Science Are you planning to help storm Area 51?

I'll grudgingly link cnn to support journalism even though they fill their page with ads and noise.

The short version is that over 300,000 people have signed up for an event on Facebook to storm Area 51 so they can see what's inside. I suspect that most will be killed, eaten, or cast off into alternate universes, but I'm hoping that a few will make it back out to share their findings.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/11/us/al...rnd/index.html
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A) I suspect a lot of people won't show
B) Use of deadly force is authorized on that base

Just sayin'
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Originally Posted by Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan:
A) I suspect a lot of people won't show
B) Use of deadly force is authorized on that base

Just sayin'

Yeah. I’m going to guess that base has the capacity to end 300K people.

I’m out.
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Originally Posted by Buehler445:
Yeah. I’m going to guess that base has the capacity to end 300K people.

I’m out.

I’m thinking they only have to end the first few in the front and the rest will turn tail and run like a raped ape.
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Originally Posted by vailpass:
I’m thinking they only have to end the first few in the front and the rest will turn tail and run like a raped ape.

The likely scenario
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Originally Posted by Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan:
A) I suspect a lot of people won't show

B) Use of deadly force is authorized on that base

Just sayin'

I think that would be a PR disaster.

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i think it would be awesome if this was a plan to secretly abduct 500,000 people
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You all aren't very optimistic for success. I think 300,000 people can overwhelm the defenses as long as the aliens don't get out.
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Originally Posted by Rain Man:
You all aren't very optimistic for success. I think 300,000 people can overwhelm the defenses as long as the aliens don't get out.

500 can if the Americans guarding the base refuse to shoot fellow Americans. But, it’s a fools errand. There isn’t shit there now but some earth based human being built experimental aircraft.
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Originally Posted by NJChiefsFan:

Exactly what I was thinking. :-)
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Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
500 can if the Americans guarding the base refuse to shoot fellow Americans. But, it’s a fools errand. There isn’t shit there now but some earth based human being built experimental aircraft.

Ok, raise your hand if you’re shocked that BRC swooped in to let us all know exactly what’s in Area 51. :-)
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Why not? Seems like a well thought out plan.
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Originally Posted by mlyonsd:
Why not? Seems like a well thought out plan.

I visited Little Bighorn last month and toured the battlefield. They took great pains to avoid overtly saying that the Native Americans had no semblance of military tactics, but it was obvious in the descriptions. Apparently they would just mill around until someone like Crazy Horse exhorted them to charge, and then it was just chaos as they all ran the equivalent of an 11-man blitz.

But it worked. The natives won. The cavalry got overrun by sheer force and fury. And I could see the same thing happening here.
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Originally Posted by Rain Man:
I visited Little Bighorn last month and toured the battlefield. They took great pains to avoid overtly saying that the Native Americans had no semblance of military tactics, but it was obvious in the descriptions. Apparently they would just mill around until someone like Crazy Horse exhorted them to charge, and then it was just chaos as they all ran the equivalent of an 11-man blitz.

But it worked. The natives won. The cavalry got overrun by sheer force and fury. And I could see the same thing happening here.

Maybe if we dress up as MP's and wait for the carnage to take place we could walk right in.
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