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Jirel

(2,369 posts)
26. It's trash.
Wed Sep 10, 2025, 08:16 PM
Sep 10

This type of missile is slow, armor piercing, and meant for destroying stationary and slow moving targets on the ground. It requires laser guidance, in other words a human painting the target with a laser. It is iffy against targets moving at even highway speed. It is not impossible to hit a flying object, but unlikely unless relatively large and non-moving or slow moving. They do not explode with proximity, but are triggered by a square hit on a mass.

The video does not show what the liars claim. When you watch it you see a couple things. First, the object is hit, and damage is done - just not explosive damage. Second, the object IS tumbling, going down after the strike. The video does not continue long enough to show the fate of the object.

Long story short, the object is lightweight and slow, likely a balloon or a light drone. The tumble looks most like a damaged balloon. The missile hit enough to damage, but did not hit with sufficient force to trigger explosion. So it kept moving, and the object was damaged, tumbled, and went down off-screen.

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Anything to distract from Epstein. ForgoTheConsequence Sep 9 #1
Hmm Bigfoots flying spacecraft underpants Sep 9 #2
That was my first thought, too... slightlv Sep 10 #9
"I'm not going to explain it to you, you'll see exactly what it does," IronLionZion Sep 9 #3
Thanks for posting this! Gaugamela Sep 9 #4
"...appears to show a U.S. military Hellfire missile bouncing off a bright, shiny object..." LudwigPastorius Sep 9 #5
BTW, in the future you might want to post on this topic in General Discussion. LBN is heavily Gaugamela Sep 9 #6
There are no alien spacecraft visiting Earth, never has been, never will be, period, end of story AZJonnie Sep 10 #11
That's close-minded Polybius Sep 10 #12
Here's an illustration of the math involved here AZJonnie Sep 10 #14
Your math might be insufficient compared to theirs Polybius Sep 10 #15
I believe that the chances are so remote that you'd have to get into metaphysical questions to entertain the idea AZJonnie Sep 10 #22
I would imagine travel wormholes are possible of getting past the speed of light speed limit Polybius Sep 10 #25
Okay, but even if that were all true AZJonnie Sep 10 #28
Unless their planet formed a million (or even a billion) years before ours? Polybius Sep 10 #30
Taking no position on your conclusion, I think that argument is weak. thesquanderer Sep 10 #20
Because it's not just the speed AZJonnie Sep 10 #21
Valid. mahina Sep 10 #35
I'm at work now, hopefully someone else posted it there Polybius Sep 10 #16
If there is intelligent life out there, Delmette2.0 Thursday #37
I think it's ok as LBN not because of its content per se, but because it was shown at a congressional hearing. thesquanderer Sep 10 #18
Jeeze, not this shit again.... reACTIONary Sep 9 #7
It fell out of the epstein file cabinet and bondi gave it to him thinking it was his kompromat. PSPS Sep 10 #8
It was taken by the military for sure on October 30, 2024 Polybius Sep 10 #13
For sure? reACTIONary Sep 10 #19
It was clearly a military video Polybius Sep 10 #24
Chat GPT reACTIONary Sep 10 #32
I believe the military Polybius Sep 10 #33
OK. Maybe I missed something.... reACTIONary Sep 10 #34
The video was from the US government, and they said it was from the military Polybius Thursday #36
Jeezus, what does the poor guy have to do to get Buddyzbuddy Sep 10 #10
Maybe another alien autopsy. miyazaki Sep 10 #17
Or a rock from Mars proving ancient life, oh wait. Buddyzbuddy Sep 10 #23
It's trash. Jirel Sep 10 #26
It does look like a "square hit" though Polybius Sep 10 #27
Not unusual. Jirel Sep 10 #29
I get what you're saying, that there's a possibly that it wasn't hard enough to detinate Polybius Sep 10 #31
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