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And it's large heavy trailing tether is knocking out local power over Pennslyvania. Blimp is "as big as a football field and cost more than a billion dollars."
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And it's large heavy trailing tether is knocking out local power over Pennslyvania. Blimp is "as big as a football field and cost more than a billion dollars.
Q: Who uses a $1 billion blimp for "surveillance" instead of a $5 thousand drone???

A: The rocket scientist bureaucrats in Washington D.C.---your tax dollar at work
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Did they get out and declare what planet they are from?
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I thought at first Fat Albert down in the Keys broke lose. Anyone from there down knows what I'm talking about
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Q: Who uses a $1 billion blimp for "surveillance" instead of a $5 thousand drone???

A: The rocket scientist bureaucrats in Washington D.C.---your tax dollar at work

This blimp is loaded with classified high tech military equipment that detects cruise missiles incoming to us and maybe much more. This is not your everyday Goodyear blimp filming a football game, but a military blimp from Aberdeen Proving grounds in Maryland.
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Q: Who uses a $1 billion blimp for "surveillance" instead of a $5 thousand drone???

A: The rocket scientist bureaucrats in Washington D.C.---your tax dollar at work
You can't construct a golf course on a drone
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You can't construct a golf course on a drone
VERY short holes with VERY small golfers. And it takes less than 4 hours to play 9
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Oh it did? If it got up in new england near foxborough gronkowski will try and spike it !
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What I'd like to know is who tied the knot and will they be promoted? You know the Peter Principal is all to active and well in DC.
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And it's large heavy trailing tether is knocking out local power over Pennslyvania. Blimp is "as big as a football field and cost more than a billion dollars."
Actually not. $182 million. I guess they don't use mylar balloons from Giant Eagle.
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That would never happen in Boston. They can't get their blimps off the ground.
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That would never happen in Boston. They can't get their blimps off the ground.
Your a funny guy....Not like a clown...Much more thoughtful...I get it.
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I see you are a senior now. Stay away from the freshman girls.
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Q: Who uses a $1 billion blimp for "surveillance" instead of a $5 thousand drone???

A: The rocket scientist bureaucrats in Washington D.C.---your tax dollar at work
did you think a gov't drone only cost $5k? Might want to google that I think you might be off by a couple of million.

As for the cost of the blimp...before you explode you'd be better off finding out what it does for our safety. And if you've never worked for the D.O.D. you've no idea of the testing done to these devices to keep them from harming people.
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