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Lockheed's High Altitude Airship
swordboy writes "Lockheed Martin has just awarded a contract to UniSolar Ovonic regarding development and delivery of flexible, lightweight solar cells for the U.S. government's High Altitude Airship security project. The proposed 500-foot-long dirigible is to fly at a stratospheric 70,000 foot altitude - above both jet stream and severe weather. The thin-film solar technology, although low in peak conversion efficiency, can potentially deliver a whopping 2500 watts/kilogram. This is the same technology as the previously discussed GE organic LED project - just with the physics in reverse. Broadband communication blimp, anyone?"
"My son, Army Lt. Seth Dvorin, who died last month while serving in Iraq, met his responsibility to the nation he loved," said Sue Niederer of Pennington, NJ. "As his mother, I am joining hundreds of thousands of Americans today in asking that the Congress of the United States meet its responsibility, as well."
Tom Andrews, national director of Win Without War, said the combined activities represent an escalation of efforts that will continue. "The truth matters. By not holding the President accountable, the Congress is saying it doesn't. This is unacceptable," said Andrews, a former congressman and member of the Armed Services Committee.
"The resolution now before Congress is silent on the many ways Bush betrayed our trust, misleading us to make the case for this war," said Peter Schurman, executive director of MoveOn.org, an Internet issues organization with more than two million members.
Also participating in the news conference were Joseph Cirincione, director of non-proliferation studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Richard Torgerson, a principal with progressive Asset Management in Maryland and a leader of Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, and several military families.
The ongoing campaign for censure of the President is led by Win Without War, a national coalition of 42 membership organizations, and MoveOn.org, True Majority, Working Assets and Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities. Richard Torgerson, a financial services executive in Maryland, represented Business Leaders and unveiled their new print ad, which will run this week in The New York Times. Cirincione is an author of the Carnegie Endowment's critical study on the Bush Administration's distortion of intelligence and other evidence leading up to the war. Entitled "WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications," it found that Iraq's chemical and nuclear weapons programs "did not pose an immediate threat to the United States," or to regional or global security. It also said "there was and is no solid evidence of a cooperative relationship between Saddam's government and Al Qaeda."
"The President and the Administration systematically misrepresented the threat from Iraq," Cirincione said. "President Bush didn't have the facts, so he made them up."
"We are honored to be joined in our nationwide campaign for accountability by a growing number of families whose sons and daughters have served or are serving our nation in uniform," Andrews said. Mildred Mortillo, whose son is serving in Iraq, accompanied Ms. Niederer.
Speaking for herself and other military families, Ms. Niederer said: "Our message to Congress today is clear: spare us the platitudes, the pious rhetoric, the empty slogans. Give us the truth. Do your job and hold those accountable who have denied us the truth. Censure President Bush for the deceptions and manipulations that led our nation to war. You owe the American people, my son and all those patriots who have sacrificed for their nation no less."
just do it
Gimme an entire artillery division like the Soviets used to field and I'll paint your horizon with fire.
Just do it. You know you want to.
Makes me think of every final fantasy game i've played.
One: Slashdot is not a political blog. Take your crap somewhere else.
Two: Europe has always been soft on terrorism - and how many terrorist atrocities have they been subjected to? Too many to count. IRA, ETA, Bader Meinhof and the likes. USA has never negotiated with terrorists or tyrants. How many foreign terrorist strikes have we faced. One.
Are you really sure you want to take the route these modern day Chamberlains have taken?
If I remember Final Fantasy right, when you get the airship things become much easier and faster, right?
Cool! Airship forever!
Fellowship 9/11
Well, there was that WTA attack in 1993.
And "foreign terrorist strikes" is kind of slippery to. I think you were wanting "foreign terrorist strikes on US soil". But then again, that's the kind of careful factual precision we've come to expect from the FOX contingent.
Only in FF Legend III, but then you have to get the best weapon for it in the underground *without* going to the surface to get your piece of the 4th legendary sword (you go back out the way you came in).
... umm ... back on topic ... imagine attaching lasers to this airship and taking over the world? :)
After that, fly around with your new laser thingy, and you can zap all the monsters you want, killing them with no effort at all!
So, err, yeah... to get
*dr evil* one million dollars!