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vudukungfu [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 8:55:36 AM  
Pretty cool museum, unless you are Japanese and look up when you walk in.

They got little boy and fat man hanging from the ceiling. They are inert, I should say. Just like every news story about a hollowed out novelty grenade made out of pot metal and painted o.d. green in the shape of a WWII allied pineapple is a LIVE GRENADE. And exploded by the local bomb squad "HUT HUT HUT HUT Clear! Boom!" *heroes...swoon*
Until that last paragraph where they own up to it being a hollowed out novelty grenade made out of pot metal and painted o.d. green in the shape of a WWII allied pineapple, so, please, do not panic if you visit.
The really dangerous stuff is downtown, after dark.
 
DrWhy
2023-02-06 11:22:59 AM  
Everybody to get from the street!
 
Promo Sapien
2023-02-06 11:26:37 AM  
Make sure it's defused.  Otherwise, we're just making it too easy for them.
 
mrparks
2023-02-06 11:33:40 AM  
You're a little late guys. We already popped the balloon.
 
DarkSoulNoHope
2023-02-06 11:35:09 AM  

mrparks: You're a little late guys. We already popped the balloon.


Wouldn't it be fun to pop a Chinese balloon with a Russian SA-2 Guideline?
 
Merltech
2023-02-06 11:35:29 AM  
The Soviet missile is on loan from the New Mexico Museum of Military History.

Any back story of how they got this missile?
 
DrWhy
2023-02-06 11:44:29 AM  
The missile was headed for the Coachella Valley, but it took a wrong turn at Albuquerque
 
BunchaRubes
2023-02-06 11:46:41 AM  
in response to the US Air Force's use of jet-powered nuclear bombers like the B-47 and B-52.

Funny, just last night I watched strategic Air Command for the gazillionth time.  The B-47 was a sexy aircrafy.

/Well whaddya know
 
Tillmaster
2023-02-06 11:49:54 AM  

vudukungfu: Pretty cool museum, unless you are Japanese and look up when you walk in.

They got little boy and fat man hanging from the ceiling. They are inert, I should say. Just like every news story about a hollowed out novelty grenade made out of pot metal and painted o.d. green in the shape of a WWII allied pineapple is a LIVE GRENADE. And exploded by the local bomb squad "HUT HUT HUT HUT Clear! Boom!" *heroes...swoon*
Until that last paragraph where they own up to it being a hollowed out novelty grenade made out of pot metal and painted o.d. green in the shape of a WWII allied pineapple, so, please, do not panic if you visit.
The really dangerous stuff is downtown, after dark.


They have a Fat Man and Little Boy exhibit in Ridgecrest CA, too, at China Lake Naval Weapons Center.
That's where they assembled Fat Man, apparently.
 
mrparks
2023-02-06 11:50:20 AM  

DarkSoulNoHope: mrparks: You're a little late guys. We already popped the balloon.

Wouldn't it be fun to pop a Chinese balloon with a Russian SA-2 Guideline?


Be even funnier if it was a Chinese copy.
 
The Third Man [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 11:50:45 AM  

Merltech: The Soviet missile is on loan from the New Mexico Museum of Military History.

Any back story of how they got this missile?


Paging NM Volunteer...he knows a few people in the New Mexico museum world.
 
Rob4127
2023-02-06 11:50:49 AM  
At least it didn't land in the United States.
 
Sexy Jesus [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-02-06 11:51:51 AM  
Waiting for the story where a group of Wild Weasel vets show up and destroy it with their walkers.
 
jtown
2023-02-06 11:59:11 AM  
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2023-02-06 12:04:23 PM  
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Slypork
2023-02-06 12:06:22 PM  

Tillmaster: vudukungfu: Pretty cool museum, unless you are Japanese and look up when you walk in.

They got little boy and fat man hanging from the ceiling. They are inert, I should say. Just like every news story about a hollowed out novelty grenade made out of pot metal and painted o.d. green in the shape of a WWII allied pineapple is a LIVE GRENADE. And exploded by the local bomb squad "HUT HUT HUT HUT Clear! Boom!" *heroes...swoon*
Until that last paragraph where they own up to it being a hollowed out novelty grenade made out of pot metal and painted o.d. green in the shape of a WWII allied pineapple, so, please, do not panic if you visit.
The really dangerous stuff is downtown, after dark.

They have a Fat Man and Little Boy exhibit in Ridgecrest CA, too, at China Lake Naval Weapons Center.
That's where they assembled Fat Man, apparently.


They also have them at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, OH. They have the Fat Man replica alongside Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped it on Nagasaki.
 
MBooda [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 12:14:12 PM  
New Mexico

Whew, that's mighty close to the USA.
 
SpaceBison
2023-02-06 12:15:21 PM  

vudukungfu: Pretty cool museum, unless you are Japanese and look up when you walk in.

They got little boy and fat man hanging from the ceiling. They are inert, I should say. Just like every news story about a hollowed out novelty grenade made out of pot metal and painted o.d. green in the shape of a WWII allied pineapple is a LIVE GRENADE. And exploded by the local bomb squad "HUT HUT HUT HUT Clear! Boom!" *heroes...swoon*
Until that last paragraph where they own up to it being a hollowed out novelty grenade made out of pot metal and painted o.d. green in the shape of a WWII allied pineapple, so, please, do not panic if you visit.
The really dangerous stuff is downtown, after dark.


I went to the Trinity Site in New Mexico several years back. I dare say half the people visiting there were Japanese tourists.
 
BrundleFlyForAWhiteGuy [OhFark]
2023-02-06 12:18:09 PM  

SpaceBison: vudukungfu: Pretty cool museum, unless you are Japanese and look up when you walk in.

They got little boy and fat man hanging from the ceiling. They are inert, I should say. Just like every news story about a hollowed out novelty grenade made out of pot metal and painted o.d. green in the shape of a WWII allied pineapple is a LIVE GRENADE. And exploded by the local bomb squad "HUT HUT HUT HUT Clear! Boom!" *heroes...swoon*
Until that last paragraph where they own up to it being a hollowed out novelty grenade made out of pot metal and painted o.d. green in the shape of a WWII allied pineapple, so, please, do not panic if you visit.
The really dangerous stuff is downtown, after dark.

I went to the Trinity Site in New Mexico several years back. I dare say half the people visiting there were Japanese tourists.


I mean, if the most powerful weapon ever used in warfare was dropped on your country, I suspect you'd be at least a little curious about its history.
 
Ambitwistor [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 12:46:31 PM  

Merltech: The Soviet missile is on loan from the New Mexico Museum of Military History.

Any back story of how they got this missile?


Putin selling off back inventory to fund his war?
 
dbrunker
2023-02-06 3:22:22 PM  
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RogueWallEnthusiast [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 6:34:20 PM  
"Russian Missile" sounds like a Slavic pr0n star.

"Is big bang, comrade.

Oh, da, Natasha..."
 
Birnone
2023-02-06 6:42:13 PM  

Merltech: The Soviet missile is on loan from the New Mexico Museum of Military History.

Any back story of how they got this missile?


I heard that a museum employee bought it at a flea market in Moscow.
 
Bill the unknowing [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 7:09:24 PM  

Birnone: Merltech: The Soviet missile is on loan from the New Mexico Museum of Military History.

Any back story of how they got this missile?

I heard that a museum employee bought it at a flea market in Moscow.


It was found in Ukraine unexploded. So, the Ukrainians traded it for some more tractors .
 
Mr. Shabooboo
2023-02-07 1:15:43 AM  

mrparks: DarkSoulNoHope: mrparks: You're a little late guys. We already popped the balloon.

Wouldn't it be fun to pop a Chinese balloon with a Russian SA-2 Guideline?

Be even funnier if it was a Chinese copy.


There is a Chinese copy of a Russian Tupelov TU-2  light bomber/maritime scout at the War Eagles museum just outside  El Paso..
 
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