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Skynet Means More Bandwidth for British
pcnetworx1 writes "A new £3.6bn project to upgrade the space communications network for British forces including the Army, Royal Navy, and RAF has gone underway. The first craft, Skynet 5A was launched from Kourou in French Guiana on 11 March 2007. There will be a constellation of three satellites in total. This system is also not an exclusive project for the armed forces, it is actually outsourced to a company called Paradigm Secure Communications. They work with NATO, France, Germany, Canada, Portugal and the Netherlands. They are also seeking new business in the US, Australia, and the Middle East."
20.38: Skynet becomes aware
20.39: Skynet gives more bandwidth
20.40: ????
20.41: Profit!
"Oh boy"
Now we know why Skynet loses, the terminators were all searching for Bot-Pr0n!!
Service guarantees Citizenship! Questions Guarantee GITMO.... Amerika Uber Alles!
1969: Series of UK military satellites called "Skynet" first launched
1997: Skynet, a neural net-based artificial intelligence built by Cyberdyne Systems,
brought online and given control over the U.S. strategic nuclear arsenal
2007: UK military ridiculed for choice of name for latest high-bandwidth series of "Skynet" satellites
Time travel's a bitch..
They are also seeking new business in the US, Australia and the Middle East.
While 8% are coming to complain about people making terminator jokes or to read about said complaining. Remaining 2% are those who genuinely thought the article is dealing with Terminator.
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I'm finally vindicated after all these years! Everyone kept claiming the Terminator's accept was Austrian, or some such rot, but I knew it was British.
Error:
90% of all statistics are made up on the spot, 80% of all people know that
I thought it was Forfty Percent of all people know that about statistics?
Cheers, Chris