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Fri Oct 30, 2015, 09:01 PM

DJ13 (23,671 posts)

52. I have no idea

I ran across that gif in a random search on Google.

It looks familiar, but I dont know.

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122 replies	Author	Time	Post
That fucking blimp cost 1.4b dollars. [View all]	Warren Stupidity	Oct 2015	OP
$1.4b or this for $20,000	DJ13	Oct 2015	#1
Is that an aerial Tiny House?	Wilms	Oct 2015	#2
It's from the 2009 Pixar film 'Up'...	PoliticAverse	Oct 2015	#5
Where did the GIF of the shaking heads come from?	hedgehog	Oct 2015	#25
I have no idea	DJ13	Oct 2015	#52
Team Fortress 2	sakabatou	Nov 2015	#84
Thank you, how did you figure that out?	DJ13	Nov 2015	#88
Because of this guy's Youtube channel	sakabatou	Nov 2015	#89
Thata a lot of material he has up there	DJ13	Nov 2015	#90
Well, they need something to do at the NSA's information dominance center.	pa28	Oct 2015	#3
oh god, not my naughty text messages!	grasswire	Oct 2015	#7
What was a blimp like this doing over Washington?	Dustlawyer	Nov 2015	#94
I'm not even sure Americans are allowed to know how much money Raytheon sucks from the life blood of	Monk06	Oct 2015	#4
I know a mechanical engineer that works for them.	Aerows	Oct 2015	#29
What A Visual!	ProfessorGAC	Oct 2015	#33
Never let it be said	Aerows	Oct 2015	#37
LOL at the comment.....	llmart	Oct 2015	#67
It's the spread fear industry	malaise	Oct 2015	#46
"You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has	underahedgerow	Oct 2015	#59
Maybe it came with a transporter and warp drive.	JonathanRackham	Oct 2015	#6
"The defense/surveillance complex seems to overspend	truebluegreen	Oct 2015	#9
The whole issue is offensive as well.	JonathanRackham	Oct 2015	#11
It went rogue!	Liberal_in_LA	Oct 2015	#8
PA state troopers deflated it with their guns, per the news	rainbow4321	Oct 2015	#10
Wow. Here's another: America spent $11 BILLION on Halloween last year.	Hortensis	Oct 2015	#12
The topic is governmental priorities, not individual spending.	WinkyDink	Oct 2015	#14
um uh there was a point	Warren Stupidity	Oct 2015	#15
Train of thought wandering way over. :) It was offered for perspective	Hortensis	Oct 2015	#17
Do you really think the people of this country want to cut, say, Social Security to	Marr	Nov 2015	#105
Of course, no, and not a problem. And, yes! Definitely.	Hortensis	Nov 2015	#109
Yeah, and got a hell of a lot more return than we did for this wayward blimp, too.	Warren DeMontague	Oct 2015	#57
Really? How do we know that a bunch of throwaway plastic pumpkins	Hortensis	Oct 2015	#58
And ironically, that sentence, said with much conviction, doesn't really mean anything.	Warren DeMontague	Oct 2015	#65
No money for S.S.! No money for Medicare!	WinkyDink	Oct 2015	#13
"This world in arms is not spending money alone..."	Snarkoleptic	Oct 2015	#16
Message auto-removed	Name removed	Oct 2015	#18
If this was $1.4B to help create real jobs...	Duppers	Oct 2015	#19
Blimps, hammers, toilet seats.. ad infinitum. What is a billion dollars here or there?	Paper Roses	Oct 2015	#20
Message auto-removed	Name removed	Oct 2015	#21
From same article	dbackjon	Oct 2015	#24
it is not	FreedomRain	Oct 2015	#36
No we bought two worthless fucking blimps.	Warren Stupidity	Oct 2015	#42
That is one spin, I guess	dbackjon	Oct 2015	#43
You mean there are 8 of those things out there?	Demeter	Oct 2015	#31
Message auto-removed	Name removed	Oct 2015	#32
That can be shot out of the sky and disabled with firearms?	bulloney	Nov 2015	#93
You have a firearm that shoots two miles up?	jberryhill	Nov 2015	#108
That thing didn't look like it was 2 miles up in the pictures.	bulloney	Nov 2015	#111
Well, yeah... The pictures were after it got loose	jberryhill	Nov 2015	#113
It	ryan_cats	Oct 2015	#22
So you mean to tell me that the Goodyear Blimp was actually a spy blimp?	d_legendary1	Oct 2015	#23
1.4 billion for an oversize condom	azmom	Oct 2015	#26
Oversize? Speak for yourself.	KamaAina	Oct 2015	#38
Hahaha	azmom	Oct 2015	#41
LOL!	Kath1	Nov 2015	#70
Complete waste of tax payers money.	WDIM	Oct 2015	#27
One blimp cost more than four F-14D Tomcats and they filled it full of lead	KeepItReal	Oct 2015	#28
I like how it took out powerlines, shorting them as it drifted	Demeter	Oct 2015	#30
A billion here, a billion there,	tabasco	Oct 2015	#34
Did they catch it?	Gore1FL	Oct 2015	#35
I know some folks	Aerows	Oct 2015	#39
Lawnchair Larry built one for, like, $19.95	Brother Buzz	Oct 2015	#40
I don't remember that story, what year did that stunt take place?	B Calm	Oct 2015	#48
1982 - I remember it well for some odd reason despite thinking it happened in the seventies	Brother Buzz	Oct 2015	#49
Only in America would we spend $1.4 bil on 1930s technology.	louis-t	Oct 2015	#44
Does it look like, perchance?	hifiguy	Oct 2015	#45
+1 n/t	lumberjack_jeff	Oct 2015	#47
And does it sound like this...	Dont call me Shirley	Nov 2015	#85
"...there are only two of these blimps in..." < One.One of these blimps in the world...	jtuck004	Oct 2015	#50
LOL.	JimDandy	Nov 2015	#102
Its gonna take a lot of patches to put blimpy together again.	Historic NY	Oct 2015	#51
All the king's horses and all the king's men	passiveporcupine	Oct 2015	#54
no, the blimp didn't cost close to that	ArcticFox	Oct 2015	#53
2.8 billion total spent. Output: two blimps.	Warren Stupidity	Oct 2015	#63
This is the wrong way to evaluate an R&D program...	PosterChild	Nov 2015	#75
Um uh, you're so right. When we get into the mass production of fucking blimps	Warren Stupidity	Nov 2015	#76
The pupose of the program is to protect against . ....	PosterChild	Nov 2015	#78
It's not the blimp, it's the electronics	jberryhill	Nov 2015	#106
The blimp did not cost $1.4 billion	Recursion	Oct 2015	#55
Actually it did. The program is kaput. Total output two fucking blimps.	Warren Stupidity	Oct 2015	#64
what the fuck! I could have made them one for just a cool billion or so.	Warren DeMontague	Oct 2015	#56
well, we probably need it more than a new hospital for vets said absolutely no one.	librechik	Oct 2015	#60
While it is a large baloon and therefore has some expense	1939	Oct 2015	#61
They have more of those billion dollar ballons too, all authorised by our Pentagon big spenders.	Sunlei	Oct 2015	#62
1.4b could have built the Raiders a nice new stadium in Downtown Oakland	itsrobert	Oct 2015	#66
Remember when the news broke about that Surveillance Blimp and we Laughed	KoKo	Oct 2015	#68
Still waiting to hear how & by whom the blimp was shot down.	Divernan	Nov 2015	#69
$1.4 billion for a damn blimp.	Kath1	Nov 2015	#71
I'm guessing, but I don't think...	PosterChild	Nov 2015	#82
So 1.4b price tag is perfectly justifiable for more damned useless war shit?!!!!	Dont call me Shirley	Nov 2015	#86
Shirley, you jest....	PosterChild	Nov 2015	#87
Oh good, just promote more war shit for violent minded war mongers.	Dont call me Shirley	Nov 2015	#96
National security and defense are , ..,	PosterChild	Nov 2015	#97
Preemptive War and Broadsweep National Security are neither rational, reasonable nor ethical,	Dont call me Shirley	Nov 2015	#98
Opinions are like...	PosterChild	Nov 2015	#99
It would be an opinion if it were not for the FACT war and its ugly tentacles are destroying the earth.	Dont call me Shirley	Nov 2015	#100
And that fact is why national security and defense are so important ....	PosterChild	Nov 2015	#101
It's going to take a radical shift in the violent minds and hardened hearts of the oligarchy.	Dont call me Shirley	Nov 2015	#103
Umm, OK...	PosterChild	Nov 2015	#104
You could call the Kochs, they may have some frightening info.	Dont call me Shirley	Nov 2015	#110
You can call them....	PosterChild	Nov 2015	#112
So sad, such resistance to Peace and Love.	Dont call me Shirley	Nov 2015	#114
Thats a laugh . ... it's resistance to...	PosterChild	Nov 2015	#115
Oh my side, you're a hoot!	Dont call me Shirley	Nov 2015	#116
You're quite the comedian yourself....	PosterChild	Nov 2015	#117
Thank you, PosterChild and will do...	Dont call me Shirley	Nov 2015	#121
Be sure to let ne know when . ...	PosterChild	Nov 2015	#122
pathetically, it was	Phil1934	Nov 2015	#72
That's what's called , ..	PosterChild	Nov 2015	#81
beyond sick, what the military gets away with	Fast Walker 52	Nov 2015	#73
IT'S NOT A BALLOON--IT'S AN AIRSHIP! AN AIRSHIP!!!	Orrex	Nov 2015	#74
The Mothership! The Mothership!	klook	Nov 2015	#95
Ever blow up a condom?	jberryhill	Nov 2015	#120
Wow, balloons float away if not secured	PowerToThePeople	Nov 2015	#77
My guess is that the ....	PosterChild	Nov 2015	#80
The pupose of the program is to protect against . ....	PosterChild	Nov 2015	#79
One way to justify $$$ for the shadow government...	freebrew	Nov 2015	#83
A nuclear aircraft carrier costs $4b.	JohnnyRingo	Nov 2015	#91
if only 2 exist in the world....	smiley	Nov 2015	#92
DC and the region around it.	jberryhill	Nov 2015	#107
Yep...	LP2K12	Nov 2015	#118
There are normally two flying at Aberdeen	jberryhill	Nov 2015	#119

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