Even the Lizard People are getting the f outta Dodge

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http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/15/belfiore.hypersonic.flight/

(CNN) -- Last week, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, attempted the impossible. It launched an unmanned aircraft from a rocket at 20 times the speed of sound with the goal of controlling its flight through the atmosphere for about 20 minutes -- long enough to glide from the California coast to the Kwajalein atoll in the Pacific.

Such a feat had never before been attempted, and ground controllers lost contact with the craft, called the Hypersonic Test Vehicle-2, or HTV-2, nine minutes after it separated from its Minotaur rocket.

Probably the force of the hypersonic gale screaming past it as it sped through the air overcame the thrusters attempting to maintain controlled flight, and it spun out and blew apart.

Emphasis mine. I don't believe that for a moment.

You will never see Cheney and Rumsfeld again.

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I mean, come on.