Comments on: Cabin Fever is Kicking In… http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2004/06/06/cabin-fever-is-kicking-in/ Chemically-enhanced neural rewiring, on a semi-regular basis... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:35:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Phoinix http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2004/06/06/cabin-fever-is-kicking-in/#comment-324009 Phoinix Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2004/06/06/cabin-fever-is-kicking-in/#comment-324009 You left out the Crash-Burn bit to the Flop-Flop the seagull story. You see, a bird in this case is known as FOD. Or Foreign Object Debris. FOD is bad for aircraft - especially ones that cannot glide. FOD can be anything that hits the aircraft or is sucked into engines - so birds, rocks, large bits of tree branches, small children etc is FOD. For all the technical innovation of the US military (and all others too really) a billion dollar stealth bomber can be easily downed by a Mallard duck with poor directional sense. And actually, the USAF discovered the hard way that stealth aircraft are invisible to bats. Ooops. (Oh hey, is that still classified? Oh well.) It can at least glide. Where as your UH-60 + Bird collision usually results in in-flight pilot decapitation/engine disintegration followed by a very poor glide path to the ground. So for all of you 2nd/3rd tier oil rich nations out there - ditch trying to develop better AAA/SAM defenses. Invest heavily in bats. (Mmm. I think I just violated a major section of the "patriot act" so I have to run now. Fast.) You left out the Crash-Burn bit to the Flop-Flop the seagull story. You see, a bird in this case is known as FOD. Or Foreign Object Debris. FOD is bad for aircraft - especially ones that cannot glide. FOD can be anything that hits the aircraft or is sucked into engines - so birds, rocks, large bits of tree branches, small children etc is FOD.

For all the technical innovation of the US military (and all others too really) a billion dollar stealth bomber can be easily downed by a Mallard duck with poor directional sense. And actually, the USAF discovered the hard way that stealth aircraft are invisible to bats. Ooops. (Oh hey, is that still classified? Oh well.) It can at least glide. Where as your UH-60 + Bird collision usually results in in-flight pilot decapitation/engine disintegration followed by a very poor glide path to the ground.

So for all of you 2nd/3rd tier oil rich nations out there - ditch trying to develop better AAA/SAM defenses. Invest heavily in bats. (Mmm. I think I just violated a major section of the “patriot act” so I have to run now. Fast.)

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