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Title: Exclusive Area 51 Pictures: Secret Plane Crash Revealed
Post by: Clive on May 23, 2011, 21:36

LINK (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/05/pictures/110520-spy-plane-area-51-cover-up-crash-cia-conspiracy/)

Title: Re: Exclusive Area 51 Pictures: Secret Plane Crash Revealed
Post by: Simon on May 23, 2011, 22:21

That could be anywhere in the desert.  How do we know it's Area 51?

Title: Re: Exclusive Area 51 Pictures: Secret Plane Crash Revealed
Post by: Clive on May 24, 2011, 08:10

Oh come on Simon.  These are official government documents.   ;D

Title: Re: Exclusive Area 51 Pictures: Secret Plane Crash Revealed
Post by: Rik on May 24, 2011, 10:14

Intriguing stuff.

Title: Re: Exclusive Area 51 Pictures: Secret Plane Crash Revealed
Post by: Simon on May 24, 2011, 12:04

The truth is out there...  ;D

Title: Re: Exclusive Area 51 Pictures: Secret Plane Crash Revealed
Post by: Rik on May 24, 2011, 12:12

Or is it...  ;)

Title: Re: Exclusive Area 51 Pictures: Secret Plane Crash Revealed
Post by: daveeb on May 24, 2011, 20:04

Well there's certainly a virus out there, "fake alert fab" or something like that. Got it when i clicked on the national geographic link. It hides all your icons, hijacks and changes the desktop and brings up lots of hard drive failure alerts.
I suspect the crummy AV we have at work has something to do with it. Anyhow the IT boys changed my profile and that sorted it, trouble is i've lost lots of shortcuts, favourites and such.  :bawl:
Could have been worse tho'  ;)

Title: Re: Exclusive Area 51 Pictures: Secret Plane Crash Revealed
Post by: Clive on May 24, 2011, 20:10

How strange.  I've has no problems with the link and I haven't had any virus alerts from F-Secure.  I wonder if anyone else has had a problem with it?   :dunno:

Title: Re: Exclusive Area 51 Pictures: Secret Plane Crash Revealed
Post by: daveeb on May 24, 2011, 20:38

Like i said Clive i suspect it's the cheapo (McAfee) bulk license software that we use at work, I certainly wouldn't use it at home.

Title: Re: Exclusive Area 51 Pictures: Secret Plane Crash Revealed
Post by: Clive on May 24, 2011, 20:54

McAfee always seems to be pre-installed on new computers and the first thing I do is to remove it.  I remember having bad experiences with it when I had my Win 95 machine.   >:(

Title: Re: Exclusive Area 51 Pictures: Secret Plane Crash Revealed
Post by: Simon on May 24, 2011, 23:24

I'm with F-Secure too, and it didn't give me any problems. 

Title: Re: Exclusive Area 51 Pictures: Secret Plane Crash Revealed
Post by: daveeb on May 25, 2011, 10:36

At work we also use IE for browsing so i guess it was only a matter of time.  :ack:

Title: Re: Exclusive Area 51 Pictures: Secret Plane Crash Revealed
Post by: sam on June 30, 2011, 14:30

Quote from: Clive on May 24, 2011, 20:54

McAfee always seems to be pre-installed on new computers and the first thing I do is to remove it.  I remember having bad experiences with it when I had my Win 95 machine.   >:(

I can't believe they get away with installing all the s**te they do.

Title: Re: Exclusive Area 51 Pictures: Secret Plane Crash Revealed
Post by: GillE on June 30, 2011, 14:45

I can.  They pay the computer manufacturer/retailer money to let them do it.

Title: Re: Exclusive Area 51 Pictures: Secret Plane Crash Revealed
Post by: sam on June 30, 2011, 14:53

yeah, I understand why they do it. I'm surprising the government haven't banned it in the way they tried to f*** up microshaft.

Title: Re: Exclusive Area 51 Pictures: Secret Plane Crash Revealed
Post by: Rodders on June 30, 2011, 14:58

Quote

Nearly  undetectable to radar, the A-12 could fly at 2,200 miles an hour (3,540  kilometers an hour)—fast enough to cross the continental U.S. in 70  minutes.

If the aircraft was to fly in the opposite direction to the earth's rotation, would it reach the opposite coast any quicker?  Just a thought...

Title: Re: Exclusive Area 51 Pictures: Secret Plane Crash Revealed
Post by: sam on June 30, 2011, 15:10

No, I don't think so. In essence the plane is already moving at 1,000 Mph, and so are you.