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    Posted: 26 February 2005 at 7:21am
I was just watching a show about unmaned autonomous aircraft on the Military Channel.  They were talking about the X-47.  It is a reconosence(sp?) plane made to take off and land on an aircraft carrier.  To test the plane on a normal runway, Northrop Grumman glued a paintball to the tail hook so they could see exactly were it hit.  Basically telling them if they would hit the arresting cables or not.  
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote BLand Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 February 2005 at 7:42am
If they glued a paintball to something, wouldn't the paintball's shell start to get soft and fall off or something?
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I dunno thats what they said..
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Tolgak Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 February 2005 at 8:41am
Originally posted by BLand BLand wrote:

If they glued a paintball to something, wouldn't the paintball's shell start to get soft and fall off or something?


It's not like a paintball will disintegrate because of a small bit of glue.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote MetallicaESPa5 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 February 2005 at 8:42am
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Wes be popen Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 February 2005 at 9:27am
what?

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Apu Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 February 2005 at 9:53am
Originally posted by Wes be popen Wes be popen wrote:

what?
He said that your a 12, maybe 13 year old kid with no friends, or no girlfriends, or nothing better to do than to spam up a paintball forum because you dont get enough attention from your whore mother, and coke addicted father. Thats pretty much what I got at least.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote You Wont See Me Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 February 2005 at 10:23am
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Yeah, I saw that too. The guy said they glued a paintball to the thing that catches the line on the aircraft carrier so they could see exactly where it hit. I saw it at like 4:00 this morning though. Cool show.

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Why don't I get the Military Channel.
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Originally posted by Bolt3 Bolt3 wrote:

Why don't I get the Military Channel.



Its one of the Discovery channels.  It used to be discovery Wings.
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Good god, what happened to KRL.

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He went back to hell.

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Originally posted by .Ryan .Ryan wrote:

He went back to hell.


You mean Iraq?
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either way hes in a better place
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