>> ^grinter:

Taking control of the drone sounds pretty unlikely.. but I wonder if there is a kernel of truth to this. Maybe they just jammed it's guidance signal, autopilot kicked in, and when it ran out of fuel it glided to a, relatively, gentle landing?


I would take a wild guess that those things are designed to go kaboom if there is even the slightest hint of malfunction (malfunction meaning ANY undesired event). The interesting part was the fact that the CIA lead on that perhaps that exact sequence of events didn't quite occur correctly maybe.

Also yes, that is a fake airplane... The drones are MUCH bigger than that piece of crap, paper-mâché high school project. For example this is a bomber drone that is brand new, it's 65 to a possible 90 feet across (BTW, in the video you can see that they label it as the RQ-170, which is what I linked to)... Like I said it's a bomber, it needs to be pretty big. So unless the CIA has a stealth version that is 3/4 the size of the bomber, they are full of crap. I think what the CIA was worried about is maybe that the entirety of the drone wasn't destroyed leaving possible tidbits behind like it's stealth mesh and other composites to be reverse engineered--I think TDS had a bit on this a few days ago.

-Second Part
I did look around some more and there are some US officials taking this very seriously, so maybe they do in fact have their 45~ft drone. If you read at the bottom of the RQ-170 on Wikipedia (I linked it above), it has been updated with much more current information. So it may indeed be a small coup for the Iranian Military indirectly, as it seems to be a navigational flight error. Which asks the question: where the hell is it's self-destruction switch; are they really that stupid?

>> ^notarobot:

They must have Jeff Goldblum writing viruses for them on his 1996 macintosh.


Please. All true hackers are using jailbroken iPhone 4S now.

>> ^hpqp:

>> ^EMPIRE:
is it just me, or does that drone look fake as shit?

I felt that way too, but looks can sometimes be deceiving. I'm torn; I'd like to laugh at Iran trying to be all super-powery, but the day they drop a nuke on Israel and start WW3 I will not feel like laughing.


oh, the Iranian government is a threat alright. No doubt about it, but they are also terrible liars of a Comical Ali level.

>> ^EMPIRE:

is it just me, or does that drone look fake as shit?


I felt that way too, but looks can sometimes be deceiving. I'm torn; I'd like to laugh at Iran trying to be all super-powery, but the day they drop a nuke on Israel and start WW3 I will not feel like laughing.

Almost as good as

Thanks!

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*promote the hilarity!

*promote the hilarity!

Tags for this video have been changed from 'politichicks, racism, lies' to 'politichicks, racism, lies, unintentional hilarity' - edited by enoch

It's absurd and only 3 seconds long. >> ^eric3579:

I don't get it (192 upvotes). Someone help me out. I must be missing something.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

What would happen with an infinite amount of Karls?Hilarity?

For all smack talk in video games, I use http://www.ackuna.com/badtranslator nothing spells hilarity like speaking broken cut downs.

ive been waiting for this kind of hilarity since benny lava thank you

>> ^NetRunner:

I've been thinking it might be worth having a godwin channel.
It should include any hyperbolic comparison to a totalitarian dictator (and/or his regime) though, and not narrowly limited to Hitler/Nazi comparisons.


How about we generalize it more? How about #fallacy? So few people even properly understand Godwin's Law that I'd hate to see it be the namesake of a channel, especially one that covers more than just that.

>> ^NetRunner:

I also think we need a delusion channel. This would be for the "Obama was born in Kenya", "Vaccinations cause mental retardation", strain of lies. They're not true, but they're not really lies per se -- the people saying them seem to believe they're true, they're just delusional.
It'd also give rude atheists the chance to slap it on religious videos for added hilarity and hijinx.

#lies does actually cover this, despite its title.

Any videos stating,showing or blowing the whistle on blatant falsehoods are welcome here.

I've been thinking it might be worth having a *godwin channel.

It should include any hyperbolic comparison to a totalitarian dictator (and/or his regime) though, and not narrowly limited to Hitler/Nazi comparisons.

I also think we need a *delusion channel. This would be for the "Obama was born in Kenya", "Vaccinations cause mental retardation", strain of lies. They're not true, but they're not really lies per se -- the people saying them seem to believe they're true, they're just *delusional.

It'd also give rude atheists the chance to slap it on religious videos for added hilarity and hijinx.

If only they had thought to include a sheep wearing a Scream mask, the hilarity would have been complete.