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> I do miss the now ancient FB Do you remember when the bottom had a quote "too close for missiles, I'm switching to guns"? My friends and I wondered what that

• smackeyacky 5y ago
  It's a quote from the movie "Top Gun" if that helps.
• nonameiguess 5y ago
  Was it Facebook? I always remembered OkCupid as having that quote and a bunch of other 80s movie quotes. Aside from being from Top Gun, what it refers to is a principle of fire control of being "danger close," meaning you or other friendlies are within the collateral damage radius of a weapon. When one fighter jet is close enough to an enemy that blowing it out of the sky might also blow themselves out of the sky, they switch to a less destructive weapon with a smaller collateral damage radius. It's sort of interesting to think that something like this meant anything except early web 2.0 pioneers were largely xennials raised on Top Gun, Terminator, and John Hughes movies.