David Hingtgen

Remember, most all bananas will set off the meter. Brazil nuts and cocoa too, in large amounts. And of course, due to having a calcium-based skeleton, people are slightly radioactive too. (but unless you eat some really weird stuff you're not going to set off the meter)

Extreme wingflex is nothing new, but the 787 even has inverse tailplane flex, check it out: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5025/5545405303_4ae0c4c488_o.jpg

He certainly has a decent number of Su-24's as well. I'd heard that he'd moved his planes to the south, so they're out of range of the no-fly-zone so they can't be bombed on the ground.

Seems there was an air-to-air shootdown just recently, no word on which type it was on either side. The Pro-Gadhaffi plane lost. Nice photos of actual planes/loads being used--Rafales, Typhoons, Falcons, Tornados: http://noticias.uol.....jhtm#fotoNav=1 The F-15 that crashed was 91-304: http://www.planes.cz/cs/photo/1010611/f-15e-51-mc-91-0304-usaf-ostrava-osr-lkmt/

Or Iowa, land of radon. (we're best known for pigs and corn, because we tend not to advertise the radioactive soil part...)

Really? I've tried various methods for years---could on every other site, but never here.

Sweden says they have Gripens on standby, but the nation itself hasn't committed yet. It'd be neat to see the Gripen's combat debut. (of course, Hungary or Czech Republic could send theirs...)

Huh, it didn't use to---you couldn't embed them at all in fact, no matter what method you tried.

Just FYI, but excess iodine can be as bad as radioactive iodine. Depending on one's age, it can be pretty iffy as to what's the greater danger. Don't take iodine willy-nilly. Kind of like injecting atropine into your heart---you really shouldn't unless you have to, not just because "well it could maybe prevent something". Anyways---neat animation of Japan's GPS receivers moving. Left/blue is horizontal displacement, right/red is vertical. Note how many don't go back to their previous locations, and how it ripples throughout the entire island chain. Around the 27 sec mark you can also notice a large aftershock.

Seconded--I've always liked the very unique cross-section of the Rafale. It's not a simple tube or box like so many planes---it's a complicated yet geometric shape, like the YF-23. YF-23 is all hexagons, the Rafale is like a concave diamond.

Boom. Finally found a pic of a Rafale that was actually armed for ground attack:

Yeah, but some people hate ANY spoilers. I don't consider myself "spoiled" but in the interest of preserving it for others, I got rid of them.

I just deleted the pics, as I have yet to discover how to spoiler-tag-edit an embedded pic in the newest forum upgrade.

Should be an L67 3800 Series II--my last car had one. The power steering cap is much lower than you'd think based on the diagram. It is way low and near the firewall. And almost directly under some hoses that you'll probably have to push aside a bit to actually unscrew it. It's basically mounted on the side of the engine, with a lot of stuff on top of it hiding it. It's not "on top" like the radiator or oil cap. PS---watch for the A/C drain tube, a little right-angle rubber thingy, shaped like a faucet tap. It'll be in a similar area but actually mounted to the firewall. If it should pop off, pop it back on. And I'd highly recommend cleaning any gunk out of it regardless, odds are good you'll find white stuff partly clogging the tip. PPS---ever changed the supercharger oil? That's highly neglected by a lot of people, but easy to do. And do NOT over-tighten the cap. (and don't let the dealer check it either---they always overtighten it, to the point of destroying the threads/cap)

It was never just a no-fly-zone. It has been 'everything and anything short of ground forces' since the resolution was passed. That means tank-plinking and Wild Weasel missions a-plenty. US has yet to put a combat plane in the air, just cruise missile strikes and support planes.

Dutch and Danish jets have arrived in Italy.

Just FYI, but the UK is calling this Operation Ellamy, the US calls it Operation Odyssey Dawn.

Rafales are in Libya and striking tanks. Mirage 2000's also there. While there has been no air-to-air combat AFAIK, there is a MiG-23 down and a MiG-21 down. Certainly at least one of them is a rebel plane lost due to friendly fire from the rebels, but too much conflicting info to be sure. Recent surprising pic (given their stated stance) is Italian Tornados being loaded up with live HARMs. Canada's F-18s are in Scotland and getting ready to head to Sicily. RAF Tornados just left Scotland. Haven't heard anything on Spain's F-18s lately. Dutch/Belgian/Norwegian F-16s committed but no movement I've heard of. Heard a report of US F-15's leaving the UK, but nothing for the Navy.

Malta has said no to staging, only fly-over rights. Italy has opened their bases, but no actual forces committed AFAIK.

Well, everything's basically "on hold" at the moment. France still the vanguard though, ready and waiting.

How come I've seen cosplayers with much better-fitting boots and leggings?

Anyways, with the Libyan no-fly-zone+ imposed, just some interesting facts: You need SEAD, and lots of it--not necessarily top-of-the-line fighters for CAP. F-22 not really the best here (and it's a waste to send them against MiG-23's). Can't deny airspace unless you control it first and can fly around without fearing SAMs. Tornado GR4 and F-16 Block 50/52 are among the very best at this. Tank plinking would actually be quite useful, but could be a while before any A-10's get in-theater. I don't think Bentwater has had any for many years. Will probably fall to the Tornado and F-16 again. I'm not up on the Rafale or Typhoon's anti-tank weaponry. IMHO the most-likely "early situation" is Su-24 vs Shornet or Rafale. I won't be surprised if something's been shot down when I check the news in the morning. Here's what's currently in the area, US Navy-wise: Closest, on the Enterprise: VFA-11 Red Rippers F-18F VFA-136 Knighthawks F-18E VFA-211 Checkmates F-18F VMFA-251 Rhunderbolts F-18C Next closest, on the Carl Vinson: VFA-22 Redcocks F-18F VFA-25 Fist of the Fleet F-18C VFA-81 Sunliners F-18E VFA-113 Stingers F-18C Notably, the Sunliners got the Hornet's first kills in Desert Storm and they've been in combat in Libya before. Certainly "the squadron to watch". For the USAF, Aviano's F-16s would be the main, probably followed by Spangdahlem's. Both could do SEAD and CAP. Strike Eagles from RAF Lakenheath likely IMHO for non-SEAD strikes if needed. ::edit:: Ah, forgot, Spangdahlem has A-10's now too. Good, because it's a LONG way to Libya from Arizona...

No program gets everything. Since you have good cause to suspect something, I would go here and let it run this scan. http://www.pandasecu...ons/activescan/ Just say yes/agree/install to everything. Note that it will scan EVERY file and will take a while---I think 3 hours last time I ran it, maybe 180 gigs searched. But I have found it'll often find things others (AVG, Avast, Avira, MS) miss, even if it's as minor as a tracking cookie from an ad website. If it is a key logger, decent odds are it's specifically a root-kit, which are quite different from viruses and many scans won't find them easily. Google up a few root-kit detectors and see if they find anything. (note that there can often be some false positives, especially if you have anything with SecuROM on your PC) "Combofix" is also a good, powerful, all-purpose "find the hidden nasties" program. It'll find a lot of things others miss. Doesn't take long either. http://www.combofix.org/download.php There's always a lot of warnings associated with it, but I've never seen any issues. It will go DEEP into your OS/registry though, to the point that many other programs will consider what it does to be viral--but that's how it roots out things others miss.

Plus half-life. Many of the types of fallout being put out have half-lives of seconds/minutes/hours----it'd have decayed to nothingness by the time it even got here. The jetstream doesn't move at Mach 5. Sure if you're 5 minutes away it's an issue, but if you're days away from something with a 20-second half-life, it'll be down to nothing by the time it gets to you. At which point a Banana will be worse for you, radiation-wise. Something I just read---the majority of Iodine-129 (the worst fallout with the longest half-life a reactor can put out) in the world exists in the environment due to air-test nukes in the 40's/50's. Yup, it's been there your whole life, you just probably didn't know about it. I don't really think a .001% increase or whatever is going to do anything. Remember, the sun is pumping out far more radiation constantly, and the ozone isn't what it used to be---that exposes you to much more radiation, every day. Fear that, if you want to fear something. The reactors WILL be stopped at some point---but the sun's going to keep pumping out UVA through the ozone holes...

Anyone here still have access to the Tomcat sunset forums? If a Tomcat flew, they *would* know about it.