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High-Altitude 'Security Blimps' Coming Soon
quackking writes "The AP is reporting (in New York Newsday) that the Georgia Tech spinoff company TechSphere has sold their concept of immense (300 foot diameter), high altitude spherical surveillance blimps to the honchos at Fort Benning, GA, and production is beginning now! (more here.) These things are as big as a 30-story building. Meanwhile Lockheed-Martin is working on gigantic 500-foot long robot blimps, (and more here.) This would be 25 times the size of the well-known Goodyear blimp. Says Mayor Don Plusquellic, 'For Akron, it's a very emotional thing.'"
Double-Plus Ungood
Unload a few clips into that sucka, watch er' deflate! Although they'd have devices to handle such obvious problems like self-healing material. Still, a 3 foot hole from an RPG or "imrpovised rocket-propeled explosive device" would probably do quite a bit of damage, especially if the hole were on top.
Remindes me of the little blimp from They Live, or the really big blimps from The Matrix.
Anyone know what they'll be used for besides survelience? Like, mebbe, mind control rays or somethin?
Candy-Coated Knowledge
It's still a huge bomb in the sky... I am sure may terrorists will see this as a gift!
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Plan
1- make it drop (or wait for it to go down for upgrades),
2- shoot the thing when it's near the ground and
3- watch everybody burn!
Sorry, I'd prefer my taxes to fund nuclear space vehicles so we can get the hell out of here (earth) and let all those maniacs kill each other!
What I find interesting is that "shooting it down" seems to be /.ers first reaction to a government surveillance blimp. All they want to do is spy on you. If you've got nothing to hide, what are you worried about? So what if they take pictures of you masturbating? That's their job!