Was that Ben Bernanke piloting that plane.
Oh, no--he uses a helicopter.
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Sirius Star - LOST
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Re: Sirius Star - LOST
by dohboi » Sat 10 Jan 2009, 14:25:16
"A plane was seen apparently dropping money by parachute"
Was that Ben Bernanke piloting that plane.
Oh, no--he uses a helicopter.
Was that Ben Bernanke piloting that plane.
Oh, no--he uses a helicopter.
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Re: Sirius Star - LOST
by Daniel_Plainview » Sat 10 Jan 2009, 15:07:04
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dohboi', '"')A plane was seen apparently dropping money by parachute"
Was that Ben Bernanke piloting that plane. Oh, no--he uses a helicopter.
Was that Ben Bernanke piloting that plane. Oh, no--he uses a helicopter.
Actually, a helicopter is no longer adequate for Bernanke's and Obama's undertakings ... Now they require a jumbo cargo plane.
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Re: Sirius Star - LOST
by outcast » Sat 10 Jan 2009, 17:06:59
A super tanker is big, but the ocean is much much bigger.
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Re: Sirius Star - LOST
by ReverseEngineer » Sat 10 Jan 2009, 18:41:31
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DoomWarrior', 'A')ctually, a helicopter is no longer adequate for Bernanke's and Obama's undertakings ... Now they require a jumbo cargo plane.
Almost, not quite. Ben has his finger on the button of the latest in monetary inventions, the Money M.I.R.V, the multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle for cash. They load up one of the ICBMs with money, and Ben & Henry target all the warheads to land in the backyards of their buddies, in the billions of dollars. They only bomb their friends though, everyone else is SOL.
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Re: Sirius Star - LOST
by Dreamtwister » Mon 12 Jan 2009, 03:55:02
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GASMON', 'W')ith todays sattelite technology, that can read the writing on a cigarrette box in the street, how the hell can you "lose" a supertanker?
If the vessel's transponder is not functioning, it can be very difficult. Have you ever actually looked at a satellite image of water?
The Sirius Star is 330m long. Google Earth's maximum resolution is around 15m. To put that into perspective, I have created this image. It is the same area as the Indian Ocean, at 30m resolution (15m resolution was just too big to upload and expect people to view it). See if you can find my scale representation of the Sirius Star:
Huge image warning - roughly 1.5MB
Of course, this is a very rudamentary example. A real image would have many features to make identification much more difficult. Off the top of my head:
*First, the Indian Ocean is not perfectly square, and contains landmasses.
*Second, the wave patterns on the real Indian Ocean would be a lot less regular.
*Third, there would be multiple vessels in a real photo, as well as cloud shadows, weather distortions, various atolls, random aircraft and who knows what else.
*Fourth (big clue), I doubt a real ship would appear as a perfect black rectangle, perfectly horizontal to the image.
*Fifth, military satellite resolutions are far better than 15m, which means the real image would be huge.
And just so you know, I'm not trying to call you out. I'm just trying to illustrate the scope of the problem of locating such a small object on a satellite image. It's hard to look at a map and really "get" how much space is being represented.
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Re: Sirius Star - LOST
by Gazzatrone » Mon 12 Jan 2009, 08:25:01
I'd say someone knows how to spot an even smaller boat. as the Sirius Star isn't the only thing that's lost. A little more than coincidence don't you think?
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Re: Sirius Star - LOST
by Jester » Tue 13 Jan 2009, 03:39:21
when the US Navy can have pictures of the damn money being parachuted onto the boat, how hard is it to keep track of where the damn boat is? It's not like it can teleport away... it's 330m long and was in their cameras... you'd have to be some kind of incompetent to lose it when you're in that situation.
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Re: Sirius Star - LOST
by Dreamtwister » Tue 13 Jan 2009, 04:46:08
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jester', 'y')ou'd have to be some kind of incompetent to lose it when you're in that situation.
I feel like you're trying to raise some kind of very profound point, but I can't quite put my finger on what it might be...
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