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Yoda_IRC
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Re: What will happen to this board?

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I have always wondered if there is an area50?

Anyway that is the orriginal meaning of area51 i think.

Not sure why they choose "area51" for here. Maybe it was something to do with developing new technology ;) (however phpBB is hardly a goverment secret, thankfully)

Its a pity area51central don't take there security as seriously as the real area51, they are using a horribly outdated version of phpBB lol.

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Yoda_IRC wrote: Its a pity area51central don't take there security as seriously as the real area51, they are using a horribly outdated version of phpBB lol.
...Or perhaps that's just what they want you to think ;)
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Re: What will happen to this board?

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What I always wonder is how they can threaten you with violence if you don't move away from somwhere that they've stated doesn't exist :?

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Remember, this is coming from the US army and government ;)
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Roberdin wrote: Remember, this is coming from the US army and government ;)
Oh yeah :P

I remember someone's blog making an anallergy between America and the drunk in a bar waving a shotgun - Everyone is afraid of them, but nobody respects them. Twas rather good, I thought 8)

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the_dan wrote: What I always wonder is how they can threaten you with violence if you don't move away from somwhere that they've stated doesn't exist :?
They have never stated that it doesn't exist. They have denied knowledge of its existence. There's a technical difference.

And the land it is on is still federally-owned land in use by the Dept of Defense. While shoot orders are rare for installations, they do exist. One of my colleagues used to guard nuclear artillery warheads. Their warning shots were to be aimed at the center of mass.
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How delightful.

We just keep our live nuclear devices on submarines on the bottom of the ocean... somewhere.
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Roberdin wrote: How delightful.

We just keep our live nuclear devices on submarines on the bottom of the ocean... somewhere.
Then we sell them to Canada, where they catch fire :oops: :|

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Roberdin wrote: How delightful.

We just keep our live nuclear devices on submarines on the bottom of the ocean... somewhere.
The UK still has nuclear bombs, and perhaps artillery shells. They may not be forward-deployed, but they do exist.

And my colleague is in his fifties. He last guarded those shells more than thirty years ago.
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Fair enough.

The submarine sold to Canada was actually going to be dumped before they offered to buy it, IIRC.
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