cougarguard.com — unofficial BYU Cougars / LDS sports, football, basketball forum and message board  

Go Back   cougarguard.com — unofficial BYU Cougars / LDS sports, football, basketball forum and message board > non-Sports > Current Events

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 10-12-2006, 12:45 AM   #1
Cali Coug
Senior Member
 
Cali Coug's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 5,996
Cali Coug has a little shameless behaviour in the past
Default So which is more troubling...

The fact that an airplane crashed into another building in NYC or the fact that the guy in charge of North American defense didn't know anything was going on until he saw a report of the crash on television?

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...10-11-19-07-01

Exactly what purpose are radar and our other detection devices serving? Perhaps we should just have the media patrol the skies...
Cali Coug is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-12-2006, 12:53 AM   #2
Colly Wolly
Senior Member
 
Colly Wolly's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 1,281
Colly Wolly is an unknown quantity at this point
Default

What good do you do for society? All you do is bitch.
Colly Wolly is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-12-2006, 12:55 AM   #3
Cali Coug
Senior Member
 
Cali Coug's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 5,996
Cali Coug has a little shameless behaviour in the past
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Stick It In Him View Post
What good do you do for society? All you do is bitch.
I cook gigantic hamburgers for my customers. (As a side note, did you just complain in a post about me complaining? Ironic...)
Cali Coug is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-12-2006, 12:56 AM   #4
Colly Wolly
Senior Member
 
Colly Wolly's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 1,281
Colly Wolly is an unknown quantity at this point
Default

Meh.
Colly Wolly is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-12-2006, 12:58 AM   #5
Cali Coug
Senior Member
 
Cali Coug's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 5,996
Cali Coug has a little shameless behaviour in the past
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Stick It In Him View Post
Meh.
The smartest thing you have yet uttered.
Cali Coug is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-12-2006, 01:02 AM   #6
Colly Wolly
Senior Member
 
Colly Wolly's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 1,281
Colly Wolly is an unknown quantity at this point
Default

I am glad I am reaching you at your level...
Colly Wolly is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-12-2006, 01:04 AM   #7
ute4ever
I must not tell lies
 
ute4ever's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 5,103
ute4ever is an unknown quantity at this point
Default

Just wait, Hoya. We have an election right around the corner. Very soon, the democrats will spend millions of dollars on research claming that Condoleeza Rice, George Bush and Michael Chertoff were given several warnings that Cory Lidle was taking flying lessons, but chose to ignore them.
ute4ever is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-12-2006, 01:14 AM   #8
Cali Coug
Senior Member
 
Cali Coug's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 5,996
Cali Coug has a little shameless behaviour in the past
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by ute4ever View Post
Just wait, Hoya. We have an election right around the corner. Very soon, the democrats will spend millions of dollars on research claming that Condoleeza Rice, George Bush and Michael Chertoff were given several warnings that Cory Lidle was taking flying lessons, but chose to ignore them.
lol! You aim too low. If you saw the explosion, you would recognize that there is no way it was caused by an airplane. A third party (possibly a Red Sox fan looking to discredit the Yankees?) has clearly planted explosives at the scene of the accident. BTW, the government would have noticed the small plane flying around if they weren't concentrating their efforts on helping the lone Saudi aircraft fly out of US airspace.

Cali Coug is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-12-2006, 01:20 AM   #9
creekster
Senior Member
 
creekster's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: the far corner of my mind
Posts: 8,711
creekster is an unknown quantity at this point
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by hoyacoug View Post
The fact that an airplane crashed into another building in NYC or the fact that the guy in charge of North American defense didn't know anything was going on until he saw a report of the crash on television?

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...10-11-19-07-01

Exactly what purpose are radar and our other detection devices serving? Perhaps we should just have the media patrol the skies...
This does seem to be little more than stirring for the purposes of stirring.

Do you expect our air defenses to keep track of every aircraft (including, for example, ultra-lights, homemade fixed wing, private fixed wing, helicopters and so forth) at all locations and at all altitutdes at all times? Even if being tracked by radar a small plane disappearing from a scope in urban areas means only that it is not giving a signal, but radar doesn't say it ran into a building or that it was full of explosives. NORAD was designed to protect us from the commies who were going to be coming over the horizon. It was not desinged to protet us from a small aircraft piloted by a beginner who apparently could do little else other than hit the broad side of a barn. Especially if the impact is in a media saturated area like NYC, the earliest reports of a plane hitting a building are likely to be on TV or radio. Should NORAD wait for official channel reports beofore reacting or, if NORAD sees somethign on CNN should it act? I think your expectations are unreasonable.
__________________
Sorry for th e tpyos.
creekster is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-12-2006, 01:24 AM   #10
ute4ever
I must not tell lies
 
ute4ever's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 5,103
ute4ever is an unknown quantity at this point
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by creekster View Post
Do you expect our air defenses to keep track of every aircraft (including, for example, ultra-lights, homemade fixed wing, private fixed wing, helicopters and so forth) at all locations and at all altitutdes at all times?
It depends on who is in office. Presently, the democrats expect this of the executive office, yes.
ute4ever is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 12:14 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.2
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.