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[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 110 points 3 days ago (3 children)

He's just saying the quiet part out loud though. This was always the rule.

[–] SatanClaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 days ago

Yes. Now we need to convince his followers he does this with everything so they stop insisting he means XYZ instead of what he said. We are doomed.

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Right? I'm sure the CIA has software backdoors in there for just the same event.

I'm sure if our former allies were smart or able to, they would look for and clean those

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So once it stops phoning home then the backup backdoor is used to disable the jet in some way? Is that too paranoid?

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I'm just theory crafting. They could do a lot of things. They could have a throttle governor that prevents it from getting top speed, or a delay on firing by a few milliseconds or whatever

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

By the time we're selling this jet for export, we'll be flying the next jet in public and the one after that out at Groom Lake.

Not everything gets tested at Groom Lake. There's also the Lakehurst skunk works.