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@RealAirPower1 The story I heard was that his bomb bay doors stuck open, making the plane visible to radar.

On March 27, 1999, “Vega 31,” an F-117 from the 49th FW, was shot down near Novi Sad. A Serbian SAM unit, adapting old Soviet systems like the S-125 Neva/Pechora, found a way to track and engage the "invisible" jet. The pilot, Darrell Zelko, ejected and was rescued. The rest, as they say, is history! 2/2

Q: Did Iran hit an F-35? A: I don't know. ​Q: Can an F-35 be hit? A: Yes. Any aircraft that flies can be tracked, engaged, damaged, even lost. That’s the reality of air combat! Anyone claiming "invincibility" is lying. Case in point: F-117 over Serbia, 1999. 1/2

@GlobalReportNow Oh my god, they scratched a F35.

🚨 BREAKING: 🇺🇸 US F-35 damaged by suspected Iranian fire makes emergency landing. U.S. F-35 jet made an emergency landing in the Middle East after being hit by suspected Iranian fire during a mission over Iran. The jet landed safely and the pilot is stable, but the incident is under investigation. - CNN Report

@TheMonologist I don't know about Russia. What I do know is... Texas. And down here, you're on your own.

Remembering M. EMMET WALSH — who left us 2yrs ago today, aged 88

@fandompulse Anyone can distribute it. The question is: who is funding it, and are they pushing agendas onto the story? Don't fuck this up.

Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk say there is heavy interest from distributors for the Firefly animated series: Fillion said: "I don’t think we’re having any difficulty getting the appointment now. You know what I mean? Our foot in the door." Tudyk added: "Conversations are being had." Where do you want to watch it at?

@farsaid_fenius @MusicJim2 For sure. He also did a very good 5.1 remix on Songs From The Big Chair.

@Mousewrangler2 @MusicJim2 It’s excellent. Steven’s a master remixer. He’s remixed all of Jethro Tull’s vintage albums as as Yes’ and other 70-80’s artists.

Jethro Tull 🎩🪄 Aqualung Released March 19th, 1971, 55 years ago. A masterclass of prog & hard rock, from “Locomotive Breath” to the title track. A bold, timeless 10/10 that still hits just as hard today. I post more than just the cover over here😎 #Aqualung

@Sofia50020Sofia Roll up your sleeves and lend a hand.

You pull up to pick your girl up for a date and you find her like this What do you do?

@MarioNawfal Why would the CEO of a major arms supplier make a statement like that? Surely, he's not putting on an act to deceive the Iranians. That would be deceptive.

🚨🇮🇷 Germany's largest defense company, Rheinmetall's CEO on CNBC today: "If the war lasts another month, we will have nearly no missiles available." All of them. European. American. Middle Eastern. Iran has been rationing its launches for weeks. The West has been burning through interceptors at full speed. The attrition war has a winner emerging. It isn't who the briefings said it would be. CNBC

@Archer83Able Cry havoc, and let loose the hogs of war.

Chairman of the JCS Gen. Dan Caine: "The A-10 Warthog is now in the fight across the southern flank and is hunting and killing fast attack watercraft in the Straits of Hormuz."

@KariLawler Quake deathmatches, and LAN parties. It's a lot more fun when you're all in the same room.

Who remembers PC gaming in the 1990s? If so, what's your favourite game from this era? ... Gaming like it's the 1990s with a CD-ROM classic everyone keeps recommending, that being the original 1995 RTS (real-time strategy) game, Command & Conquer from Westwood Studios. (cont...)

@MusicJim2 Not the typical Tull fare, a bit rougher sounding. This was my intro to JT, so I have a soft spot for it. I've always thought that if they had played rock music in King Arthur's court, Aqualung is what it would have sounded like.

@farsaid_fenius @MusicJim2 And the Steven Wilson 5.1 surround sound remix...

@MusicJim2 I still play my original Aqualung LP, but the Steven Wilson vinyl remix sounds much brighter and is fab.

@modernhistory The breast years of our lives.

Name This 1950's Classic

@nick_matau @joekent16jan19 @TuckerCarlson Of course they were after a nuclear bomb. Up to their eyeballs in crude oil, and funding terrorism in several locations, and they want nuclear tech just to generate electricity? Yeah, right...

I am a Nuclear Engineer. I will be more than happy to challenge @joekent16jan19 about Iran's nuclear capabilities. I know he won't accept, nor will @TuckerCarlson. So anyone who thinks this same position! (Aka, yes Iran was absolutely aiming for a nuclear weapon)

@stephenRB4 I find it to be a flawed film. Masterfully executed in the first part, but unrealistic in getting all those guys killed to save weepy Matt Damon. If they had ditched that idea and taken Point Du Hoc instead, it would have been the greatest war movie ever made.

Saving Private Ryan is the greatest war movie ever made, and I will die on this hill.

@sentdefender They actually scratched one?

An F-35A/B Lightning ll made an emergency landing at a U.S. air base in the Middle East this week, after it was struck by what is believed to be Iranian surface-to-air fire, according to two sources familiar with the matter who spoke to CNN. Capt. Tim Hawkins, a Spokesman for U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), said the fifth-generation stealth jet was “flying a combat mission over Iran” when it was forced to make an emergency landing at a base in the Middle East. “The aircraft landed safely, and the pilot is in stable condition,” Hawkins added. “This incident is under investigation.”

@_GlobeObserver That's why they went to such great lengths to dig up that underground factory we collapsed last year. Because there was nothing in it.

🚨 BREAKING: Tucker asked, "Was Iran about to get a nuke?" Joe Kent replied: "No. They've had a religious ruling against it since 2004. We had no intelligence that it was being disobeyed."

@JebraFaushay If they want us guys gone, just tell us to go away. Grossing us out is not necessary.

First they came for the skinny jeans And I did not speak out. 👖 Then they came for the no-show socks And I did not speak out. 🧦 Then they came for the clean hair. And I had to speak out.🪮 Trying to make dirty unwashed hair trendy and stylish is where I draw the line.

@TS_Secrets Trying to get a rise out of us?

There are only about 25,000 elevator technicians in the entire U.S. Let that sink in. Now think about how many elevators exist: • Apartments • Hospitals • Hotels • Office buildings • Airports Every single one needs maintenance… forever. Now here’s where it gets interesting: Elevator techs make $100k on average Top earners clear $150k+ With overtime in big cities? Even higher. And the “training pipeline” everyone talks about? It’s not 4 years of college. It’s: • Apprenticeship programs • Trade-based training • Earn while you learn So let me get this straight… We’re telling 18 year olds to take on $100k+ in debt… Instead of pointing them toward a career where they can make six figures fixing elevators? Here’s the controversial part: The shortage isn’t because the job is bad. It’s because no one is telling kids this path exists. We’ve marketed college. We’ve ignored trades like this. And now we have a massive gap. In 10–15 years? The people who chose these “invisible trades” are going to look like geniuses. Fun fact: only one out of the three elevators worked during our trip and average wait time was 10-15 mins.

@HistorylandHQ It's much larger now.

Only known authentic photograph of Titanic's swimming pool (1912)

In 1991, not long out of college, I bought a NeXT cube from a local computer store going out of business. It ran PostScript on the screen - saved me a lot of paper and toner for the printing/formatting software I was writing. For its day, it was an amazing machine. Ran a version of Unix, long before Linux became popular. The first modern Integrated Development Environment - software was text files and command lines for everyone else. I still have it, though it hasn't been turned on in almost 20 years.

Spring 1992. Steve Jobs stands in front of a room of MBA students at MIT, pitching a computer that almost nobody bought. The company was called NeXT. It sold about 50,000 machines in its entire existence. By every measure, it was a failure. The software inside it became the foundation of every Apple product ever made, and the platform on which the World Wide Web was invented. He's 37. He's been fired from Apple, the company he co-founded. He spends 70 minutes talking. He tells a room full of future consultants that consulting is a waste of talent. "Without owning something over an extended period of time, where one has to see one's recommendations through all action stages and accumulate scar tissue for the mistakes, one learns a fraction of what one can." He compares consulting to looking at a picture of a banana. "You might have a lot of pictures on your wall. You can say, I've worked in bananas, I've worked in peaches, I've worked in grapes. But you never really taste it." He says, "I think everybody lost" about being pushed out of Apple. "I think I lost. And I wanted to spend my life there. I think Apple lost. I think customers lost." Then: "Having said all that, so what? You go on. It's not as bad as a lot of things. Not as bad as losing your arm." He says hardware can never be a lasting competitive advantage. "Hardware churns every 18 months. You can make something one and a half or two times as good as your competitor, and it only lasts six months." But software, he says, is a different game. "You can make something five or even ten times as good as your competitors in software. And it's very, very hard to copy. I watched Microsoft take eight or nine years to catch up with the Mac." Then he makes a claim that almost nobody in the room would have believed: "Object-oriented technology is the biggest technical breakthrough I have seen since the early 80s with graphical user interfaces. And I think it's bigger actually." He was describing NeXTSTEP, the software his "failed" company had built. Object-oriented programming, in plain terms, means building software from reusable building blocks rather than writing everything from scratch. Jobs said developers could build apps on NeXTSTEP in about a third to a quarter of the time it took on other systems. Almost nobody cared. By industry standards, NeXT was a flop. But four years after this talk, Apple was nearly bankrupt. They bought NeXT for $427 million. Jobs came back. NeXTSTEP became Mac OS X in 2001. The same code became iOS when the iPhone launched in 2007. Every Mac, every iPhone, every iPad, every Apple Watch runs on what Jobs was selling while Sun was trying to put him out of business. One more thing. In 1990, at a physics lab in Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee needed a computer to build a prototype for something he called the World Wide Web. He chose a NeXT. He built the first web browser and the first web server. The internet, as you know it, was born on a machine that couldn't find a market. When asked what he learned from being fired from Apple, Jobs pauses. Then he says, "I now take a longer-term view on people. When I see something not being done right, my first reaction isn't to go fix it. It's to say, we're building a team here, and we're going to do great stuff for the next decade, not just the next year." He was 37, running a company most people thought was dead, standing in a room full of MBA students. Apple is now worth $3.7 trillion. Every dollar of it runs on the thing he built when nobody was watching.