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Re:A Mysterious Military Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles O... by partisan on Sunday August 06, 2017 @01:43AM (#14939936)
One possibility plucked straight from a thriller: a nuke or dirty bomb is somewhere in the area and they are scanning for it.
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Re:A Mysterious Military Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles O... by cr4ig_ on Sunday August 06, 2017 @12:40PM (#14942002)
Actually, the government (NNSA, https://nnsa.energy.gov/) trains for that on a pretty regular basis.

They scan cities for known sources of radiation (hospitals, certain types of industries, natural sources) and map it all out. They'll also go back and conduct drills using those maps to see if they can locate planted radiation sources.

A real-life thriller...

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Re:A Mysterious Military Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles O... by nl on Sunday August 06, 2017 @04:27AM (#14940399)
"scanning for it"
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Re:A Mysterious Military Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles O... by angstrom on Sunday August 06, 2017 @10:13AM (#14941399)
Cue head explosion...
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Re:A Mysterious Military Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles O... by partisan on Sunday August 06, 2017 @11:58AM (#14941798)
The lack of sense of humor here is stunning. Other comments here are deep in conspiracy-land. Forgive me for contributing a differing, humorous viewpoint.
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Re:A Mysterious Military Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles O... by yodon on Sunday August 06, 2017 @12:50PM (#14942053)
You might want to read up on Poe's law[0] before spending too much more time constructing clever ironic posts for threads like this.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

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