta" just for shits and giggles.

 

I'd do it myself, but I'm home and don't have photoshop up here.

[Guest Powerplay]

But remember those weapons he's using to kill American soldiers were given to him by America. The people in Iraq are so poor and sick partly because of the UN sanctions that the US spearheaded.

We gave him a token amount of chemical weapons back in the 1980's. He's created far more chemical and biological weapons than we gave him. He's attacking with Russian guns, Russian tanks, Russian artillery, Russian AA, Russian missiles, Russian planes. Who gave him weapons again?

[Guest Vern Gagne]

I saw poll that said 56% of Brits support Tony Blair up from 29% 2 weeks ago.

[Guest Jobber of the Week]

Some guy snuck into a US base in Kuwait and chucked grenades at two command tents.

 

6 seriously injured 2 not serious.

 

2,100 infantry men moving out after him right now.