Whoops! NORAD blimp comes loose and is floating freely across USA - Polidicks

[QUOTE=proboardslol;49001980]Can they just tie it to a couple chinooks and drag it back?[/QUOTE] At your service :)

These were floating near my house, saw the two of them every day. I was wondering what happened to the other one since there was just one today.

[QUOTE=Glitchman;49001945][img]https://localtvkdvr.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/blimp.jpg?w=600[/img] [url]http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/28/politics/loose-blimp-norad-east-coast/index.html[/url] It's actually terrifying how they will get this down, must be thousands of pounds of equipment just floating up there.[/QUOTE] I live near Fort Huachuca, Arizona. We have one of these around the area above my home at all times. A few years ago, it crashed in someone's yard without warning and the Government locked down the whole area to keep from people seeing the equipment. However, it did not do that much damage.

I'm glad that it'll be available on Christmas. Santa won't slip past radar this time, that jolly bastard.

[QUOTE=mecaguy03;49002963]You could probably shoot down the thing with guns on the f-16 but the shells would also probably overpenetrate and could hit other stuff.[/QUOTE] This wouldn't be an issue if the F-16s were equipped with rubber bullets.

[QUOTE=helifreak;49007007]This wouldn't be an issue if the F-16s were equipped with rubber bullets.[/QUOTE] Surely they can't just use a light plane and get someone to jump onto the side of the blimp. It's a blimp after all.

Surely someone could just punch it in its strange giant nutsack

[QUOTE=teddthebucfan;49002331]There's something obscene about this picture.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Dr.C;49002379]Not pictured: a cyclops on horseback with his blonde boyfriend and they're shooting at a flaming man on a flaming horse[/QUOTE] I feel like I'm missing a joke...

This things a fucking eyesore when you see it up there on a clear day. It can go fuck itself.

[QUOTE=redBadger;49008628]This things a fucking eyesore when you see it up there on a clear day. It can go fuck itself.[/QUOTE] They never look like more than two white dots to me from where I'm at.

I'm closer to it. They're clearly blimps from my angle, and it makes enjoying a nice day almost impossible.

[QUOTE=redBadger;49009057]I'm closer to it. They're clearly blimps from my angle, and it makes enjoying a nice day almost impossible.[/QUOTE] Yeah I used to live in Bel Air which is right by APG. I'm sure they're massive from up close.

This took out power to my uni. Got me out of my afternoon classes too.

[QUOTE=redBadger;49009057]I'm closer to it. They're clearly blimps from my angle, and it makes enjoying a nice day almost impossible.[/QUOTE] you know what else ruins a nice day cruise missiles

[url]http://www.wbal.com/article/125948/2/state-police-using-shotguns-to-deflate-wayward-blimp[/url] State police shot it down with shotguns.

That was one hell of a blimp [IMG]http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/141218120943-08-us-blimp-horizontal-large-gallery.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/141218120809-03-us-blimp-horizontal-large-gallery.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/141218120908-06-us-blimp-horizontal-large-gallery.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE=redBadger;49008628]This things a fucking eyesore when you see it up there on a clear day. It can go fuck itself.[/QUOTE] Be nice. It's keeping paratroopers off your lawn.

[QUOTE=Holt!;49002337]fire harpoons into it and drag it down like a sky whale[/QUOTE] I second the motion.

[video=youtube;WOZYoa_pod0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOZYoa_pod0[/video]

My friend thinks this was a false flag operation to make it look like it was an accident, while in reality NORAD was testing the blimp to see how much data it could mine over the period of time it was airborne :tinfoil:

[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;49012139]holy shit that's big, i thought it was like 1/10th that size[/QUOTE] That's what she said