Is this sign real?
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OT: Area 51
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We got the Loch Ness monster's corpse stored there.
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Listen, tourism will dictate that the locals will do anything to preserve the notoriety of the local area.
Brian
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on 29/08/2020, devnull supposed :
and 'Paul'.
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Looks authentic.
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That was one hell of a runway (nearly 9km)- now all marked with 'x'
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Rachel NV needs something to support its economy. I think it's too small to even have the Nevada standard whorehouse, two girls in a trailer.
The government helps too. If someone happened to catch Boeing's Bird of Prey on a test flight it would support the legend. Even the Blackbird looked like something out of the Klingon navy.
The problem with experimental aircraft is you have to fly them sooner or later and they're a little conspicuous. I was sitting out in the woods up by Carson City at dusk when they did a test Trident launch offshore. Very subtle. I've seen daytime launches and unless you're close enough to hear them they're easy to miss. A launch at dusk caught the attention of most of the west coast.
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Where?
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Apart from the fact that the military never called it Area 51.
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Homey Airport aka Groom Lake was used to develop the U2 and A12 reconnaissance aircraft. They were optimised for flying at high altitude, so may have well needed a very long runway.
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What is the origin of this font? Is it to deliberately look computery?
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Elaborate.
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It looks to be the early OCR friendly font invented for printing on cheques or an imitation thereof.
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That doesn't answer my question :-P
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Ah, OCR, I knew there was a reason.
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PMFJI
Cheques originally used MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition); it does look like a faux MICR font. I used to work with that stuff in the early '70s.
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QIWTFA!
Could you pick up some paperwork with a magnet?