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2 airliners have 100-foot near miss with drone above New York (JFK)
CNN ^ | August 1, 2015 | Joshua Berlinger

Posted on 08/01/2015 10:29:37 AM PDT by Zakeet

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To: tcrlaf
Agreed

Folks like you who are responsible and use common sense are not the problem. It's the people flying them near airports and such that I worry about.

21 posted on 08/01/2015 12:15:15 PM PDT by mware
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

That’s just it. With these drones becoming eventually as ubiquitous as cellphones; the danger to commercial airliners will be a given. - Attempting to enact “laws” to “control” them is a laugh.


22 posted on 08/01/2015 12:15:25 PM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: Zakeet
In life it's the one or two idiots who ruin it for everyone else.


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23 posted on 08/01/2015 12:45:06 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Moving day: June 16th, 2015. LEFT >>>HOPE and CHANGE>>> RIGHT / [DOPE and STRANGE stay home].)
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To: mware

Isn’t that the truth. Like they used to “Someone will always spoil a good thing”. Most of us are responsible but the majority screw it up


24 posted on 08/01/2015 12:45:11 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Zakeet

“Here’s a phrase that apparently the airlines simply made up: near miss. They say that if 2 planes almost collide, it’s a near miss. Bullshhhhhh, my friend. It’s a near hit! A collision is a near miss.
[WHAM! CRUNCH!]
“Look, they nearly missed!”
“Yes, but not quite.”

-George Carlin


25 posted on 08/01/2015 12:46:55 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Veggie Todd
I guess not every headline writer got the memo that a "near miss" means they hit. (sigh)

"Near miss" doesn't mean "nearly miss," it means "missed when they were nearby." Everybody but grammar pedants understands this.

26 posted on 08/01/2015 1:02:06 PM PDT by RansomOttawa (tm)
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To: CodeToad

I agree. I might tolerate sitting between two skinny Freepers.


27 posted on 08/01/2015 1:04:06 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS,)
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28 posted on 08/01/2015 1:08:48 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

I didn’t like his politics but the mans was a genius. We saw him on his last show tour and he was one of the best I had seen. Cosby was boring, but Carlin killed.


29 posted on 08/01/2015 1:27:08 PM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: Zakeet

This is another case where people abuse things that will lead to elimination of those things.

I am not sure if this makes sense. I am a little under the weather today.

We will lose our rights to have a drone because of these idiots.


30 posted on 08/01/2015 1:33:12 PM PDT by moviefan8
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To: Veggie Todd
>> I guess not every headline writer got the memo that a "near miss" means they hit <<

Gotta disagree, in the most respectful of ways. To me, the noun miss is determinative of the phrase's commonsense meaning.

Therefore, I think the phrase simply tells one that although the two objects were so "near" to one another as to make a collision seem likely, in fact there was no collision -- in other words, there was a miss.

Now if I interpret your post correctly, you're reading the phrase as if it says that the two objects "nearly missed" or "almost missed" one another. That's not an unreasonable interpretation, I guess, in terms of pure logic. But as we know, logic doesn't always rule in matters of idiomatic language. So I believe standard usage and plain meaning are on my side.

31 posted on 08/01/2015 2:50:33 PM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: Zakeet

So two planes hit a drone above JFK?


32 posted on 08/01/2015 10:27:11 PM PDT by lewislynn ( Hillary = Obama in a pantsuit)
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