My guess is that they need to measure the forces that the weapon, and its internal components, are subjected to if it falls out of a transport or if it goes off course and subsequently impacts the ground. This will help them predict the likelihood of and unintentional detonation of the conventional explosives, and I suppose the likelihood of a nuclear reaction resulting from this. It will also help them predict the kind of cleanup task that will be necessary. It might also be useful to know how much secret technology survives after an impact if the weapon does not detonate.
Anyone know the back story on Sandia Labs appropriating the thunderbid symbol? It seems a poor choice for a weapons lab of colonizing nation to use the symbol of a people that nation has displaced.

I remember this one.
*isdupe

..and his pants fell down as he was running away.

thanks for ruining everything....
..didn't see that.

Oh well, maybe if I keep trying to sift this for another 20 years, the world will come around...

Fixed, thanks to a Vimeo link from eric3579.
Thank you!

^that's just silly, and I assume it's because the video isn't showing up in Firefox. *promote

Fixed... sort of.
I got rid of the popcorn... but the video isn't working for me in Firefox. Chrome is running it fine.
..anyone else able to see it?

Wait? not sifted? *promote

It took me waaaaay too long to figure out why this Onion video was not funny.

Immoral, disrespectful, and dishonorable behaviors are not necessarily illegal.

There may be a place for trickery in police work. That place is not "whenever you encounter someone with a frisbee golf bag". We share videos like this, because we see a pattern of excessive trickery and intimidation on the part of police. That needs to change, whether it is legislation, new policies, or enforcement of existing policies that ultimately bring this change.

Good thing the biker didn't have a gun; someone could have been killed, or at the very least, the robbers would have another weapon.

The entire cloud might ignite!

I think what actually happens.. is that you end up accidentally sending Facebook friend requests to everyone in your contact list.

..all right. I'll let it slide, this time