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Predator-Style Helmets Allow Pilots to See Through Planes
nitroy2k writes "It is only the neck and shoulders that prove there is a human being in there somewhere. And this isn't any Star Trek or Final Fantasy kind of trick, but the next generation of RAF fighter pilots' look, which kinda makes you wish you were in the army." And you thought Air Wolf had badass headgear.
Just the thought of me being bombed or chased by someTHING that looked like this would make me think twice about it. That helmet looks fricken evil. If it's ever used {I really should say when if GWB :-( is still at the helm}, then advance patrols should drop paper flyers with the image of the fighters helmet on it, saying that these creatures will be bombing you - fear tactics.
..........FULL STOP.
Within a couple of decades using a fighter aircraft with a human inside will be as quaint as using a missile with pigeons as the guidance system.
It's only /. posters who don't bother to RTFAs.
The functionality of this helmet is impressive, but I do take issue with the idea that because it looks good (does it?) it "kinda makes you wish you were in the army." There are potentially a lot of reasons to want to be in the military, but the way a helmet LOOKs should NOT be one of them.
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Since when do 'The Terrorists' have fighters?
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With the cold war over, and the major super powers having no one to have air battles with, is it really necessary to spend huge amounts of money to fight an enemy that doesn't exist? I mean, back in the Cold War, it made sense-ish, but since the current battle is against "terror", and "terror" doesn't have an air force
Granted - the technology is cool, and it's good to have somewhere to spend money to research tools like this, which I'm sure have other, less militaristic uses, but why should military spending dictate research?
Or is the world planning to gang up on China, and just not telling us?
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us. - Douglas Coupland
The weak link in this weapon is the human. Get him/her out of the plane altogether.
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Too bad it's not virtual.
Instead, you can look "cool" while committing war crimes - you know, like Guernica.
Let's bomb Mommies and their babies into hamburger. Their standing over our oil.
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What part of "A well regulated militia" do you not understand?
The helmet isn't "Predator-Style" in the slightest. No thermography vision at all. And more to the point, even if it had it, that certainly wouldn't allow you to "look through an airplane". Moron bloggers and the tabloids just saw a helmet that was ugly and thought of Predator.
It's really closest to a VR helmet, hooked up to cameras on the F-35 JSF to give pilots a 360 view.
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Nitroy2k's been spamming a site I'm a member of for months now with shoddily re-written, self-aggrandizing blog articles, heisted from much worthier news sources (as well as the Daily Mail). I felt slightly nauseous when I saw his name pop up here too - as a long-time /. reader, I'm slightly disappointed that the poster didn't go to source.
As far as I am concerned, It isn't as much who's hit counter needs increased the most. It is about who's site released the article and how many people can view it.
Obviously, when a site releases an news story, their the ones who should be credited with it. So I guess they shouldn't be attributing this story to some under-bandwidth blogging content thief in the first place. let alone doing so in a way that no one can read the damn article because of some seriously lacking forethought of the submitter or the site in question.
What part of " the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." don't you understand?
IF "the right of the people" in the 2nd Amendment doesn't mean you and I then it doesn't mean you and I in the first and freedom of speech is a myth ready to be repealed by some facists or Marxist judge.
Some Federaljudges disagree with your. (http://www.mcsm.org/indivright.html)
The part about "well regulated" is being upheld also in the fact that assult weapons, grenade launchers, and other military weapons for offensive purposes are still prohibited from individual ownership.
So, your assertion that the 2nd Amendment only applies as a collective right to the National Guard or Police is not supported by the courts or by the phrase "right of the people".
Disarming the people only makes them more likely to be victims of those who ignore gun laws anyway. Since Britian outlawed guns in 1997 the number of gun crimes have doubled. http://www.crimeinfo.org.uk/servlet/factsheetservlet?command=viewfactsheet&factsheetid=102&category=factsheets
Now the British lawmakers are going after bb-guns! Because home owners now have to resort to bats, golf clubs and kitchen utensils to defend themselves from ARMED intruders laws are being proposed to outlaw kitchen knives! There are cases on record where home owners are begin arrested for defending their home and themselves and the police are appearing as witnesses for the intruders after they sue the home owner for injuries suffered while they attempted to rob the home owner. Is that insane enough for you?
Trade the 2nd Amendment for security and you will have neither the 2nd NOR the 1st nor any other admendment.
The words of the Declaration of Independence still apply:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
Did you notice that the Right enumerated (and expanded upon by the BIll of Rights) are UNALIENABLE RIGHTS. That means they cannot be taken away nor can they be voluntarily surrendered or given up.
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