Nightshade/PR

This was great

Who said Fords were boring?

Just above the cloud layer..........

There's something about the Phantom that makes it never get old.....

I am flattered, and NOWHERE near that articulate!!!! But Thank You.

Both finesse and functionality have their place, and I think the Russians do a great job of balancing those factors. That being said, I agree that without a good pilot, any aircraft is just a 1g strafe target.

A group I must say i am QUITE proud to be a part of....

Getting on top (of the clouds) for a long ride to paydirt...........................

L-39's are smooth flying light attackers (very light)

The beginnings of a long morning

And awayyyyyyyyyyyy we go........................

This was FUN!!!! These guys put a lot of missiles in the air, and we were lucky to survive the run....

I know age and technology eventually catches up with every airframe, but I've always had a soft spot for the Viking.

Vikings........

Weather report over Germany calls for Tornadoes!!! And fliers from the Great White North over the Great Empty Expanse...

As it seems that getting access to the site for downloading the required files are next to zero, what are our next options?

Flight Of the Intruders.........

I love bad weather strikes...........

North Atlantic landings in bad weather....

This HAS to be Florida.

There’s always the chance that we are being watched, our evolution monitored closely, and despite that possibility, I’m a firm believer that in order to survive, we need to be a multi-planet species, so spreading out across the galaxy / universe is necessary. Not putting all our eggs in one basket, and all that jazz…..in case the worst of cosmic scenarios should come to pass. Because I believe that there are dangers beyond imagining out there, and we’d best be prepared to meet them head on, since anyone we meet along the way is will already have survived the worst the universe could throw at them, and advanced. They’ll be some of the toughest, smartest, brightest, and possibly the most fearless of universal survivors, and our best bet might be to find a way to stay out of sight until we can meet them on an equal footing. For us, that means leaving behind the TV mindset that we’ll somehow beat them with a computer virus, or the flu-bug, or some other unrealistic foolishness, and deciding that if we’re going to go out there into the deep dark, WE need to some of the smartest, toughest, and innovative denizens in the galaxy: as well as being ready to fight like all that’s holy to survive it, should that option become necessary.

I have to disagree. That may be reasonable to a member of our species, but to try applying that same reasoning to another, unknown and clearly non-earth-like species is dangerous. They may BE a warlike, hostile and xenophobic culture. We certainly are, so who's to say that mindset isn't common in the universe? We don't know who or what we are going to run into, so to assume some benevolent logic just because of advanced technology, or any assumption at all, is fraught with untold dangers. As it hasn't happened yet, we're all guessing at maybe's, and no one opinion holds sway over any others. We could all be right, after a fashion, or completely wrong after that same fashion. I am keeping my mind (and options, limited as they are) open to all possibilities.

This was pretty good.

Looking at this from a different angle.............. We assume that another (advanced) civilization wants to invade us for whatever......nefarious reasons that "aliens" have for showing up. (Women, booze, peaches, cheap land in Wisconsin?) But suppose they took a good long look at our species, and decided that the potential for our unleashing a living hell on the rest of the universe if we continue to progress down the technological path we are on, just isn't worth the risk of letting us survive as a species? Killing us off may not even be something they see as anything other than a version of self-preservation in the face of a looming/potential threat.

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