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To: Red Badger
Okay, this just tickles my funny bone.

Someone, somewhere is unhappy about this, I'm sure.

Kind of reminds me about that famous Mars Bluff incident over Georgia many years ago, when a nuclear bomb (without the fissile material) was dropped accidentally from a B-47...I just love this story, especially since nobody died.

If you aren't familiar with the story, they were trying to get the bomb lock light to go out, and they sent the navigator down to the bomb bay to "jiggle something" to get it to go out, so he had to take off his parachute to get through the narrow opening.

As he lay across the top of the 10,000 lb bomb, straining to reach something to "jiggle", he lost his balance and in his attempt to grab on to something, grabbed onto the Emergency Bomb Release and activated it.

The bomb, with him on top of it (with no parachute) fell to the bomb bay doors, and after a split second of "maybe the bomb won't break through"...it broke through...and fell with him on it.

In desperation, clutching for dear life at anything, as he fell his hand came upon a canvas bag or something, and...he held on for dear life.

The bomb fell, landing in some poor family's garden, and initiated a good sized explosion...though fortunately...non-nuclear!

30 posted on 09/03/2020 1:19:49 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies"- George Orwell)
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To: rlmorel

...Georgia ... South Carolina ... whatever ...
What difference, at this time, does it make?


59 posted on 09/04/2020 5:34:32 AM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: rlmorel

This must have been the origin for the bomb drop scene in Dr. Strangelove!...............


60 posted on 09/04/2020 5:38:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very)
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