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[Earthquake Damage]

It is non-Euclidean geometry because it's not on a flat plane, it's on the surface of a sphere, Earth. Euclidean geometry only applies to flat planes.

I'm pretty sure there's a flaw in your thinking here.  We're dealing with ordinary 3-space here, not highly curved 3-dimensional surfaces in 4-dimensional space.  The curvature is negligible over the region in question (i.e. the contrail).

I told my Dad about the story, and his first response was pondering how fun it would be to build a little remote-control airplane with a radar reflector and fly it across a military base.  Watch them freak the fuck out.

It's all fun and games until someone gets arrested. 

[andrea]

non euclidean geometry is anything that isn't on a flat plane. Which includes curved 3 dimensional volumes in 4D space, but also surfaces of spheres  and other non flat things. Like Earth.

[Earthquake Damage]

non euclidean geometry is anything that isn't on a flat plane. Which includes curved 3 dimensional volumes in 4D space, but also surfaces of spheres  and other non flat things. Like Earth.

I double-checked with Wikipedia (for what that's worth).  Euclidean geometry applies to three dimensions.  I think the problem here is Stany's claim that the contrail is on the surface of a sphere.  It's a 3D object in 3D space, not a 2D object on a 2D surface in 3D space.

And again, I'm ignoring relativistic effects that distort that space because the effect is negligible over the region in question.

[Nikov]

...2: What else is going to get people to volunteer to go to terribly uncomfortable foreign places and trade bullets with people they've never met? Bear in mind, both of my parents are noncombat air force veterans...

Calm down, Nikov. If I meant it, I wouldn't have included my parents in there. The real reasons people join the military are largely similar to the reasons they get other jobs (money, particularly for education, healthcare, etc.), plus uniforms look cool. And certainly the majority of soldiers also feel that hey, they're helping somebody out. Soldiers deserve our respect and admiration, even if we disagree with the orders they are occasionally given. In this very narrow context of this thread, I made a silly fun times laugh saying joke for comedy value, one that poked good-natured fun at my own values and the predjuces of others, and said joke took the basic form of myself being sarcastically exasperated with nearly entirely fictional military failings.

You forgot the Mexican drug cartels.

See, now KaminaSquirtle gets it!

Rest assured, I realize that even having every congressperson replaced with a tea party member would not only be hilarious but also very much likely not worse than nuclear anhillation, at least for one or two terms.

All of my rethoric here is meant to be taken lightly and/or not at face value, much like how people saying that obama is a socialis muslim almost certainly don't believe that, and are only trying to get a laugh.

The real people responsible for this whole debacle, besides myself for overestimating other's ability to detect sarcasm, is the news media for blowing the whole original story out of proportion. Agreed?

I'm having flashbacks of the I Hate Women thread, and don't think you recognized I was being tongue in cheek to your tongue in cheek.

Holy crap that sounds gay unconventionally erotic yet equally respectable with all other forms of eroticism under the broad all-encompassing sense of sexuality now embraced by the nation in abandoment of previous discriminatory practices.

[PTTG??]

I'm less worried about cheeky tongues and more worried about these transdimensional missiles. Which would explain why nobody knows where they came from, that origin being Ctuluhu.

[forsaken1111]

I'm less worried about cheeky tongues and more worried about these transdimensional missiles. Which would explain why nobody knows where they came from, that origin being Ctuluhu.

Missiles from Cthulhu? What would the payload be?

[Realmfighter]

Insanity?

[forsaken1111]

Insanity?

Well mission fucking accomplished.

[Nikov]

Insanity?

Well mission fucking accomplished.

With that avatar, I'm somehow not surprised insanity didn't cross your mind.

[forsaken1111]

Insanity?

Well mission fucking accomplished.

With that avatar, I'm somehow not surprised insanity didn't cross your mind.

I was thinking about packing a live shoggoth into a missile and launching it through a rift in time and space to impact somewhere around Kentucky. So yes, something as simple as 'insanity' slipped my mind.

[Cthulhu]

Dropped a payload of nameless things on all y'all ignant asses.

[Realmfighter]

There the elder things.

They do not need to resort to anything as crude as putting a payload in a missile.

Rather, they just shoot a missile of insanity.

[Nikov]

That thar be one ugly varmit.

Yup.

Yew know whut ye call onna dem?

Nope.

I call dem a slow movin' target.

Yup.

Whelp, better go clean mah guns.

I reckon.

[forsaken1111]

There the elder things.

They do not need to resort to anything as crude as putting a payload in a missile.

Rather, they just shoot a missile of insanity.

They're*