Tremors, Shaking Felt In Southern New Jersey Counties; USGS Says No Earthquake Detected, but a Sonic Boom Was

I'm posting this in hopes that one of you knows something about this subject and can tell me how a sonic boom could produce tremors so far away, and what the heck could produce a sonic boom so big.

This is a reverse blog post.

Update: They say it was fighter jets breaking the sound barrier but the local Air Force bases say they're not doing any exercises.

I'm officially opening up an X File on this.

Posted by: Ace at 04:01 PM

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1 Tremors or just shaking windows?

Posted by: HH at January 28, 2016 04:02 PM (DrCtv)

2 Maybe a Sonic restaurant had a gas leak and went boom?

Posted by: mugiwara at January 28, 2016 04:02 PM (f3EZh)

3 Trump's polling numbers coming back to Earth?

Posted by: bittergeek at January 28, 2016 04:02 PM (B2k9f)

4 Trump's polling numbers coming back to Earth?
Posted by: bittergeek at January 28, 2016 04:02 PM (B2k9f)

I officially declare this a no Trump thread...

Posted by: donna at January 28, 2016 04:03 PM (/dSsq)

5 Sorry, that was me. Needed to you know, break one.

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary at January 28, 2016 04:03 PM (ukNFU)

6 >>This is a reverse blog post.

Does this mean you will be hitting my tip jar?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 28, 2016 04:03 PM (Hxh2/)

7 Christie tripped and fell.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 28, 2016 04:03 PM (kpqmD)

8 very fast aircraft, spy plane, big drone

Posted by: ThunderB at January 28, 2016 04:04 PM (zOTsN)

9 I bet Malaysian Flight 370 pops out.

Posted by: Oedipus at January 28, 2016 04:04 PM (CXLVd)

10 Just SMOD getting its ground game in place. Though I think staking all its bets on the New Jersey primary is a risky tactic, there's no denying SMOD would be good for the state.

Posted by: JSchuler at January 28, 2016 04:04 PM (qlZ7a)

11 Fat bastid Rino had Mexican for lunch.

Posted by: maddogg, now certified infrequently vile at January 28, 2016 04:04 PM (xWW96)

12 The truth is out there.

I want to believe.

Posted by: Valiant at January 28, 2016 04:04 PM (2bqlb)

13 I'm not saying it was aliens...

But it was aliens!

Posted by: The Bri Bear at January 28, 2016 04:04 PM (9/9Aj)

14 Same thing occurred this week in the Charleston area.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 28, 2016 04:05 PM (jV8Mq)

15 Cloverfield?

Posted by: sinalco at January 28, 2016 04:05 PM (yODqO)

16 An atomic pile, a hundred miles across, or

Posted by: SFGoth at January 28, 2016 04:05 PM (dZ756)

17 Michael Moore running (a joke within a joke, right?) to a buffet?

Posted by: Dang at January 28, 2016 04:05 PM (2oWD2)

18 Meteor or meteorite? But where is the bright lights in the sky?

Posted by: rd at January 28, 2016 04:05 PM (v0YLX)

19 Chris Christie chasing an ice cream truck?
Late for dinner?
Doughnut run?

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at January 28, 2016 04:05 PM (kXzR8)

20 Aliens, man. Fucking. Aliens.

Posted by: Giorgio Tsoulakos at January 28, 2016 04:05 PM (kpqmD)

21
A series of booms, which is usually a meteor breaking up in the atmosphere.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 28, 2016 04:05 PM (kdS6q)

22 ion power.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 28, 2016 04:05 PM (dZ756)

23 Ha-ha, roundeye! People's Hydrogen Bomb scare you all good!

Posted by: Teh Norks at January 28, 2016 04:05 PM (oVJmc)

24 Sorry. Burritos.

Posted by: Gojira at January 28, 2016 04:05 PM (9krrF)

25 Christie had chili for lunch?

Posted by: Benji Carver at January 28, 2016 04:06 PM (OD2ni)

26 Stock market crash hit Joisey hard?

That's all I got.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Culinary Heathen at January 28, 2016 04:06 PM (WVsWD)

27 I'm in NJ...I did fart?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 28, 2016 04:06 PM (kzdjp)

28 Christie farting the 1812 Overture?

Posted by: Dang at January 28, 2016 04:07 PM (2oWD2)

29 News report not 10 minutes ago said no earthquake

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2016 04:07 PM (hk3Fb)

30 HUNKER DOWN!!! SHELTER IN PLACE!!!

Posted by: L, Elle at January 28, 2016 04:07 PM (2x3L+)

31 SR 171 is a supersonice spy plane

Lockheed Martin is developing a "hyper sonic" plane

Posted by: ThunderB at January 28, 2016 04:07 PM (zOTsN)

32 Certainly *not* terrorism.
We don't know the motives of the sonic boom originator yet --- or even who the originator is --- but the motive was definitely not Islam.
We're quite sure about this. Move along!

Posted by: FBI & DHS at January 28, 2016 04:07 PM (NOIQH)

33 Tremors, huh?
Probably ass blasters.

Posted by: Burt Gummer at January 28, 2016 04:07 PM (DofIg)

34 The Call of Cthulhu

Posted by: Dr. Shatterhand at January 28, 2016 04:07 PM (n/ogz)

35 Back in the day in L.A. we would have what felt like tremors once a week, usually on a Fri. morning. Reporters kept bothering the quake experts, until one finally said to ask the Air Force, as it was sonic booms causing the disturbance.

Out of that came the story of the Aurora space plane.

Posted by: HH at January 28, 2016 04:07 PM (DrCtv)

36 Not saying it is, but it could be some giant fucking worms some might call Graboids crawling about.

Posted by: maddogg, now certified infrequently vile at January 28, 2016 04:07 PM (xWW96)

37 Trump farted.

Posted by: Gene Kelly at January 28, 2016 04:08 PM (xZc4z)

38 What could produce sonic booms that big?

Trump's ego expanding at Mach 3.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Small Appliance Sale at the Outrage Outlet! 10% Off Gender Blenders! at January 28, 2016 04:08 PM (hLRSq)

39 lockheed martin just bought sikorsky in Connecticut

Posted by: ThunderB at January 28, 2016 04:08 PM (zOTsN)

40 Christie shit or got off the pot.

Posted by: USGS at January 28, 2016 04:08 PM (vdDNV)

41
Fun Fact: Sonic booms from a plane or rocket are usually singular. But the Space Shuttle had a distinctive "double boom" that was easy to distinguish.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 28, 2016 04:08 PM (kdS6q)

42 From local (PHILADELPHIA ) radio which covers south Jersey

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2016 04:08 PM (hk3Fb)

43 SMOD getting ready?

Posted by: L, Elle at January 28, 2016 04:08 PM (2x3L+)

44 Daleks.

Posted by: CozMark at January 28, 2016 04:08 PM (CbGSW)

45 Maybe the collapse of another Casino in Atlantic City

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 28, 2016 04:08 PM (kzdjp)

46 also meteors

but I am going with spy plane

Posted by: ThunderB at January 28, 2016 04:08 PM (zOTsN)

47 Isn't Hillary fundraising in PA?
Maybe she got mad about the latest polls and threw something at Bill in anger....

Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2016 04:09 PM (NOIQH)

48 Unless it's Obama falling (or being forcibly ejected) from AF1 I'm not sure I care.

Posted by: JEM at January 28, 2016 04:09 PM (o+SC1)

49 If we're lucky its some kind of natural disaster that causes the entire NYC-Jersey metro area to sink into the earth and vanish.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 28, 2016 04:09 PM (39g3+)

50 Well the Eagles may still be stinking up the joint?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 28, 2016 04:09 PM (kzdjp)

51 So reports of this a few days ago somewhere else, but can't recall where.

Posted by: Lauren at January 28, 2016 04:09 PM (Kqit+)

52 Captain! Dominion warships off the starboard bow!

Posted by: Ghost of kari - WAR at January 28, 2016 04:09 PM (xuouz)

53 Something something, Christie is fat, something-something.

Posted by: coondawg68 at January 28, 2016 04:09 PM (DZw1C)

54 Cumberland County, man--Bridgeton rules

Posted by: and hang around in bars at January 28, 2016 04:09 PM (8CdUx)

55 what the heck could produce a sonic boom so big.

Michael Moore decides to have one wafer-thin mint?

Posted by: chemjeff at January 28, 2016 04:10 PM (lVU49)

56 Oh, and also back then the Space Shuttle used to initally come into Edwards AFB. Double sonic BOOM! is pretty impressive.

Posted by: HH at January 28, 2016 04:10 PM (DrCtv)

57 I officially declare this a no Trump thread...

Posted by: donna at January 28, 2016 04:03 PM (/dSsq)

But Moooooooooooooom!

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Small Appliance Sale at the Outrage Outlet! 10% Off Gender Blenders! at January 28, 2016 04:10 PM (hLRSq)

58 McGuire AFB is in south Jersey but they are a reserve base now

Posted by: ThunderB at January 28, 2016 04:10 PM (zOTsN)

59 Climate change!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Al Gore at January 28, 2016 04:10 PM (NOIQH)

60 I think we've already exceeded the quota for fart jokes.

Posted by: Chris M at January 28, 2016 04:10 PM (k3w9p)

61 If we're lucky its some kind of natural disaster that causes the entire NYC-Jersey metro area to sink into the earth and vanish.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 28, 2016 04:09 PM (39g3+)

Not that I care that much, but I'd like 24 hour notice. I got my eye on this one red head and also this Lobster

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 28, 2016 04:10 PM (kzdjp)

62 SMOD is showing up just in time for the Iowa caucuses!

Posted by: noone at January 28, 2016 04:10 PM (9pNWx)

63 49 If we're lucky its some kind of natural disaster that causes the entire NYC-Jersey metro area to sink into the earth and vanish.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 28, 2016 04:09 PM (39g3+)

Longtime commenter Chris Taylor made a disgusting remark this afternoon wishing death and misery on millions of hardworking Americans.

Joining me now to discuss the implications of this major gaffe is senior Rubio campaign advisor AmishDude.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - WAR at January 28, 2016 04:10 PM (xuouz)

64 Seneca guns. We had loud unexplained booms in Dec. '14 in Ohio and that seemed to be the only explanation.

Posted by: Bud Norton at January 28, 2016 04:10 PM (6cOMd)

65 More proof that AGW is real.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 28, 2016 04:10 PM (QTsgL)

66 HUNKER DOWN!!! SHELTER IN PLACE!!!

IF YOU CAN'T FIGHT, PEE ON YOURSELF!!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2016 04:11 PM (dnQ1L)

67 Without a doubt it's a hypersonic craft much like the one China is developing. A nice way of telling everyone who thinks China is ahead in Hypersonic flight, that we've already been there.

Posted by: DAPLANE at January 28, 2016 04:11 PM (1XWda)

68 I put on women's clothing...

Posted by: and hang around in bars at January 28, 2016 04:11 PM (8CdUx)

69 McGuire AFB is in south Jersey but they are a reserve base now
Posted by: ThunderB at January 28, 2016 04:10 PM (zOTsN)

No they are also Active Duty

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 28, 2016 04:11 PM (kzdjp)

70
Dr. McCoy appeared through the time portal . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 28, 2016 04:11 PM (zLP1L)

71 The annual Texas BBQ Beer Tasting & Chile Cookoff

Posted by: BamaBubba at January 28, 2016 04:11 PM (7hIDa)

72 The FAA has a Tech center co located with an Air National Guard base and the AC International Airport right in Hamilton Township. Lockheed Martin has a facility there too.

No idea what it could be, but I would guess it involves that location.

Posted by: Elliot at January 28, 2016 04:11 PM (9Y3DU)

73 But the Space Shuttle had a distinctive "double boom" that was easy to distinguish.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix

That space shuttle sonic boom felt like it shook our house.

Posted by: Dang at January 28, 2016 04:11 PM (2oWD2)

74 A meteor could fill the bill.

Posted by: NotCoach at January 28, 2016 04:11 PM (rsudF)

75 Just testing a new sonic ray on the tri-state-area

Posted by: Dr. Dufenshmirtz at January 28, 2016 04:11 PM (kXzR8)

76 Sonic booms are not in one place.. they follow the plane, if I recall correctly.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 28, 2016 04:11 PM (so+oy)

77
Isn't there a naval weapons research installation at Willow Grove NAS (just outside Philly)?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 28, 2016 04:11 PM (zLP1L)

78 Stanger thing about sonic booms, only once when I was a kid did I hear one at home having seen the jet fly over and no sound until it was past. a
As a USAF vet I've heard maybe one other time a sonic boom.

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2016 04:12 PM (hk3Fb)

79 *goes to ace's link*

*finds this tweet*

"Since 130 had about 6 occurrences feeling them all the way on the 45th floor of the trump Taj towers."

There is no news but Trump, and twitter his messenger.

Posted by: Lauren at January 28, 2016 04:12 PM (Z/8dZ)

80 Global Warming Dudes. Serial Stuff.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 28, 2016 04:12 PM (oDCMR)

81 999

Posted by: Herman Cain at January 28, 2016 04:12 PM (JwLCI)

82 From the Philly CBS article:
" "All the way through Ocean County ... 5 or 6 rounds of rattling and shaking," comments Amy Bellis.

@Zeke_O
@CBSPhilly Heard 9 booms with rumbling coming from S.E. Working on beach in #AvalonNJ "

9 booms?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 28, 2016 04:12 PM (W0RfD)

83 al getting his chakras centered, fingered, whatevs

Posted by: NCKate at January 28, 2016 04:12 PM (G0dcM)

84 Ace had a date last night. Now he feels the earth move. A delayed reaction?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 28, 2016 04:12 PM (iQIUe)

85 I think we've already exceeded the quota for fart jokes.

Posted by: Chris M

That last one was silent.

Posted by: Dang at January 28, 2016 04:12 PM (2oWD2)

86 >> Not that I care that much, but I'd like 24 hour notice. I got
>> my eye on this one red head and also this Lobster

So when you tell her the East Coast is about to sink into the Atlantic you're hoping her reaction is "Does your cabin in Montana have central heating and Internet" and not "God, please, not another lunatic..."

Posted by: JEM at January 28, 2016 04:12 PM (o+SC1)

87 Air Force may have said "not us."

Has anyone asked the CIA?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 28, 2016 04:12 PM (LA7Cm)

88
Krispy Kreme Kristy went back to Trenton and got his prostate checked.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 28, 2016 04:12 PM (zLP1L)

89 It was Doctor Who taking care of the Daleks. A few days from now all humans were enslaved to the Daleks and Doctor Who did some shit and then all the Daleks were dead.

The sonic boom was Doctor Who putting us back onto the correct time space continuum. So relax, and act like nothing happened,

Posted by: CozMark at January 28, 2016 04:12 PM (CbGSW)

90 If there are other reports either they are testing an aircraft, which is unlikely on the east coast, or spy plane

Posted by: ThunderB at January 28, 2016 04:12 PM (zOTsN)

91 MY LOVE CANNOT BE CONTAINED!

Posted by: Bill Clinton, screaming from the Outer Darkness at January 28, 2016 04:13 PM (rUc9h)

92 Hmmm. Weird sonic boom on the East Coast the same week that "The X-Files" returns to TV after a fourteen year hiatus?

The truth is out there.

Posted by: Reno_Dave at January 28, 2016 04:13 PM (n6gHv)

93 Willow Grove is about dead and maybe 25 miles from Jersey.

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2016 04:13 PM (hk3Fb)

94 Hillary! was in town, ate at Chipotles, then used the restroom?

Posted by: wth at January 28, 2016 04:13 PM (HgMAr)

95 78 Stanger thing about sonic booms, only once when I was a kid did I hear one at home having seen the jet fly over and no sound until it was past. a
As a USAF vet I've heard maybe one other time a sonic boom.
Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2016 04:12 PM (hk3Fb)

Used to hear them in LA when the shuttle was rerouted back to Vandenberg to land.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 28, 2016 04:13 PM (zLP1L)

96 God shaking His fist letting us know he's pissed?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 28, 2016 04:13 PM (voOPb)

97 I'm down near Cape May, NJ. Heard and felt 4 different booms over about 1 1/ hours today. Weird.

Posted by: Alf767 at January 28, 2016 04:13 PM (VtSj9)

98 I didn't hear or feel anything. But I'm not near NJ either.

Posted by: Weasel at January 28, 2016 04:13 PM (e3bId)

99 Joining me now to discuss the implications of this major gaffe is senior Rubio campaign advisor AmishDude.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - WAR at January 28, 2016 04:10 PM (xuouz)

It's too bad I have a mortgage. I know where I could live rent-free.

Posted by: AmishDude at January 28, 2016 04:14 PM (Xd2w5)

100 If there are other reports either they are testing an aircraft, which is unlikely on the east coast, or spy plane
Posted by: ThunderB at January 28, 2016 04:12 PM (zOTsN)

Yes very unlikely

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 28, 2016 04:14 PM (kzdjp)

101 9 booms?

What can I say, I like big butts

Posted by: Sir Mixalot at January 28, 2016 04:14 PM (lVU49)

102 A big bada boom?

Posted by: Corbin Dallas at January 28, 2016 04:14 PM (iONHu)

103 lots of lumberjacks in south Jersey

Posted by: and hang around in bars at January 28, 2016 04:14 PM (8CdUx)

104 How far does a sonic boom go? Sounds like these were felt all up and down the Jersey Shore.

Posted by: AmishDude at January 28, 2016 04:14 PM (Xd2w5)

105 Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 28, 2016 04:09 PM (39g3+)

Christopher; It is disturbing when people post this sort of thing. Guess who lives in that part NJ-several conservatives who post here including their families and underage chilldren. Kids who ride the school bus every day with my spouse. You know-little kids who get excited by Santa Claus or are getting ready for their First Communion.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 28, 2016 04:14 PM (w4NZ8)

106 Lockheed Martin is based in MD. They are developing a hypersonic jet.

hmmmm

Posted by: ThunderB at January 28, 2016 04:14 PM (zOTsN)

107 The entire state of New Jersey used to be a sand bar. If we don't donate trillions to Africa so that they;
1. learn to wash their junk
2. learn to lower their CO2

then NJ will return to being a sand bar.

This is the gospel according to 0bama.

Posted by: lace wigs at January 28, 2016 04:14 PM (fbovC)

108 and what the heck could produce a sonic boom so big.

High speed rail!! Those trains really cook.

Either that or windmill farms in a gale.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 28, 2016 04:14 PM (zc3Db)

109
Something Iranian this way comes?

G-d forbid.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 28, 2016 04:14 PM (zLP1L)

110 I just saw a children's book called "Dragons love Tacos"

This may be the best book title of all time.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 28, 2016 04:15 PM (39g3+)

111 If getting your chakra released causes sonic booms, this could be gores fault.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Culinary Heathen at January 28, 2016 04:15 PM (WVsWD)

112 >> I'm down near Cape May, NJ. Heard and felt 4 different
>> booms over about 1 1/ hours today. Weird.

If the press says nothing about it, and the administration says nothing about it...

...you can assume they were Iranian missile tests.

Posted by: JEM at January 28, 2016 04:15 PM (o+SC1)

113
FFS - already with the #hashtags

Mike Davis

Live shot of the @AsburyParkPress newsroom trying to figure out what caused this

#SonicBoom #jerseyshakes

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 28, 2016 04:15 PM (kdS6q)

114 Yo.

Posted by: The Situation at January 28, 2016 04:15 PM (lVU49)

115 "9 booms?"

Be interesting to see how they plot. One of the things that led so many to believe in an SR-71 replacement were the boom trails across southern CA in the early-mid '90s.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 28, 2016 04:15 PM (LA7Cm)

116 Happened in SC this week too. Low Country. Russians?

Posted by: Jocassee at January 28, 2016 04:15 PM (zVJxZ)

117 106 Lockheed Martin is based in MD. They are developing a hypersonic jet.

hmmmm
Posted by: ThunderB at January 28, 2016 04:14 PM (zOTsN)

But Skunk Works is out in NV/CA?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 28, 2016 04:15 PM (zLP1L)

118 Have the scientists at the university noticed anything unusual on Mars?

Posted by: Weasel at January 28, 2016 04:15 PM (e3bId)

119 God shaking His fist letting us know he's pissed?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

Kinda goes along with this...

http://tinyurl.com/gmghd4t

Posted by: Dang at January 28, 2016 04:16 PM (2oWD2)

120 Did Gov Christy eat a superSONIC double cheese burger? One could only imagine the "sonic boom" that would produce

Posted by: Strategiccplusmc at January 28, 2016 04:16 PM (IiVgV)

121 Alice Kramden taking off for the Moon.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at January 28, 2016 04:16 PM (oVJmc)

122 Christie ate at Chipotle?

Posted by: cool breeze at January 28, 2016 04:16 PM (ckvus)

123 Ace had a date last night. Now he feels the earth move. A delayed reaction?

♪ I feel the earth move, under my feet,
I feel the sky tumbling down ♪

Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2016 04:16 PM (dnQ1L)

124 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 28, 2016 04:14 PM (w4NZ

Lighten up, Francis.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 28, 2016 04:16 PM (zc3Db)

125 @BNONews 4m
BREAKING: USGS says recorded at least 10 sonic booms in New Jersey over 1.5 hour, unclear who caused it http://bit.ly/1nROZRx

10, 10 wonderful booms, a-a-a-a~!

Posted by: weft count-loop at January 28, 2016 04:16 PM (W0RfD)

126 Coupla friends in Egg Harbor Township say they felt 'em I suppose it might be a series of frost/ice quakes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryoseism

Mcgyver, Out

Posted by: McGyver at January 28, 2016 04:16 PM (6hAG+)

127 115 "9 booms?"

Be interesting to see how they plot. One of the things that led so many to believe in an SR-71 replacement were the boom trails across southern CA in the early-mid '90s.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 28, 2016 04:15 PM (LA7Cm)

Donuts on a rope. Followed by Kris Kristy on a Vespa with mouth agape.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 28, 2016 04:16 PM (zLP1L)

128 Over the ocean I would think it's possible a USAF or Navy fighter could crank it up, but when I was in always heard they didn't want to do it because of possible repercussions.

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2016 04:16 PM (hk3Fb)

129 Christopher; It is disturbing when people post this sort of thing.

There were at least some good people in Sodom and Gammorah, too.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 28, 2016 04:16 PM (39g3+)

130 short answer, it can't. Mythbusters had jets try to break windows via sonic booms and couldn't. Doubtful dual white-pratt turbojets have oomph to shake ground

Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at January 28, 2016 04:16 PM (EjBTO)

131 Happened in SC this week too. Low Country. Russians?
Posted by: Jocassee at January 28, 2016 04:15 PM (zVJxZ)

More likely F-35s out of Beaufort

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 28, 2016 04:16 PM (kzdjp)

132 Hypersonic spyplane or the TARDIS?

Just asking questions.

Posted by: CozMark at January 28, 2016 04:16 PM (CbGSW)

133 Scully! You got some 'splaining to do!

Posted by: Mulder at January 28, 2016 04:17 PM (cbfNE)

134 How far does a sonic boom go? Sounds like these were felt all up and down the Jersey Shore.
Posted by: AmishDude
..........
A sonic boom is not a single boom. As long as the plane is super-sonic, it is sending a "boom" out. That is why the concorde was only allowed to fly supersonic over the ocean. It is a continuous boom.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 28, 2016 04:17 PM (so+oy)

135

I say its Lockheed Martin testing a new toy

Posted by: ThunderB at January 28, 2016 04:17 PM (zOTsN)

136 Corrie Ten Booms?

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at January 28, 2016 04:17 PM (oVJmc)

137
Just SMOD getting its ground game in place. Though I think staking all
its bets on the New Jersey primary is a risky tactic, there's no denying
SMOD would be good for the state.

Posted by: JSchuler at January 28, 2016 04:04 PM (qlZ7a)

Has anyone polled Iowa to see if they had tremors too?

Posted by: redbanzai at January 28, 2016 04:17 PM (OrI3J)

138 Somebody's spamming Guile's special move. Hate these Street Fairies.

Posted by: S at January 28, 2016 04:17 PM (HCXGq)

139 The Aristocrats......!!?

Posted by: Amy Schumer at January 28, 2016 04:17 PM (NOIQH)

140 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at January 28, 2016 04:17 PM (SW2nm)

141 Big Tiny Little, really not a good guy. A bad guy. Did Fat Boy Slim even admit this? No. Hell no, because he's soft and weak. Not a winner at all. A loozah who never schlonged any hot married brawds whatsoevah.

Posted by: mnw (fair and ballast) at January 28, 2016 04:18 PM (rqQ57)

142 Is it too early to say it was Challenger's ghost?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Small Appliance Sale at the Outrage Outlet! 10% Off Gender Blenders! at January 28, 2016 04:18 PM (hLRSq)

143 Ocean City NJ is owned by the Methodist Church--or so I'm told. No booze, etc

can't trust those Methodists....

Posted by: name withheld at January 28, 2016 04:18 PM (8CdUx)

144 Gunshow wormhole collapsed in Trenton.

Posted by: Roland THTG at January 28, 2016 04:18 PM (QM5S2)

145 MisHum,

Speaking of God shaking his fist:

http://tinyurl.com/gmghd4t

Posted by: SMFH at January 28, 2016 04:19 PM (NMM6D)

146
Coupla friends in Egg Harbor Township say they felt 'em
Posted by: McGyver

Egg Harbor? Hey, what exit?

Posted by: Tony DeBlasie in his Black IROC

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 28, 2016 04:19 PM (kdS6q)

147
It's Trump testing his prototype amazing boom generator which is so amazing you won't believe how amazing it's gonna be.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 28, 2016 04:19 PM (zLP1L)

148 sonic booms can break glass, dork up live stock

the AF ends up paying some big dollars for that so I dont think they would do this

Lockheed Martin or the Russians?

Posted by: ThunderB at January 28, 2016 04:19 PM (zOTsN)

149 Just my ego.

Posted by: Neil Degassy Tyson at January 28, 2016 04:19 PM (vdDNV)

150 SMOD vs Yellowstone -- which do you prefer?

I guess smod is quicker but Yellowstone may be more entertaining before you are covered in hot ash and suffocate.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 28, 2016 04:19 PM (iQIUe)

151 "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter....."

Posted by: An Poc Ar Buile at January 28, 2016 04:19 PM (bpn7O)

152 The Space Shuttle used to rock our world when it was coming in for a landing.

4serial

Rattle the windows, scare the cat, make the dog bark, draw my gun kind of boom-boom

Could have been a SCRAM Jet....

Posted by: Uncle Rick at January 28, 2016 04:19 PM (gugzg)

153 I only said four booms. You know, "Boom, boom, boom, boom. I'm gonna shoot ya right down."

Posted by: John Lee Hooker at January 28, 2016 04:19 PM (2oWD2)

154 It was just Big Barda and Mr Miracle heading home. Pay no heed.

(beat that geeknitude if you can)

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 28, 2016 04:19 PM (39g3+)

155 Lighten up, Francis.

You first. ;^)

I dislike this stuff and i don't care if you or anyone else has a problem with it just as as when i loath it people make jokes about people in flyover country deserving earthquakes. It is not and has never been funny and I quite like Christopher's posts and think he's a smart, interesting man.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 28, 2016 04:20 PM (w4NZ8)

156 "But Skunk Works is out in NV/CA? "

Cali. Well, the "white world" part of it.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 28, 2016 04:20 PM (LA7Cm)

157 It's too bad I have a mortgage. I know where I could live rent-free.
Posted by: AmishDude at January 28, 2016 04:14 PM (Xd2w5)

You Amy Schumer'd that from the last thread.

102 I agree with Ace-Trump just seems to be coasting on free publicity.
Posted by: pookysgirl at January 28, 2016 02:46 PM (K27gs)

Well he is living in a lot of peoples heads rent free.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 28, 2016 02:50 PM (voOPb)

Anyway I'm not going to attack you, I promised I wouldn't. You're part of our large stupid family here at Moron Headquarters.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - WAR at January 28, 2016 04:20 PM (xuouz)

158
" - - Out go the lights!"

- - Pat Travers, circa 1980

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 28, 2016 04:20 PM (zLP1L)

159 We live on a ball of rock going around a bigger ball of nuclear fire hurtling through space at fantastic speeds. Every now and then we're going to get inexplicable shit like raining frogs, two-headed calvesand sonic booms from nowhere.

Posted by: troyriser at January 28, 2016 04:21 PM (Hz/9Y)

160
Could have been a SCRAM Jet....------Uncle Rick

Well it sure scrammed!

Posted by: Tilikum Cruel Assault Whale at January 28, 2016 04:21 PM (m3iiU)

161 Speaking of X-Files, I read an interesting theory this morning that Mulder and Scully had been casually f*cking since episode 1.

Intriguing.

Posted by: Kensington at January 28, 2016 04:21 PM (7Kbxu)

162 Someone lit a match outside the Governor's mens' room?

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 28, 2016 04:21 PM (FiQcC)

163 This has been apparently happening around the country. Perhaps I hear them sometimes. Have no idea if it is anything, or even if they re related.

Posted by: Baldy at January 28, 2016 04:22 PM (1SCTq)

164 162 Someone lit a match outside the Governor's mens' room?
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 28, 2016 04:21 PM (FiQcC)

Hence, Chris "Mr. Creosote" Christie.

Run away!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 28, 2016 04:22 PM (zLP1L)

165 >>SMOD vs Yellowstone -- which do you prefer?

Yellowstone caldera --- if I can have Dwayne Johnson helicopter in and save me and my family....

Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2016 04:22 PM (NOIQH)

166 It was just Big Barda and Mr Miracle heading home. Pay no heed.

(beat that geeknitude if you can)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor

That's my jet! I stole it from the future!

Posted by: Booster Gold at January 28, 2016 04:22 PM (W0RfD)

167 Cloverfield?

Posted by: sinalco at January 28, 2016 04:05 PM (yODqO)

That would make tonight's debate watchable.
Candidate X, What is you plan for dealing with Godzilla?

Posted by: Methos, AoS commenter since 2006, apparently also non-voting democrat at January 28, 2016 04:22 PM (ZbV+0)

168 "Fun Fact: Sonic booms from a plane or rocket are usually singular. But
the Space Shuttle had a distinctive 'double boom' that was easy to
distinguish."

Some of the purported Aurora overflights in SoCal had a noise footprint similar to a Shuttle arriving at Edwards AFB, including the double boom.

I have an acquaintance who was at Caltech in Pasadena and heard it, at a time when there actually was a Shuttle mission ongoing, and he assumed at first it must have been an emergency de-orbit into Edwards.

Whatever it was which was making those sounds seems to have been mothballed, or crashed, because they haven't been observed in a while now.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 28, 2016 04:22 PM (noWW6)

169 Huma forgot to re-stock Hillary's liquor cabinet?

Posted by: Benji Carver at January 28, 2016 04:23 PM (OD2ni)

170 159 We live on a ball of rock going around a bigger ball of nuclear fire hurtling through space at fantastic speeds. Every now and then we're going to get inexplicable shit like raining frogs, two-headed calvesand sonic booms from nowhere.
Posted by: troyriser at January 28, 2016 04:21 PM (Hz/9Y)

And every once in a while, if you're lucky, you'll come across a cheap burger joint that flips em up just right, with a tiny little girl in a ponytail at the register who thinks you're just too cute.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - WAR at January 28, 2016 04:23 PM (xuouz)

171 Probably the Hammer Down Protocol issued against a rampaging Chris Christie.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 28, 2016 04:23 PM (4ErVI)

172 TheDC: Mizzou Suspends Melissa Click For Attacking Student [rdbrewer]

So, Ms. Click was suspended

[_] with pay
[_] without pay

The linked article doesn't say, so I'm going to guess

[x] with pay

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 28, 2016 04:23 PM (WcCoO)

173 I dropped my wallet.

Posted by: Mr. Doo Doo at January 28, 2016 04:23 PM (OD2ni)

174 I'd love to see a Booster Gold film, he's hilarious and the possibilities are endless.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 28, 2016 04:24 PM (39g3+)

175 Just because LockMart is based out of MD, don't think anything actually gets built there.

You want engine conspiracies, leave that for the southern states.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 28, 2016 04:24 PM (q/kmn)

176 The Columbia space shuttle debris made a sonic boom that seemed to shake our house. It was like something hit our house. Not like a sound. Kind of disturbing when we found out later what it was.

Posted by: Dang at January 28, 2016 04:24 PM (2oWD2)

177 167 Candidate X, What is you plan for dealing with Godzilla?
Posted by: Methos, AoS commenter since 2006, apparently also non-voting democrat at January 28, 2016 04:22 PM (ZbV+0)

I get along with Godzilla. I can make a deal with him.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 28, 2016 04:24 PM (zLP1L)

178 It is not and has never been funny and I quite like Christopher's posts and think he's a smart, interesting man.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 28, 2016 04:20 PM (w4NZ

heh. Beware the wrath of the Blog Monitor

Posted by: yes, we have no bananas at January 28, 2016 04:24 PM (8CdUx)

179 See link in my nik for the caause

Posted by: Baldy at January 28, 2016 04:24 PM (1SCTq)

180 Give me a boom, Vasili. One boom only,

Posted by: johnd01 at January 28, 2016 04:24 PM (ukNFU)

181 Test

Posted by: HR's stupid tablet at January 28, 2016 04:24 PM (d1RNN)

182 In horde entertainment news I forgot.
Tremors 5 was on ScyFy last week.
It was pretty bad. Stupid gags, zoomey horrorshowey monsters, very little problem solving, silly characters rather than people.

Posted by: DaveA at January 28, 2016 04:24 PM (DL2i+)

183
...you can assume they were Iranian missile tests.
Posted by: JEM at January 28, 2016 04:15 PM (o+SC1)

NOrth Korea

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 28, 2016 04:25 PM (voOPb)

184 Is cankles twerking?

Posted by: ryukyu at January 28, 2016 04:25 PM (FuBZa)

185 This is a reverse blog post.

I know it's not pc to say so, but I'm not really down with the gay stuff.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 28, 2016 04:25 PM (R+30W)

186 Yo.Posted by: The SituationYo!Posted by: Yo!.......................Ma.

Posted by: Yo-yo Ma at January 28, 2016 04:25 PM (HgMAr)

187 Earthquake? Sure. Shouldn't have happened. Look at Fat Man's polls! They're not amazing. Who has amazing polls? Nasty guys are weak, soft. Can't stop an earthquake? Look at my polls! Why don't the cameras ever show them? You know why.

Posted by: mnw (fair and ballast) at January 28, 2016 04:25 PM (rqQ57)

188 That would make tonight's debate watchable.
Candidate X, What is you plan for dealing with Godzilla?
Posted by: Methos, AoS commenter since 2006, apparently also non-voting democrat at January 28, 2016 04:22 PM (ZbV+0)

You must watch a movie called Troll Hunter, with emphasis on the scene where the country's president (Norway I think) is fielding questions from a reporter and starts going on about the troll problem.

Posted by: troyriser at January 28, 2016 04:25 PM (Hz/9Y)

189 TheDC: Mizzou Suspends Melissa Click For Attacking Student [rdbrewer]

As punishment, please accept this paid vacation until things die down and we can sweep this under the rug.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at January 28, 2016 04:25 PM (oVJmc)

190 184 Is cankles twerking?

Posted by: ryukyu at January 28, 2016 04:25 PM (FuBZa)

Damn you.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 28, 2016 04:25 PM (WcCoO)

191 SMOD? *crosses fingers*

Posted by: Dang at January 28, 2016 04:26 PM (2oWD2)

192 You Amy Schumer'd that from the last thread.

Parallel thinking.

But seriously, it's a common expression.

This one I stole though:

It's not fair to compare John Mulaney to Amy Schumer.

John has his own style of comedy and Amy has everybody else's.

Posted by: AmishDude at January 28, 2016 04:26 PM (Xd2w5)

193 Lou Lound eyes have just expelienced ouw new realth fflighter resting.

Posted by: Kim Jong Un at January 28, 2016 04:26 PM (XtAzU)

194 Achmed finally built a clock that goes BOOM

Posted by: IC at January 28, 2016 04:26 PM (a0IVu)

195
Scram-jet equipped flying Mossad Joo sharks!

With lasers. And two pair pants, maybe!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 28, 2016 04:26 PM (zLP1L)

196 Probably a near miss by SMOD

Dammit

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 28, 2016 04:26 PM (Qvgg/)

197 Trump must have jacked up his Boeing and showing off as he flies to kick ass in Iowa tonight

Posted by: L, Elle at January 28, 2016 04:26 PM (2x3L+)

198 In horde entertainment news I forgot.Tremors 5 was on ScyFy last week.It was pretty bad. Stupid gags, zoomey horrorshowey monsters, very little problem solving, silly characters rather than people.

So you are saying it got better from T2, T3, &T4?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2016 04:26 PM (dnQ1L)

199 See link in my nik for the caause

Look at all those people running to look up her dress.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at January 28, 2016 04:27 PM (oVJmc)

200 His mouth protected by candle wax, Homer eats several Guatemalan Insanity Peppers while a shocked crowd watches.]

Mayor Quimby: "Good Lord, this can't be happening!"
Dr. Hibbert: "By all medical logic, steam should be shooting out of his ears."
Krusty: "His ears if we're lucky!"

Posted by: An Poc Ar Buile at January 28, 2016 04:27 PM (bpn7O)

201 Is cankles twerking?

Posted by: ryukyu

*Verp!*

Posted by: Dang at January 28, 2016 04:27 PM (2oWD2)

202 RIP, Challenger astronauts, on the 30th Anniversary.

Posted by: Baldy at January 28, 2016 04:27 PM (1SCTq)

203 "'But Skunk Works is out in NV/CA?' Cali. Well, the 'white world' part of it."

The original Skunk Works section at Lockheed Burbank was partitioned off from the rest of the plant with fences and tarps. Those prevented visual surveillance but couldn't contain the smell of some of the nasty solvents being used in some of the manufacturing processes.

So the name was both a _Pogo_ homage and situationally appropriate.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 28, 2016 04:27 PM (noWW6)

204 We live on a ball of rock going around a bigger ball of nuclear fire hurtling through space at fantastic speeds. Every now and then we're going to get inexplicable shit like raining frogs, two-headed calvesand sonic booms from nowhere.�

Mulder, toads just fell from the sky.

Posted by: HR's stupid tablet at January 28, 2016 04:27 PM (d1RNN)

205 194 Achmed finally built a clock that goes BOOM
Posted by: IC at January 28, 2016 04:26 PM (a0IVu)

Evidently boom X 9

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 28, 2016 04:27 PM (zLP1L)

206 Meteor.
Ever since the Russian meteor of Feb. 2013 we have had sonic booms in daytime from January till Marc/April, as well as several nighttime large fireballs. My opinion we are going thru an area annually with some larger rocks with an odd incline to the eliptic........... hope they aren't too large.

Posted by: Old Guy at January 28, 2016 04:27 PM (6AK3D)

207 Boom boom boom
Let's go back to my room
Where we can do it all night

Posted by: earworms at January 28, 2016 04:27 PM (FiQcC)

208
Anthropogenic global fracking in wetlands.

Posted by: Ed Anger at January 28, 2016 04:27 PM (RcpcZ)

209 198 In horde entertainment news I forgot.Tremors 5 was on ScyFy last week.It was pretty bad. Stupid gags, zoomey horrorshowey monsters, very little problem solving, silly characters rather than people.

So you are saying it got better from T2, T3, &T4?
Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2016 04:26 PM (dnQ1L)

I saw it available on Netflix the other day. My response "They've made a 5th one?"

Posted by: buzzion at January 28, 2016 04:28 PM (z/Ubi)

210 I don't know what it was, but I know people are scared, and are now eating each other in Met Life Stadium!!!

Posted by: Action Shep at January 28, 2016 04:28 PM (H9MG5)

211 Fun Fact: Sonic booms from a plane or rocket are usually singular. But the Space Shuttle had a distinctive "double boom" that was easy to distinguish.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 28, 2016 04:08 PM

------------------

All conventional aircraft capable of those speeds create a double boom when they're supersonic.

Sonic booms were quite common when I was growing up. It was the sound of freedom.

Posted by: Soona at January 28, 2016 04:28 PM (Fmupd)

212 199 See link in my nik for the caause

Look at all those people running to look up her dress.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at January 28, 2016 04:27 PM (oVJmc)

What was that about giant woman porn?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 28, 2016 04:28 PM (zLP1L)

213 Poor Chris T. He didn't mean anything by it. It's not hard, it's impossible to tell where the line is here on the blog. Rape jokes are apparently all in bounds. Never seen someone get in trouble for making a rape joke. I just, in the last thread, gave Max R a reeeeally hard time for calling LL "obtuse." You can say you hope Lena Dunham gets turned into a skin-suit for a psycho killer but you can't call other commenters fuckos.

Anyway, I half hope this is the alien invasion so we can get our pop pop pop on.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - WAR at January 28, 2016 04:28 PM (xuouz)

214 Nood. Something about Sanders.

Posted by: johnd01 at January 28, 2016 04:28 PM (ukNFU)

215 "Tower, this is SMOD, requesting permission for a fly-by."

"Negative, SMOD, the pattern is full."

Posted by: Qoheleth at January 28, 2016 04:29 PM (iIzG7)

216 I get along with Godzilla. I can make a deal with him.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 28, 2016 04:24 PM (zLP1L)

Godzilla vs MechaTrump?

I'd pay to see that.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Small Appliance Sale at the Outrage Outlet! 10% Off Gender Blenders! at January 28, 2016 04:29 PM (hLRSq)

217 Trump bought a salute.

http://tinyurl.com/hgdwlqo

Posted by: BB-62 at January 28, 2016 04:29 PM (DL2i+)

218 206 hope they aren't too large.
Posted by: Old Guy at January 28, 2016 04:27 PM (6AK3D)

Large enough, and that they strike several dozen sites in Iran.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 28, 2016 04:29 PM (zLP1L)

219 Watched this bbc special in honor of Holocaust Rememberance Day. Problem was that these people doing the program would sell Israel down the river in a heartbeat. Sure, most of them want Isreal to exist but they also want policies that would ensure the destruction of Israel and the murder of a whole lot of Israelis. So, they can stuff their somber bullshit up their asses.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 28, 2016 04:29 PM (iQIUe)

220 I saw it available on Netflix the other day. My response "They've made a 5th one?"

I'll give them Tremors 1, just because it was something new.
But 2 - 5? Shark jumping neighborhood.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2016 04:29 PM (dnQ1L)

221 FenelonSpoke at January 28, 2016 04:14 PM (w4NZ

Remember what Sam Kinison said.

Posted by: Simon at January 28, 2016 04:30 PM (ZLAox)

222 I'm officially opening up an X File on this.

Bill O'Reilly and those knuckle-dragging 2nd Amendment supporters are responsible. Case closed.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/hc2l6rx

Posted by: Fox Mulder, ca. 2016 at January 28, 2016 04:30 PM (jV8Mq)

223 Awww, thanks for that Ghost. I missed your post. Thank you.

Posted by: L, Elle at January 28, 2016 04:30 PM (2x3L+)

224 Someone used a turn signal, thus disturbing the atmosphere all about the Garden state.

Posted by: Suck the Wonder Bat at January 28, 2016 04:30 PM (326rv)

225 The original Skunk Works section at Lockheed Burbank was partitioned off from the rest of the plant with fences and tarps. Those prevented visual surveillance but couldn't contain the smell of some of the nasty solvents being used in some of the manufacturing processes.

So the name was both a _Pogo_ homage and situationally appropriate.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 28, 2016 04:27 PM (noWW6)

I miss the SR-71. The story behind the development of it is really interesting, and the stories of the pilots that flew them are awesome. Oh, look, the Soviets just fired a missile at me, I'll juuuuuust increase the throttle a little bit, there we go, outran it. Hahah.

Posted by: Mainah at January 28, 2016 04:30 PM (659DL)

226 This one I stole though:

It's not fair to compare John Mulaney to Amy Schumer.

John has his own style of comedy and Amy has everybody else's.
Posted by: AmishDude at January 28, 2016 04:26 PM (Xd2w5)

John Mulaney's style is "am I really a beta male? If so how am I being so funny?"

Ace is wearing the scalp of Amy Schumer's comedy career on a leather thong around his neck.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - WAR at January 28, 2016 04:31 PM (xuouz)

227 Remember what Sam Kinison said.
Posted by: Simon at January 28, 2016 04:30 PM (ZLAox)

"Go where the food is"?

Posted by: troyriser at January 28, 2016 04:31 PM (Hz/9Y)

228 When I was a kid, my Dad was stationed at Edwards AFB for a few years. We had at least 5 sonic booms a day. So many and so loud they didn't grout the window panes so they could move back and forth. They also had a rocket engine test pad that when in use, shook the ground and lit up the sky at night for miles. My Grandmother came for a visit, and we didn't even hear the sonic boom (used to them) that sent her screaming into the back yard yelling about an earthquake.

Posted by: maddogg, now certified infrequently vile at January 28, 2016 04:31 PM (xWW96)

229 You can say you hope Lena Dunham gets turned into a skin-suit for a psycho killer but you can't call other commenters fuckos.

You can call me a fucko, won't bother me any.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 28, 2016 04:31 PM (39g3+)

230 Huh, this time it was the Pineys.

Posted by: Giorgio Tsoulakos at January 28, 2016 04:31 PM (DL2i+)

231 Godzilla? I'd bomb the s**t out of him.

Posted by: mnw (fair and ballast) at January 28, 2016 04:31 PM (rqQ57)

232 Oh, dear I was monitoring .Poor baby banananless. . Do you mind it when other posters say "I'm calling this as a non Trump thread?" In case you hadn't noticed or hadn't been here, two people who weren't me said that today. I haven't authority here to say what people can post, but I'll be darned if i can't express an opinion.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 28, 2016 04:32 PM (w4NZ8)

233 223 Awww, thanks for that Ghost. I missed your post. Thank you.
Posted by: L, Elle at January 28, 2016 04:30 PM (2x3L+)

Haha you're welcome, although in my post on this thread what I meant to indicate was I shouldn't have. Because the recrimination needs to stop. But you did answer his question and that's what actually bothered me.

No more insults, zingers, or insinuations! Until the next thread! Group hug!

Posted by: Ghost of kari - WAR at January 28, 2016 04:32 PM (xuouz)

234 have an idea for a thread in case people need one due to busy TV night- US Customs supposedly requiring certain Israeli goods (Judea Samaria) to be labelled differently (variations of Gaza/West Bank are Obama approved)

See link in nik

Posted by: Baldy at January 28, 2016 04:33 PM (1SCTq)

235 229 You can say you hope Lena Dunham gets turned into a skin-suit for a psycho killer but you can't call other commenters fuckos.

You can call me a fucko, won't bother me any.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 28, 2016 04:31 PM (39g3+)

Who asked you, four eyes!?!

Posted by: Ghost of kari - WAR at January 28, 2016 04:33 PM (xuouz)

236 Candidate X, What is you plan for dealing with Godzilla?

Posted by: Methos, AoS commenter since 2006, apparently also non-voting democrat at January 28, 2016 04:22 PM (ZbV+0)

Jaegers, of course.

Posted by: redbanzai at January 28, 2016 04:33 PM (OrI3J)

237 Samsonite

Posted by: Simon at January 28, 2016 04:34 PM (ZLAox)

238 Posted by: torquewrench at January 28, 2016 04:22 PM (noWW6)

As I posted up above, I was there when those odd booms happened, and Cal Tech said to check with the AF, as it was obviously a plane coming down from orbit.

Thus started the rumors of the Aurora space plane.

Interesting enough, I think it was Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine that came out and said the program did indeed exist, but only one plane was ever flown and the project wound up being cancelled.

Posted by: HH at January 28, 2016 04:34 PM (DrCtv)

239 https://youtu.be/liJfZvXdiTE

Yup, this explains it...and maybe Trump.

Posted by: WVinMN at January 28, 2016 04:34 PM (TSp48)

240 I think they're caused by Russian recon planes. NORAD has been told by the regime to shut up.

Russia has been penetrating our airspace for quite some time now.

Posted by: Soona at January 28, 2016 04:35 PM (Fmupd)

241 So you are saying it got better from T2, T3, T4?

I'm saying it wasn't in league with any of them and I'm an own all 4 fan.

Posted by: Giorgio Tsoulakos at January 28, 2016 04:35 PM (DL2i+)

242 Russia has been penetrating our airspace for quite some time now.
Posted by: Soona at January 28, 2016 04:35 PM (Fmupd)

Much the same way they do da Zero's ass.

Posted by: maddogg, now certified infrequently vile at January 28, 2016 04:36 PM (xWW96)

243 That would make tonight's debate watchable.
Candidate X, What is you plan for dealing with Godzilla?

"Glad that you asked. I'd feed those two rent-an-assholes that Fox inflicted on us to him and watch Godzilla die of indigestion.

Next question."

Posted by: Candidate X at January 28, 2016 04:36 PM (326rv)

244 Interesting enough, I think it was Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine that came out and said the program did indeed exist, but only one plane was ever flown and the project wound up being cancelled.
Posted by: HH at January 28, 2016 04:34 PM (DrCtv)

As a kid I used to love reading Popular Mechanics for stories like the Aurora.

Posted by: Mainah at January 28, 2016 04:36 PM (659DL)

245 "Russia has been penetrating our airspace for quite some time now."

And without a doubt, this regime enjoys being penetrated.

Posted by: Qoheleth at January 28, 2016 04:36 PM (iIzG7)

246 It's Trump testing his prototype amazing boom generator which is so amazing you won't believe how amazing it's gonna be.
---
Could be Cobra Commander finally got the Weather Dominator working

Posted by: Methos, AoS commenter since 2006, apparently also non-voting democrat at January 28, 2016 04:38 PM (ZbV+0)

247 Obviously not a topper, he is.

Posted by: Simon at January 28, 2016 04:39 PM (ZLAox)

248 But to be a Russian jet the question I don't know is how far away a sonic boom can be felt and heard. Normally if Russian jets (not observation planes) were found this close it would lead to maneuvers.

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2016 04:39 PM (hk3Fb)

249 228 - Yeah, I grew up near Beale. Lots of booms when I was younger. And spooling up/testing the SR engines would rattle our windows -- about 20 miles away.

Posted by: bds at January 28, 2016 04:40 PM (CyW5r)

250 I guess liberal Jews don't care that Obama is putting sanctions on products from Israel or every other crummy, punitive thing Obama has done to that jewel in the Mideast.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 28, 2016 04:40 PM (w4NZ8)

251 We live on a ball of rock going around a bigger ball of nuclear fire hurtling through space at fantastic speeds. Every now and then we're going to get inexplicable shit like raining frogs, two-headed calvesand sonic booms from nowhere.
Posted by: troyriser
***********

Word.

Posted by: iamfelix at January 28, 2016 04:42 PM (+XGEg)

252 SONIC !! BOOOOOM !!

Posted by: Guile at January 28, 2016 04:42 PM (fWAjv)

253 I once saw an SR-71 take off at RAF Mildenhall.

The engine noise, all on its own, was enough to make you shake, rattle, and roll.

Posted by: An Poc Ar Buile at January 28, 2016 04:44 PM (bpn7O)

254 Strange and sad. I don't trust any explanation or statement from the government now. Not even NORAD. Not even from the military services. Everything has been corrupted.

Posted by: Soona at January 28, 2016 04:44 PM (Fmupd)

255 SMOD decided to attend the debate, that was just him entering the atmosphere.

Posted by: DFCtomm at January 28, 2016 04:44 PM (eVp2d)

256 I say its Lockheed Martin testing a new toy

Posted by: ThunderB at January 28, 2016 04:17 PM (zOTsN)
___________________________________I'm going with this. LM has a facility in Hamilton Twp, NJ where this story originates.

Posted by: elliot at January 28, 2016 04:45 PM (9Y3DU)

257 I think they're caused by Russian recon planes. NORAD has been told by the regime to shut up.

Russia has been penetrating our airspace for quite some time now.
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And are now showing off?

Absent another explanation, I could buy that.

Posted by: Methos, AoS commenter since 2006, apparently also non-voting democrat at January 28, 2016 04:47 PM (ZbV+0)

258 Fenelonspoke your right about liberal Jews, there are many books why they are liberals first and Jews second.

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2016 04:47 PM (hk3Fb)

259 Assuming that everyone is telling the truth, just because the Air Force is not running any exercises does not tell us what the Navy is up to.

Then we have the more interesting possibility of some foreign nation buzzing the Jersey shore, cracking the sound barrier just to stir up some shit while our trusted government officials deny it is happening just like the European officials tried to deny the New Year's Eve unpleasantness.

Or it might just be meteorites.

Posted by: obnoxious ahole at January 28, 2016 04:47 PM (MpvuV)

260 The SR-71 can also do the double boom.

Back in I think '88, they decided to do the last flight of that plane to set the air-speed record. CNN was covering it. The plane circled for a whole over the Pacific, then took off over L.A. headed towards the east coast.

Yep, double boom at my place. And if IIRC, it crossed over DC an hour and 9 minutes later.

Posted by: HH at January 28, 2016 04:49 PM (DrCtv)

261 260 The SR-71 can also do the double boom.

Back in I think '88, they decided to do the last flight of that plane to set the air-speed record. CNN was covering it. The plane circled for a whole over the Pacific, then took off over L.A. headed towards the east coast.

Yep, double boom at my place. And if IIRC, it crossed over DC an hour and 9 minutes later.
Posted by: HH at January 28, 2016 04:49 PM (DrCtv)

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That plane was fucking amazing in all aspects.

Posted by: Soona at January 28, 2016 04:50 PM (Fmupd)

262 RS-71 until President dipshit mispronounced it. Just a little factoid

Posted by: ryukyu at January 28, 2016 04:54 PM (FuBZa)

263 I'm sure SR71's are out, meteors can still be seen in daylight, Russians slight possibility, USAF is out, Navy possibly.

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2016 04:55 PM (hk3Fb)

264 I felt a slight tremor this afternoon...Montreal area.

Posted by: CanaDave at January 28, 2016 04:55 PM (lp/eS)

265 From Brian Schul's memoir:

"I was piloting the SR-71 spy plane, the world's fastest jet, accompanied by Maj. Walter Watson, the aircraft's reconnaissance systems officer (RSO). We had crossed into Libya and were approaching our final turn over the bleak desert landscape when Walter informed me that he was receiving missile launch signals. I quickly increased our speed, calculating the time it would take for the weapons-most likely SA-2 and SA-4 surface-to-air missiles capable of Mach 5-to reach our altitude. I estimated that we could beat the rocket-powered missiles to the turn and stayed our course, betting
our lives on the plane's performance.

After several agonizingly long seconds, we made the turn and blasted toward the Mediterranean. 'You might want to pull it back,' Walter suggested. It was then that I noticed I still had the throttles full forward. The plane was flying a mile every 1.6 seconds, well above our Mach 3.2 limit. It was the fastest we would ever fly. I pulled the throttles to idle just south of Sicily, but we still overran the refueling tanker awaiting us over Gibraltar."

Posted by: An Poc Ar Buile at January 28, 2016 04:57 PM (bpn7O)

266
Tell the truth, it was that MiG-21 that Soona bought at the gun show, wasn't it?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 28, 2016 05:04 PM (j4wsR)

267 I saw SR-71 open for U-2 in '78.

Posted by: db at January 28, 2016 05:08 PM (/ZFf5)

268
Tell the truth, it was that MiG-21 that Soona bought at the gun show, wasn't it?------IllTemperedCur

Looks like he read the operator's manual. Take away his man card.

Posted by: Tilikum Cruel Assault Whale at January 28, 2016 05:14 PM (0x/TW)

269 Fuckin stupid people... Using the sonic boom as an excuse for tremors is tangible evidence of how STUPID our country has become

Posted by: Triple Twenty at January 28, 2016 05:17 PM (ficNf)

270 Michael Moore flatulence is no joke.

Posted by: Crom's Dirty Underpants at January 28, 2016 05:20 PM (xudgf)

271 It was David Brock. Everybody knows that.

Posted by: RobM1981 at January 28, 2016 05:22 PM (zurJC)

272 It's the scramjet technology used in the high-velocity penetrating weapon (HVPW), the hypersonic bunker buster that Israel built to destroy the Iranian nuclear facilities. Obviously Israel has shared it with us.

The Israeli air force says that the bunker buster weighs a ton, but video coming out of Syria shows that the Arab League has smaller versions. By the way, Israel says that the plan is to topple the mullahs in four days using the HVPW.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (QSD) took Tishreen Dam on December 26, 2015. There's video of a missile strike preceded by a sonic boom. This missile made a hole about the size of a tea saucer, but every window in the dam powerhouse was broken.

Ceilings fell too, but there's no fragmentation damage anywhere. Theoretically, the missile is capable of going Mach 25 (19,000 MPH), so it uses kinetic energy in addition to the thermobaric warhead to produce the most powerful shock wave of any weapon ever built.

There's a Syrian Arab Coalition that forms part of the QSD, but this is a front for Arab League special operators. All media is kept 10 km away from the Syrian Arab Coalition, and the Kurdish reporters embedded with it send out video with the combat sequences edited out.

Still, you can see from some clips that they're using hypersonic air-to-ground missiles. The sonic booms are caught on video, and the explosions are incredibly violent.

Aviation Group 18 of the UAE Special Operations Command uses a turboprop counterinsurgency two seater called the IOMAX Archangel. It fires precision-guided munitions. In some of the QSD videos you can hear a turboprop overhead.

So now WE'RE testing the Israeli-Arab HVPW. It was built by Israel with Arab funding. Look up video of the explosion at Faj Attan, Yemen, on April 20, 2015. That was the first combat use of the HVPW.

April 20 is Hitler's birthday. Israel was sending a message.

Posted by: Thomas Wictor at January 28, 2016 05:28 PM (HWT8+)

273 Sorry,
Still suffering the after effects of Taco Tuesday.

Posted by: Chris "sonic boom" Christie at January 28, 2016 05:35 PM (L7nbe)

274 So SMOD was spot on target but turned out to be a fizzle.

Drat.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 28, 2016 06:08 PM (TqXWc)

275 We had sonic booms pretty regularly in grammar school, northern California in the late 1960's from nearby Travis AFB and their F-4's. They shook windows plenty but never shook the ground.

Posted by: screaming monkey labs at January 28, 2016 06:08 PM (2pOTb)

276 Vogon Constructor Fleet.

Posted by: Xavier at January 28, 2016 06:16 PM (t3K3/)

277 We had them on Tues here in Charleston. At least the earthquake website is showing the sonic boom there in your neck of the woods. Charleston Radar picked up chaff near the coast, and AF confirmed jets off the coast. Reindeer games have stepped up quite a bit. I live close to the AFB and the planes never stopped for the last two days.

Posted by: Joan of Argghh! at January 28, 2016 06:34 PM (BC6+0)

278 Navy testing F35 Aircraft?

http://tinyurl.com/hggprnpl

The Supersonic Polished Turd

Posted by: Yankee, Self-Winding at January 28, 2016 06:51 PM (mZS3c)

279 Wonder if it was for testing

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2016 06:54 PM (hk3Fb)

280 Per NJ.com, the Navy said it was testing the F35 offshore. Most likely they were using some sort of tracking system at Earl Naval Weapons Station in norther Monmouth County.

Posted by: William Teach at January 28, 2016 07:56 PM (Nyq7O)

281 64 Seneca guns. We had loud unexplained booms in Dec. '14 in Ohio and that seemed to be the only explanation.
Posted by: Bud Norton at January 28, 2016 04:10 PM (6cOMd)

The Seneca Guns have been recorded since 1850, and they are heard quite frequently on the Outer Banks.

The residents of the Outer Banks say they have been hearing them since the 40's, so it probably isn't the Navy testing anything.

But of course, when it affects the NY-NJ-DC-MA area, it always becomes national news.

Posted by: Ashley Judds Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at January 28, 2016 11:19 PM (Z7G74)

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