Well the cynic in me says “to undermine the public trust in the safety of air travel so people become more isolated, unwilling to organize, and dependent on either corporate-controlled media or gasoline-powered cars to maintain contact with any part of the world outside a 20-mile radius,” and the nutjob conspiracy theorist in me sure thinks he could make a convincing corkboard out of it if you gave him enough thumb tacks and red string, but once again I could be making the mistake of assuming they’re going into this with a plan and not just flailing wildly to make it look like they’re addressing a problem they have no idea how to solve.

This better be the fucking street fight from Anchorman with a hand grenade and a circular saw and a dude with a claymore.

Shiiiiiit. I was looking out my window around quarter to nine and saw a weird bright orange spot off towards DC. Didn’t think anything of it in the moment; I’m right under a flight path, not too far from a military airfield, all sorts of weird lights flying over all the time. But looking at that footage that’s exactly what it looked like. Christ.

Yeah, it’s called taking out the competition. If you wanna win a race you gotta know where to throw the banana peels.