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Virtual Earth Exposes Nuclear Sub's Secret
NewsCloud alerts us to a story a few months old that has been getting a lot of play recently. A Seattle blogger, Dan Twohig, was browsing in Microsoft's Virtual Earth when he accidentally came across a photo of a nuclear sub in dry-dock. Its propeller is clearly visible — this was a major no-no on the part of someone at the Bangor Sub Base. The designs of such stealth propellers have been secret for decades. Twohig blogged about the find and linked to the Virtual Earth photo on July 2. The debate about security vs. Net-accessible aerial photography has been building ever since. The story was picked up on military.china.com on Aug. 17 — poetic justice for the Chinese sub photo that had embarrassed them a month before. On Aug. 20 the Navy Times published the article that most mainstream media have picked up in their more recent coverage. Twohig's blog is the best source to follow the ongoing debate. No one has asked Microsoft, Google, or anyone else to blur the photo in question. Kind of late now.
It's no secret that women and seamen don't mix.
Artificial Intelligence is preferable to Natural Stupidity.
i can't figure out which joke to make, 'these blades go to eleven' or 'behold: a propellor with seven asses'.
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Is this the MPAA? Is this the RIAA? Is this the DMCA? I thought it was the USA!
Your proliferation of this information, shameless and most likely premeditated, cannot but argue for an immediate and thorough dismantling of this abomination that is the Internet.
Clearly, the citizenry's desire to be on equal terms with its rightfully appointed overseers is misguided.
What could compare to the danger of such leaks? Only, perhaps, ability of the governed to guide the acts of the governors. (But, thank God and all that is holy, we need not contend with such a possibility.)
The proper solution to this satellite photo disaster is to establish government and international bodies, whose responsibility will be to oversee the propagation of information in its early stages. Press organizations, and other legitimately licensed speaking entities, could submit all reports and articles for government approval before publication, and thus dangerous knowledge would be stopped in its tracks. All information emanating from government bodies would be confidential by default, enforced by penalties befitting treason.
It is indeed a distant dream -- such a beautiful system of bureaucratic power and unquestionable hierarchy -- yet we must do what we can to stop out-of-control communication amongst the proletariat from further endangering the established, and righteous, distribution of power.
so basically the top secret propeller design is based on the blade from "krull".
The real propeller design includes a "man-sized safe".
I have a friend who has a habit of repeating what was just said using slightly different language. Tell me, do you smoke way too much pot and work at Pizza Hut?
I suppose the Russians will now go for eight fucking blades and an aloe lubrastrip?
AT&ROFLMAO
"Rats...that damn stupid tarp's gonna get me court martialed... ...I had to run to take a leak. Two minutes...thas' all! Who knew the satellite was overhead?"
--signed, Boatswain's Mate I. M. Waterhead
Yeah - It's like the propellor on the front of the Bell XP-59A Airacomet. Everyone knows that after we captured the Red October, we got the goods on the caterpillar drive technology and don't need props anymore...
Proof by very large bribes. QED.
I've seen that before... in my rotary electric razor. That's what the cutter blades look like.
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Okay... So what's sitting on the topmost shelf of the rightmost cabinet on the east side of the wall of my garage?
I wonder if Microsoft Visual Earth has been getting their data from Setec Astronomy??
Well, what did you expect ? They're vikings, for pete's sake ! Half ninjas, half pirates, half polar bears ! They rape, pillage and plunder, and then they flip out and get really mad ! Even Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia knew better than to fuck with them !
Just be thankful they used a wussy submarine and not a Viking longboat with a dragon on the bow - then it'd really have been a massacre.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
Wait, you think 777s are designed for noise? This isn't "keep Timmy in aisle 32 from whining about the thump," this is "holy shit where is Sean Connery since his submarine is absolutely silent." A modern high-bypass turbofan jet is designed for two things: fuel efficiency and durability. The design of a turbofan for air and a silent water propeller are going to be similar in that people who don't know what they're talking about notice that they're both curved. Guess what? So is a champagne glass. Not related.
StoneCypher is Full of BS