BKITU: /Sometimes, growing up a stone's throw from Miramar had its suck moments.

Why do you hate the sound of freedom?

Don't fark with me, now I heard a boom...



Could you describe the "boom", sir?

Stay cryptic, San Diego.

Pulsejet or ramjet sonic-boom.
I bet those are a bit on the loud side.

The Mexican food in California is pretty powerful stuff.

Why not just believe the military, they have no reason to lie to us.

gas giant: Pulsejet or ramjet sonic-boom.

FIFM
The later probably isn't possible.

BLOOP

well, felt like an earthquake to me

pb

Your mom sat down.

BKITU: "Military officials said there were no exercises in the area at the time of the boom."

That's their story and they're sticking to it, just like they have for decades.

/Sometimes, growing up a stone's throw from Miramar had its suck moments.

Perhaps this time they are being honest by saying there were no "exercises." My best educated guess at this moment is it was a warning shot to Mothra, who has been known to venture off the California coast. Another possibility, just as likely even, could be it was an engagement with some Mothra larvae. The fact that there was only one boom, suggesting the threat has been neutralized, should actually allow everyone in San Diego to sleep a little easier tonight.

MorePeasPlease: BKITU: /Sometimes, growing up a stone's throw from Miramar had its suck moments.

Why do you hate the sound of freedom?

Because of events like this:



Three Civilians Killed In Navy Jet Crash (new window)

Probably a top secret aerospaceplane descending over San Diego on its way to land at Area 51. ;-)

Didn't feel anything.

/North County

the comments section at TFA is impressive... almost Fark-worthy levels of cynicism and dissembling.

I blame mutants:

BigChad: Because of events like this...

The Empire State Building with a B-25 in it's belly nods knowingly.

Oh Christ, I meant "its"!

Barbie Dream Hearse: The Mexican food in California is pretty powerful stuff.

Taco Tuesday isn't until tomorrow.

Probably was the $.25 wings at the Sneak Joint.

The Crystal Method unavailable for comment.

MorePeasPlease: Oh Christ, I meant "its"!

It's bloody contagious, I tell ya. Damn internet is dumbing us all down.

LOL. Miramar is close, SD has a huge Naval base, 100 or so miles off the coast is gee, San Clemente Island.. A US Naval Station and weapons testing site.

Who believes the disclaimers anymore.. Hell if there IS one, it is obviously a LIE. Love this country. Orwell was right.. NO is Yes.

hmmmm, mysterious boom exactly 3 years before the 2012 end of the world stuff?

/gets out tinfoil hat

They are testing that new HAARP thingy in Alaska again.
Thanks Jesse!!

Definitely felt it, assumed it was just a tremor.

texdent: San Diego will soon be known as Sub Diego.

damn you!! *obig tiny fist*

/sub diego trifecta pending?

Oznog: Don't fark with me, now I heard a boom...

Could you describe the "boom", sir?

Pure win.

I dips me lid.

/I read "shakes" as "snakes" and came here to do a "motherfarking snakes" reference
//I feel much shame

Oops, forgot to add that only the windows shook. Weird.

BKITU: gas giant: Pulsejet or ramjet sonic-boom.
I bet those are a bit on the loud side.

They are would be, if they existed, but they don't, because Miramar says so.

This is not the ultrasonic flight testing you're looking for.

More win. This thread is so full of win.

Cavitation torpedoes. You heard it here first.

/unless you were in San Diego

nope not a peep

/in pb

felt it here in Balboa Park / Hillcrest (i'm straight by the way).

growing up in norcal, i had flashbacks of october 89 and when i heard the windows shaking i was looking for the nearest doorjam to stand in.

please, don't fall into the ocean san diego. let orange county through oxnard fall into the ocean, but please fault lines, spare san diego. its the holiday season afterall.

Wombatzu: BLOOP

My first thought.

/2012 is right around the corner
//ai ai ftagn

gas giant: Pulsejet or ramjet sonic-boom.
I bet those are a bit on the loud side.

I didn't time the entire episode, but windows were shaking at my place for a good 30 to 40 seconds. I'm about 10 miles south of Miramar and about 4 miles from coranado. with so much ocean to the west and nothing but desert and hicks to the east, not sure why they would choose to go super sonic right near downtown and over SAN airport?

Nothin.

/ob

I mistook it for an earthquake. Never bothered to check the USGS quake site. Great. I've acclimated to earthquakes.

/ob

BigChad: MorePeasPlease: BKITU: /Sometimes, growing up a stone's throw from Miramar had its suck moments.

Why do you hate the sound of freedom?

Because of events like this:



Three Civilians Killed In Navy Jet Crash (new window)

A plane crash killed 3 people? And it came from a military installation? THOSE MORONS COULDN'T FLY A PLANE IF.. Wait, what? 3 killed? How about:

Link (new window)

Link (new window)

Link (new window)


Etc. It sucks to have a plane crash in your neighborhood. The last plane that crashed in my neighborhood was civilian (see my first link), should I harbor an irrational hatred for people that work in the civilian air travel industry? It sucks when planes crash. Blaming the military for a plane crash is like blaming Hitler's mom for WW2. Even if it was pilot error.

/yeah, I went there

Barbie Dream Hearse: The Mexican food in California is pretty powerful stuff.

Hehe. I lol'd.

i was in kearny mesa at 4pm. just south of miramar.
didn't hear or feel anything that could be attributed to anything alluded to in tfa.

however, i did have vietnamese for lunch.....

Hmm, area with lots of fault-lines, lots of pressure building up on said faults... So nope! Can't be an earthquake, that explanation would be too simple! No, it's gotta be the eeeeeevil US military trying to hurt everyone around them because as we all know once you join the military you lose all humanity and concern for others!

/sarcasm

Cynics are themselves open to cynicism.

BTW, the best comment FTFA's comment section:

"No, just the echo of Tiger Woods' wife circling the globe and finally hitting San Diego."

Nice.

/Don't worry, cynics! The 9/11 Truthers are backing you up on this!

Last summer, my wife and I were at home in our apartment in a small town outside of Bologna Italy, and there was this earth-shattering "boom" that scared the crap out of us. It set car alarms off. Then, about 15 seconds later, there was another, identical boom. And you could -see- the shock wave as it passed through everything in the house - especially the curtains, and windows.

I talked to people at work the next morning, and the booms were heard at least 20 kilometers in every direction from us, but absolutely no one had any idea what they were - the news channels had nothing, no lightning (it was a clear sunny day)

Because there were two booms I initially thought it must be some sort of double-sonic boom, but there was no other noise (no plane) and they were farther apart than I think they could be for sonic booms.

My best guess was a high altitude meteor or something that didnt show a fireball.

It was very freaky.

I also heard a similar boom in Santa Cruz, Ca about 4-5 years ago at 3AM that instantly woke me up and everyone else from Santa Cruz to as least as far south as Watsonville. But it occured during a heavy, but-thunder-less rainstorm, and I think it was assumed to just have been a single, "mother of all lightning strikes" somewhere off the coast.

But it seat off car alarms everywhere too.